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Ian S. Metcalfe

Ian S. Metcalfe is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Newcastle University, known for a humidity-driven molten-carbonate membrane that concentrates CO2 from air, reported in Nature Energy in 2024.

Ib Chorkendorff

Ib Chorkendorff is a Danish physicist and chemist, professor of heterogeneous catalysis at the Technical University of Denmark since 1999, known for electrochemical ammonia synthesis.

Ibn Majid

Ibn Majid (ابن ماجد) was a 15th-century Muslim navigator of the Indian Ocean, known as the Lion of the Sea and author of the sailing encyclopedia Kitab al-fawa'id.

Ichiro Takeuchi

Ichiro Takeuchi is a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, where he chairs Materials Science and Engineering and pioneered combinatorial materials synthesis and elastocaloric solid-state cooling.

Ignacio E. Grossmann

Ignacio E. Grossmann is a chemical engineer, the R. R. Dean University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, known for mixed-integer optimization of chemical processes and energy systems.

Igor Emri

Igor Emri (born 1952) is a Slovenian engineer and retired Chair Professor of Mechanics at the University of Ljubljana, a pioneer of mechanics of time-dependent materials and the Knauss-Emri model.

Igor Sikorsky (Игорь Иванович Сикорский)

Igor Sikorsky (Игорь Иванович Сикорский), a Russian-American aviation pioneer born in Kiev in 1889, designed the first four-engine airplane and the flying boats that opened transoceanic routes.

Ike Nassi

Ike Nassi is an American computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who co-created the Nassi–Shneiderman diagram, a 1973 structured alternative to the flowchart, and later held senior software roles at Apple.

Ikramullah Khan Niazi

Ikramullah Khan Niazi, also known as Ikramullah Niazi, was a Pakistani civil engineer from Mianwali best known as the father of cricketer and Prime Minister Imran Khan, and founder of the Pakistan Educational Society.

Ikuo Takeuchi

Ikuo Takeuchi (竹内 郁雄, born 1946) is a Japanese computer scientist known for the Takeuchi function behind the Lisp benchmark "Tak", the multi-paradigm language TAO, and the ELIS Lisp machine.

Il Jeon

Il Jeon is a South Korean nano-engineering professor at Sungkyunkwan University, known for carbon nanotube transparent electrodes for perovskite solar cells and reconfigurable memristor artificial synapses.

Il‐Kwon Oh

Il-Kwon Oh (오일권) is a South Korean mechanical engineer, a full professor at KAIST since 2015, known for MXene artificial muscles and wearable haptic devices.

Ilan A. Blech

Ilan A. Blech is an engineer and researcher in semiconductor metallurgy and thin-film stress measurement, at Fairchild Semiconductor from 1964 and co-inventor on a 1992 Flexus patent.

Ilan Kroo

Ilan Kroo is an American aeronautical engineer, the Thomas V. Jones Professor at Stanford University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering for aircraft design methodology and the SWIFT airplane.

Ilesanmi Adesida

Ilesanmi Adesida, born in Nigeria in 1949, is an electrical engineer known for nanometer-scale semiconductor fabrication who served as Dean of Engineering and Provost at the University of Illinois.

Ilia Valov

Ilia Valov is a materials scientist who has headed the Nanoelectrochemistry group at Forschungszentrum Jülich since 2018, known for research on memristive devices and quantum resistance standards.

Ilias Gyftopoulos

Elias Panayiotis Gyftopoulos (Ηλίας Γυφτόπουλος; 1927–2012) was a Greek-born American nuclear engineer and thermodynamicist at MIT, known for a unified non-statistical quantum theory of mechanics and thermodynamics and for introducing exergy analysis into energy-systems engineering.

Ilya Kolmanovsky

Ilya Kolmanovsky is an American control systems engineer, a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Imre Csiszár

Imre Csiszár is a Hungarian mathematician and information theorist at the Rényi Institute in Budapest, whose 1978 broadcast channel secrecy characterization underlies modern physical-layer security.

In So Kweon

In So Kweon (권인소) is a South Korean computer vision researcher, professor emeritus at KAIST and head of KIST's Center for Physical AI Research from 2026.

Inderjit Chopra

Inderjit Chopra is an American aerospace engineer at the University of Maryland known for rotorcraft aeromechanics and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Inge Lyse

Inge Lyse (1898–1990) was a Norwegian engineer and pioneer in concrete research who led Lehigh University's Fritz Engineering Laboratory and held the reinforced concrete chair in Trondheim.

Ingeborg Hochmair

Ingeborg Hochmair is an Austrian electrical engineer who co-invented the first microelectronic multichannel cochlear implant, implanted in Vienna in 1977, and co-founded the hearing implant company MED-EL.

Ingmar H. Riedel‐Kruse

Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse is a synthetic biologist and biophysicist, professor at the University of Arizona, known for sperm vortex arrays and bacterial cell-cell adhesion programming.

Ingrid Daubechies

Ingrid Daubechies is a Belgian-born American mathematician, professor emerita at Duke University, whose wavelet constructions made wavelet analysis a practical tool for image processing, earning the Wolf Prize in 2023.

Inkyu Park

Inkyu Park (박인규) is a South Korean mechanical engineer and KAIST professor who leads the MINT Laboratory, working on MEMS and nanoscale sensors, wearable flexible electronics, and AI-integrated sensing.

Interstitial doping in high-entropy alloys

Interstitial doping in high-entropy alloys is the deliberate addition of small atoms like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen into lattice gaps, strengthening these multi-principal-element metals while largely preserving ductility.

Ioannis Argyris

Ioannis Argyris (Ιωάννης Χατζιαργύρης), known as John Hadji Argyris, was a Greek engineer, born in 1913, who pioneered computer-based structural analysis and co-founded the finite element method.

Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica is a Romanian-born computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley who co-founded Databricks, Anyscale, and Conviva and is known for the Chord peer-to-peer lookup protocol.

Iosif Sifakis

Iosif Sifakis (Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek computer scientist, born in Heraklion in 1946, who shared the 2007 Turing Award for developing model checking, the leading industrial verification method.