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Jack Wolf
Jack Keil Wolf (1935–2011) was an American information and coding theorist known for the Slepian–Wolf theorem and for bringing maximum likelihood detection to magnetic data storage.
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, also known as Jackie Cheung, is a Canadian computer scientist working in natural language processing and an associate professor at McGill University.
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying
Jackie Yi-Ru Ying, also published as Jackie Y. Ying, is a nanotechnologist who founded Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and won the Mustafa Prize.
Jacob H. Douma
Jacob H. Douma (Jacob Henrick Douma) was an American hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
Jacob L. Jones
Jacob L. Jones is an American materials scientist at North Carolina State University known for X-ray and neutron scattering studies of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.
Jacob Millman
Jacob Millman (1911–1991) was a Russia-born American electrical engineer and Columbia University professor whose eight McGraw-Hill textbooks shaped electronics teaching and whose name survives in Millman's theorem.
Jacob P. Den Hartog
Jacob P. Den Hartog (1901–1989) was a Dutch-American mechanical engineer whose 1934 textbook Mechanical Vibrations became the classic vibration text, and whose absorber theory underlies tuned mass dampers.
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (1901–1989) was a Dutch-American mechanical engineer, MIT professor, and author of Mechanical Vibrations (1934), whose damped vibration absorber theory underlies tuned mass dampers.
Jacob Rabinow
Jacob Rabinow (1910–1999) was a Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer at the National Bureau of Standards who held about 230 U.S. patents, including the magnetic particle clutch and a letter-sorting machine.
Jacob T. Robinson
Jacob T. Robinson is an American neuroengineer, professor at Rice University, and co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech, which builds a therapeutic brain-computer interface for depression.
Jacob Wernli Schaefer
Jacob Wernli Schaefer (1919–2002) was an American engineer and guided-missile pioneer at Bell Laboratories who proposed the antiaircraft missile system from which the Nike air-defense family evolved.
Jacob Wolfowitz
Jacob Wolfowitz (1910–1981) was an American statistician and information theorist, born in Warsaw, known for the Wald–Wolfowitz runs test and the monograph Coding Theorems of Information Theory.
Jacob Ziv
Jacob Ziv (1931–2023) was an Israeli information theorist and Technion professor who created the Lempel–Ziv compression algorithms behind gzip and GIF, and in 2021 became the first Israeli to receive the IEEE Medal of Honor.
Jacobus Verhoeff
Jacobus (Koos) Verhoeff (1927–2018) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist whose 1969 dissertation introduced the Verhoeff algorithm, a check digit scheme detecting all single digit and adjacent transposition errors.
Jacopo Buongiorno
Jacopo Buongiorno is an MIT nuclear engineer known for research on reactor safety and boiling heat transfer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Jacques Gansler
Jacques "Jack" Gansler (1934–2018) was an American defense acquisition official and academic who served as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer from 1997 to 2001, then taught at the University of Maryland.
Jacques I. Pankove
Jacques I. Pankove, also known as Jacques Isaac Pankove, was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA team that made the first gallium nitride blue LED in 1971.
Jacques Isaac Pankove
Jacques Isaac Pankove (1922–2016) was an American electrical engineer who led the RCA Laboratories team that built the first gallium nitride blue LEDs in 1971.
Jacques Nadeau
Jacques Nadeau is an American open source software engineer: co-founder and CTO of Dremio, co-founder and CEO of Sundeck, co-creator and founding PMC chair of Apache Arrow, co-creator of Substrait, and founding PMC chair of Apache Drill.
Jacques Peters
Jacques Péters (1923–2018) was a Belgian mechanical engineer and Catholic priest, professor of production engineering at KU Leuven, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1977.
Jacques Stern (French cryptographer)
Jacques Stern, born 1949 in Paris, is a French cryptographer and professor at the École Normale Supérieure, called the father of the French school of cryptology and winner of the 2006 CNRS Gold Medal.
Jae Sung Son
Jae Sung Son (손재성) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at POSTECH, known for 3D printing thermoelectric materials that convert heat into electricity.
Jae Yeong Park
Jae Yeong Park (박재영) is a South Korean electronic engineer and professor at Kwangwoon University known for MEMS, wearable biosensors, energy harvesting, and leading 11 international sensor standards.
Jae‐Hong Kim
Jae-Hong Kim is an environmental engineer and Henry P. Becton Sr. Professor at Yale University, known for developing nanomaterials and single-atom catalysts for advanced oxidation water treatment.
Jaeyun Kim
Jaeyun Kim (김재윤) is a South Korean materials chemist, professor of chemical engineering at Sungkyunkwan University since 2012, whose research develops material platforms for vaccines and immunotherapy against cancer.
Jai Krishna
Jai Krishna (1912–1999) was an Indian civil engineer who introduced earthquake engineering to India, founding the school at the University of Roorkee and leading its first seismic code.
Jakob Ackeret
Jakob Ackeret (1898–1981) was a Swiss aeronautical engineer and professor at ETH Zurich from 1931 to 1967, a founder of modern supersonic aerodynamics who proposed the designation Mach number.
Jakub Pachocki
Jakub Pachocki is a Polish computer scientist who has been Chief Scientist at OpenAI since May 2024, succeeding Ilya Sutskever, and helped create the reasoning models o1 and o3.
Jamal J. Azar
Jamal J. Azar (born 1937) is a McMan Chair professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Tulsa, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
James A. Dumesic
James A. Dumesic is an American chemical engineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for microkinetic analysis of catalysis and catalytic conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals.