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James A. Fay
James A. Fay, also known as James Alan Fay, was an American MIT mechanical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for combustion research.
James A. Yurko
James A. Yurko is an American materials engineer who leads Apple's alloy engineering work and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2022.
James Adeche Momoh
James Adeche Momoh is a Nigerian-American electrical engineer and Howard University professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2020 for grid optimization and power grid policy in Africa.
James B. Rawlings
James B. Rawlings is an American chemical engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Santa Barbara known for developing the theory of model predictive control for chemical processes.
James B. Reswick
James B. Reswick (born 1922) is an American bioengineer who helped found rehabilitation engineering in the United States and served as the first president of RESNA.
James Boyd (mining engineer)
James Boyd (1904–1987) was an Australian-born mining engineer and geologist who directed the United States Bureau of Mines from 1947 to 1951 and led Kennecott Copper's exploration.
James Buchanan Eads
James Buchanan Eads (1820–1887) was a self-taught American civil engineer best known for the Eads Bridge at St. Louis and for jetties that opened the Mississippi's mouth to oceangoing ships.
James C. Elms
James C. Elms, also known as James Cornelius Elms IV, was an American aerospace engineer and executive who led NASA's Electronic Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
James C. Keck
James C. Keck (1924–2010) was an American engineer and physicist, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, known for his work on automotive engine combustion aimed at minimizing noxious emissions.
James C. Liao
James C. Liao (廖俊智) is a Taiwanese metabolic engineer and synthetic biologist known for redesigning microbial metabolism to convert renewable feedstocks and greenhouse gases into fuels and chemicals.
James C. Williams
James C. Williams is an American metallurgical engineer known for research on titanium alloys for aerospace, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.
James Curran (computer scientist)
James R. Curran, also published as J. R. Curran, is an Australian computer scientist at the University of Sydney known for CCG parsing and founding Grok Learning.
James D. Foley
James D. Foley is an American computer scientist, Professor and Fleming Chair Emeritus at Georgia Tech, who founded its GVU Center and helped establish the annual SIGGRAPH conferences.
James D. Idol, Jr.
James D. Idol, Jr. (1928–2015) was an American chemical engineer at Standard Oil of Ohio who invented ammoxidation, the single-step process that commercialized acrylonitrile production in 1960.
James D. Marks
James D. Marks is an American physician-scientist and pioneer of antibody engineering at UCSF, known for fully human antibodies by phage display and botulism antitoxin research.
James D. Meindl
James D. Meindl (1933–2020) was an American electrical engineer at Stanford and Georgia Tech known for low-power microelectronics and his 2001 Science paper on silicon's limits.
James Dahlman
James Dahlman is an American bioengineer at Georgia Tech and Emory known for DNA-barcoded lipid nanoparticles that test hundreds of drug delivery vehicles in one animal.
James Demmel
James Demmel is an American computer scientist and mathematician at UC Berkeley, a career numerical linear algebra researcher known for the LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and SuperLU libraries and for communication-avoiding algorithms.
James Duane Livingston
James Duane Livingston III (1930–2019) was an American physicist and metallurgist who spent 33 years at General Electric research and later taught materials science at MIT, studying how metals' microstructure controls their properties.
James Duderstadt
James Duderstadt (1942–2024) was an American nuclear engineer who rose from Michigan professor to its 11th president, 1988 to 1996, and co-authored the leading textbook Nuclear Reactor Analysis.
James E. Gebhardt
James E. Gebhardt (born 1955) is an American metallurgical and mineral-processing engineer, a UC Berkeley alumnus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
James Earl Smay
James Earl Smay is an American materials scientist and engineer at Oklahoma State University, a 2005 PECASE recipient known for direct ink writing of colloidal inks.
James Eugene Broadwell
James Eugene Broadwell, known as Gene Broadwell, was an American aeronautical engineer at Caltech, Stanford, and TRW, namesake of the Broadwell model of shock waves.
James Evans Robertson
James Evans Robertson (1924–1993) was an American computer scientist at the University of Illinois, known for the SRT division method and ORDVAC and ILLIAC I circuitry.
James Gosling
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, born in 1955, best known as the creator of the Java programming language, which he designed at Sun Microsystems.
James Graham Martindale
James Graham Martindale was a British textile researcher at the Wool Industries Research Association who devised the cloth-wearing tester that became the Martindale abrasion tester in 1942.
James H. Clark
James H. Clark (born 1944 in Plainview, Texas) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who founded Silicon Graphics, co-founded Netscape with Marc Andreessen, and started Healtheon and MyCFO.
James H. Mulligan Jr.
James H. Mulligan Jr. was an American electrical engineer, chairman of electrical engineering at New York University from 1952 to 1968 and president of the IEEE in 1971.
James H. Pikul
James H. Pikul, also published as James Pikul, is an American mechanical engineer and associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison known for camouflaging skins, microbatteries, and metallic nanolattices.
James H. Pomerene
James H. Pomerene (1920–2008) was an American computer engineer who designed the arithmetic and memory hardware of the IAS machine and led IBM's HARVEST supercomputer for the NSA.