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James S. Duncan

James S. Duncan is a Yale medical image analysis researcher, Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor and Biomedical Engineering chair, known for deformable-model segmentation, a 2000 survey, and BrainGNN.

James Shelby Thorp

James Shelby Thorp (1937–2018) was an American electrical engineer and a principal contributor to the phasor measurement unit, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.

James U Lemke

James U Lemke was an American engineer and physicist in magnetic recording, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, who later founded Achates Power.

James W. Mar

James W. Mar (1920–2017) was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as Chief Scientist of the US Air Force from 1970 to 1972.

James W. Mayer

James W. Mayer (1930–2013) was an American physicist who pioneered ion implantation and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry for semiconductors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

James W. Plummer

James W. Plummer (1920–2013) was an American aerospace engineer who managed Lockheed's Corona reconnaissance satellite program and served as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1973 to 1976.

James W. Westwater

James W. Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who filmed bubble growth through a microscope, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.

James West (acoustician)

James West is an American acoustics scientist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler at Bell Labs in 1962, the basis of most microphones today.

James William Westwater

James William Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois who pioneered the study of boiling heat transfer through microscopic, high-speed films.

James Zou

James Zou is a Stanford computer scientist working on machine learning for medicine, known for EchoNet and leading the Stanford AI for Science Lab since 2016.

Jamie Paik

Jamie Paik is a roboticist, professor, and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL, known for origami-inspired robogamis and spin-offs in surgery, haptics, and space.

Jamie Warner

Jamie H. Warner is a nanomaterials scientist who studies graphene and 2D crystals by atomic-resolution electron microscopy, a professor at UT Austin after 13 years at Oxford.

Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski, known online as jwz, is an American programmer who created Lucid Emacs, wrote the Unix Netscape Navigator, ran mozilla.org, and owns the DNA Lounge nightclub.

Jan A. Rajchman

Jan A. Rajchman (1911–1989) was an electronics engineer who spent his career at RCA, known for the Selectron tube, magnetic-core memory, and the first read-only memory.

Jan A. Veltrop

Jan A. Veltrop (1922–2007) was a Dutch-American engineer who developed design technology for thin, double-curved concrete arch dams and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Jan D. Achenbach

Jan D. Achenbach (1935–2020) was a Dutch-born American mechanician at Northwestern University, regarded as the founder of quantitative nondestructive evaluation and author of the 1973 textbook Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids.

Jan Kautz

Jan Kautz is a computer vision and machine learning researcher who leads Learning and Perception Research at NVIDIA, and is known for PWC-Net optical flow and Super SloMo video interpolation.

Jan Leike

Jan Leike is a German machine learning and AI alignment researcher who leads Anthropic's Alignment Science team, having previously co-led OpenAI's Superalignment team with Ilya Sutskever.

Jan Schroers

Jan Schroers is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer who is the Robert Higgin Professor at Yale University, known for developing thermoplastic forming of bulk metallic glasses.

Jan Seidel

Jan Seidel is a physicist and materials scientist, professor at UNSW Sydney since 2012, known for his 2009 discovery that ferroelectric domain walls conduct electricity.

Jan Šnajder

Jan Šnajder is a Croatian computer scientist and natural language processing researcher, a Full Professor at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing.

Jan van Schilfgaarde

Jan van Schilfgaarde (1929–2008) was a Dutch-born American agricultural engineer and soil physicist whose transient drainage theory reshaped subsurface drainage design; he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Jana Zaumseil

Jana Zaumseil (born 1977) is a German applied physical chemist, Professor of Applied Physical Chemistry at Heidelberg University since 2014, known for organic electronics, carbon nanotube optoelectronics, and light-emitting transistors.

Jane McKee Smith

Jane McKee Smith is an American coastal engineer who co-developed the STWAVE wave model and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Janelle Shane

Janelle Shane is an American laser scientist in Colorado known for the AI humor blog AI Weirdness and the 2019 book You Look Like a Thing and I Love You.

Jang-wook Choi

Jang-wook Choi (최장욱) is a South Korean battery and materials chemist, professor at Seoul National University, known for elastic and supramolecular binders that stabilize high-capacity battery electrodes.

Jang‐Joo Kim

Jang-Joo Kim (김장주) is a South Korean materials scientist who studies OLED efficiency, a Seoul National University professor from 2003 to 2020 and now emeritus professor.

Jang‐Sik Lee

Jang-Sik Lee (이장식) is a South Korean materials scientist and Mueunjae Chair Professor at POSTECH since 2019, known for charge-trap flash memory and ferroelectric synaptic devices for neuromorphic computing.

Jang‐Ung Park

Jang-Ung Park (박장웅) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Yonsei University since 2018, known for smart contact lenses, stretchable transparent electrodes, and liquid-metal retinal implants.

Jangwon Seo

Jangwon Seo (서장원) is a South Korean materials scientist at KAIST known for perovskite solar cell research, including a certified 25.2% efficiency cell in Nature in 2021.