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Jaroslav Kožešník

Jaroslav Kožešník (1907–1985) was a Czech engineer and applied mathematician who led the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences from 1970 and founded its cybernetics institute, ÚTIA.

Jason Chin

Jason W. Chin is a synthetic biologist known for reprogramming and expanding the genetic code of living organisms; he led the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge before moving to Oxford in 2025.

Jason Eisner

Jason Eisner is Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics, known for Dyna, a declarative language for weighted dynamic programming.

Jason Graetz

Jason Graetz is an American materials scientist and former head of the Energy Storage Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, known for hydrogen storage and lithium battery research.

Jason Wertheim

Jason Wertheim is an American transplant surgeon and biomedical engineer who builds replacement kidney and liver tissue in the laboratory and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Jaswinder P. Singh

Jaswinder P. Singh, also known as Jaswinder Pal Singh, is an American computer scientist at Princeton University who works on parallel computing and computational biology.

Javier Bustinduy

Javier Bustinduy (Javier Bustinduy Fernández; Madrid, 1949 – March 2016) was a Spanish civil engineer who created the operating model of Renfe's Cercanías commuter networks and devised the "Solución Bustinduy" interchange used in the Málaga metro.

Javier Garcia-Frias

Javier Garcia-Frias is an information theorist and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, a 2001 NSF CAREER and PECASE award recipient.

Jaw-Kai Wang

Jaw-Kai Wang is an American bioengineering and aquaculture engineer, a longtime University of Hawaiʻi professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995, known for designing commercial aquaculture systems.

Jay Giri

Jay Giri is an American power-systems engineer who co-founded the control-center software company ESCA in 1978 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017.

Jay Kreps

Jay Kreps (born about 1980), American software engineer; co-creator of Apache Kafka, Voldemort, and Samza at LinkedIn; co-founder and longtime CEO of Confluent, later an Anthropic director; Confluent was acquired by IBM.

Jay R. Lund

Jay R. Lund is an American civil engineer and Distinguished Professor at UC Davis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for water systems analysis.

Jay Wright Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester (1918–2016) was an American engineer and management scientist at MIT who led the Whirlwind computer project, invented magnetic core memory, and founded system dynamics.

Jayadev Misra

Jayadev Misra (born 1947) is an Indian-born American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the UNITY formalism and the Orc language.

Jean H. Felker

Jean H. Felker (1919–1994) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who led development of TRADIC, the first fully transistorized computer in the United States.

Jean Ponce

Jean Ponce is a French computer-vision researcher, professor at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris since 2023, known for the PMVS multiview stereopsis algorithm and the textbook Computer Vision: A Modern Approach.

Jean Wilim Tom

Jean Wilim Tom is an American chemical engineer in pharmaceutical process development who contributed to 12 marketed drugs and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Jean-Baptiste Michel

Jean-Baptiste Michel is a French and Mauritian data scientist, co-leader with Erez Lieberman Aiden of the 2011 culturomics paper that produced the Google Books n-gram corpus and Ngram Viewer.

Jean-Pierre Kruth

Jean-Pierre Kruth, born in Knokke in 1952, is a Flemish engineer and emeritus KU Leuven professor who pioneered metal additive manufacturing and won the 2015 Bower Award.

Jean-Yves Parlange

Jean-Yves Parlange is a French-born hydrologist and emeritus Cornell professor, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for contributions to water flow in soils.

Jean‐Marie Tarascon

Jean-Marie Tarascon, born in 1953 in Marmande, is a French solid-state chemist who developed the first plastic rechargeable lithium-ion battery and sodium-ion batteries, winning the 2022 CNRS Gold Medal.

Jean‐Philippe Croué

Jean-Philippe Croué (born 1960) is a French water chemist, professor of environmental engineering at the University of Poitiers, known for research on disinfection by-products, membrane fouling, and advanced oxidation processes.

Jeehwan Kim

Jeehwan Kim is a South Korean-born materials scientist and tenured associate professor at MIT, known for remote epitaxy, graphene-based layer transfer, and monolithic 3D chip integration.

Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood is an American software developer and blogger who founded Coding Horror in 2004, co-founded Stack Overflow with Joel Spolsky in 2008, and created Discourse in 2013.

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos (Jeffrey Preston Bezos) is an American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in 1994, founded the spaceflight company Blue Origin, and bought the Washington Post in 2013.

Jeff Dahn

Jeff Dahn is a Canadian battery scientist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, a pioneering developer of the lithium-ion battery who has held Tesla's only university research chair since 2016.

Jeff Dean

Jeff Dean is an American computer scientist who joined Google in 1999, co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, and TensorFlow, co-founded Google Brain, and left in 2026 to start a company.

Jeff Hammerbacher

Jeff Hammerbacher is an American data scientist and entrepreneur who founded Facebook's Data team (2006–2008), co-founded Cloudera, coined 'data scientist' with DJ Patil, and moved into biomedicine via Hammer Lab and Related Sciences.

Jefferson Han

Jefferson Y. Han is a research scientist who developed low-cost multi-touch sensing at NYU's Courant Institute and founded Perceptive Pixel, whose touch walls included CNN's Magic Wall.

Jefferson W. Tester

Jefferson W. Tester is an American chemical engineer, professor of sustainable energy systems at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for renewable energy systems.