Engineers and computer scientists

Alton C. Dickieson

Alton C. Dickieson (1905–2000) was an American telecommunications engineer who spent his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, leading the Telstar project and the Bell System's digital network from 1955.

Alvin Cheung

Alvin Cheung is a computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley who works on database systems and programming languages; he developed verified lifting and received a 2019 PECASE award.

Amable Liñán Martinez

Amable Liñán Martinez (1934–2025) was a Spanish aeronautical engineer and combustion theorist, a professor at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid known for research on flame structure and diffusion-flame ignition and extinction.

Amanda Ashworth

Amanda Ashworth is an American research soil scientist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service in Fayetteville, Arkansas, who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Amar Bose

Amar Gopal Bose (1929–2013) was an American electrical engineer and longtime MIT professor who founded Bose Corporation in 1964, building it on psychoacoustic research into speakers and headphones.

Ambrose Swasey

Ambrose Swasey (1846–1937) was an American mechanical engineer who co-founded the Warner & Swasey Company of Cleveland and designed the mountings of the world's two largest refracting telescopes.

Amilcare Porporato

Amilcare Porporato is an Italian hydrologist who holds a professorship at Princeton University and is known for probabilistic soil moisture modeling and helping establish ecohydrology.

Amin Salehi‐Khojin

Amin Salehi-Khojin is a mechanical engineer and materials scientist known for lithium-air batteries and CO2 conversion, chair of mechanical engineering at Southern Methodist University since 2024.

Amir Pnueli

Amir Pnueli (אמיר פנואלי) was an Israeli computer scientist who introduced temporal logic into computing and won the 1996 A.M. Turing Award for program and system verification.

Amir Ronen

Amir Ronen is a computer scientist who, with Noam Nisan, founded the field of algorithmic mechanism design in a 1999 paper and posed the Nisan–Ronen conjecture.

Amirhossein Arzani

Amirhossein (Amir) Arzani is a mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at the University of Utah known for blood-flow modeling, scientific machine learning, and a 2025 PECASE award.

Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal (Amitabh Kumar Singhal) is an Indian-American computer scientist who led the technical development of Google Search from 2000 until his retirement in 2016.

Amnon Lotem

Amnon Lotem is an Israeli algorithms and technologies expert who won the 2014 Gödel Prize for co-authoring "Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware", which introduced the threshold algorithm.

Amos E. Joel, Jr.

Amos E. Joel, Jr. (1918–2008) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Laboratories who shaped telephone switching for four decades and held the 1972 patent for cellular call handoff.

Amos Winter

Amos Winter is a mechanical engineer at MIT, the Germeshausen Professor, and principal inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair, an all-terrain wheelchair for developing countries, commercialized through GRIT.

Amy E. Herr

Amy E. Herr is an American bioengineer at the University of California, Berkeley, known for microfluidic single-cell Western blotting, which measures proteins in individual cells rather than bulk populations.

Amy Pruden

Amy Pruden is an environmental engineer and University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech whose 2006 work established antibiotic resistance genes as emerging contaminants in water systems.

Ana Claudia Arias

Ana Claudia Arias (Ana C. Arias) is a Brazilian physicist and electrical engineer, Andrew S. Grove Distinguished Professor and Chair of EECS at UC Berkeley, known for printed flexible electronics.

Ana Jaklenec

Ana Jaklenec is a bioengineer and Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Koch Institute, known for single-injection self-boosting vaccines, microneedle vaccine printers, and heat-stable micronutrient carriers.

Anant Agarwal

Anant Agarwal is an MIT computer architect and serial entrepreneur who designed the Raw multicore chip, founded Tilera, and led edX from 2012 until its 2021 sale.

Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Anantha Chandrakasan is an Indian-born American electrical engineer at MIT known for low-power CMOS design and energy harvesting, who became MIT's provost in 2025 after serving as dean of engineering.

Ananthram Swami

Ananthram Swami is a signal processing researcher and IEEE Life Fellow who serves as the Army's Senior Research Scientist for network science at the Army Research Laboratory.

Anatol Roshko

Anatol Roshko (1923–2017) was a Canadian-born fluid dynamicist and Theodore von Kármán Professor at Caltech, known for discovering large coherent structures in turbulent shear flows.

Anca Dragan

Anca Dragan is a computer scientist and roboticist, associate professor at UC Berkeley heading the InterACT lab and Director of AI Safety and Alignment at Google DeepMind since 2024.

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Anders Hagfeldt

Anders Hagfeldt is a Swedish physical chemist and Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University since 2021, formerly a professor at EPFL, whose laboratories set certified efficiency records for dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells.

Anders S. Sørensen

Anders S. Sørensen is a Danish theoretical physicist working on quantum optics and quantum information at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, where he has been professor since 2012.

Anders Ynnerman

Anders Ynnerman, born 1963, is a Swedish scientific visualization researcher who holds a chair at Linköping University, directs Visualization Center C, and received the Eurographics Medal in 2023.

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András Kis

András Kis, born 1975 in Zagreb, is a Hungarian physicist and electrical engineer who leads the Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures at EPFL in Switzerland.

André Baranne

André Baranne was a French optical designer at the Observatoire de Marseille who designed the ELODIE spectrograph used to discover the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star.