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Jing Kong

Jing Kong is a materials scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, known for carbon nanotube chemical sensors, large-area graphene films, and 2D materials research.

Jinglin Fu

Jinglin Fu is a biochemist and bionanotechnologist at Rutgers University–Camden who uses self-assembled DNA nanostructures to control multi-enzyme reaction cascades, and received a Presidential Early Career Award.

Jinhan Cho

Jinhan Cho (조진한) is a South Korean chemical and biological engineer at Korea University who builds battery, supercapacitor, and water-splitting electrodes on fabric and paper using layer-by-layer assembly.

Jinhua Ye

Jinhua Ye is a Chinese materials chemist known for photocatalysis and solar energy conversion, including light-driven carbon dioxide reduction and methane coupling; since 2023 she has led solar carbon neutrality research at Hebei University.

Jinlan Wang

Jinlan Wang (王金兰) is a Chinese computational materials scientist and Chief Professor of Physics at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for computational design of two-dimensional and clean-energy materials.

Jinsong Huang

Jinsong Huang is a professor of applied physical sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a top researcher in perovskite solar cells.

Jitendra Malik

Jitendra Malik is an Indian-born computer vision researcher who has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 1986, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Jiuhui Qu

Jiuhui Qu (曲久辉) is a Chinese environmental engineer specializing in water treatment, a distinguished professor at Tsinghua University elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2019.

Joachim L Heinzl

Joachim Heinzl is a German mechanical engineer who developed the commercial Siemens PT80i inkjet printer and became an international member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2007.

Joanna Aizenberg

Joanna Aizenberg is a materials scientist at Harvard known for bioinspired and adaptive materials, including slippery liquid-infused surfaces, liquid-based gating, and dynamic microstructured actuators.

João F. Mano

João F. Mano (João Filipe Colardelle da Luz Mano) is a Portuguese researcher in biomaterials and tissue engineering, a full professor at the University of Aveiro since 2016.

Joaquin Resasco

Joaquin Resasco is an Argentine-born American chemical engineer, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for research on electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction.

Jodie L. Lutkenhaus

Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is a professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University and Associate Dean for Research, known for metal-free, biodegradable batteries built from redox-active polymers.

Joe B. Rosenbaum

Joe B. Rosenbaum (born 1912) was an American extractive metallurgist at the United States Bureau of Mines and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Joe Hong Chow

Joe Hong Chow is an electric power engineer and Institute Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, known for widely used methods for modeling, analysis, and control of large-scale power grids.

Joe Mauk Smith

Joe Mauk Smith (1916–2009) was an American chemical engineer at UC Davis and author of the standard textbooks Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics and Chemical Engineering Kinetics.

Joe Reis

Joe Reis, Salt Lake City data engineer, co-author of the O'Reilly bestseller Fundamentals of Data Engineering with Matt Housley, Ternary Data co-founder, creator of Mixed Model Arts and The Joe Reis Show.

Joe Sutter

Joe Sutter (1921–2016) was an American aeronautical engineer who spent his career at Boeing and, as chief engineer of the 747, led the design of the world's first wide-body airliner.

Joe W. Johnson

Joseph William Johnson, known as Joe W. Johnson, was an American civil engineer and professor of hydraulics at UC Berkeley who helped found coastal engineering as a discipline.

Joel H. Collier

Joel H. Collier is a biomaterials scientist and Theodore Kennedy Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, known for self-assembling peptide nanofiber vaccine platforms such as Q11.

Joel L. Dawson

Joel L. Dawson is an electrical engineer who works on radio-frequency integrated circuits for wireless and implanted medical devices, and an MIT associate professor who received a PECASE award.

Joel Mejia

Joel Alejandro Mejia is an engineering-education researcher who heads the Department of Engineering and Computing Education at the University of Cincinnati and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Joel Moses

Joel Moses (1941–2022) was a computer scientist born in Mandatory Palestine who helped develop the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and rose to become its provost.

Joel S. Birnbaum

Joel S. Birnbaum is an American computer scientist and physicist who directed HP Labs and served as Hewlett-Packard's senior vice president for research and development.

Joel S. Engel

Joel S. Engel (born 1936) is an American electrical engineer who led the Bell Laboratories team that designed AMPS, the first cellular telephone system in the United States.

Joel Spira

Joel Spira (1927–2015) was an American physicist who invented the first solid-state electronic light dimmer and founded Lutron Electronics in 1961, holding more than 300 US patents.

Joel Yang

Joel K. W. Yang is a Singapore-based researcher in nanoplasmonics and nanolithography, a professor at SUTD known for plasmonic color printing at 100,000 dpi and the salty-developer technique.

Joerg Appenzeller

Joerg Appenzeller is a nanoelectronics researcher who holds the Epstein Professorship at Purdue University's Birck Nanotechnology Center, known for establishing how carbon nanotube transistors conduct current.

Johan Håstad

Johan Torkel Håstad, born 1960, is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, known for the switching lemma and optimal inapproximability results.

Johann W. Kolar

Johann W. Kolar is an Austrian-Swiss electrical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus, best known for heading the Power Electronic Systems Laboratory and inventing the Vienna Rectifier.