Engineers and computer scientists

Kenneth Nichols

Kenneth David Nichols was a US Army major general and civil engineer who, as Manhattan Project district engineer under General Leslie Groves, built the plants producing the first atomic bombs.

Kenneth Ray Swartzel

Kenneth Ray Swartzel is an American food and bioprocess engineer, a distinguished professor emeritus at North Carolina State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Kenneth Showalter (1949–2026) was an American physical chemist who spent his career at West Virginia University, known for controlling chaos in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction and realizing chimera states experimentally.

Kensall D. Wise

Kensall D. Wise is an American electrical engineer at the University of Michigan, a pioneer of integrated solid-state sensors and the neural microprobes known as the Michigan probes.

Kent F. Hansen

Kent F. Hansen is an American nuclear engineer, professor of nuclear engineering at MIT, known for reactor kinetics methods and a system dynamics model of the Hanford waste cleanup.

Keon Jae Lee

Keon Jae Lee (이건재) is a South Korean materials scientist and Endowed Chair Professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for flexible, self-powered electronics and battery-free deep brain stimulation.

Kevin A. Wise

Kevin A. Wise is an American aerospace control engineer who spent his career at McDonnell Douglas and Boeing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Kevin Braeckmans

Kevin Braeckmans is a Belgian drug delivery and nanomedicine researcher, full professor at Ghent University, known for photoporation, a light-based technique that delivers drugs and nucleic acids into cells.

Kevin G. Bowcutt

Kevin G. Bowcutt is an American aerospace engineer and Boeing's Chief Scientist of Hypersonics, best known for pioneering the viscous-optimized hypersonic waverider and designing the X-51A scramjet demonstrator.

Kevin Huang

Kevin Huang, also published as Keqin Huang, is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of South Carolina who researches solid oxide fuel cells.

Kevin L. Tomsovic

Kevin L. Tomsovic is an American electrical engineer specializing in power systems computation and grid resilience, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Kevin M. Ryan

Kevin M. Ryan is a chemical nanotechnology researcher and Vice President Research at the University of Limerick, known for silicon nanowire battery anodes and semiconductor nanocrystals.

Kevin R. Anderson

Kevin R. Anderson is an American metallurgical engineer who developed the Mercalloy family of recycled-aluminum diecasting alloys at Mercury Marine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Kevin Sivula

Kevin Sivula is an American chemical engineer and full professor at EPFL in Switzerland, where he leads research on photoelectrochemistry for solar fuels and carbon dioxide reduction.

Kevin Solomon

Kevin V. Solomon is a chemical and biological engineer at the University of Delaware known for engineering anaerobic fungi and testing plastic-degrading enzymes, who received the 2025 PECASE award.

Kevin Warwick

Kevin Warwick is a British cyberneticist at the University of Reading known for implanting chips and electrodes into his own body to link his nervous system to computers.

Khaled Ben Letaief

Khaled Ben Letaief is a Tunisian-born wireless communications researcher at HKUST, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021 for adaptive resource allocation work foundational to 4G cellular systems.

Khalil Amine

Khalil Amine is a Moroccan-born materials scientist who leads the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory, known for the lithium-rich NMC cathode used in most electric vehicles.

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Khalil B Ramadi

Khalil B Ramadi is a bioengineer and Assistant Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi and NYU Tandon known for ingestible electronic pills, including the FLASH stimulator and IMAG smart pill.

Ki Tae Nam

Ki Tae Nam (남기태) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for virus-templated lithium-ion battery electrodes and peptide-directed chiral gold nanoparticles.

Kibum Kang

Kibum Kang (강기범) is a South Korean materials scientist and associate professor at KAIST who works on two-dimensional materials and is known for wafer-scale growth of atomically thin semiconducting films.

Kilian Q. Weinberger

Kilian Q. Weinberger is a machine learning researcher and professor of computer science at Cornell University, known for LMNN, feature hashing, and DenseNet, which won the CVPR 2017 best paper award.

Kilwon Cho

Kilwon Cho (조길원) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at POSTECH, known for research on organic semiconductors and flexible electronics, who led the Center for Advanced Soft Electronics from 2011 to 2020.

Kim F. Hayes

Kim F. Hayes is an environmental chemist and Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Water Resources Engineering at the University of Michigan, known for research on mineral-water interfaces and chlorinated-solvent remediation.

Kim Il-doo

Kim Il-doo is a South Korean materials scientist, Endowed Chair Professor at KAIST, known for exhaled-breath sensors and electrospun nanofibers that protect lithium metal battery anodes.

King-Sun Fu

King-Sun Fu (1930–1985) was a Chinese-American electrical engineer at Purdue University, called the father of automatic pattern recognition, first president of the IAPR, and founding editor of IEEE TPAMI.

Kirill Alexandrov

Kirill Alexandrov is an Australian molecular and synthetic biologist, CSIRO-QUT Inaugural Professor of Synthetic Biology at Queensland University of Technology since 2018, working on protein switches and diagnostics.

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran

Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran is an electrical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who researches high-power-density electric machines and superconducting machinery for aircraft propulsion, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.

Kisuk Kang

Kisuk Kang is a South Korean materials scientist who has been a professor at Seoul National University since 2011, known for battery cathode design and oxygen-redox chemistry.