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Klaus D. Timmerhaus
Klaus D. Timmerhaus (1924–2011) was an American chemical engineer and cryogenics researcher who spent 42 years on the University of Colorado Boulder faculty and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Klaus Oswatitsch
Klaus Oswatitsch (1910–1993) was an Austrian fluid dynamicist and gas dynamicist who held the fluid mechanics chair at the Vienna University of Technology from 1960 to 1980.
Klaus Schönert
Klaus Schönert (1927–2011) was a German comminution scientist and professor of mineral processing at the Technical University of Clausthal whose research led to the high-pressure grinding roll.
Klavs Jensen
Klavs Jensen, born in 1952, is a chemical engineer at MIT known for developing micro and mini flow reactors for pharmaceutical manufacturing and portable energy.
Knud Rahbek
Knud Rahbek (1891–1971) was a Danish electrical engineer who discovered the Johnsen–Rahbek electrostatic adhesion effect with Alfred Johnsen in 1917, and later helped build Denmark's first radio stations.
Kobbi Nissim
Kobbi Nissim is a computer scientist, professor at Georgetown University, and co-introducer of differential privacy, the privacy framework used in the 2020 US Census; he won the 2017 Gödel Prize.
Kobi Cohen
Kobi Cohen (קובי כהן) is an Israeli signal processing and communications researcher, an Associate Professor at Ben-Gurion University known for deep reinforcement learning for dynamic spectrum access.
Kōji Kobayashi (electronics engineer)
Kōji Kobayashi (小林宏治) was a Japanese electronics engineer who spent his career at NEC, becoming president in 1964 and conceiving the C&C strategy of integrating computers and communications.
Konrad Hungerbühler
Konrad Hungerbühler, born 1952 in Zürich, is a Swiss chemical engineer and ETH Zurich professor emeritus who held the chair of safety and environmental technology from 1994 to 2018.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (Константин Эдуардович Циолковский)
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was a Russian and Soviet schoolteacher in Kaluga who founded the theory of spaceflight, deriving the rocket equation and proposing liquid-propellant multistage rockets decades before any flew.
Korneel Rabaey
Korneel Rabaey, born in 1977, is a Belgian environmental biotechnologist and professor at Ghent University known for bioelectrochemical systems, his 2012 Science review, and founding CAPTURE and HYDROHM.
Kostas Tzoumas
Kostas Tzoumas (Κώστας Τζούμας), Greek computer scientist from Ioannina; co-founder and CEO of Berlin's Data Artisans, commercializer of Apache Flink; PhD from Aalborg; sold to Alibaba for a reported 90 million euros in 2019, renamed Ververica.
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh
Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh is an Australian materials scientist and professor at the University of Sydney whose laboratory invented a swallowable capsule that senses gases in the gut.
Kripa K. Varanasi
Kripa K. Varanasi, also known as Kripa Varanasi, is an MIT professor of mechanical engineering known for interfacial science and co-founding LiquiGlide, whose coatings let ketchup flow from bottles.
Krishnakumar Garikipati
Krishnakumar (Krishna) Garikipati is a computational mechanician who joined the University of Southern California in 2024 after two decades at Michigan, and won the PECASE and DOE Early Career awards.
Krista Lagus
Krista Lagus is a Finnish artificial intelligence and natural language processing researcher, professor of digital social science at the University of Helsinki, known for the WEBSOM document maps and Morfessor morphology models.
Kristala L. J. Prather
Kristala L. J. Prather is an American chemical engineer at MIT known for metabolic engineering, including the metabolite valve, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025.
Kristen Grauman
Kristen Grauman is an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for visual recognition, egocentric perception, and the Ego4D dataset.
Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (1926–2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist who, with Ole-Johan Dahl, designed the Simula languages and introduced objects, classes, and inheritance, earning the 2001 Turing Award.
Kristi Anseth
Kristi Anseth is an American chemical engineer and biomaterials scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder who studies photopolymerizable hydrogels for growing cells in 3D.
Kristin Myers
Kristin Myers is an American mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at Columbia University who studies how the cervix and uterus remodel during pregnancy, work linked to preterm birth research.
Kumar Varoon Agrawal
Kumar Varoon Agrawal, also published as Kumar Agrawal, is a chemical engineer and membrane scientist who leads the Laboratory of Advanced Separations at EPFL, working on atomically thin porous membranes for carbon capture.
Kun Fu
Kun (Kelvin) Fu is a mechanical engineer at the University of Delaware who directs the Composite & Additive Manufacturing Laboratory and works on 3D printing composites and battery materials.
Kun Zhou
Kun Zhou is a Singapore-based mechanical engineer and professor at Nanyang Technological University known for combining mechanics of materials with 3D printing of high-performance metal alloys.
Kunihiko Fukushima
Kunihiko Fukushima (福島邦彦), born 1936, is a Japanese computer scientist who invented the neocognitron, a hierarchical neural network announced in 1979, recognized as the origin of deep convolutional neural networks.
Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is an American computer graphics researcher who led the development of OpenGL and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.
Kurt H. Lange
Kurt H. Lange, also known as Kurt Lange, was a German engineer in metal forming who led the Universität Stuttgart's Institute for Metal Forming Technology from 1963 to 1988.
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn is a German computer scientist known for work on algorithms, data structures, and computational geometry, and for starting the LEDA library of efficient data types and algorithms.
Kurt Petersen (engineer)
Kurt Petersen is an engineer and serial entrepreneur widely called the father of MEMS, known for his 1982 paper "Silicon as a Mechanical Material" and for co-founding six MEMS companies.
Kurt Schiffler
Kurt Schiffler (1896–1986) was a German engineer, entrepreneur, and amateur geometer who founded the educational toy firm Dusyma in 1925 and proposed the Schiffler point, a triangle center, in 1985.