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László Bélády

László Bélády was a Hungarian-born computer scientist who spent 1961 to 1981 at IBM Research, where he discovered Belady's anomaly and published a 1966 page-replacement study that became the most cited paper in computer software.

László Lovász

László Lovász, born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian mathematician known for the Lovász Local Lemma, the LLL lattice algorithm, and the 2021 Abel Prize, shared with Avi Wigderson.

Laura Galante

Laura Galante is an American cyber threat intelligence and information-operations analyst who served from January 2022 to January 2025 as the Intelligence Community's Cyber Executive and CTIIC director.

Laurence D. Marks

Laurence D. Marks, born 1954, is a British-born materials scientist known for electron microscopy of nanoparticles and the Marks decahedron, a nanoparticle shape named after him.

Laurence Edward Scriven

Laurence Edward Scriven, known as Skip Scriven (1931–2007), was an American chemical engineer and Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota whose work on coating processes shaped modern coating science.

Laurence Retman Young

Laurence Retman Young (1935–2021) was an American aerospace engineer and bioastronautics expert at MIT who studied the vestibular system, space motion sickness, and flight simulation.

Laurens van der Maaten

Laurens van der Maaten is a Dutch machine-learning researcher, co-creator of t-SNE with Geoffrey Hinton, a tech lead on Meta's Llama 3, and an Anthropic researcher since 2025.

Lawrence C. F. Horle

Lawrence C. F. Horle (1892–1950) was an American electrical engineer who led radio standardization, served as IRE president in 1940, and received the IRE Medal of Honor in 1948.

Lawrence Carin

Lawrence Carin is an American machine-learning researcher and Duke University professor known for Bayesian compressive sensing, who co-founded Signal Innovations Group and Infinia ML and was KAUST provost from 2020 to 2023.

Lawrence E. Swabb Jr.

Lawrence E. Swabb Jr. is a chemical engineer who worked at Exxon Research and Engineering on coal gasification and liquefaction, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.

Lawrence L. Kazmerski

Lawrence L. Kazmerski is an electrical engineer who became the first photovoltaics staff member at SERI, NREL's predecessor, in 1977 and led its solar cell measurement work.

Lawrence Rabiner

Lawrence Rabiner, born 1943 in Brooklyn, is an American electrical engineer who developed the chirp z-transform and hidden Markov modeling of speech at Bell Labs.

Lawrence Roberts (computer scientist)

Lawrence Roberts was an American computer scientist who supervised the ARPANET, the packet-switching precursor to the Internet, and later founded the first commercial packet-switched carrier, Telenet.

Lawrence Stamper Darken

Lawrence Stamper Darken (1909–1978) was an American metallurgist who directed U.S. Steel's Edgar C. Bain Laboratory and formulated the Darken equations for diffusion in binary metallic systems.

Le Yu

Le Yu (于乐) is a Chinese materials chemist and professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, known for designing hollow nanostructured electrode materials for batteries, supercapacitors, and electrocatalysis.

Leah Buechley

Leah Buechley is a computer scientist, designer, and educator who invented the LilyPad Arduino, a sewable electronics kit, and founded the High-Low Tech group at the MIT Media Lab.

Lee A. Kilgore

Lee A. Kilgore (1905–2000) was an American electrical engineer at Westinghouse who designed large rotating electric machinery and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Lee Davenport

Lee Davenport was an American physicist who led the SCR-584 anti-aircraft radar at MIT's Radiation Laboratory in World War II, built Harvard's cyclotron, and retired as GTE's chief scientist.

Lee Iacocca

Lee Iacocca, born Lido Anthony Iacocca, was an American automobile executive who led the Ford Mustang's development, served as Ford's president, and rescued Chrysler in the early 1980s.

Lee Raymond

Lee Raymond was an American chemical engineer who served as chairman and CEO of Exxon from 1993 and of ExxonMobil from the 1999 merger until retiring in 2005.

Lee S. Gaumer

Lee Strohl Gaumer (1926–2010) was an American chemical engineer at Air Products whose cryogenic liquefaction technology supplied liquid hydrogen for NASA's Apollo spacecraft and space shuttles.

Lee Su-in

Su-In Lee (이수인) is a computer scientist and Boeing Endowed Professor at the University of Washington, known for SHAP, a widely used framework for explaining machine-learning predictions.

LeGrand Van Uitert

LeGrand Van Uitert (1922, Salt Lake City – 1999) was an American chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories whose crystal-growth work created the Nd:YAG solid-state laser, earning the 1993 R. W. Wood Prize.

Lei Jiang (江雷)

Lei Jiang (江雷) is a Chinese physical chemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who founded superwettability, designing bioinspired materials that control how liquids wet, spread, and move.

Lei Wei

Lei Wei (魏磊) is a Singapore-based engineer, professor at Nanyang Technological University, who makes hair-thin semiconductor fibers and weaves them into fabrics that sense, compute, and display.

Leila Takayama

Leila Takayama is an American human-robot interaction researcher who has held research roles at Willow Garage and Google X and is now Vice President of design and HRI at Robust.AI.

Leland Clark

Leland Clark (1918–2005) was an American biochemist and bioengineer who invented the Clark oxygen electrode, built an early heart–lung machine, and created the first biosensor in 1962.

Leland J. Walker

Leland Jasper Walker (1923–2014) was an American geotechnical engineer who founded Northern Testing Laboratories in Montana, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984, and served as ASCE president.

Lennart Ljung (electrical engineer)

Lennart Ljung, born 1946 in Malmö, Sweden, is a Swedish electrical engineer and professor emeritus at Linköping University, known for the modern theory of system identification.

Lenore Blum

Lenore Blum (born 1942) is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for the Blum–Shub–Smale theory of computation over the real numbers and for advancing women in computing at Carnegie Mellon.