Engineers and computer scientists

Liumin Suo

Liumin Suo (索鎏敏) is a Chinese battery and electrolyte scientist at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, known for the water-in-salt electrolyte.

Liviu Librescu

Liviu Librescu, born in Romania in 1930, was an Israeli aeronautical engineer and Virginia Tech professor who died in 2007 shielding his students during the campus shooting.

Liwei Lin (林立伟) is a mechanical engineer, Distinguished Professor at UC Berkeley and co-director of BSAC, known for MEMS research and insect-scale soft robots, including a cockroach-like robot that survived being stepped on.

Sep 20, 2026

Liyuan Han

Liyuan Han (韩礼元) is a Chinese photovoltaics researcher and chair professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University whose groups have set certified world-record efficiencies for perovskite solar cells and modules.

Lloyd A. Duscha

Lloyd A. Duscha was an American civil engineer and dam safety authority who retired in 1990 as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' highest-ranking civilian.

Lloyd E. Elkins Sr.

Lloyd E. Elkins Sr. (1912–2004) was an American petroleum engineer who led the research group that invented hydraulic fracturing and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Lloyd Espenschied

Lloyd Espenschied (1889–1986) was an American electrical engineer at AT&T and Bell Labs who co-invented the coaxial cable, receiving the 1931 patent with Herman A. Affel.

Lloyd R. Welch

Lloyd R. Welch (1927–2023) was an American information theorist and electrical engineer who co-invented the Baum–Welch and Berlekamp–Welch algorithms and received the 2003 Shannon Award as a longtime USC professor.

Oct 26, 2026

Lloyd Tabb

Lloyd Tabb, American software developer, founder and CTO of Looker (Santa Cruz data analytics, sold to Google for $2.6B), designer of LookML, earlier Borland and Netscape engineer, now co-creator of the Malloy data language at Meta.

LO, Yuen Tze

Yuen Tze Lo (罗远祉) was a Chinese-born electrical engineer at the University of Illinois known for antenna theory, the method of moments, and microstrip antenna design.

Sep 20, 2026

Long-Qing Chen

Long-Qing Chen is a materials scientist at Pennsylvania State University known for developing the phase-field method, a computational approach for predicting the microstructure and properties of engineering materials.

Longya Xu

Longya Xu is an electrical engineer in power electronics and electric machines who spent over 30 years at Ohio State before joining FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in 2023.

Lonny L. Thompson

Lonny L. Thompson is an American mechanical engineer and computational mechanician who spent thirty years at Clemson University, working on structural acoustics and winning a 1997 PECASE award.

Lorenza Viola

Lorenza Viola is a theoretical physicist in quantum information science, known for foundational work on dynamical decoupling and noiseless subsystems, who holds the James Frank Family Professorship of Physics at Dartmouth College.

Lori L. Graham

Lori L. Graham, also known as Lori Graham-Brady, is an American civil engineer at Johns Hopkins University who studies uncertainty in the strength of materials and structures.

Lorne G. Everett

Lorne G. Everett is a hydrologist and subsurface-contamination engineer, chancellor of Lakehead University from 2000 to 2009, known for EPA-endorsed groundwater monitoring and cleanup methods.

Lorrie Cranor

Lorrie Faith Cranor is a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who pioneered usable privacy and security research and served as FTC Chief Technologist in 2016.

Lotfi A. Zadeh

Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921–2017), born Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh, was an Azerbaijani-born American computer scientist at UC Berkeley who founded fuzzy set theory in his 1965 paper "Fuzzy Sets."

Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron

Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron (1837–1920) was a French physicist who invented the subtractive three-color process of photography, patented in 1868 and described in his 1869 book.

Louis B. Rosenberg

Louis B. Rosenberg is an American engineer and inventor who created Virtual Fixtures, an early augmented reality system for the US Air Force in 1992, and founded Unanimous AI.

Louis Charles Breguet

Louis Charles Breguet (1880–1955) was a French aircraft designer, builder, and pilot who founded his aviation company in 1911 and created the Breguet 14, one of the most widely produced aircraft of the First World War.

Louis Durlofsky

Louis Durlofsky is an engineer at Stanford University who studies subsurface flow, known for reservoir modeling and optimization techniques that earned him National Academy of Engineering election in 2022.

Louis F. Coffin

Louis F. Coffin, Jr. was an American mechanical engineer at General Electric in Schenectady whose work on metal fatigue produced the Coffin–Manson equation for low-cycle fatigue life.

Louis Landweber

Louis Landweber (1912–1998) was an American hydrodynamicist and naval architect who built the University of Iowa's ship hydrodynamics program and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Louis-Jean Résal

Louis-Jean Résal (1854–1919) was a French bridge engineer of the corps des Ponts et Chaussées who designed the pont Mirabeau and pont Alexandre III in Paris.

Lu Ke

Lu Ke (卢柯, born 1965) is a Chinese materials scientist at the Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, known for nano-twin strengthening and gradient nanostructures in metals.

Lucien A. Schmit Jr.

Lucien A. Schmit Jr. (1928–2018) was an American aerospace engineer regarded as the father of structural optimization for his 1960 paper combining finite element analysis with nonlinear programming.

Lucien C. Malavard

Lucien Malavard (1910–1990) was a French aeronautical engineer known for flow visualization and analog computation, who founded the CNRS laboratory LIMSI and joined the US National Academy of Engineering in 1980.

Ludwig F. Lischer

Ludwig F. Lischer was an American electric power engineer who spent his career at Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, rising to vice president in charge of system planning.