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Andrew Turberfield

Andrew J. Turberfield is an Emeritus Professor of Physics and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, who builds molecular machines from DNA; his DNA motor navigated a four-route track network.

Andrew Viterbi

Andrew Viterbi, born Andrea Viterbi in Bergamo, Italy, in 1935, is an Italian-born electrical engineer who invented the Viterbi decoding algorithm and co-founded Linkabit and Qualcomm.

Andrew Yao (姚期智)

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (姚期智), born 1946, is a Chinese computer scientist who won the 2000 Turing Award and, since 2004, has taught at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Andries van Dam

Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-born computer scientist who has taught at Brown University since 1965 and co-created the pioneering hypertext systems HES and FRESS.

Anestis S. Veletsos

Anestis S. Veletsos (Anestis Stavrou Veletsos) was a civil engineer, born in Istanbul, who taught at Rice University and whose earthquake engineering research underlies modern seismic codes.

Angel Balevski

Angel Balevski (Ангел Балевски) was a Bulgarian mechanical engineer who patented the gas counter-pressure casting method in 1961 and served as president of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Angel G. Jordan

Angel G. Jordan (Angel Jordán Goñi) was a Spanish-born American electrical engineer at Carnegie Mellon University, provost from 1983 to 1991 and a 1986 National Academy of Engineering member.

Angela M. Belcher

Angela M. Belcher, born 1968, is an American materials scientist at MIT who engineers viruses to build nanoscale materials for batteries, solar cells, and cancer imaging.

Angela Pannier

Angela K. Pannier is a biological systems engineer at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln who researches nonviral gene delivery and received the 2019 PECASE award, the first Nebraskan so honored.

Angelo Miele

Angelo Miele (1922–2016) was an Italian-born aerospace engineer and applied mathematician at Rice University who specialized in trajectory optimization and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Anghel Saligny

Anghel Saligny (1854–1925) was a Romanian civil engineer, celebrated for the Cernavodă bridge over the Danube, then the longest in Europe, and the world's first reinforced concrete grain silos.

Anil K. Jain

Anil K. Jain is an American computer scientist at Michigan State University known for pattern recognition and biometrics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

Anil K. Sachdev

Anil K. Sachdev is an Indian-American metallurgist who spent 46 years at General Motors R&D and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.

Anima Anandkumar

Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is a computer scientist and Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech since 2017, formerly at AWS and NVIDIA, known for tensor methods and neural operators.

Anita Ho-Baillie

Anita Ho-Baillie is an Australian engineer and photovoltaics researcher who holds the John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney, where her team set certified efficiency records for perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells.

Anita K. Jones

Anita K. Jones is an American computer scientist and University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia, known for work on operating systems and computer security.

Anita Shukla

Anita Shukla is an American biomedical engineer and Elaine I. Savage Professor of Engineering at Brown University whose lab develops nanoparticles, coatings, and hydrogels to treat and detect infections.

Anjan Bose

Anjan Bose is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Regents Professor at Washington State University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003 for power grid simulators and computational tools.

Ann Debay

Ann Debay (Ann Chiaramonti Debay) is an American materials research engineer at NIST in Boulder, Colorado, who received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Ann M. Donoghue

Ann M. Donoghue, also published as Annie Donoghue, is a USDA Agricultural Research Service poultry physiologist known for avian semen preservation and bacteriophage therapy against Salmonella in poultry.

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (born 1975) is a Spanish and Swiss materials scientist known for work on semiconductor nanowires and quantum dots, and president of EPFL since 2025.

Anna Karlin

Anna Karlin is a theoretical computer scientist at the University of Washington known for online algorithms, the power of two choices paradigm, and a 2021 metric TSP improvement.

Anna Marabini

Anna Marabini was an Italian mineral processing researcher at CNR who led its Institute for Mineral Processing and became the first woman elected a US National Academy of Engineering foreign member.

Annamaria Petrozza

Annamaria Petrozza is an Italian scientist who studies defects in perovskite solar cells, leading the Advanced Materials for Optoelectronics group at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Milan.

Anne S. Robinson

Anne S. Robinson, also known as Anne Skaja Robinson, is an American chemical engineer whose research spans membrane-protein folding and antibody production in mammalian cell cultures.

AnnMarie Thomas

AnnMarie Thomas is an American mechanical engineer best known for creating Squishy Circuits, a method for teaching circuits with play dough, and for winning the 2020 LEGO Prize.

Anthony Atala

Anthony Atala is an American urologic surgeon and regenerative medicine researcher who directs the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where his team implanted the first laboratory-grown bladders in patients.

Anthony E. Fiorato

Anthony E. Fiorato is an American structural engineer specializing in concrete materials and construction, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and a former president of the American Concrete Institute.

Anthony Ephremides

Anthony Ephremides (Greek: Αντώνης Εφρεμίδης) is a Greek-born electrical engineer and communications theorist at the University of Maryland, known as the founder of ad hoc wireless networks.

Anthony G. Evans

Anthony G. Evans was a Welsh-born materials scientist who pioneered the engineering use of brittle ceramics in jet engines, space-shuttle tiles, silicon chips, and vehicle armor.