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Mark Brongersma

Mark L. Brongersma is a materials scientist and nanophotonics researcher at Stanford University who coined the term "plasmonics" and studies metasurfaces that control light at the nanoscale.

Mark C. Hersam

Mark C. Hersam, also known as Mark Hersam, is an American materials scientist and nanotechnologist at Northwestern University, a MacArthur Fellow known for nanoelectronic materials and memtransistors.

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht

Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht (born 1959) is a Dutch environmental biotechnologist at Delft University of Technology, known for wastewater treatment processes including SHARON, Anammox, and Nereda.

Mark D. Hollis

Mark Dexter Hollis (1908–1998) was an American sanitary engineer and Public Health Service rear admiral who directed the Communicable Disease Center, forerunner of the CDC.

Mark Davenport

Mark A. Davenport is an American electrical engineer and machine learning researcher, a professor at Georgia Tech who received the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE).

Mark Finlayson

Mark A. Finlayson is an American computer scientist at Florida International University who studies natural language processing and narrative, winning a Presidential Early Career Award in 2025.

Mark G. Adamiak

Mark G. Adamiak is an American electric power systems engineer in digital protective relaying, synchrophasor measurement, and substation automation, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012.

Mark G. Benz

Mark G. Benz is an American metallurgist and National Academy of Engineering member who spent 40 years at the GE Corporate Research and Development Center.

Mark Isalan

Mark Isalan is a synthetic biologist and Professor of Engineering Biology at Imperial College London, known for synthetic gene networks in bacteria and zinc-finger gene therapy work.

Mark J. O'Malley

Mark J. O'Malley is an Irish power-systems engineer, Leverhulme Professor of Power Systems at Imperial College London, known for integrating wind energy into power grids.

Mark Jerrum

Mark Jerrum is a theoretical computer scientist known for randomized algorithms for counting problems, including the 2001 FPRAS for the permanent, which won the 2006 Fulkerson Prize.

Mark Kendall (engineer)

Mark Kendall is an engineer and inventor best known for inventing the Nanopatch, a needle-free vaccine-delivery patch, and co-founding Vaxxas from the University of Queensland in 2011.

Mark Kryder

Mark Kryder is an electrical engineer and CMU Professor recognized for his leading work on Perpendicular Recording in hard disk drives and for formulating Kryder's Law.

Mark Miodownik

Mark Miodownik is a materials scientist and engineer, Professor of Materials and Society at University College London, director of its Institute of Making, and author of Stuff Matters.

Mark N. Wegman

Mark N. Wegman is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist at IBM's Watson Research Center, known for Static Single Assignment form and Wegman–Carter hash functions.

Mark R. Pinto

Mark R. Pinto is an American electronics engineer and National Academy of Engineering member known for co-developing the PISCES semiconductor simulator and serving as CTO of Applied Materials.

Mark R. Prausnitz

Mark R. Prausnitz is an American chemical and biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech known for developing microneedle patches that deliver drugs and vaccines through the skin without needles.

Mark R. Wiesner

Mark R. Wiesner is an environmental engineer and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor at Duke University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for membrane water treatment and nanomaterials research.

Mark Raasveldt

Mark Raasveldt is the Dutch database researcher who co-created DuckDB at CWI Amsterdam and is co-founder and CTO of DuckLabs, lead architect of its execution engine.

Mark S. Lundstrom

Mark S. Lundstrom is an American electrical engineer at Purdue University whose research on nanoscale transistor physics supported 10-nanometer device design, and who founded the nanoHUB simulation platform.

Mark T. Bohr

Mark T. Bohr (born 1953) is an American semiconductor process engineer who spent his career at Intel, leading development of strained silicon, high-k metal gate, and tri-gate transistors.

Mark T. Swihart

Mark T. Swihart is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo, known for high-rate production of light-emitting silicon nanoparticles.

Mark V. Morkovin

Mark V. Morkovin, also known as Mark Vladimir Morkovin, was an aeronautical engineer and professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology known for the Morkovin hypothesis and receptivity.

Markita Patricia Landry

Markita Patricia Landry, also known as Markita del Carpio Landry, is a scientist and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley who develops near-infrared nanosensors for imaging brain chemistry.

Markus Groß

Markus Groß is a computer scientist in computer graphics and simulation, professor at ETH Zurich and Chief Scientist of The Walt Disney Studios since 2022.

Markus J. Buehler

Markus J. Buehler is an American materials scientist and mechanical engineer at MIT who pioneered materiomics, the computational study of protein materials like silk and collagen.

Marnix Wagemaker

Marnix Wagemaker is a materials scientist and professor at Delft University of Technology who heads its electrochemical energy storage section, researching lithium and sodium batteries.

Mars G Fontana

Mars Guy Fontana (1910–1988) was an American corrosion engineer, professor, and chairman of metallurgical engineering at Ohio State University, author of the textbook Corrosion Engineering (1967), called the father of modern corrosion science.

Marsha Anderson Bomar

Marsha Anderson Bomar is an American transportation engineer who founded Street Smarts, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, and serves as ASCE president.

Marshall B. Standing

Marshall B. Standing, also known as Marshall Burton Standing, was an American petroleum reservoir engineer at Standard Oil of California, now Chevron, known for the Standing correlations.