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Merrill Skolnik

Merrill Skolnik (1927–2022) was an American radar researcher who led the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Radar Division for over 30 years and wrote Introduction to Radar Systems.

Merton C. Flemings

Merton C. Flemings, born in 1929, is an American metallurgist and MIT professor emeritus who co-invented semi-solid metal processing, wrote Solidification Processing, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Mervin E. Muller

Mervin E. Muller was a computer scientist who co-created the Box–Muller transform with George E. P. Box in 1958 and later spent fifteen years at the World Bank.

Mete Sözen

Mete Avni Sözen (1930–2018) was a Turkish-born American structural engineer at Purdue University who built one of the first earthquake simulators and pioneered drift-based seismic design of concrete buildings.

Metin Sitti

Metin Sitti, born 1970 in Kırşehir, Turkey, is a Turkish roboticist known for small-scale soft robots and physical intelligence, and President of Koç University since 2023.

Meyer J. Benzakein

Meyer J. Benzakein, known as Mike Benzakein, was an Egyptian-born American aerospace engineer who led development of GE's CFM56 and GE90 engines and later taught at Ohio State.

Micha Elsner

Micha Elsner is a computational linguist and Associate Professor at Ohio State, known for the 2008 conversation disentanglement task and corpus and for discourse coherence models.

Micha Sharir

Micha Sharir (Hebrew: מיכה שריר) is an Israeli computer scientist and professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, known for computational geometry, motion planning, and Davenport–Schinzel sequences.

Michael Armbrust

Michael Armbrust: American computer scientist, Databricks Distinguished Software Engineer, UC Berkeley PhD 2013. Lead developer of Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, and original creator of Delta Lake.

Michael Athans

Michael Athans, born Michael Athanassiades, was a Greek-born control engineer and longtime MIT professor who helped shape modern control theory, multivariable control system design, and robust control.

Michael Burrows (computer scientist)

Michael Burrows is a computer scientist who co-authored the 1994 Burrows–Wheeler transform, helped create the AltaVista search engine, and designed Google's Chubby lock service as a Distinguished Engineer.

Michael Carbin

Michael Carbin is an American computer scientist and MIT associate professor who heads the Programming Systems Group at CSAIL, known for running programs reliably on unreliable hardware.

Michael Celia

Michael Celia is an American environmental engineer who spent 36 years on the Princeton faculty, known for groundwater modeling and research on carbon dioxide storage in deep aquifers.

Michael D. Bartlett

Michael D. Bartlett is a mechanical engineer and Associate Professor at Virginia Tech who works on soft materials, switchable adhesives, liquid metal composites, and soft robotics.

Michael D. Griffin

Michael D. Griffin is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's 11th Administrator from 2005 to 2009 and later as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

Michael D. McGehee

Michael D. McGehee is an American materials scientist who has been a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2018, working on perovskite solar cells and dynamic windows.

Michael De Volder

Michaël De Volder is a Belgian materials engineer, professor at the University of Cambridge since 2013, known for carbon nanotube manufacturing and lithium-ion battery materials, and co-founder of Echion Technologies.

Michael Ettenberg

Michael Ettenberg is an optoelectronics engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering for advances in practical, reliable semiconductor lasers, developed at RCA Laboratories and the Sarnoff Corporation.

Michael F. Doherty

Michael F. Doherty is an American chemical engineer at UC Santa Barbara known for distillation design and crystal shape prediction, and a National Academy of Engineering member.

Michael F. Rubner

Michael F. Rubner is a materials scientist and TDK Professor Emeritus at MIT known for layer-by-layer assembly of water-based polymer coatings, including anti-fogging and anti-reflection films.

Michael Fellows

Michael Ralph Fellows is an American computer scientist who co-founded parameterized complexity with Rod Downey and co-created Computer Science Unplugged, a school program translated into 24 languages.

Michael Field (metal cutting engineer)

Michael Field (born 1914) is an American engineer in metal cutting research who co-founded Metcut Research Associates in Cincinnati and coined "surface integrity" with John Kahles in 1964.

Michael G. Debije

Michael G. Debije is an American materials scientist and associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, known for research on luminescent solar concentrators for urban settings.

Michael Hatzakis

Michael Hatzakis (1927/28–February 3, 2023) was a Greek-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow who pioneered electron-beam lithography, introduced PMMA resist, and later directed the Institute of Microelectronics in Athens.

Michael I. Jordan

Michael I. Jordan, born in 1956, is an American machine learning and statistics researcher, a longtime UC Berkeley professor now working at Inria in Paris.

Michael J. Aziz

Michael J. Aziz, born 1956, is an American materials scientist and Harvard professor since 1986, co-inventor of the aqueous organic redox flow battery and co-founder of Quino Energy.

Michael J. Black

Michael J. Black is a computer vision researcher known for SMPL, a standard 3D human body model, and for founding the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen.

Michael J. Escuti

Michael J. Escuti is an American electrical engineer and professor at North Carolina State University, known for liquid-crystal polarization gratings used in beam steering, displays, and polarimetric imaging.

Michael J. Fasolka

Michael J. Fasolka is an American materials scientist at NIST known for combinatorial gradient methods and nanoscale polymer metrology, a 2004 PECASE recipient, and Associate Director of its Material Measurement Laboratory.

Michael J. Fetkovich

Michael J. Fetkovich (1933–2020) was an American petroleum engineer who spent his career at Phillips Petroleum in Oklahoma and created the decline-curve type-curve method bearing his name.