Engineers and computer scientists

Michael Tonks

Michael Tonks is a computational materials scientist who created the MARMOT mesoscale tool for modeling nuclear reactor fuels and received the 2017 Presidential Early Career Award.

Michaël Unser

Michaël Unser is a Swiss signal-processing and biomedical-imaging researcher, Full Professor at EPFL since 2000 after twelve years at the NIH, and recipient of the 2025 Norbert Wiener Award.

Michael V. Arbige

Michael V. Arbige is an industrial biotechnology scientist who led enzyme research at Genencor and then DuPont Industrial Biosciences, credited with helping create more than 300 commercial products.

Michael Vivian Sefton

Michael Vivian Sefton is a Canadian biomedical engineer and University Professor at the University of Toronto, known as a founder of cell-polymer tissue engineering and cell microencapsulation.

Michael Wagner (mechanical engineer)

Michael J. Wagner is an American mechanical engineer who won a PECASE award at NREL for concentrating solar power modeling and is now a professor at UW–Madison.

Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge is a computer scientist at the University of Oxford, recognized as one of the founders of multi-agent systems research, who gave the 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

Michael Yachnis

Michael Yachnis (1922–2012) was a Greek-born American civil engineer, chief engineer of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.

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Michael Z. Lin is a Stanford professor of Neurobiology and Bioengineering who engineers molecular tools for reading and controlling biology, including the ASAP voltage indicators and the RASER cancer-signaling system.

Michel Hug

Michel Hug (1930–2019) was a French hydraulic engineer and professor who led the planning, engineering, and construction of France's nuclear power program at Électricité de France from 1972 to 1982.

Michel T. Halbouty

Michel T. Halbouty (1909–2004) was an American geologist and petroleum engineer, an independent wildcatter credited with discovering more than fifty oil and gas fields while drilling in at least twenty-six states.

Michel Virlogeux

Michel Virlogeux Consultant SARL is the consulting practice of French bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux, who left public service in 1995 and designed the Pont de Normandie and Millau Viaduct.

Michel W. Barsoum

Michel W. Barsoum, also known as M. W. Barsoum, is a materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at Drexel University known for MAX phases and for discovering MXenes in 2011.

Michele Jamiolkowski

Michele Jamiolkowski (1932–2023) was a Polish-born Italian geotechnical engineer who founded the Politecnico di Torino's geotechnical school and led the effort to stabilize the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Miguel A Modestino

Miguel A. Modestino is a chemical engineer who is the Donald F. Othmer Associate Professor at New York University, known for electrifying chemical manufacturing, especially the electrosynthesis of adiponitrile, a precursor to Nylon.

Miguel Velez-Reyes

Miguel Vélez-Reyes is an electrical engineer and chair of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at El Paso, known for hyperspectral image processing and space domain awareness.

Mihalis Yannakakis

Mihalis Yannakakis is a Greek theoretical computer scientist and Columbia University professor whose work spans computational complexity, database theory, and verification; he won the 2005 Knuth Prize.

Mihran S. Agbabian

Mihran S. Agbabian was an Armenian American civil engineer specializing in earthquake engineering who chaired civil engineering at USC and served as founding president of the American University of Armenia.

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Mike Cafarella

Mike Cafarella (Michael Cafarella) is an MIT CSAIL principal research scientist who co-created the Apache Nutch crawler and Hadoop distributed computing framework with Doug Cutting; University of Michigan professor 2009–2020, Lattice Data cofounder.

Mike Lesk

Mike Lesk, also known as Michael Lesk, is an American computer scientist who wrote Unix tools at Bell Labs, worked on information retrieval, and led digital library research.

Mike Paterson

Mike Paterson is a computer scientist who spent most of his career at the University of Warwick, known for the Paterson–Stockmeyer method and the Fischer–Lynch–Paterson consensus impossibility result.

Mike Pound

Mike Pound, or Michael P. Pound, is a computer scientist at the University of Nottingham known for computer vision research on plant phenotyping and for presenting on Computerphile.

Mikhail Shapiro

Mikhail Shapiro is a biochemical engineer at Caltech, an HHMI Investigator known for developing the first acoustic reporter genes, which make cells visible to ultrasound.

Mikko Kurimo

Mikko Kurimo (born 1967) is a Finnish computer scientist, professor of speech and language processing at Aalto University in Espoo, known for unsupervised morph-based speech recognition for Finnish.

Miklós Ajtai

Miklós Ajtai is a Hungarian mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who worked at IBM Almaden, known for optimal sorting networks and for founding lattice-based cryptography, the basis of quantum-safe encryption.

Milad Abolhasani

Milad Abolhasani is a chemical and biomolecular engineer at North Carolina State University, known for building self-driving fluidic laboratories that combine robotics, flow chemistry, and artificial intelligence to discover materials.

Milan M. Jovanovic

Milan M. Jovanović (1952–2018) was a power-electronics engineer, trained at Virginia Tech, who led R&D at Delta Electronics; his converter techniques reached hundreds of millions of power supplies.

Milan Stojanovic

Milan Stojanovic, also known as Milan N. Stojanović, is a Serbian-born organic chemist at Columbia University working in DNA nanotechnology and computing, known for MAYA and molecular spiders.

Milica Radisic

Milica Radisic is a chemical engineer and professor at the University of Toronto known for the Biowire and AngioChip platforms that grow functional human heart tissue from stem cells.

Milind Kulkarni

Milind Kulkarni is a computer scientist who heads Purdue University's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and studies compilers and runtimes for irregular parallel data.