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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 Fincke

Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke is a retired American NASA astronaut and Air Force colonel who flew four missions, spent 549 days in space, and completed nine spacewalks before retiring in 2026.

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. Adams

Michael J. Adams (Michael James Adams) was an American Air Force test pilot who flew the X-15 seven times and died in its only fatal crash, in 1967.

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.

Michael J. Fischer

Michael J. Fischer, born 1942, is an American computer scientist and Yale professor best known as co-author of the 1985 FLP impossibility result in distributed computing.

Michael J. Kearns

Michael J. Kearns is an American computer scientist at the University of Pennsylvania known for work in machine learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithmic fairness.

Michael J. Massimino

Michael J. Massimino (born 1962) is an American engineer and former NASA astronaut who flew on the final two Hubble servicing missions, performing four spacewalks, and now teaches at Columbia University.

Michael J. McGuire

Michael J. McGuire is an American environmental engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for improving the safety and taste of drinking water.

Michael J. Mitchell

Michael J. Mitchell is an American bioengineer and Hibbert Professor at the University of Pennsylvania who designs lipid nanoparticles carrying mRNA and gene-editing machinery to organs beyond the liver.

Michael James Mankosa

Michael James Mankosa is a minerals-processing engineer and Executive Vice President of Global Technology at Eriez, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018 for advanced separation technologies.

Michael Jerome Yaszemski

Michael Jerome Yaszemski is an American orthopedic spine surgeon and biomedical engineer at the Mayo Clinic who directs its Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Laboratory and is a retired Air Force brigadier general.

Michael Jewett

Michael C. Jewett is an American synthetic biologist and Stanford bioengineering professor known for cell-free synthetic biology, after leading Northwestern's Center for Synthetic Biology from 2015 to 2022.

Michael Julian Black

Michael Julian Black is a computer vision scientist known for optical flow and the SMPL 3D human body model, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Michael K. Loose

Michael K. Loose, known as Mike Loose, is a retired US Navy vice admiral and civil engineer who commanded NAVFAC and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

Michael K. Sinnett

Michael K. Sinnett is an American aerospace engineer and Boeing executive who served as vice president and chief project engineer of the 787 Dreamliner and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.