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David C. Dunand

David C. Dunand is a materials scientist and metallurgist who has been a professor at Northwestern University since 2003, studying metallic alloys, composites, and foams.

David C. Wisler

David C. Wisler is an American aerospace engineer known for turbomachinery aerodynamics at GE Aircraft Engines and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.

David Cory (chemist)

David G. Cory is a Canadian-based physical chemist known for NMR quantum computing, quantum control, and neutron interferometry, a professor at Waterloo since 2010 after MIT.

David D. Clark

David D. Clark is an MIT computer scientist who served as Chief Protocol Architect for the Internet from 1981 to 1989 and chaired the Internet Activities Board.

David DeWitt

David DeWitt is an American computer scientist known for parallel database systems and benchmarking, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

David E. Borth

David E. Borth is an American wireless communications engineer at Motorola in Schaumburg, Illinois, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for work on spread-spectrum and digital cellular systems.

David E. Daniel

David E. Daniel is an American geoenvironmental engineer known for research on landfills and waste containment, and the fourth president of the University of Texas at Dallas from 2005 to 2015.

David Edward Hughes

David Edward Hughes (1831–1900) was a British-American inventor and experimental physicist whose type-printing telegraph dominated European telegraphy for decades and whose 1878 microphone and 1879 wireless experiments anticipated radio.

David Erickson

David Erickson is a mechanical engineer at Cornell University known for optofluidics, nanophotonic nanoparticle manipulation, and smartphone-based medical diagnostics, who directs the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

David Estrada (materials scientist)

David Estrada is an American materials scientist at Boise State University who researches graphene and 2D materials and received the 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

David Evans Enterprises, Inc.

David Evans Enterprises, Inc. is the Portland, Oregon parent company of engineering firm David Evans and Associates, founded in 1976 by David F. Evans and David H. Gould.

David Evans Shaw

David Evans Shaw is an American computer scientist and financier who pioneered massively parallel supercomputing at Columbia University and founded the quantitative firm D. E. Shaw & Co.

David Fairbanks Welch

David Fairbank Welch is an American optical communications scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded Infinera and is founder and CEO of AttoTude, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.

David Ferrie

David William Ferrie (1918–1967) was a New Orleans airline pilot and Civil Air Patrol instructor linked to Lee Harvey Oswald and to organized crime leader Carlos Marcello.

David Filo

David Filo, born in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, is an American engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Yahoo! with Jerry Yang at Stanford in 1994, serving as Chief Yahoo.

David G. Cahill

David G. Cahill is an American materials scientist and Grainger Distinguished Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for developing the 3ω method and time-domain thermoreflectance.

David Geffen Hall

David Geffen Hall, formerly Avery Fisher Hall and Philharmonic Hall, is a concert hall at Lincoln Center, New York City, home of the New York Philharmonic since 1962.

David Gries

David Gries, born 1939, is an American computer scientist and Cornell professor emeritus who wrote the first compilers textbook and championed teaching programming as a mathematical discipline.

David H. Archer

David H. Archer (1928–2010) was an American chemical engineer at Westinghouse who is credited as an originator of the integrated gasification combined cycle power plant concept.

David H. Geiger

David H. Geiger (1935–1989) was an American structural engineer who invented the cable-restrained air-supported roof and the cable dome, covering nearly half the world's domed stadiums.

David H. Gracias

David H. Gracias is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins University known for pioneering self-folding materials and dust-sized untethered medical tools such as microgrippers.

David H. West

David H. West is an American industrial chemical engineer known for oxidative coupling of methane reactor and catalyst technology, who spent 31 years at Dow before joining SABIC in 2012.

David Ha

David Ha is a Tokyo-based AI researcher who co-authored the 2018 "World Models" paper and co-founded Sakana AI in 2023, serving as its chief executive officer.

David Harel

David Harel is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute, known for inventing statecharts and serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2021.

David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson, known as DHH, is a Danish programmer who created Ruby on Rails and is co-founder and CTO of 37signals, maker of Basecamp and HEY.

David Hoag

David Hoag (1925–2015) was an American engineer who spent his career at MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, directing inertial guidance development for the Polaris missile and Apollo spacecraft.

David Holz

David Holz is an American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Midjourney, the independent AI image-generation company he started in 2021, and previously co-founder and CTO of Leap Motion.

David J. Beebe

David J. Beebe is a biomedical engineer and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for microfluidics in cancer research, diagnostics, and founding several biotech companies.

David J. Goodman

David J. Goodman is an American electrical engineer, a Professor Emeritus at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for wireless communications research.

David J. Perreault

David J. Perreault is an MIT electrical engineer and Ford Professor known for very-high-frequency power conversion, a National Academy of Engineering member and 2024 IEEE Newell Award winner.