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David J. Srolovitz

David J. Srolovitz, also cited as D. J. Srolovitz, is an American materials theorist and Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, known for the MacPherson–Srolovitz relation.

David Japikse

David Japikse is an American mechanical engineer specializing in turbomachinery who founded Concepts NREC in 1980 and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

David Jenkins (environmental engineer)

David Jenkins (1935–2021) was a British-born environmental engineer and UC Berkeley professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for his research on biological wastewater treatment.

David Jiles

David C. Jiles is an engineer and physicist in applied magnetism, best known for the Jiles–Atherton model of ferromagnetic hysteresis, and a professor at Iowa State University.

David Joseph Srolovitz

David Joseph Srolovitz is a computational materials scientist and Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

David Juncker

David Juncker is a Swiss-trained biomedical engineer, professor and chair of biomedical engineering at McGill University, known for microfluidics, diagnostic chips, and the nELISA protein-profiling platform.

David K. Barton

David K. Barton (1927–2023) was an American radar systems engineer who led development of the AN/FPS-16 monopulse instrumentation radar and the AN/FPS-49 Ballistic Missile Early Warning System radar.

David K. Matlock

David K. Matlock is an American metallurgical engineer at the Colorado School of Mines, a National Academy of Engineering member known for advanced high-strength steels.

David Karger

David R. Karger is an American computer scientist and MIT professor since 1995, known for inventing consistent hashing, co-authoring the Chord distributed hash table, and randomized min-cut algorithms.

David Karp

David Karp (born 1986) is an American web developer who founded the microblogging platform Tumblr in 2007 and served as its chief executive until 2017.

David Kelly (weapons expert)

David Christopher Kelly (1944–2003) was a British microbiologist who led UN biological weapons inspections in Iraq and died in July 2003 after being named as the source of a BBC report.

David Kirk (scientist)

David Kirk is a computer scientist who served as NVIDIA's chief scientist from 1997 to 2009, leading the development of GPU computing and high-performance PC graphics.

David Kisailus

David Kisailus is an American materials scientist and professor at UC Irvine who studies biomineralized composites and is known for his 2020 Nature study of the diabolical ironclad beetle.

David Kriegman

David J. Kriegman is a computer scientist and professor at UC San Diego since 2002, known for Fisherfaces and illumination cone models in face recognition.

David L. Donoho

David L. Donoho, also known as David Donoho, is an American statistician at Stanford University known for compressed sensing and wavelet denoising, and winner of the 2013 Shaw Prize and 2018 Gauss Prize.

David L. Joyce

David L. Joyce is an American aerospace engineer and business executive who led GE Aviation as president and CEO from 2008 to 2020, doubling its revenue to $33 billion.

David L. Kaplan

David L. Kaplan, born 1953, is an American biomaterials scientist at Tufts University known for developing silk fibroin as a biomaterial for implants, drug delivery, and tissue engineering.

David L. Mills

David L. Mills (1938–2024) was an American computer scientist who created the Network Time Protocol, which synchronizes the clocks of networked computers across the internet.

David L. Morse

David L. Morse is an American materials scientist who joined Corning in 1976 and served as its executive vice president and chief technology officer from 2012 to 2022.

David L. Sedlak

David L. Sedlak is an environmental chemist and Plato Malozemoff Distinguished Professor of civil engineering at UC Berkeley, known for research on water reuse, PFAS, and treatment wetlands.

David Loveall

David Loveall II is an American digital-forensics scientist with the FBI since 2000, a PECASE recipient who serves as senior advisor on digital forensics at Quantico.

David M. Ford

David M. Ford is an American chemical engineer whose research spans statistical thermodynamics, molecular simulation, and membrane separations; he received the PECASE award at Texas A&M.

David M. Kelley

David M. Kelley, born in 1951, is an American engineer and Stanford professor who founded the design consultancy IDEO and Stanford's d.school, and led design of the first Apple Computer mouse.

David M. Maddox

David M. Maddox was a United States Army four-star general and operations research researcher who led the post-Cold War drawdown of U.S. Army Europe from 1992 to 1994.

David Madson (architect)

David Madson, also known as David Jon Madson, was a Minneapolis-based architect whose master's thesis proposed an original AIDS memorial design. Andrew Cunanan murdered him in Minnesota in 1997.

David Malan (computer scientist)

David J. Malan is an American computer scientist and Harvard professor best known as lead instructor of CS50, Harvard's introductory computer science course, its largest.

David Mareček

David Mareček is a Czech natural language processing researcher and assistant professor at Charles University in Prague, known for unsupervised dependency parsing and neural network interpretation.

David Messerschmitt

David Messerschmitt, born 1945, is an American electrical engineer and Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley who won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1999.

David Middleton (physicist)

David Middleton (1920–2008) was an American physicist who founded statistical communication theory, developed the matched filter, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

David Mitlin

David Mitlin is an engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin known for supercapacitor electrodes made from hemp waste and sodium battery anodes.