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James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland is an American cognitive scientist, Lucie Stern Professor at Stanford, known for the Parallel Distributed Processing framework and complementary learning systems theory of memory.
James LeBeau
James LeBeau is an American materials scientist and professor at MIT who develops quantitative scanning transmission electron microscopy methods, and received a 2017 PECASE award.
James M. Douglas
James M. Douglas (1933–2017) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who developed the hierarchical decision procedure for conceptual process design and wrote Conceptual Design of Chemical Processes.
James M. Duncan
James M. Duncan, also known as James Michael Duncan, was an American geotechnical engineer and Virginia Tech professor elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
James M. Hait
James M. Hait (James Merritt Hait, born 1906) was an American mechanical engineer who founded FMC's Ordnance Division, producing the WWII LVT amphibian and the M113 armored personnel carrier.
James M. Symons
James M. Symons is an American environmental engineer known for research on disinfection by-products in drinking water and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.
James M. Tien
James M. Tien (born 1945) is an American systems engineer and academic, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and known for service systems engineering.
James Massey
James Massey (1934–2013) was an American information theorist and cryptographer, a pioneer of digital communications known for the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm and the IDEA cipher, developed at ETH Zurich.
James Morley Anderson
James Morley Anderson is an American biomaterials scientist and emeritus professor at Case Western Reserve University who established the mechanistic framework for the foreign body reaction to implants.
James N. Krebs
James N. Krebs, full name James Norton Krebs, was an American aerospace engineer who spent his 39-year General Electric career planning jet engines including the J79, TF39, CF6, and CFM56.
James O. Jirsa
James O. Jirsa is an American structural engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988.
James P. Bagian
James P. Bagian is an American physician, mechanical engineer, and former NASA astronaut who flew on two Shuttle missions, investigated the Challenger accident, and built the VA's patient-safety system.
James P. Brill
James P. Brill is an American petroleum engineer at the University of Tulsa, a National Academy of Engineering member known for research on multiphase flow in pipes.
James P. Gould
James P. Gould was an American geotechnical engineer, a principal at Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers in New York and principal author of the Navy design manual NAVFAC DM-7.
James P. Schmiedeler
James P. Schmiedeler is an American mechanical engineer who studies human movement to design legged robots, lower-limb prostheses, and rehabilitation devices, and received a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.
James Q. Crowe
James Quell Crowe (1949–2023) was an American engineer and telecommunications builder who co-founded MFS Communications and Level 3 Communications, leading construction of two national fiber optic networks.
James R. Biard
James R. Biard, known as Bob Biard, was an American electrical engineer at Texas Instruments who invented the first GaAs infrared LED, the optical isolator, and the MOS read-only memory.
James R. Fair
James R. Fair (1920–2010) was an American chemical engineer known for distillation and mass-transfer technology, who worked at Monsanto and later taught at the University of Texas at Austin.
James R. Gosler
James R. Gosler is an American cybersecurity scientist, Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and first Director of the CIA's Clandestine Information Technology Office.
James R. Harris
James R. Harris, full name James Robert Harris, is a Denver consulting structural engineer who founded J.R. Harris & Company in 1984 and chaired the ASCE 7 seismic standards committee.
James R. Johnson
James R. Johnson (died 2019) was an American ceramic engineer who spent 23 years at 3M and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1972.
James R. Swartz
James R. Swartz is an American biochemical engineer and James H. Clark Professor at Stanford who pioneered cell-free protein synthesis and co-founded biotech companies including Sutro Biopharma.
James R. Wait
James R. Wait (1924–1998) was a Canadian electrical engineer whose waveguide theory of very-low-frequency radio propagation between the earth and the ionosphere framed long-distance VLF and ELF communication.
James Ralph Scapa
James Ralph Scapa is an American mechanical engineer who co-founded Altair Engineering in Troy, Michigan, in 1985 and led it as chairman and CEO until Siemens agreed to acquire it for about $10.6 billion.
James Renwick Jr.
James Renwick Jr. (1818–1895) was an American architect whose Gothic Revival works include the Smithsonian Castle, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York, and the Renwick Gallery, the first US building designed as an art museum.
James Robert Hamilton
James Robert Hamilton is a Senior Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon who works on AWS infrastructure and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.
James Rondinelli
James Rondinelli is a computational materials scientist who is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University and received a PECASE award in 2016.
James Rufus McDonald
James Rufus McDonald, known as Jim McDonald, is a Scottish electrical power engineer who has served as Principal of the University of Strathclyde since 2009.
James S. C. Chao (赵锡成)
James S. C. Chao, also known as James Si-Cheng Chao, is a Chinese-American shipping executive who founded the Foremost Group in New York in 1964 and is the father of Elaine Chao.
James S. Duncan
James S. Duncan is a Yale medical image analysis researcher, Ebenezer K. Hunt Professor and Biomedical Engineering chair, known for deformable-model segmentation, a 2000 survey, and BrainGNN.