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Jennifer L. M. Rupp

Jennifer L. M. Rupp is a German materials scientist known for solid-state battery electrolytes and memristive oxides, a full professor at TU Munich since 2023.

Jennifer L. Welch

Jennifer Lundelius Welch is an American computer scientist known for research on distributed computing theory, and co-author of the widely used textbook Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics.

Jennifer Lee Clancy

Jennifer Lee Clancy is an environmental microbiologist known for detecting Cryptosporidium and Giardia parasites in drinking- and wastewater, and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2026.

Jennifer Rexford

Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist known for her work on BGP routing and software-defined networking, and has been Princeton University's provost since March 2023 after chairing its computer science department.

Jennifer West

Jennifer L. West is an American biomaterials researcher, dean of the University of Virginia School of Engineering since 2021, known for hydrogels and gold nanoshell cancer therapy.

Jennifer Wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox is an American chemical engineer known for research on carbon capture and direct air capture, and a US Department of Energy official from 2021 to 2024.

Jenny Nelson

Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, known for research on photovoltaic materials and for her textbook The Physics of Solar Cells.

Jens Rasmussen (safety scientist)

Jens Rasmussen (1926–2018) was a Danish human-factors and safety scientist at Risø National Laboratory, known for the skills-rules-knowledge taxonomy and the AcciMap accident-analysis method.

Jensen FF

The Jensen FF is a British grand tourer made by Jensen Motors from 1966 to 1971, the first production car with permanent four-wheel drive and anti-lock brakes.

Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang, also known as Jen-Hsun Huang, is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer who co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and has served as its president and chief executive officer ever since, leading its growth into a chipmaking giant.

Jensen Interceptor

The Jensen Interceptor is a British grand tourer produced by Jensen Motors of West Bromwich, England, from 1966 to 1976, with an Italian-designed steel body and Chrysler V8 engines.

Jensen Motors

Jensen Motors Limited was a British coachbuilder and specialist car manufacturer in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, active from 1934 to 1976 and best known for the Interceptor and the four-wheel-drive Jensen FF.

Jeong Ho Cho

Jeong Ho Cho (조정호) is a South Korean professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Yonsei University, known for printable ion-gel dielectrics and wafer-scale printed MoS2 transistor arrays.

Jeong Sook Ha

Jeong Sook Ha is a South Korean chemical and biological engineer, a professor at Korea University in Seoul known for stretchable micro-supercapacitors and wearable energy-storage devices.

Jeong‐Yun Sun

Jeong-Yun Sun (선정윤) is a South Korean materials scientist and professor at Seoul National University known for papers on tough hydrogels and stretchable, transparent ionic conductors.

JEPA (joint-embedding predictive architecture)

JEPA (joint-embedding predictive architecture) is a self-supervised learning method, proposed by Yann LeCun in 2022, that predicts representations of masked data instead of raw pixels.

Jeppesen

Jeppesen is an American aviation navigation company founded in 1934 by airmail pilot Elrey Borge Jeppesen, known for aeronautical charts and electronic navigation databases used by pilots worldwide.

JERA

JERA is a Japanese energy company established in 2015 as a joint venture of TEPCO and Chubu Electric, generating about 30% of Japan's power and operating 26 thermal plants.

Jerald L. Schnoor

Jerald L. "Jerry" Schnoor is an American environmental engineer at the University of Iowa, widely described as a founding father of phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean contaminated environments.

Jeremiah Lowin

Jeremiah Lowin is the American founder and CEO of Prefect, the workflow orchestration company, and creator of FastMCP, the Python framework for building Model Context Protocol servers. Former hedge fund risk manager, early Apache Airflow PMC member, Prefect is acquiring Dagster.

Jeremy Fry

Jeremy Joseph Fry (1924–2005) was a British engineer and entrepreneur who founded Rotork in 1957 and created the modern standardized electric valve actuator, and was James Dyson's mentor.

Jeremy Howard (data scientist)

Jeremy Howard is an Australian data scientist and AI researcher who founded Enlitic, led Kaggle as President and Chief Scientist, and co-founded fast.ai with Rachel Thomas.

Jeremy Isenberg

Jeremy Isenberg is an American civil engineer known for computational modeling of structures under blast and earthquake loading, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999.

Jeremy Robinson

Jeremy Robinson is an American materials physicist and senior staff scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, known for graphene and 2D materials research and a PECASE award.

Jeremy S. Luterbacher

Jeremy S. Luterbacher (born 1984) is a Swiss chemical engineer who joined EPFL in 2014 and is known for lignin-first biorefining, nonenzymatic sugar production, and co-founding two startups.

Jeremy T. Busby

Jeremy T. Busby is an American nuclear materials scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, leading its Isotope Science and Engineering Directorate since 2023 and researching radiation effects on reactor materials.

Jericho (יריחו) (missile)

Jericho (יריחו) is a family of Israeli surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, developed from a French design in the 1960s and believed to form Israel's land-based nuclear deterrent.

Jerk-limited trajectory generation

Jerk-limited trajectory generation is the construction of motion commands for industrial robots and machine tools with the jerk bounded, so acceleration is continuous, reducing resonance, wear, and tracking error.

Jerome B. Cohen

Jerome B. Cohen (1932–1999) was an American materials scientist and crystallographer at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1993, known for x-ray diffraction studies of residual stresses.

Jerome Clarke Hunsaker

Jerome Clarke Hunsaker (1886–1984) was an American aeronautical engineer and Navy officer who designed the NC-4 flying boat that made the first Atlantic crossing and the airship Shenandoah.