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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#3951

Joseph Lau

#123139

Overall Influence

#3952

Rahul Sarpeshkar

#79173

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Rahul Sarpeshkar is the Thomas E. Kurtz Professor and a professor of engineering, professor of physics, professor of microbiology & immunology, and professor of molecular and systems biology at Dartmouth. Sarpeshkar, whose interdisciplinary work is in bioengineering, electrical engineering, quantum physics, and biophysics, is the inaugural chair of the William H. Neukom cluster of computational science, which focuses on analog, quantum, and biological computation. The clusters, designed by faculty from across the institution to address major global challenges, are part of President Philip Hanlon's vision for strengthening academic excellence at Dartmouth.

#3953

Venkatesh Narayanamurti

#71084

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Venkatesh Narayanamurti is an American scientist, public policy leader and academic administrator. He studied physics at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, where he gained his bachelor's degree in 1958 and a master's degree in 1960. He was awarded a PhD by Cornell University in 1965.

#3954

Rudolf M. Tromp

#116380

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Dr. Rudolf Maria "Ruud" Tromp is a Dutch American scientist at IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a Physics Professor at Leiden University. Education He attended Petrus Canisius College The Lyceum .1982 Ph.D. in physics from the University of Utrecht 1982, completed a thesis on medium-energy ion scattering studies of the structure of silicon surfaces.

#3955

Ann F. Chambers

#123189

Overall Influence

#3956

Hsiao‐dong Chiang

#123206

Overall Influence

#3957

Ezio Biglieri

#123207

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

#3958

Theodore H. Okiishi

#111179

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Theodore H. Okiishi is an American mechanical engineer. He is an emeritus faculty member at Iowa State University , where he also received his bachelors and doctoral degrees. He has written numerous technical papers, and is a co-author of the books A Brief Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics. The latter has been called one of the "top 10 standard handbooks for mechanical engineers."

#3959

Carlos Canudas de Wit

#123214

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Carlos Canudas de Wit from the , Grenoble, France was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to modeling and control of mechanical, robotic, and networked systems.

#3960

Greg Turk

#28029

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Greg Turk is an American-born researcher in the field of computer graphics and a professor at the School of Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology . His paper "Zippered polygon meshes from range images", concerning the reconstruction of surfaces from point data, brought the "Stanford bunny", a frequently used example object in computer graphics research, into the CGI lexicon. Turk actually purchased the original Stanford Bunny and performed the initial scans on it. He is also known for his work on simplification of surfaces, and on reaction–diffusion-based texture synthesis.

#3961

Oliver Gutfleisch

#123273

Overall Influence

#3962

V. P. R. Vittal

#123291

Overall Influence

#3963

Robert Anthony Ainsworth

#103680

Overall Influence

Robert Anthony Ainsworth FRS FREng is a British material scientist, and Assessment Technology Group Head, at British Energy Generation. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, London. In 2006, he won the James Clayton Prize, from IMechE.

#3964

Majid Reza Ayatollahi

#123301

Overall Influence

#3965

Ismo V. Lindell

#123308

Overall Influence

#3966

Shoji Takeuchi

#123331

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#3967

Nuno Sousa

#123351

Overall Influence

#3968

Dino Di Carlo

#123364

Overall Influence

#3969

Randall S. Blum

#123369

Overall Influence

#3970

Xavier Cortés Rocha

Xavier Cortés Rocha

#113830

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Xavier Cortés Rocha is a Mexican architect and urban planner. He was also briefly the interim rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico in November 1999, after a student strike forced the resignation of Francisco Barnés de Castro. He was born in Tampico.

#3971

Fatih Mehmet Uckun

#123420

Overall Influence

#3972

Nasir D. Memon

#123424

Overall Influence

#3973

Edward C. Knobloch

#123446

Overall Influence

#3974

Nadine Aubry

#80986

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Nadine Aubry is an American engineer. She previously served as Provost and Senior Vice President of Tufts University. She is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2009, she was the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professor and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

#3975

Barry Richmond

#45957

Overall Influence

1947 - 2002 (55 years)

Barry Marshall Richmond was an American systems scientist, and former managing director of High Performance Systems, Inc , an organization providing software and consulting services to build the capacity of people to understand and improve the workings of dynamic systems. He is known as a leader in the field of systems thinking and system dynamics and for the development of the STELLA/iThink modelling environment for simulation.

#3976

Paola Cappellaro

#89047

Overall Influence

Paola Cappellaro is an Italian-American engineer who is a Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research considers electron-spin resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance and quantum information processing. She leads the MIT Quantum Engineering Group at the Center for Ultracold Atoms.

#3977

J. V. (john V.) Sutcliffe

#123476

Overall Influence

#3978

Edward J. Garboczi

#123477

Overall Influence

#3979

Alexander Klibanov

#28497

Overall Influence

Alexander L. Klibanov is associate professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the study of ultrasound and medical imaging techniques.

#3980

S. Simon Wong

#101359

Overall Influence

S. Simon Wong is a professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. He is affiliated faculty in the Stanford Non-Volatile Memory Technology Research Initiative , System X Alliance, and Bio-X.

#3981

Jerry Westerweel

#123503

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

#3982

Kathleen Anne Sluka

#123536

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

#3983

Dušan S. Zrnić

#123547

Overall Influence

#3984

Petros A. Ioannou

#100686

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Petros A. Ioannou is a Cypriot American Electrical Engineer who made important contributions in Robust Adaptive Control, Vehicle and Traffic Flow Control, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Early life and education Petros A. Ioannou was born in the village of Tripimeni in Cyprus. After graduation from the Technical School of Nicosia and completion of his compulsory military service he moved to London, England in 1973 to attend University College London. He graduated with First-class honours from University College London with a B.S. in mechanical engineering in 1978. He earned a M.S. in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D.

#3985

Karen Thole

#119123

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Karen A. Thole is an American engineer. She is a Distinguished Professor and former head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. Early life and education Thole was born on July 11, 1960, in Breese, Illinois to an army veteran father. She was raised on a dairy farm and by fifth grade was driving a tractor around the field. She graduated from Central Community High School and enrolled at Eastern Illinois University for two years before transferring to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Following the transfer, she earned her Bachelor of Science deg...

#3986

Bernard Ghanem

#123586

Overall Influence

#3987

Debdeep Jena

#123602

Overall Influence

#3988

Kathryn R. Nightingale

#102484

Overall Influence

Kathryn Radabaugh Nightingale is an American biomedical engineer in the field of medical ultrasound. She is the Theo Pilkington Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Nightingale is also a Member of the Duke Cancer Institute and Bass Fellow in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering.

#3989

Jörg Henkel

#123637

Overall Influence

#3990

Dean C. Karnopp

#123645

Overall Influence

#3991

Alfonso Farina

#118706

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Alfonso Farina is an Italian electronic engineer and former industry manager. He is most noted for the development of the track while scan techniques for radars and generally for the development of a wide range of signal processing techniques used for sensors where tracking plays an essential role. He is author of about 1000 publications. His work was aimed to a synergistic cooperation between industry and academy.

#3992

Emanuel Todorov

#76561

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Emanuel Vassilev Todorov , a neuroscientist, is an associate professor and director of the Movement Control Laboratory at the University of Washington. He introduced the use of optimal control as a formal explanatory framework for biological movement . He is the principal developer of the MuJoCo physics engine.

#3993

Zoe Laughlin

#50923

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Zoe Laughlin is a British artist, maker and materials engineer. She is the co-founder and Director of the Institute of Making at University College London. She is a regular panelist on the BBC Radio 4 show The Kitchen Cabinet. Laughlin was awarded the 2019 Inspire, Support Achieve Award for Design Engineering from the Institution of Engineering Designers.

#3994

Hans B. Pacejka

#121768

Overall Influence

1934 - 2017 (83 years)

Hans Bastiaan Pacejka was an expert in vehicle system dynamics and particularly in tire dynamics, fields in which his works are now standard references. He was Professor emeritus at Delft University of Technology in Delft, Netherlands.

#3995

George Geoffrey Meyerhof

#123716

Overall Influence

#3996

John H. Hoffman

#54553

Overall Influence

John Hoffman was a space scientist who developed instruments for Apollo 15, Apollo 16, Apollo 17, the Pioneer Venus project, and Giotto mission. He also designed the mass spectrometer for the Phoenix Mars Lander mission in May 2008. He was a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Dallas.

#3997

Vic Tandy

#33102

Overall Influence

1955 - 2005 (50 years)

Vic Tandy was a British lecturer for information technology at Coventry University, England, and an engineer. He was known best for his research into the relationship between infrasound and ghostly apparitions.

#3998

Peter Mark Bartold

#123812

Overall Influence

#3999

Gaetano Di Chiara

#123829

Overall Influence

#4000

Anil Misra

#120440

Overall Influence

Anil Misra is an Indian American professor of civil engineering at the University of Kansas. There he also serves as the associate director for the KU Institute of Bioengineering Research . Career Misra pioneered the method of granular micromechanics to develop generalized continuum models for a range of materials including geomaterials, biomaterials, concrete, polymers, and metamaterials. In addition to his work in granular micromechanics, Misra has contributed to dental interfacial mechanics and high-resolution material characterization. He was elected a fellow of the American Institute for ...

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