- Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century.
- Michael Jackson
Michael A. Jackson is a satellite project manager who ran as a Republican in the 2003 California recall, primarily getting votes due to sharing his name with that of pop singer Michael Jackson. Jackson garnered 746 votes, placing him 91st out of 135 candidates.
- Joseph Henry
Joseph Henry (December 17 1797 - May 13 1878) was a Scottish-American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was considered one of the greatest American scientists since Benjamin Franklin. While building electromagnets, Henry discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance. He also discovered mutual inductance independently of Faraday, though Faraday was the first to publish his results.
- Ming Hsieh
Ming Hsieh is a billionaire Chinese American entrepreneur and philanthropist and the founder of AMAZ technology in 1987 and Cogent Systems in 1990. According to "Forbes" magazine, his estimated net worth exceeds $1.6 billion, ranking him the 198th richest person in America and 562nd among The World's Richest People In 2006. Born to Baoyan and Sun Hsieh, Ming Hsieh's family originated in Guangzhou (Canton), he was raised in Shenyang, …
- John L. Hennessy
John LeRoy Hennessy, the founder of MIPS Computer Systems Inc., is currently serving as the 10th President of Stanford University. He earned his Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University, and his Master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Hennessy became a Stanford faculty member in 1977. In 1984, he used his sabbatical year to found MIPS Computer Systems Inc.
- Gerald Jay Sussman
Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973, respectively. He has been involved in artificial intelligence research at MIT since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, …
- Sergio Verdu
Sergio Verdú is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University where he teaches and conducts research on information theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group. He is also affiliated with the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. A native of Barcelona, Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, …
- Alan V. Oppenheim
Alan V. Oppenheim is a Ford Professor of Engineering at the MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a principal investigator in the MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), at the Digital Signal Processing Group. He frequently performs magic tricks in class just for fun. His research interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications.
- Howard Johnson
Dr. Howard Johnson is an electrical engineer, known for his consulting work and commonly referenced books on the topic of signal integrity, especially for high speed electronic circuit design.
- William Stallings
William Stallings is an American computer scientist, best known for his textbooks on computer science topics such as operating systems, computer networks, computer organization, and cryptography. Stallings received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and his doctorate in computer science from MIT. He is currently working as an independent consultant.
- Carver Mead
Professor Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934, in Bakersfield, California) is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. He is the Gordon and Betty Moore professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years. Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting his B.S. in 1956, his M.S. in 1957, and his Ph.D. degree in 1960.
- Paul Horowitz
Paul Horowitz (born 1942) is a U.S. physicist and electrical engineer, known primarily for his work in electronics design, as well as for his role in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (see SETI). At age 8, Horowitz achieved distinction as the world's youngest amateur radio operator (or "ham"). He went on to study physics at Harvard University (B.A., 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., 1970), where he has also spent all of his subsequent career.
- Elihu Thomson
Elihu Thomson (March 29, 1853 - March 13, 1937) was an engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, United Kingdom and France.
- John G. Webster
John G. Webster is an American electrical engineer and a founding pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering. Webster attained his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1967. In 1978, Webster's textbook "Medical Instrumentation: Application and Design" was published; the text has seen several revised editions and is considered the classic textbook in the field. Webster has authored and edited numerous other articles and textbooks, …
- Bart Kosko
Dr. Kosko received his bachelors degrees in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Southern California, the masters degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include Adaptive Systems, Fuzzy Theory, Neural Networks, Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Signal Processing, Intelligent Agents, Smart Materials, and Stochastic Resonance.
- Marshall Brain
Marshall Brain is the founder of HowStuffWorks. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University. Before founding HowStuffWorks, Marshall taught in the computer science department at NCSU and ran a software training and consulting company. Learn more at his site .
- Oliver Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwell's field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis.
- Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 - October 5, 1996) was a U.S. electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who founded the company Cray Research. Cray was born in 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. His father was a civil engineer who fostered Cray's interest in science and engineering. As early as the age of ten he was able to build a device to convert punched paper tape into Morse code signals out of Erector Set components.
- Giovanni de Micheli
Giovanni De Micheli is Professor and Director of the Integrated Systems Centre at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, and President of the Scientific Committee of CSEM, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Previously, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He holds a Nuclear Engineer degree (Politecnico di Milano, 1979), a M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (University of California at Berkeley, 1980 and 1983).
- Eli Yablonovitch
Professor Eli Yablonovitch , a pioneer in the fi eld of opto-electronics and photonic bandgap research, is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Optoelectronics. He also heads the UCLA EE Department Optoelectronics Group, which is focused on the future of electronics and optoelectronics. Among the technological changes that will be forthcoming in the near future are:
- Andrew Viterbi
Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (born March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman. Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, his parents changed it to "Andrew", since "Andrea" is a female name in many English-speaking countries.
- William Gilbert
William Gilbert, also known as Gilberd (Colchester, England, May 24, 1544 - London, England, November 30, 1603) was an English physician and a natural philosopher. He was an early Copernican, and passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristotelian philosophy and the Scholastic method of university teaching. After gaining his MD from Cambridge in 1569, and a short spell as bursar of St John's College, Cambridge, …
- Pat Hanrahan
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher and professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing units, and scientific illustration and visualization. He received a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Wisconsin in 1985. In the 1980s, he worked at the New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Laboratory, …
- Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov (born Barbara Huberman, 1939), is a prominent computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her BA in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in Computer Science, in 1968 from Stanford University.
- Marc Levoy
Marc Levoy is a computer graphics researcher and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is noted for pioneering work in volume rendering. Levoy first studied computer graphics as an architecture student under Donald Greenberg at Cornell University. He received his B.Arch. in 1976 and M.S. in Architecture in 1978. He developed a 2D computer animation system as part of his studies, …
- Robert Calderbank
A. Robert Calderbank is a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. He received a BSc degree from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc degree from Oxford University in 1976, England, and a PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology, all in mathematics. He became a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs in 1980.
- Simon Ramo
Simon Ramo (born May 13, 1913) is an American physicist, engineer, and business leader. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He has been partly responsible for the creation of two Fortune 500 companies of the 1970s; Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW after 1958) and Bunker-Ramo (now part of Honeywell). Simon was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, …
- William R. Brody
Brody has led the university since September 1, 1996. His dozen years at Hopkins' helm make him the fifth-longest serving of its 13 presidents, and he has an extensive list of accomplishments to show for it. He created a university-wide Commission on Undergraduate Education to improve the undergraduate experience both in and out of the classroom.
- Thomas M. Cover
Thomas M. Cover (born August 7, 1938 in San Bernardino, California) is Professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He is past President of the IEEE Information Theory Society and is a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics and of the IEEE. In 1972 he received the Outstanding Paper Award in Information Theory for his paper Broadcast Channels; he was selected in 1990 as the Shannon Lecturer, …
- Azim Premji
Azim Hashim Premji (born July 24, 1945) is the Chairman & CEO of Wipro Technologies, which today is one of the largest software companies in India. It has its headquarters in the Indian Silicon City Bangalore. He was rated the richest person in the country from 1999 to 2005 by Forbes. His wealth today is estimated at 58,451 crores INR which places him as the fourth richest Indian; behind DLF Chairman Kushal Pal Singh and ahead of Sterlite Chairman [Anil Agarwal].
- Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the university in January 1984, as a professor of electrical and computer engineering with a joint appointment with the Institute of System Research. Dean Farvardin was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, during 1990-91.
- Brian Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought. He is also coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie.
- Denice Denton
Denice Dee Denton was the seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). She held the position from February 14 2005 until her suicide 16 months later on June 24, 2006. Denton also held a UCSC appointment as Professor of Electrical Engineering.
- Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he earned a Master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969, all in electrical engineering.
- Lee Jones
Lee Jones is the author of "Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em" and a contributor of poker articles to Card Player Magazine. Jones earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in North Carolina in 1978, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1983. From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the PokerStars online poker cardroom.
- Stephen O. Rice
Stephen O. Rice was a pioneer in the field of communication theory. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and did graduate work at Caltech and at Columbia University. He worked for nearly forty years at Bell Labs. Rice's paper “Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise”, published in the Bell System Technical Journal, is widely considered to be a classic in its field.
- Steven B. Sample
Steven B. Sample (born 1940) is the 10th and current (1991-) President of the University of Southern California.
- Amar Bose
Amar Gopal Bose is the chairman and founder of Bose Corporation. A Bengali Indian American electrical engineer, he was listed on the 2006 Forbes 400 with a net worth of $1.5 billion. Bose was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; his father, Nani Gopal Bose, was an Indian freedom revolutionary from Bengal who having been imprisoned for his political activities, …
- An Wang
Dr. An Wang (February 7, 1920 - March 24, 1990) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.
- Constantine A. Balanis
Constantine A. Balanis (b. 1938) is a Greek born American scientist. Born in Trikala, Greece on October 29, 1938. He emigrated to the United States in 1955, where he studied Electrical Engineering. He received United States citizenship in 1960. Balanis received the Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in 1964, the Master of Science degree from the University of Virginia, in 1966, …