List of Stanford University People - Notable Stanford Alumni - Academics - Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

• Norman Abramson (Ph.D in EE), 2007 Alexander Graham Bell prize winner, developed the world’s first wireless computer communication network, ALOHAnet.
• Anant Agarwal (Ph.D in EE), president of edX at MIT
• Ružena Bajcsy, (Ph.D in CS), winner of 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and cognitive science
• Andy Bechtolsheim (Ph.D. dropout), designer of the first networked SUN workstation
• Lawrence M. Breed, (M.S.), created the first computer animation language, MACS, Grace Murray Hopper awardee
• Sergey Brin (M.S.), developer of Google search engine, Marconi Prize winner
• David Boggs (Ph.D.), co-inventor of Ethernet
• Rodney Brooks (Ph.D. 1981), Director of MIT computer science and artificial intelligence lab, winner of computers and thought award
• Vint Cerf (B.S. 1965, former prof.), Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP/IP internet protocol, Turing Award and Marconi Prize winning computer scientist, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Morris Chang (Ph.D in EE), 2010 Winner of IEEE medal of honor
• Donald D. Chamberlin (M.S., Ph.D in EE), coinventor of SQL (Structured Query Language), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
• Surajit Chaudhuri, Ph.D in CS, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
• John M. Cioffi (Ph.D. in EE) pioneer in Digital Subscriber Line Technology, winner of Marconi prize, and IEEE Alexander Bell prize
• Thomas M. Cover (Ph.D in EE 64) Information Theorist, winner of Shannon prize, Hamming medal
• Donald Cox (Ph.D in EE) winner of IEEE Alexander Bell prize
• Whitfield Diffie (Ph.D drop out), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, Marconi Prize winner
• Steve Deering (Ph.D in EE), inventor of IP multicast, a technique for one-to-many and many-to-many real-time communication over an IP infrastructure in a network.
• Les Earnest, research scientist, created the 1st spell check, and 1st cursive writing recognizer
• David Eppstein (B.S. 1984), computer scientist
• Paul Flaherty (MS, Ph.D), inventor of AltaVista search engine
• Scott Forstall (B.S., M.S.), senior vice president of iPhone software at Apple Inc.
• Richard P. Gabriel (Ph.D.), computer scientist
• Craig Gentry (Ph.D), computer scientist, Grace Murray Hopper awardee, noted for solving "fully homomorphic encryption", a breakthrough in public-key encryption
• Edward Ginzton (Ph.D and prof), pioneer of microwave electronics, winner of IEEE medal of honor
• Susan L. Graham (Ph.D in CS), IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
• Carlos Guestrin (Ph.D in CS), winner of computers and thought award
• William Webster Hansen (Ph.D and Prof), pioneer of microwave electronics
• Martin Hellman (M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1969, EE, prof.), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, Marconi Prize winner, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Charles Herrold, Stanford graduate, creator of the first radio station in the world.
• William Hewlett (B.E., M.E. in EE), founder of Hewlett-Packard, national medal of science winner
• Ted Hoff (Ph.D. 1962), inventor of microprocessor, winner of Kyoto Prize, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
• John Hopcroft (Ph.D 1964 in EE, former prof.), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
• Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., MS. in CS, Grace Murray Hopper awardee
• Alan Kay (Postdoc), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
• Lydia Kavraki, (Ph.D in CS), Grace Murray Hopper awardee
• Leslie Kaelbling, (Ph.D in CS), winner of computers and thought award
• Stephen W. Keckler, (B.S.), Grace Murray Hopper awardee
• Dan Klein, (Ph.D in CS), Grace Murray Hopper awardee
• Daphne Koller (Ph.D), Stanford CS professor, winner of ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, winner of computers and thought award
• Thomas Kailath professor in EE, 2007 winner of IEEE medal of honor
• Douglas Lenat, (Ph.D in CS and former professor), winner of computers and thought award
• Barbara Liskov (Ph.D), 1st female ph.D in computer science in US, MIT Ford professor, Turing Award winner
• Theodore Maiman (M.E. in EE, Ph.D in physics), inventor of ruby laser, the first working laser in the world, National Inventors Hall of Fame
• James Meindl former professor, 2006 winner of IEEE medal of honor
• Tom M. Mitchell Ph.D in computer science, professor and head of the machine learning department at CMU, winner of computers and thought award
• Albert Macovski (Ph.D and Prof), authority on computerized imaging systems with 150 patents
• Jitendra Malik (Ph.D 1985), CS professor at UC Berkeley
• Ralph Merkle (Ph.D. 1979, EE), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Cleve Moler (Ph.D.) and John N. Little (M.E. 1980), creators of MATLAB
• Roger Moore, Grace Murray Hopper awardee
• Hans Moravec (Ph.D. 1980), co-designer of Stanford CART, the first computer-controlled robot car
• Hector Garcia-Molina (Ph.D and professor in CS), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
• Allen Newell (B.S.), pioneer of artificial intelligence, Turing Award-winning computer scientist
• Ren Ng PHD in CS, the founder and chief executive officer of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company. Lytro is developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University.
• Nils Nilsson (Ph.D 1958, CS), Noted for leading the effort in developing Shakey the robot at SRI, the first mobile robot that could think independently and interact with its surroundings, Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus in Computer Science at Stanford University.
• Jim K. Omura (Ph.D in EE) Alexander Graham Bell prize winner
• Larry Page (M.S.), developer of Google search engine, Marconi Prize winner
• Kumar Patel (Ph.D in EE), inventor of carbon Dioxidelaser, national medal of science winner
• Arogyaswami Paulraj professor in EE, 2011 Alexander Graham Bell prize winner
• Donald Pederson (Ph.D in EE), pioneer in SPICE, winner of IEEE medal of honor
• Amir Pnueli (Postdoc), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
• Rafael Reif (Ph.D. in EE, 1979), current president of MIT
• Charles Rieger, (Ph.D in CS), winner of computers and thought award
• Raj Reddy (Ph.D. 1966, former prof.), Turing Award-winning computer scientist, founder of robotics institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
• Ronald Rivest (Ph.D. 1974, former prof.), cryptographer, Turing Award-winning computer scientist
• Stuart Russell (Ph.D, 1986, CS), chair of CS at UC-Berkeley, winner of computers and thought award
• Nicolas Sadirac (1989), founder and current President of the École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies
• Mike Schroepfer, (B.S. 1997 and M.S. 1999), led development of the Firefox browser at Modzilla and now Vice President of Engineering at Facebook.
• Edward Shortliffe (Ph.D.), Grace Murray Hopper awardee, inventor of the rule-based pharmacological expert system: Mycin
• Charles Simonyi (M.S., Ph.D 1977, CS), inventor of Microsoft Word, former chief architect at Microsoft Corp.
• Daniel Sleator (Ph.D.), computer scientist
• Michael D. Smith (Ph.D. in EE 1993), Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard University
• Alfred Spector (Ph.D.), computer scientist
• Robert Tarjan (Ph.D. 1972, former prof.), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
• Frederick Terman (B.S. in chemistry, M.E. in EE), father of Silicon Valley, national medal of science winner
• Russell Varian (Ph.D) and Sigurd Varian (M.S.), inventors of Klystron, the foundation of RADAR
• Jeffrey Scott Vitter (Ph.D in CS), provost at university of Kansas
• John Robert Woodyard (Ph.D), pioneer in microwave electronics, inventor of "doping" in semiconductors
• Shripati Acharya (M.S.), co-founder of Snapfish