List of Arizona State University alumni in science and technology

Arizona State University (ASU) has graduated a number of notable people in science and technology. This includes graduates and non-graduate former students who are notable for their achievements within science and technology, sometimes before or after their time at ASU. Other alumni can be found in the list of Arizona State University alumni and its partial lists.

Earth science

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Tom Paradise
Earth science
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Scott G. Borg (MS, PhD) Geologist [1]
Marta Lucía Calvache 1995 (PhD) Colombian volcanologist [2]
Christopher Glein Geochemist [3]
Kayla Iacovino 2010 Volcanologist [4]
Craig D. Idso Geographer [5]
Penelope L. King 1999 (PhD) Geochemist [6]
Larry Lake 1967 Professor of petroleum and geosystems engineering [7]
Tom Paradise 1993 (PhD) Geomorphologist [8]
Nancy L. Ross 1985 Geoscientist [9]
Emily Stanley 1993 (PhD) Professor of limnology [10]
Ellen E. Wohl 1984 Professor of geology [11]

Engineering

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Daniel W. Bliss
Engineering
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Daniel W. Bliss 1989 Engineer and physicist, professor at ASU [12]
Diann Brei 1988 Professor of mechanical engineering [13]
John R. Clymer 1971 (PhD) Systems engineer and professor of electrical engineering and systems engineering [14]
Leroy S. Fletcher 1968 (PhD) Professor of mechanical engineering, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers [15][16]
Peng Lianmao 1988 (PhD) Chinese nanomaterial scientist [17]
Philipos C. Loizou Professor of electrical engineering [18]
Chandrasekhar Nataraj 1984 (MS) Professor of mechanical engineering [19]
Robert Rennaker 1997 Neural engineer [20]
Anne Silverman Professor of mechanical engineering [21]
Jian Tang 2006 (PhD) Chinese-American electrical engineer [22]
Dragica Vasileska 1995 (PhD) Electrical engineer and professor at ASU [23]

Life science and ecology

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Barbara Wold
Life science and ecology
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Kansri Boonpragob (PhD) Thai lichenologist and climatologist [24]
Denise Breitburg Marine ecologist [25][26]
Bradley Cardinale 1993 Ecologist, conservation biologist, academic and researcher [27]
C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. 1972 (PhD) Herpetologist and conservationist [28]
Wei-Ta Fang 1994 (MEP) Taiwanese wetland scientist [29]
Temple Grandin 1975 (MS) Animal behavior expert, author, autism advocate [30]
Nancy Grimm 1985 (PhD) Ecosystem ecologist [31]
Shelley Hurwitz 1977 Biostatistician [32]
Keith E. Idso (PhD) Botanist [33]
Charles Kazilek 1983 Science communicator, founder of Ask a Biologist [34]
Carolyn Larabell 1981 Structural biologist, X-ray microtomographer [35]
Christine Lee 1999 (MA) Bioarchaeologist [36]
Therese Ann Markow Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology [37]
Allen J. Moore Professor of entomology [38]
Allan A. Schoenherr (PhD) Ecologist [39]
Chester B. Scrignar Forensic psychiatrist [40]
Krystal Tsosie Geneticist and bioethicist [41]
Barbara Wold 1973 Professor of molecular biology [42]
Frank Zalom 1973 Entomologist [43]

Mathematics

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Sarah Witherspoon
Mathematics
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Connie M. Borror 1998 (PhD) Statistician, first woman to win the Shewhart Medal [44]
Joaquín Bustoz Jr. 1962 Mathematician and math professor at ASU [45]
Ricardo Cortez 1986 Professor of mathematics [46]
Shirley M. Frye Mathematics educator [47]
Judith Gersting 1969 (PhD) Mathematician and professor of computer science [48]
Trachette Jackson 1994 Professor of mathematics [49]
Ana Kupresanin 2009 (PhD) Croatian-American statistician [50]
Sarah Witherspoon 1988 Mathematician [51]

Medicine

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Sanjiv Sam Gambhir
Medicine
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Suzanne Bakken Nurse, professor of biomedical informatics [52]
Angela Bryan 1994 (MA) Professor of psychology and neuroscience [53]
Linda Burnes Bolton Nursing researcher, president of the American Academy of Nursing [54]
Angela Byars-Winston (PhD) Professor of internal medicine [55]
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir 1983 Physician; chair of the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine [56][57]
Amy Greer Canadian infectious disease epidemiologist [58]
Larry Lemanski 1968 (MS) Director of the Biomedical Institute for Regenerative Research at East Texas A&M University [59]
Robert Rey 1983 Plastic surgeon [60]
Nicole Saphier Radiologist and medical journalist [61]
Jorunn Sundgot-Borgen 1985 (MS) Norwegian professor of sports medicine [62]
Nicholas Tatonetti Professor of biomedical informatics [63]

Physics and chemistry

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Cheryl L. Shavers
Physics
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Chia-Seng Chang 1988 (PhD) Taiwanese physicist [64]
Barbara J. Garrison 1971 Chemist [65]
Paul F. McMillan 1981 Chemist and high-pressure scientist, professor at ASU and University College London [66]
Richard C. Powell (MS, PhD) Professor of physics, director of the Optical Science Center at the University of Arizona [67]
Theresa M. Reineke 1998 (MS) Chemist [68]
Cheryl L. Shavers 1976 Chemist and engineer; U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, 1999–2001 [69]
Spencer Silver 1962 Inventor of the adhesive used in Post-it notes [70]
Zhong Lin Wang 1987 (PhD) Physicist, materials scientist and engineer; winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science [71]

Space science

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Laurie Leshin
Space science
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Carrie Anderson 2000 Planetary scientist [72]
Edward Dwight 1957 First Black astronaut candidate, systems engineer and sculptor [73]
Scott Jay Kenyon 1978 Astrophysicist [74]
Laurie Leshin 1987 Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory [75]
Alfred McEwen 1988 (PhD) Planetary geologist [76]
Sian Proctor 1998 Commercial astronaut [77]
Paul Spudis 1976 Geologist and lunar scientist [78]
Kai Staats Research director, Space Analog for the Moon and Mars at Biosphere 2 [79]
Amber Straughn 2005 (MS) Astrophysicist [80]
Marija Strojnik Scholl 1972 Slovenian astrophysicist [81][82]

Technology and computer science

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Terry A. Davis
Technology and computer science
Name Class year Notes Ref.
Dennis Austin Software developer of PowerPoint [83]
Miles Brundage 2019 (PhD) Artificial intelligence policy researcher [84][85]
Terry A. Davis Programmer and creator of the TempleOS operating system [86]
Munmun De Choudhury 2011 (PhD) Computer scientist [87]
Dianne Hansford 1988 (MS) Computer scientist [88]
Mike Johnson (MS) Computer architect and microprocessor designer [89]
Michael I. Jordan 1980 (MS) Computer scientist and researcher [90]
Don Lancaster 1967 (MS) Author, inventor and microcomputer pioneer [91]
Cottalango Leon 1996 (MS) Indian-American computer graphics technician [92]
Stephanie Ludi 2003 (PhD) Computer scientist [93]
Landon Rabern 2013 (PhD) Computer scientist and mathematician [94]
Linda Rising (PhD) Computing consultant [95]
Daniel M. Romero Colombian-American computer scientist [96]
Kai Shu Computer scientist [97][98]
Jiliang Tang 2015 (PhD) Chinese computer scientist [99]

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