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
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. (MS, PhD) Geologist 1995 (PhD) Colombian volcanologist Geochemist 2010 Volcanologist Geographer 1999 (PhD) Geochemist 1967 Professor of petroleum and geosystems engineering 1993 (PhD) Geomorphologist 1985 Geoscientist 1993 (PhD) Professor of limnology 1984 Professor of geology
Engineering + Name Class year Notes Ref. 1992 Electrical engineer, IEEE Fellow 1989 Engineer and physicist, professor at ASU 1988 Professor of mechanical engineering 1971 (PhD) Systems engineer and professor of electrical engineering and systems engineering 1968 (PhD) Professor of mechanical engineering, president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2008 (PhD)Professor of electrical engineering 1988 (PhD) Chinese nanomaterial scientist Professor of electrical engineering 1984 (MS) Professor of mechanical engineering 1997 Neural engineer Professor of mechanical engineering 2006 (PhD) Chinese-American electrical engineer 1995 (PhD) Electrical engineer and professor at ASU
Life science and ecology
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. 1989 (MS) Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (PhD) Thai lichenologist and climatologist Marine ecologist 1993 Ecologist, conservation biologist, academic and researcher 1972 (PhD) Herpetologist and conservationist 1994 (MEP) Taiwanese wetland scientist 1975 (MS) Animal behavior expert, author, autism advocate 1974 (MS) Physiological psychologist 1985 (PhD) Ecosystem ecologist 1977 Biostatistician (PhD) Botanist 1983 Science communicator, founder of Ask a Biologist 1981 Structural biologist, X-ray microtomographer 1999 (MA) Bioarchaeologist Professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Professor of entomology (PhD) Ecologist Forensic psychiatrist Geneticist and bioethicist 1973 Professor of molecular biology 1973 Entomologist
Mathematics
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. 1998 (PhD) Statistician, first woman to win the Shewhart Medal 1962 Mathematician and math professor at ASU 1986 Professor of mathematics Mathematics educator 1969 (PhD) Mathematician and professor of computer science 1994 Professor of mathematics 2009 (PhD) Croatian-American statistician 1988 Mathematician
Medicine
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. Nurse, professor of biomedical informatics 1994 (MA) Professor of psychology and neuroscience Nursing researcher, president of the American Academy of Nursing (PhD) Professor of internal medicine 1983 Physician; chair of the Department of Radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine Canadian infectious disease epidemiologist 2012 (PhD) Dietitian 1968 (MS) Director of the Biomedical Institute for Regenerative Research at East Texas A&M University 1983 Plastic surgeon Radiologist and medical journalist 1985 (MS) Norwegian professor of sports medicine Professor of biomedical informatics
Physics and chemistry
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. 1988 (PhD) Taiwanese physicist 1971 Chemist 1981 Chemist and high-pressure scientist, professor at ASU and University College London (MS, PhD) Professor of physics, director of the Optical Science Center at the University of Arizona 1998 (MS) Chemist 1976 Chemist and engineer; U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, 1999–2001 1962 Inventor of the adhesive used in Post-it notes 1987 (PhD) Physicist, materials scientist and engineer; winner of the Albert Einstein World Award of Science
Space science
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. 2000 Planetary scientist 2000 (PhD) Planetary scientist 1957 First Black astronaut candidate, systems engineer and sculptor 1978 Astrophysicist 1987 Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 1988 (PhD) Planetary geologist 1998 Commercial astronaut 1976 Geologist and lunar scientist Research director, Space Analog for the Moon and Mars at Biosphere 2 2005 (MS) Astrophysicist 1972 Slovenian astrophysicist
Technology and computer science
+ Name Class year Notes Ref. Software developer of PowerPoint 1985 (BSE) Professor of computer science 2019 (PhD) Artificial intelligence policy researcher Programmer and creator of the TempleOS operating system 2011 (PhD) Computer scientist 1988 (MS) Computer scientist (MS) Computer architect and microprocessor designer 1980 (MS) Computer scientist and researcher 1967 (MS) Author, inventor and microcomputer pioneer 1996 (MS) Indian-American computer graphics technician 2003 (PhD) Computer scientist 2013 (PhD) Computer scientist and mathematician (PhD) Computing consultant Colombian-American computer scientist Computer scientist 2015 (PhD) Chinese computer scientist
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