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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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