page_title: List of Stanford University people
section_title: Computer science and electrical engineering
hierarchical_section_title: List of Stanford University people / Alumni / Academics / Computer science and electrical engineering
context_page_description: This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated.
context_section_description: 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 professor), Internet pioneer, co-inventor of TCP/IP internet protocol, Turing Award and Marconi Prize-winning computer scientist, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
  Donald D. Chamberlin (M.S., Ph.D in EE), coinventor of SQL (Structured Query Language), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
  Morris Chang (Ph.D. in EE), founder, as well as former chairman and CEO, of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, 2010 winner of IEEE Medal of Honor
  Surajit Chaudhuri, Ph.D. in CS, SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
  Mung Chiang (B.S. 1999, M.S. 2000, Ph.D. 2003), Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; 2013 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient
  John M. Cioffi (Ph.D. in EE), pioneer in Digital Subscriber Line Technology (DSL), 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
  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
  Whitfield Diffie (Ph.D., dropout), pioneer in public key cryptography, noted for Diffie-Hellman-Merkle public key exchange, inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame, Marconi Prize winner
  Les Earnest, research scientist, created the first spell check and first 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.), former senior vice president of iPhone software at Apple Inc.
  Richard P. Gabriel (Ph.D.), computer scientist
  Héctor García-Molina (Ph.D. and professor in CS), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
  Craig Gentry (Ph.D), computer scientist, 2010 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
  Ian Goodfellow (B.S. and M.S.), developer of generative adversarial networks
  Susan L. Graham (Ph.D. in CS), IEEE John Von Neumann prize winner
  William Webster Hansen (Ph.D. and Prof), pioneer of microwave electronics
  Stephen E. Harris (M.S. & Ph.D. EE), noted for "slow" light research
  Martin Hellman (M.S. 1967, Ph.D. 1969, EE, professor), 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 (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, winner of national medal of technology
  John Hopcroft (Ph.D. 1964 in EE, former professor), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
  Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., M.S. in CS, Grace Murray Hopper awardee
  Leslie Kaelbling (Ph.D. in CS), winner of computers and thought award
  Thomas Kailath professor in EE, 2007 winner of IEEE medal of honor
  Lydia Kavraki (Ph.D. in CS), 2000 Grace Murray Hopper awardee
  Alan Kay (Postdoc), Turing Award-winning computer scientist
  Dan Klein (Ph.D. in CS
caption: Vinton Cerf, "father of the Internet"
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