- Abebe, RedietAlgorithmic fairness research1991-
- Adkins, RodneyIBM's first African American corporate officer and Senior Vice President (2007); an engineering and development leader who helped launch the IBM ThinkPad and led IBM's Systems & Technology Group; inducted into the National Academy of Engineering (2005)1958-
- Alexander, ArchieCivil engineering for roads and bridges1888-1958
- Austin, Wanda M.Aerospace and systems engineering: satellite and payload system acquisition, systems engineering, and system simulation for national-security space programs1954-present
- Bashen, JanetWeb-based EEO investigative software (LinkLine)1957-
- Booth, VirginiaFirst female National Chairperson of the National Society of Black Engineersunknown
- Bryant, KimberlyFounded Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit teaching coding and technology skills to girls of color1967-
- Buolamwini, Joy AdowaaFounded the Algorithmic Justice League after discovering commercial facial recognition software could not detect her own face unless she wore a white mask; co-authored 'Gender Shades,' which forced IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon to overhaul their facial recognition products1989-
- Cason, JohnFirst elected president of the National Society of Black Engineersunknown
- Christian, John B.Developed high-temperature, extreme-pressure synthetic greases and lubricants (polyol-ester and fluorinated-polysiloxane based) for high-speed aircraft and aerospace vehicles, performing from about -100F to 450Funknown
- Clay, Roy L.Developed an early minicomputer for Hewlett-Packard; led HP's Research and Development Computer Group1929-2024
- Croak, MarianVoice over IP (VoIP) technology development1955-
- Darden, ChristineSonic boom minimization research for supersonic aircraft design1942-
- Dean, MarkISA bus development; co-creation of IBM personal computer1957-
- Easley, AnnieComputer programming for NASA energy and rocket research1933-2011
- Ellis, Clarence 'Skip'First African American to earn a PhD in computer science (1969); pioneer of groupware and computer-supported cooperative work -- at Xerox PARC created OfficeTalk and pioneered operational transformation, the foundation of modern real-time collaborative editing (e.g., Google Docs); first Black Fellow of the ACM (1997)1943-2014
- Emeagwali, PhilipProgrammed a CM-2 Connection Machine (massively parallel supercomputer) to run a computational fluid dynamics simulation for petroleum (oil) reservoir modeling1954-present
- Ericsson, Aprille JoySpacecraft mechanical engineering and aerospace instrumentation design1963-
- Fox, Brian J.Original author of the Bash shell; early online banking website development1959-
- Gebru, TimnitCo-authored 'Gender Shades,' a landmark 2018 study proving major facial recognition systems were significantly less accurate on darker-skinned faces; co-founded Black in AI; her controversial 2020 departure from Google sparked one of the most prominent public debates over corporate AI ethics research1982/1983-
- Gilbert, Juan E.Prime III universal-design voting system1969-
- Gourdine, Meredith C.Pioneering electrogasdynamics (EGD) technology — converting the kinetic energy of ionized, high-pressure gas into electricity; invented electrostatic precipitators ('Incineraid') to clear smoke and disperse runway fog, and the 'Focus Flow Heat Sink' for cooling computer chips1929-1998
- Grant, Howard P.First Black graduate of UC Berkeley's College of Engineering; founded the Northern California Council of Black Professional Engineers1925-1997
- Greene, Frank S. Jr.Designed high-speed semiconductor computer memory systems at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s — among the fastest memory chips of their time — used in the ILLIAC IV supercomputer; pioneered redundant solid-state RAM1938-2009
- Harris, Anthony 'Tony'Founded the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)unknown
- Harris, Wesley L.NASA Associate Administrator for Aeronautics; aerospace engineering professor1941-
- Holley, Kerrie (Expanded profile)IBM Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) reference architecture1954-
- Howard, AyannaMachine learning and robotics for educational and assistive technology1972-
- Isbell, Charles Lee Jr.AI and machine learning researcher who became dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, then provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; his own misidentified photograph became the center of a major public debate over AI bias between Timnit Gebru, already profiled in this collection, and Meta's chief AI scientist1968-
- Jackson, MaryAerospace engineering research at NASA1921-2005
- Johnson, KatherineOrbital mechanics calculations for NASA spaceflight1918-2020
- Johnson, Lonnie GeorgeSuper Soaker water gun; thermal energy transfer research1949-
- Latimer, LewisCarbon filament for incandescent light bulbs; patent drafting for telephone1848-1928
- Lawson, JerryFairchild Channel F video game console; cartridge-based gaming1940-2011
- Montague, Raye JeanCreated the first computer-generated rough draft/design of a U.S. naval ship; developed the computer program that produced complete frigate specifications in under 19 hours (a process that previously took about two years)1935-2018
- Mouton, Melba RoyNASA computer programming and trajectory analysis; coded programs to compute spacecraft locations and trajectories and produced orbital element timetables for the Echo 1 and 2 satellites1929-1990
- Purvis, William B.Improved fountain pen with an elastic feed tube that returned excess ink to the reservoir for even ink flow; also paper-bag-making machines, a self-inking hand stamp, a bag fastener, and a close-conduit electric railway system1838-1914
- Raji, Inioluwa DeborahCo-authored the 2019 'Actionable Auditing' study with Joy Buolamwini, already profiled in this collection, directly leading Amazon to face sustained public pressure over racial and gender bias in its facial recognition technology; later co-authored major frameworks for internal AI accountability auditing alongside Timnit Gebru, also already profiled here1995/1996-
- Reid, TahiraDouble-Dutch jump rope mechanism / engineering design devicecontemporary
- Russell, Jesse E.Digital cellular base station technology1948-
- Scott, Samuel J.One of the first four Black engineers hired at NASA's Langley Research Centerunknown-2020
- Shurney, Robert E.NASA aerospace engineering: designed the lightweight aluminum/wire-mesh tires for the Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle and the Skylab waste-control system (space toilet), later the basis for the Space Shuttle's1921-2007
- Sweeney, LatanyaData privacy and re-identification research; algorithmic fairness in computing1972-
- Thomas, ValerieIllusion transmitter (3D image projection technology)1943-
- Thompson, John HenryDeveloped Lingo, the scripting language for Macromedia Director multimedia software1959-
- Vaughan, DorothyElectronic computing and FORTRAN programming at NACA/NASA Langley; taught herself and her staff FORTRAN to prepare the center's transition from human to machine computing; headed the programming section of the Analysis and Computation Division and contributed to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program1910-2008
- West, GladysMathematical modeling of Earth's geodetic shape, foundational to GPS technology1930-2024
- West, James E.Foil electret microphone1931-
- Whitlow, Woodrow Jr.Aeronautics research at NASA Langley Research Center; academic leadership in engineering1952-
- Williams, Oswald S. 'Ozzie'Designed aircraft and spacecraft propulsion/control systems: an early experimental airborne radar/radio beacon for locating crashed aircraft, and the reaction-control rocket-engine systems (small steering thrusters) for NASA's Apollo lunar module1921-2005
- Woods, Granville T.Synchronous multiplex railway telegraph1856-1910