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Black or African-American engineers make up 2.5% percent of the faculty holding primary appointments in all engineering departments in the USA on average and only 1.9% of all full professors. This number has not exceeded 3% in the past decade. Within the discipline of biomedical engineering, the percent of African American tenured/tenure-track faculty was 2.1% in 2019. As faculty researchers, these engineers drive innovation in the USA in domains as broad as medical device design to cellular engineering, largely with the focus to improve health and the human condition. In comparison to non-minority student peers, studies have shown that minority students bring high levels of innovation to their scholarship that is less recognized and less likely to support their professional development, a pattern that creates a barrier to entry in academia and persists with their career. Scientific citations are key drivers of interviews and selection for faculty appointment, promotion and tenure at most institutions, selection as seminar speakers and for top keynote speaker slots, nominations and selection for honors and awards and ultimately compensation. Some disciplines have begun to recognize the barriers to equitable citation practices and now propose a more conscious and deliberate approach to recognizing faculty scholarship. Technologies have been developed to assist in raising the visibility of faculty scholarship towards the goal of increasing citations and recognition including the hosting of a Wikipedia page and claiming of a Google Scholar ID for the faculty. Further, the public sharing of a MyNCBI bibliography can further support raising visibility of faculty scholarship for all scholars. A list of Black faculty biomedical engineers is shared here along with claimed Google Scholar IDs and related identifying information where available. Faculty are assigned to categories chosen as established “tracks” within the Biomedical Engineering Society and may be listed in more than one category.