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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1001

Gemma Galdón-Clavell

Gemma Galdón-Clavell

#128233

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Gemma Galdón-Clavell is a Spanish technology policy analyst who specializes in ethics and algorithmic accountability. She is a senior adviser to the European Commission and she has also provided advice to other international organisations. Forbes Magazine described her as “a leading voice on tech ethics and algorithmic accountability”.

#1002

Mary R. Lynn

#155641

Overall Influence

#1003

Julia Kotlarsky

#32457

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Julia Kotlarsky is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2018 is a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After her 2005 PhD thesis titled 'Management of globally distributed component-based software development projects' at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kotlarsky moved to the University of Warwick, and then in 2012 joined Aston University as a full professor. In 2018 she moved to University of Auckland.

#1004

Petra Macaskill

#155899

Overall Influence

#1005

Yael Benyamini

#155937

Overall Influence

#1006

Margaret J. Wright

#156458

Overall Influence

#1007

Francesca Demichelis

#156593

Overall Influence

#1008

Kate Schroder

#156687

Overall Influence

#1009

Rita Bernhardt

#156808

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

#1010

Elena Bruna

#156850

Overall Influence

#1011

Tiziana Margaria

#148826

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Tiziana Margaria is a computer scientist and software engineer whose research topics include formal methods and model-driven engineering. Educated in Italy, she has worked in Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Ireland, and currently works in Ireland as Chair of Software Systems in the University of Limerick's Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.

#1012

Nicola Bradbury

#21175

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Nicola Anne Lulham Bradbury is an English literary critic, lecturer, editor, and author, specializing in the 19th century novel. Life Bradbury was born in Weston-super-Mare, the daughter of Robin J. Bradbury and Joan Lulham, who had married in 1949. She was the middle child of a family of three, with an older brother, Peter, and a younger brother, Christopher. She was educated at the University of Oxford and then at McGill, with a Commonwealth Scholarship awarded in 1974. Bradbury later reported that in Canada she "first encountered ‘theory’ and that stood me in good stead at later stages in ...

#1013

Montserrat Fitó

#156936

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#1014

Cheryl Cohen

#40266

Overall Influence

Cheryl Cohen is a South African public health researcher who is a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. She looks to develop evidence-based policy to reduce the burdens of respiratory diseases. During the COVID-19 pandemic. Cohen investigated the rates of COVID-19 in South Africa.

#1015

Jenny Odell

#40612

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Jenny Odell is an American multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Oakland, California. She taught Internet art and digital/physical design at Stanford University from 2013 to 2021. She wrote The New York Times best-selling book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy .

#1016

Dana Hoey

#118982

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Dana Hoey is a visual artist working with photography, using "the camera to reveal the inner life of women, especially young women." Her photographs are often ambiguous and have multiple meanings. In 1999, in an exhibition entitled Phoenix she showed a series of seventeen black-and-white photo-prints and one forty-one-foot-long digital billboard image; writing in Frieze, Vince Aletti said, "the exhibition is a mystery that bristles with clues but is ultimately unsolved; perhaps it is unsolvable." In her introduction to the catalog for Hoey's 2012 exhibit, The Phantom Sex, at the University Ar...

#1017

Kum Kum Khanna

#94365

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Kum Kum Khanna is an Indian professor at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, also known as Queensland Institute of Medical Research who has published many peer reviewed articles in reputable journals such as in Nature Genetics, Cancer Cell, Nature, Oncogene, and many others. Her most cited article has received 1568 citations since its publication in 2001. she has made seminal discoveries in identifying single-stranded DNA binding proteins, hSSB1 and hSSB2 involved in DNA repair; a novel protein, designated as Cep55, involved in regulation of final stage of cell cycle and have func...

#1018

Antonija Mitrović

#132044

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Antonija Tanja Mitrović is a New Zealand computer scientist who was born in Serbia. Mitrovic did her MSc and PhD at the University of Niš in Niš, Serbia. Before moving to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and rising to the level of professor.

#1019

Micaela Morelli

#157526

Overall Influence

#1020

Simone Benhamou

#157571

Overall Influence

#1021

Marta Schuhmacher

#157670

Overall Influence

#1022

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

#112553

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#1023

Susanne Wetzel

#138515

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Gudrun Susanne Wetzel is a German computer scientist known for her work in computer security, including the use of information channels such as voice or keystroke dynamics to strengthen password-based security, and the security of wireless communications standards including Bluetooth and GSM. She is a professor of computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

#1024

Jane Jiang

#142635

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Dame Xiangqian "Jane" Jiang is a Professor of Precision Metrology at the Huazhong University Of Science And Technology and University of Huddersfield. She is the Director of the EPSRC Future Advanced Metrology HUB and is the Royal Academy Engineering/Renishaw Chair in Precision Metrology.

#1025

Kate Northstone

#157886

Overall Influence

#1026

Suzanne Jackowski

#158120

Overall Influence

#1027

Roselind Lieb

#158316

Overall Influence

#1028

Victoria Bellotti

#129237

Overall Influence

Victoria Bellotti is a Senior CI researcher in the Member Experience Team at Netflix. Previously, she was a user experience manager for growth at Lyft and a research fellow at the Palo Alto Research Center. She is known for her work in the area of personal information management and task management, but from 2010 to 2018 she began researching context-aware peer-to-peer transaction partner matching and motivations for using peer-to-peer marketplaces which led to her joining Lyft. Victoria also serves as an adjunct professor in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at University of California Sa...

#1029

Arpana Agrawal

#112970

Overall Influence

Arpana Agrawal is a psychiatric geneticist and professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, known for researching the roles of genetic and environmental factors in cannabis use and addiction. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium working group on Substance Use Disorders. In 2018, she received the Theodore Reich Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. She also received the Fuller/Scott Award from the Behavioral Genetics Association in 2010 and the Henri Begleiter Excellence in Research Award from the R...

#1030

Jennifer Harden

#136965

Overall Influence

Jennifer Harden is geologist known for her research on soils, particularly tracking changes in soil profiles over time and the role of soil systems in carbon and nitrogen cycling. Education and career Harden earned her B.S. , M.S. , and Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley. Following her Ph.D. she joined the United States Geological Survey where she became a scientist emeritus in 2013.

#1031

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger

#55790

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger is an Austrian academic. She was the first female professor for Gender and Diversity in Organizations of Vienna University of Economics and Business . Early life Hanappi-Egger was educated at Vienna University of Technology, where she received a PhD in computer science. While working towards her PhD, she studied in Canada and Sweden. After graduating, she joined Vienna University of Technology.

#1032

Ami Bhatt

#78098

Overall Influence

Ami Bhatt is an American physician-scientist who studies the link between blood cancers and the human gut microbiome. She holds associate professorships in Genetics and Medicine at Stanford University. She is a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute , and Stanford ChEM-H. In addition, Bhatt is the co-founder of Global Oncology Inc., a nonprofit focused on providing quality oncologic treatment in resource-constrained settings.

#1033

Randy Lee Cutler

#90640

Overall Influence

Randy Lee Cutler is a writer, academic, educator and artist working in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has a PhD in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art. She currently works as a Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in the Faculty of Art.

#1034

Rumi Chunara

#98027

Overall Influence

Rumi Chunara is a computer scientist who is an associate professor of biostatistics at the New York University School of Global Public Health. She develops computational and statistical approaches to acquire, integrate and make use of data improve population-level public health.

#1035

Valerie Voon

#158709

Overall Influence

#1036

Tara Sainath

#158406

Overall Influence

Tara N. Sainath is an American computer scientist whose research involves deep learning applied to speech recognition. She is a principal research scientist at Google Research. Education and career Sainath was a student of electrical and engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she received a bachelor's degree, a master's degree in 2005, and a Ph.D. in 2009. Her master's thesis was Acoustic Landmark Detection and Segmentation using the McAulay-Quatieri Sinusoidal Model, supervised by Timothy Hazen, and her doctoral dissertation was Applications of Br...

#1037

Sabine Hauert

#114040

Overall Influence

Sabine Hauert is Professor of Swarm Engineering in the Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol where her research investigates swarm robotics. Previously she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Carnegie Mellon University and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

#1038

Katherine Bradford

#58348

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Katherine Bradford , née Houston, is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical. She began her art career relatively late and has received her widest recognition in her seventies. Critic John Yau characterizes her work as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.

#1039

Delia Oppo

#132042

Overall Influence

Delia Wanda Oppo is an American scientist who works on paleoceanography where she focuses on past variations in water circulation and the subsequent impact on Earth's climate system. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2014.

#1040

Mary Ann Jordan

#159494

Overall Influence

#1041

Myra Spiliopoulou

#159531

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

#1042

Nataša Jonoska

#102333

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Nataša Jonoska is a Macedonian mathematician and professor at the University of South Florida known for her work in DNA computing. Her research is about how biology performs computation, "in particular using formal models such as cellular or other finite types of automata, formal language theory symbolic dynamics, and topological graph theory to describe molecular computation."

#1043

Eun Jung Kim

#75626

Overall Influence

Eun Jung Kim is a South Korean computer scientist and graph theorist specializing in parameterized complexity, parameterized algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems, and width parameters in graphs and matroids. She is a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , associated with Paris Dauphine University.

#1044

Genevieve Nissa Healy

#159613

Overall Influence

#1045

Jayne Woodside

#158622

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Jayne Valerie Woodside is a British nutritionist who is Professor of Human Nutrition at the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast. Her research considers human nutrition intervention with whole foods. She is on the Board of Trustees of The Nutrition Society.

#1046

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

#123376

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen is a Norwegian engineer whose research involves nonlinear control theory and its application to controlling the motion of both watercraft and snakebots. She is a professor of engineering cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and the founder of Eelume AS.

#1047

Magda Claeys

#159840

Overall Influence

#1048

Kathy Slade

#52066

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Kathy Slade is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher born in Montreal, Quebec, and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a Term Lecturer at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.

#1049

Lone Skov

#160002

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#1050

Mahsa Mohaghegh

#151411

Overall Influence

Mahsa Mohaghegh is an Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer specialising in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. She is a professor of information technology and software engineering at Auckland University of Technology.

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