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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1051

Graciela Andrei

#160382

Overall Influence

#1052

Valeria Bertacco

#135104

Overall Influence

Valeria Bertacco is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Vice Provost for Engaged Learning at the University of Michigan. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Initiatives at the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School.

#1053

Yolande Berbers

#83602

Overall Influence

Yolande Berbers is a Belgian computer scientist whose interests include software engineering, middleware, distributed systems, ubiquitous computing, model-driven architecture, and context awareness. She is a professor of computer science at KU Leuven, vice-dean of the KU Leuven Faculty of Engineering, and president of the Leuven Center on Information and Communication Technology.

#1054

Eilaf Egap

#28044

Overall Influence

Eilaf Egap is an assistant professor of Materials Science at Rice University. She works on imaging techniques and biomaterials for early diagnostics and drug delivery. She was a Massachusetts Institute of Technology MLK Visiting Scholar in 2011.

#1055

Ketty Peris

#160538

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#1056

Azizah Y. al-Hibri

Azizah Y. al-Hibri

#17558

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Azizah Y. al-Hibri is an American philosopher and legal scholar who specializes in Islam and law. Biography Al-Hibri is professor emerita at the T. C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond. She is a former professor of philosophy, founding editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. A Fulbright scholar, she has written extensively about Islam and democracy, Muslim women's rights, and human rights in Islam. She was an adviser to the PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet , produced by Unity Pr...

#1057

Margaret H Collins

#160643

Overall Influence

#1058

Manuela Merli

#160728

Overall Influence

#1059

Karen Duncan

#148363

Overall Influence

Karen A. Duncan is a biostatistician and health informatics specialist, who was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000. Duncan earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked as an associate professor at the Medical University of South Carolina, as a member of the technical staff at the Mitre Corporation, and as an independent consultant.

#1060

Emily Stone

#74732

Overall Influence

Emily Foster Stone is an American mathematician whose research includes work in fluid dynamics and dynamical systems. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Montana, where she chairs the Department of Mathematical Sciences. She is also chair of the Activity Group on Dynamical Systems of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

#1061

Eleonore Fröhlich

#160757

Overall Influence

#1062

Violet Showers Johnson

#39993

Overall Influence

Violet Showers Johnson is professor of history and director of Africana studies at Texas A&M University. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria to Sierra Leone Creole parents , and grew up in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

#1063

Martina Montagnana

#160808

Overall Influence

#1064

Judith M. Green

#160882

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

#1065

Mavis Sanders

#50132

Overall Influence

Mavis G. Sanders is an American research scientist studying education and Black families. She is senior research scholar of Black Children and Families with Child Trends. Education Sanders received a Bachelor's in Urban Affairs with a concentration in political science from Barnard College/Columbia University in 1987. She received a Master's in Sociology from Stanford University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice from Stanford in 1995.

#1066

Grace Hartigan

#14670

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Grace Hartigan was an American Abstract Expressionist painter and a significant member of the vibrant New York School of the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle of friends, who frequently inspired one another in their artistic endeavors, included Jackson Pollock, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Frank O'Hara. Her paintings are held by numerous major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. As director of the Maryland Institute College of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting, she influenced numerous young artists.

#1067

Chen Zijiang

#143164

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Chen Zijiang is a Chinese reproductive medicine expert currently serving as vice-president of Shandong University and dean of the Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University. Biography Chen was born in Liuyang, Hunan in October 1959. After the high school, she studied, then taught, at what is now the Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University. In May 2013, she was promoted to become vice-president of Shandong University. She concurrently serves as dean of the Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University since July 2015. In December 2017, she was elected a member of the Standing...

#1068

Martha Schwartz

Martha Schwartz

#20754

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Martha Schwartz is an American landscape architect and educator. Schwartz is the founding principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, an architecture firm based in London, New York City, and Shanghai. She is also Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

#1069

Evgenia Smirni

#129305

Overall Influence

Evgenia Smirni is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Sidney P. Chockley Professor of Computer Science and Computer Science Chair at the College of William & Mary. Her research concerns computer performance evaluation, load balancing, dynamic resource provisioning, and the matrix analytic method for Markov chains.

#1070

Magda Lilia Chelly

#120696

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Magda Lilia Chelly is a Polish-Tunisian cybersecurity expert and is amongst the first Tunisian women to be on the advisory board of BlackHat Asia Executive Committee. Born in Krakow, Poland, and educated in Tunisia and France, Chelly worked as an IT consultant, university lecturer, business leader, and cybersecurity professional.

#1071

Sandra Zilles

#151289

Overall Influence

Sandra Zilles is a German and Canadian computer scientist, the Canada Research Chair in Computational Learning Theory at the University of Regina. Her research area encompasses machine learning and computational learning theory.

#1072

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois

#26729

Overall Influence

1911 - 2010 (99 years)

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not f...

#1073

Jess Dobkin

#92772

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Jess Dobkin is a performance artist based in Toronto, Canada. She is best known for her 2006 work The Lactation Station. She has a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. in Performance Art from Rutgers University. She is a Fellow at the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.

#1074

Andrea M. Kriska

#161841

Overall Influence

#1075

Annie Sprinkle

#45334

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Annie M. Sprinkle is an American certified sexologist, performance artist, former sex worker, and advocate for sex work and health care. Sprinkle has worked as a prostitute, sex educator, feminist stripper, pornographic film actress, and sex film producer and director. In 1996, she became the first known porn star to get a doctoral degree, earning a PhD in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Identifying as ecosexual, Sprinkle is best known for her self-help style of pornography, teaching individuals about pleasure, and for her conventional pornographic film Deep Inside Annie Sprinkle .

#1076

Lorna Stewart

#74904

Overall Influence

Lorna Kay Stewart is a retired Canadian computer scientist and discrete mathematician whose research concerns algorithms in graph theory and special classes of graphs, including cographs, permutation graphs, interval graphs, comparability graphs and their complements, well-covered graphs, and asteroidal triple-free graphs. She earned her Ph.D. in 1985 at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Derek Corneil, and is a professor emerita at the University of Alberta.

#1077

Sihem Amer-Yahia

#83251

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Sihem Amer-Yahia is an Algerian-French-American computer scientist. She is a CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble. She leads the SLIDE research team. Sihem Amer-Yahia works on data management, declarative languages and query processing algorithms. Her publication topics include crowdsourcing, computational complexity, data analysis, data handling, data visualisation, information science, and addresses new data management problems in emerging internet and big data applications.

#1078

Lee Hooper

#162227

Overall Influence

#1079

Judith Blake

#153487

Overall Influence

Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics. Education Blake completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1974 at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981. Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.

#1080

Verónica Becher

#108995

Overall Influence

Verónica Becher is an Argentinian computer scientist known for her work in logic and theoretical computer science. She is Full Professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Director of the KAPOW at the Department of Computation.

#1081

Sushmita Ruj

#136906

Overall Influence

Sushmita Ruj is an Indian-Australian computer scientist whose research concerns access control, computer security and information privacy. Formerly an associate professor at the Indian Statistical Institute and senior research scientist at CSIRO in Australia, she is a senior lecturer in computer science and engineering at the University of New South Wales.

#1082

Rosanna Di Paola

#162562

Overall Influence

#1083

Karena Chapman

#143112

Overall Influence

Karena Chapman is an Australian chemist who is the Joseph W Lauher & Frank W Fowler Endowed Chair in Materials Chemistry at Stony Brook University. Her research considers the use of high energy X-rays to better understand the structure property relationships of energy materials.

#1084

Domenica Lorusso

#162717

Overall Influence

#1085

Teresa Hernández

#162832

Overall Influence

#1086

Denise Schmandt-Besserat

Denise Schmandt-Besserat

#23386

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Denise Schmandt-Besserat is a French-American archaeologist and retired professor of art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. She spent much of her professional career as a professor at the University of Texas. She is best known for her work on the history and invention of writing. While her research is highly cited, it has been controversial among scholars. The controversies, as detailed below, concern the interpretation of early tokens, particularly the complex ones; however, the idea that writing emerged out of the counting, cataloging, management, and transactions of agricultural pro...

#1087

Fenghua Meng

#163005

Overall Influence

#1088

Navneet Kaur

#163152

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

#1089

Anna Fagotti

#163160

Overall Influence

#1090

Vanessa Fierro

#163262

Overall Influence

#1091

Alessandra Sala

#134324

Overall Influence

Alessandra Sala is an Italian computer scientist specializing in distributed algorithms for graph theory, social network analysis, and data privacy. She works for Shutterstock in Ireland, as the director of AI and Data Science. Formerly, she worked for Bell Labs in Ireland, as head of Analytics Research. She is the global president of Women in AI, a non-profit organization working for gender inclusivity in artificial intelligence, and ambassador or Women in AI Ireland. She is a member of the advisory boards of Ireland's National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence and o...

#1092

Eva Herrmann

#163362

Overall Influence

#1093

Martha Hickey

#163605

Overall Influence

#1094

Alexandra Duel-Hallen

#45637

Overall Influence

Alexandra Duel-Hallen is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University known for her research in wireless networks. Education Duel-Hallen is a 1982 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, with a double major in mathematics and computer science. She earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1987. Her dissertation, Detection Algorithms for Intersymbol Interference Channels, was supervised by Chris Heegard.

#1095

Katina Michael

#163703

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

#1096

Marion M. Hetherington

#163723

Overall Influence

#1097

Bonnie MacLean

#23558

Overall Influence

1939 - 2020 (81 years)

Bonnie MacLean , also known as Bonnie MacLean Graham, was an American artist known for her classic rock posters. In the 1960s and 1970s she created posters and other art for the promotion of rock and roll concerts managed by Bill Graham, using the iconic psychedelic art style of the day. MacLean continued her art as a painter focusing mostly on nudess, still lifes, and landscapess. Her work has been placed alongside the "big five"—male Haight-Ashbury poster artists who were seminal to the "iconography of the counterculture scene."

#1098

Fernanda Borges

#163741

Overall Influence

#1099

Verena Winiwarter

#42939

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Verena Winiwarter is an Austrian environmental historian. She has held the office of Dean of the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt since 2010. Her research focus is on the environmental history of agrarian societies and on Austrian environmental history, as well as the philosophy of science of inter- and transdisciplinary research.

#1100

Gabriela Ochoa

#115111

Overall Influence

Gabriela Ochoa is a Venezuelan British computer scientist and Professor at the University of Stirling. Her research considers evolutionary algorithms and heuristic search methods. Early life and education Ochoa was born in Venezuela. Her grandfather was a doctor, and she became interested in science at an early age. She earned her bachelor's degree at the Simón Bolívar University, where she remained for her master's degree and worked as a teacher's assistant. She moved to the United Kingdom for her graduate studies, where she joined the University of Sussex as a doctoral student. At Sussex Ochoa worked on genetic algorithms with Hilary Buxton and Inman Harvey.

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