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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1201

Jasmine R. Marcelin

#70404

Overall Influence

Jasmine R. Marcelin is a Caribbean-American infectious disease physician and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center . Marcelin is also the Associate Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and as well as the Co-Director of Digital Innovation and Social Media Strategy at UNMC. Marcelin is dedicated to advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity in her communities and is a founding member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Inclusion, Diversity, Access & Equity Taskforce. Marcelin uses social media to ...

#1202

Patricia Lago

#169718

Overall Influence

Patricia Lago is an Italian computer scientist. She is a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where she leads the Software and Sustainability Research Group S2, which she established and has led since 2011. Her research interests are software engineering, software architecture and software sustainability.

#1203

Barbara Rossi

#29891

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Barbara Rossi was an American artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group that in the 1960s and 1970s turned to representational art. She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969. She is known for meticulously rendered drawings and cartoonish paintings, as well as a personal vernacular. She worked primarily by making reverse paintings on plexiglass that reference lowbrow and outsider art.

#1204

Ruth M. Davis

#82294

Overall Influence

1928 - 2012 (84 years)

Ruth Margaret Davis was an American computer scientist and civil servant who was associated with several major US government research projects. She served as deputy undersecretary of defense for research and advance technology, as assistant secretary of energy for resource applications, and as chair of The Aerospace Corporation.

#1205

Dana Frankfort

#140270

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Dana Frankfort is an artist based in Houston and a painting professor at University of Houston. Her work often engages with the history of abstract art and features bright colors, gestural brushwork, and text.

#1206

Diana Maynard

#125315

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Diana Maynard is a British computer scientist and computational linguist who works as a senior research fellow in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

#1207

Joan Greenbaum

#138397

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Joan Greenbaum is an American political economist, labor activist, and Professor Emerita at the CUNY Graduate Center and LaGuardia Community College . She also taught and conducted research at Aarhus University , and the University of Oslo . Her numerous books and articles focus on participatory design of technology information systems, technology and workplace organization, and gender and technology.

#1208

April Carter

#30411

Overall Influence

1937 - 2022 (85 years)

April Carter was a British peace activist. She was a political lecturer at the universities of Lancaster, Somerville College, Oxford and Queensland, and was a Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1985 to 1987. She is currently an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, and a 'senior editor' on the international editorial board for the International Encyclopedia of Peace to be published by Oxford University Press .

#1209

Yoshiko Wakabayashi

#104011

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Yoshiko Wakabayashi is a Brazilian computer scientist and applied mathematician whose research interests include combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics, packing problems, and graph algorithms. She is a professor in the department of computer science and institute of mathematics and statistics at the University of São Paulo.

#1210

Ping Zhang

#170377

Overall Influence

Ping Zhang is an American scholar in information systems and human–computer interaction. She is notable for her work on establishing the human–computer interaction community inside the information systems field, bridging various camps of human–computer interaction research and exploring intellectual characteristics of the information field. She co-authored with Dov Te’eni and Jane Carey the first HCI textbook for non-computer science students.

#1211

Maike Buchin

#156596

Overall Influence

Maike Buchin is a German computer scientist specializing in computational geometry, and in particular on the analysis of similarities and clustering of geometric trajectory data. She is a professor at Ruhr University Bochum, and head of the chair in theoretical computer science there.

#1212

Carol Wainio

#61515

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Carol Wainio is a Canadian painter. Her work, known for its visual complexity and monochrome color palette, has been exhibited in major art galleries in Canada, the U.S., Europe and China. She has won multiple awards, including the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

#1213

Marine Carpuat

#168166

Overall Influence

Marine Carpuat is a computer scientist who works on machine translation and natural language processing. She is known for her research connecting cross-lingual semantics with machine translation. She has been recognized with a NSF Career Award in 2018, a Google Research award in 2016, and Amazon Faculty Awards in 2016 and 2018.

#1214

Patricia Olson

#127570

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Patricia Olson is an American graphic designer, painter, feminist artist, and educator whose works are categorized as figurative art. Olson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her B.A. in studio art from Macalester College in 1973, and her M.F.A. in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1998. Olson's work has been on exhibition continuously throughout the United States since 1973, sometimes in group exhibitions, and sometimes in solo exhibitions. She has works that are part of permanent collections throughout the United States as well.

#1215

Jenifer Haselgrove

#52038

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Jenifer Leech was a British physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations.

#1216

Tina Eliassi-Rad

#161086

Overall Influence

Tina Eliassi-Rad is an American computer scientist and the inaugural President Joseph E. Aoun Professor at Northeastern University. Her research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence , network science, and applied ethics. In 2023, she won the Lagrange Prize for her work on ethical approaches to artificial intelligence.

#1217

Sato Honma

#170489

Overall Influence

Sato Honma is a Japanese chronobiologist who researches the biological mechanisms of circadian rhythms. She mainly collaborates with Ken-Ichi Honma on publications, and both of their primary research focuses are the human circadian clock under temporal isolation and the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus , its components, and associates. Honma is a retired professor at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine in Sapporo, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in physiology from Hokkaido University. She taught physiology at the School of Medicine and then at the Research and Education Center for Brain Science at Hokkaido University.

#1218

Taryn Young

#80109

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Taryn Young is the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Stellenbosch University. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Professor Young has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Her research has focused on summarising and interpreting medical research.

#1219

Emily Stanley

#92259

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Emily Stanley is an American professor of limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was named a 2018 Ecological Society of America Fellow and her research focuses on the ecology of freshwater ecosystems.

#1220

Ina Koch

#134397

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Ina Koch is a German bioinformatics researcher who holds the Chair of Molecular Bioinformatics at Goethe University Frankfurt, in the faculty of mathematics and computer science. She has published research on the use of maximum common subgraphs and Petri nets to model problems in biology, and on the prediction of deleterious alleles.

#1221

Debora Marks

#82195

Overall Influence

Debora S. Marks is a researcher in computational biology and a Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. Her research uses computational approaches to address a variety of biological problems.

#1222

Stefania Serafin

#164640

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Stefania Serafin is a professor at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media technology at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Education Stefania Serafin completed her master's degree in acoustics, computer science and signal processing applied to music, from IRCAM in 1997. Following, she received her PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics from Stanford University in 2004.

#1223

Susan Bernal

#85822

Overall Influence

Susan Andrea Bernal López is a Colombian materials scientist who is Professor of Structural Materials at the University of Leeds. Her research considers design, development and characterisation of novel cements. She was awarded the 2020 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal and Prize.

#1224

Caterina Ducati

#105462

Overall Influence

Caterina Ducati is a Professor of Nanomaterials in the Department of Materials at the University of Cambridge. She serves as Director of the University of Cambridge Master's programme in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise as well as leading teaching in the Nanotechnology Doctoral Training Centre.

#1225

Amy Block Joy

#60517

Overall Influence

Amy Block Joy is an Emerita Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She is best known for exposing fraudulent activity in a California nutrition education program. She specializes in nutrition and health disparities of diverse populations, nutritional ecology, and ethics. She is an author and advocate for whistleblowers and employee rights. Joy was formerly a Cooperative Extension Specialist, Emeritus at the University of California, Davis

#1226

Stefania Gnesi

#170899

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Stefania Gnesi is an Italian software engineer whose work focuses on formal methods, and the use of natural language and natural language processing in requirements analysis. She is a director of research at the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione of the Italian National Research Council , where she heads the Formal Methods and Tools group.

#1227

Kori Inkpen

#158866

Overall Influence

Kori Marie Inkpen is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in human-computer interaction at Microsoft Research. A consistent theme of her research has been the interaction of children with computers.

#1228

Beverley A. Orser

#149660

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Beverley Anne Orser is a Canadian anesthesiologist. As a professor at the University of Toronto, Orser was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine for "her discovery of the unique pharmacological properties of extrasynaptic GABA-A receptors and their mechanistic role in anesthetic- and inflammation-induced impairment of memory, and for her leadership in academic anesthesiology.

#1229

Julia Silge

#127167

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Julia Silge is an American data scientist and software engineer. She has developed tools for statistical modelling in the R programming language, including the text mining package tidytext. Silge currently works for Posit, formerly known as RStudio.

#1230

Katherine Borden

#171608

Overall Influence

Katherine Borden PhD FRSC is a researcher of Molecular Biology at the University of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. She has worked on finding new cancer treatments using pre-existing drugs, and was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2022.

#1231

Shirin Neshat

#58044

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian visual artist who lives in New York City, known primarily for her work in film, video and photography. Her artwork centers on the contrasts between Islam and the West, femininity and masculinity, public life and private life, antiquity and modernity, and bridging the spaces between these subjects.

#1232

Lila Tretikov

#120505

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Lila Tretikov is a Russian–American engineer and manager. Early life and education Tretikov was born in Moscow, Soviet Union. Her father is a mathematician, and her mother was a filmmaker. After moving to New York City at age 15, she learned English while waitressing and attended the University of California, Berkeley, but left before completing her degree. Her majors were computer science and art, and she researched machine learning.

#1233

Michelle Ozbun

#118072

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Michelle Adair Ozbun is an American molecular virologist who is the Maralyn S. Budke Endowed Professor in Viral Oncology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Her research considers cancer biology and how human papillomavirus infections cause pathology including their contributions to cancers.

#1234

Donatella Sciuto

#171129

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Donatella Sciuto is an Italian electronic engineer and academic administrator, the rector of the Polytechnic University of Milan. Her research involves embedded systems, low-power electronics, and multicore Very Large Scale Integration, with applications including smart buildings.

#1235

Shoba Ranganathan

#171953

Overall Influence

Shoba Ranganathan is an Indian Australian biochemist who is a professor of bioinformatics at Macquarie University. Her research considers computational biology and bioinformatics, genome annotation and structural bioinformatics.

#1236

Teresa Przytycka

#118058

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Teresa Maria Przytycka is a Polish-American computational biologist who works as a senior investigator in the Computational Biology Branch of the National Center for Biotechnology Information , where she heads the Algorithmic Methods in Computational and Systems Biology section. She started her research career in parallel algorithms; at the NCBI, her research takes a computational approach to problems in systems biology involving cancer, gene regulation, and the analysis of massive data.

#1237

Betty Churcher

#45667

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Elizabeth Ann Dewar Churcher was an Australian arts administrator, best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life.

#1238

Eleanore Wurtzel

#70341

Overall Influence

Eleanore T. Wurtzel is an American biologist currently at City University of New York and an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research interests include studying plant biochemical pathways to provide knowledge and tools for developing sustainable solutions to worldwide Vitamin A deficiency and malnutrition.

#1239

Floriana Tuna

#140788

Overall Influence

Floriana Tuna is a Romanian chemist and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. Her research in general is based on inorganic chemistry and magnetochemistry, specifically on molecular magnetism, EPR spectroscopy and quantum computing.

#1240

Margaret Gurney

#58588

Overall Influence

1908 - 2002 (94 years)

Margaret Gurney was an American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer. Originally trained in the mathematical study of partial differential equations at Swarthmore College, Brown University, and the University of Göttingen, she came to work for the United States Census Bureau. There, she became known for her expertise in sampling, stratified sampling, and survey methodology. At the Census Bureau she also worked as an early programmer of the UNIVAC I computer. Later, she became an international consultant, teaching statistical methods in developing countries. She won the Departm...

#1241

Elena Simperl

#172470

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Elena Simperl FBCS FRSA is professor of computer science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London and the Director of Research of the Open Data Institute. Biography She trained as a computer scientist at the Technical University of Munich and completed a PhD in knowledge engineering at the Free University Berlin in 2007. She is best known for her work in human-machine collectives, with applications to crowdsourcing, citizen science, knowledge communities, and human data interaction, and for her leadership in data-driven innovation and data policy. According to AMiner, she ...

#1242

Sarah Gordon

#82495

Overall Influence

Sarah Gordon is a computer security researcher, responsible for early scientific and academic work on virus writers, hackerss, and social issues in computing. She was among the first computer scientists to propose a multidisciplinary approach to computer security. Known primarily for work relating to people and computers, the bulk of her original technical work was published or presented between the late 1980s and mid-1990s.

#1243

Elanor Huntington

Elanor Huntington

#108657

Overall Influence

Elanor H. Huntington is Executive Director of Digital, National Facilities & Collections at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and a Professor of Quantum Cybernetics at the Australian National University. She led a research program in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.

#1244

Anthonia Adenike Adeniji

#60714

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Anthonia Adenike Adeniji is a Nigerian academic. She is an associate professor of industrial relations and human resource management in the department of business management at Covenant University, Ogun State, Nigeria.

#1245

Yayoi Kusama

#37802

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (95 years)

is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, Art Brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist. Her work influenced ...

#1246

Ann Macintosh

#142984

Overall Influence

Ann Macintosh is Emeritus Professor of Digital Governance at the University of Leeds. Early life and education Macintosh has a bachelor's degree from University of St Andrews. Career In 1999 Macintosh founded the International Teledemocracy Centre at Edinburgh Napier University to support interdisciplinary research into eGovernment and eDemocracy.

#1247

Thecla Schiphorst

#130520

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Thecla Schiphorst is a Canadian digital media artist and academic. Work Schiphorst was a founding developer of the dance and choreography software Lifeforms, alongside Tom Calvert. Using LifeForms, she collaborated over along period with the American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.

#1248

Bana Jabri

#130611

Overall Influence

Bana Jabri is a French gastroenterologist and immunologist of Syrian and Armenian descent. She is the Sarah and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She researches inflammatory diseases of the intestine, including celiac disease. She is an elected fellow of the Association of American Physicians.

#1249

Kelly Zamudio

#111733

Overall Influence

Kelly Zamudio is the Doherty Chair in Molecular Biology in the Department of Integrative Biology at University of Texas Austin. She was formerly the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University and Curator of Herpetology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.

#1250

Rana el Kaliouby

Rana el Kaliouby

#150586

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotions expressed by the face. El Kaliouby's research moved beyond the field's dependence on exaggerated or caricatured expressions modeled by laboratory actors, to focus on the subtle glances found in real situations. She is the co-founder, with Rosalind Picard, and CEO of Affectiva.

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