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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1251

Gillian Jacobs

#60540

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American actress and director. She is known for playing Britta Perry in the NBC sitcom Community , Mickey Dobbs in the Netflix romantic comedy series Love , and Mary Jayne Gold in Transatlantic , also on Netflix. Her other notable television roles include Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and Atom Eve in the animated superhero series Invincible .

#1252

Deborah Clark

#142717

Overall Influence

Deborah A. Clark is a Research and adjunct professor of Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. For over 40 years she has worked with her partner David B. Clark on the zoology, botany, geosciences, ecology, and climatology of the rain forests in Costa Rica.

#1253

Christine Piatko

#147547

Overall Influence

Christine Diane Piatko is a computer scientist known for her heavily cited publications on k-means clustering, high-dynamic-range imaging, computer graphics, and document classification. Piatko is a 1986 graduate of New York University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at Cornell University. Her dissertation, Geometric Bicriteria Optimal Path Problems, was supervised by Joseph S. B. Mitchell. She is an assistant research professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, and a research computer scientist in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

#1254

Huili Grace Xing

#94275

Overall Influence

Huili Grace Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering in the Cornell University College of Engineering. In 2019, Xing was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystal semiconductors and layered crystals," as well as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.

#1255

Judy Pfaff

#31158

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Judy Pfaff is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004 and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Major exhibitions of her work have been held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Denver Art Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum. In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Video interviews can be found on ...

#1256

Angela Karp

#95282

Overall Influence

Professor Angela Karp is an agricultural scientist with over 35 years experience in crop genetics and breeding. She is currently the Director and CEO of Rothamsted Research. She has authored over 135 peer-review publications and co-authored a book on crop genetics.

#1257

Theodora Hatziioannou

#106063

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Theodora Hatziioannou is a Greek-American virologist. She known for her work discovering restriction factors that counteract HIV-AIDS and other primate lentiviruses, thus restricting them to specific species, and making it hard to study HIV-1 in animals. Her findings allowed her to develop the first HIV-1-based virus which is capable of recapitulating AIDS-like symptoms in a non-hominid . She is a Research Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Retrovirology at The Rockefeller University in New York. She is a co-author of a textbook on virology, Principles of Virology.

#1258

Ying Zou

#158962

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Ying Zou is a Canadian computer scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University and a Canada Research Chair in Software Evolution. She was awarded the IBM CAS Research Faculty Fellow of the Year in 2014 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2007 and 2008.

#1259

Susanne Hambrusch

#168533

Overall Influence

Susanne Edda Hambrusch is an Austrian-American computer scientist whose research topics include data indexing for range queries, and computational thinking in computer science education. She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.

#1260

Sally Barrington

#86957

Overall Influence

Sally Barrington is a professor of positron emission tomography Imaging and National Institute for Health Research research professor at King's College London , England, United Kingdom. She joined KCL in 1993.

#1261

Kaya Thomas

#110341

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (29 years)

Kaya Thomas is an American app developer. She is the creator of We Read Too, an iOS app that helps readers discover books for and by people of color. Thomas is a volunteer mentor with Black Girls Code and a Made with Code role model. She has received recognition for her work to improve diversity in the tech industry and was honored in 2015 by Michelle Obama at BET's Black Girls Rock! award show and was named one of Glamour 2016 College Women of the Year.

#1262

Rosa Badia

#173095

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Rosa María Badia Sala is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in parallel computing, supercomputing, superscalar processing, and multi-core processing. She is a researcher of the Spanish National Research Council, affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she is the manager of the workflows and distributed computing group.

#1263

Faith Gibson

#170099

Overall Influence

Faith Gibson is a British nurse who is Deputy Chief Nurse for Research, Nursing and Allied Health and Professor of Child Health and Cancer Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Her research investigates cancer care for children and young people. She was awarded the International Society of Paediatric Oncology Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

#1264

Andréa W. Richa

#169158

Overall Influence

Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, self-organizing particle systems, network routing and replication, and bio-inspired computing. She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.

#1265

Jade Alglave

#158274

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Jade Alglave is a French computer scientist whose research involves concurrency control, consistency models, weak hardware memory models, the relation between computer hardware and programming languages, and the "cat" domain-specific language for consistency models. She is a professor of computer science at University College London and a distinguished engineer at British semiconductor firm Arm.

#1266

Bushra Ansari

#83219

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Bushra Ansari is a Pakistani actress, comedian, singer and playwright who started her career as a child performer in the 1960s. Ansari won numerous awards during her career, including the Presidential Pride of Performance Award in 1989 for her contributions to the arts of Pakistan Tv.

#1267

Peymané Adab

#168623

Overall Influence

Peymané Adab is a British physician who is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Birmingham. She leads the Institute of Applied Health Research Chronic Disease Management Team. Adab investigates the epidemiology and management of obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

#1268

Hanhee Paik

#148726

Overall Influence

Hanhee Paik is a South Korean experimental quantum computing researcher who works for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where she helps develop superconducting devices for storing and operating on qubits.

#1269

Carole Tucker

#118443

Overall Influence

Carole Tucker FLSW is a Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales , and a member of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society. Her research focuses on astronomy instrumentation in the fields of far infra-red quasi-optics and spectroscopy. She is a member of the UK EPSRC THz Network, Teranet and a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology.

#1270

Marilyn Ball

#96106

Overall Influence

Marilyn Ball is a professor at the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at the Australian National University , and leader of the Ball Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance.

#1271

Susan Scholz

#99367

Overall Influence

Susan Scholz is an associate professor and Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Kansas. Her academic interests lie in Accounting and Information Systems, more specifically Financial Accounting, Restatement of Financial Statements, and the Market for Auditing and Consulting Services.

#1272

Joan Higgins

#67723

Overall Influence

Dame Joan Margaret Higgins, DBE FAcSS is a British academic, educator, and public health service manager. Career Higgins graduated in social administration from the University of York in 1971 and has held academic posts at the University of Portsmouth, University of Southampton and University of Manchester . In 2002–03 she was president of the European Health Management Association. Her roles include:Chair of the NHS Litigation Authority, 2007–2013Member of the QC Appointments PanelChair, Federal Working Group The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health on complementary therapyChair , Pati...

#1273

Annabelle McIver

#143666

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Annabelle K. McIver is a computer scientist whose research involves the use of formal methods and information flow in computer security and the verification of probabilistic systems. Educated in mathematics in the UK, she works in Australia as professor in the School of Computing at Macquarie University, and as one of the founding leaders of Macquarie's Future Communications Research Centre.

#1274

Soha Hassoun

#124543

Overall Influence

Soha Hassoun is American computer scientist. She is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Hassoun's interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and systems biology.

#1275

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė

#18065

Overall Influence

1927 - 2005 (78 years)

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė was a Lithuanian psychologist, economist and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University's department of family science. Founder of socionics, the theory of information processing and personality types.

#1276

Linda Sharples

#127569

Overall Influence

Linda Sharples is a British statistician who is Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research considers statistical analysis of medical interventions. She has provided expert advice to clinical trials on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

#1277

Nancy Pollard

#96862

Overall Influence

Nancy S. Pollard is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and computer graphics researcher. She is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, where she heads the Foam Robotics Lab.

#1278

Kathrin Klamroth

#120360

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Kathrin Klamroth is a German mathematician and computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization and facility location. She is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the University of Wuppertal.

#1279

Hagit Shatkay

#126236

Overall Influence

Hagit Shatkay was an Israeli-American computer scientist, known for her contributions to computational biology, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and machine learning. She was a professor in the department of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware. Shatkay was a senior member and served on the board of directors of the International Society for Computational Biology.

#1280

Waltraut Cooper

#64002

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

Waltraut Cooper , is an Austrian artist, generally described as Light Artist, primarily concerned with Art and Science, Concept Art, Digital Art. Waltraut Cooper studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Vienna and the Paris-Sorbonne. After teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she began a career as an artist and studied painting and graphic arts in Lisbon and Frankfurt am Main, followed by teaching at the University of Arts in Linz. She speaks German, Latin, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Russian.

#1281

Ellen J. Kennedy

Ellen J. Kennedy

#47762

Overall Influence

Ellen J. Kennedy is the founder and Executive Director of World Without Genocide, a human rights organization headquartered at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul, MN. Through World Without Genocide, Kennedy promotes Holocaust and genocide education in high schools, colleges, faith-based organizations, and civic groups and advocates with elected officials at city, state, and national levels on genocide prevention. Kennedy was a professor at the University of St. Thomas for nearly twenty years and the Interim Director at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, for three years.

#1282

Lynn Corcoran

#58892

Overall Influence

Lynn Corcoran is an American–Australian immunologist who is Professor of Immunology at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute. Her research considers cancer, parasitology and immunology, with a focus on B cells biology. She was inducted into the Victorian government's Honour Roll in 2013.

#1283

Edna Cukierman

#172240

Overall Influence

Edna "Eti" Cukierman is a Mexican biochemist who is a professor at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She serves as co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute. Her research investigates pancreatic cancer and the tumor microenvironment.

#1284

Yang Fuqing

#122785

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Yang Fuqing is a Chinese computer software expert who is a professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Peking University, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently chairwoman of the university's School of Software and Microelectronics and director of National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering.

#1285

Vivian Carpenter

#40190

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Dr. Vivian Carpenter is an accounting academic and business executive. She focuses her academic research on institutional theory, public sector accounting, and the political effects of adoption of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles by the public sector.

#1286

Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin

#95190

Overall Influence

1927 - 2019 (92 years)

Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin was an American mathematician, computer programmer, author, and teacher. She worked at Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University to calculate the orbit of planets, phases of the moon, and trajectories of asteroids using IBM tabulating machines. Her calculations were used in the Apollo program.

#1287

Atsuko Miyaji

#69214

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Atsuko Miyaji is a Japanese cryptographer and number theorist known for her research on elliptic-curve cryptography and software obfuscation. She is a professor in the Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, at Osaka University.

#1288

Pragya D. Yadav

#145936

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Pragya D. Yadav is an Indian scientist at the ICMR-National Institute of Virology , who is known for her research contributions in the field of communicable diseases and highly pathogenic viral infections, such as Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever , Nipah, Ebola, leading to improvising national public health surveillance policy for interventions and management. Yadav is among the scientists who detected the first three COVID-19 pandemic cases in India. She headed the team that developed Covaxin, the first indigenous COVID-19 vaccine in India

#1289

Elizabeth Peyton

#19043

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Elizabeth Joy Peyton is an American contemporary artist working primarily in painting, drawing, and printmaking. Best known for figures from her own life and those beyond it, including close friends, historical personae, and icons of contemporary culture, Peyton's portraits have regularly featured artists, writers, musicians, and actors.

#1290

Lois Mailou Jones

Lois Mailou Jones

#25825

Overall Influence

1905 - 1998 (93 years)

Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. She is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

#1291

Tajana Rosing

#124210

Overall Influence

Tajana Šimunić Rosing is an American computer scientist and computer engineer specializing in embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, and smart city infrastructure, including the reliability of these systems and the control of their temperature and energy usage. She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where she directs the System Energy Efficiency Lab and holds the Fratamico Endowed Chair.

#1292

Tamar Eilam

#95100

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Tamar Eilam is an Israeli-American computer scientist at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, New York whose work for IBM centers around DevOps and configuration management. Eilam completed her Ph.D. in 2000 at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her dissertation, Cost versus Quality: Tradeoffs in Communication Networks, was jointly supervised by Shlomo Moran and Shmuel Zaks. She immigrated to the US in 2000, after completing her Ph.D., to join IBM Research.

#1293

Anna Castelli Ferrieri

#18588

Overall Influence

1918 - 2006 (88 years)

Anna Castelli Ferrieri was an Italian architect and industrial designer. She is most known for her influence in the use of plastics as a mainstream design material and her cofounding of Kartell, an Italian contemporary furniture company.

#1294

Yumi Hogan

#39590

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Yumi Hogan is a Korean–American artist. She served as the first lady of Maryland as wife of Governor Larry Hogan from 2015 to 2023, and is the first Korean American first lady of a U.S. state and the first Asian American first lady in the history of Maryland.

#1295

Sophie E. Jackson

#172626

Overall Influence

Sophie Elizabeth Jackson is a British biochemist and Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Cambridge. Her research considers protein folding and assembly, She is interested in topological knots, molecular complexes and the beta barrel protein.

#1296

Mikyoung Kim

#58643

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Mikyoung Kim, FASLA is an American landscape architect, urban designer, and founding principal of Mikyoung Kim Design. Kim has received the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Award and the American Society of Landscape Architects National Design Medal. Her studio was named by Fast Company as one of the world's most innovative architecture firms.

#1297

Mary Hawn

#151521

Overall Influence

Mary T. Hawn is an American surgeon. She is the chair of surgery and the Emile Holman Professor in Surgery at Stanford University. In 2021, Hawn was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine for "being a leading surgeon, educator and health services researcher whose innovative work has built valid measurements for quality care, improved care standards and changed surgical care guidelines."

#1298

Marina Rosenfeld

#135288

Overall Influence

Marina Rosenfeld is an American composer, sound artist and visual artist based in New York City. Her work has been produced and presented by the Park Avenue Armory, Museum of Modern Art, Portikus , Donaueschinger Musiktage, and such international surveys as documenta 14 and the Montreal, Liverpool, PERFORMA, and Whitney biennials, among many others. She has performed widely as an improvising turntablist, and served as co-chair of Music/Sound in the MFA program at the Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, from 2007 to 2020. She has also taught at Harvard, Yale, Brooklyn College, and Da...

#1299

Vera Demberg

#173722

Overall Influence

Vera Demberg is a German computational linguist and professor of computer science and computational linguistics at Saarland University. Her research interests include cognitive models of human language comprehension, natural language generation, experimental psycholinguistics, multimodal language processing in a dual-task setting, and experimental and computational discourse research and pragmatics.

#1300

Lucy S. Tompkins

#52526

Overall Influence

Lucy S. Tompkins is a practicing internist, the Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine for infectious diseases at Stanford University, and a professor of microbiology and immunology. Since 1989, she has been the Epidemiologist and Medical Director of the Infection Control and Epidemiology Department for Stanford Hospital. She also has been the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford School of Medicine since 2001. She has been the recipient of multiple fellowships throughout her career, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her current research centers around...

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