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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1351

Flaura K. Winston

#169430

Overall Influence

Flaura Ann Koplin Winston is an American pediatrician and engineer. She was one of the first to identify the first case of airbag-associated child death and her research and advocacy have led to drafting new federal airbag policies.

#1352

Lilya Budaghyan

#107545

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Lilya Budaghyan is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in Norway, where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication and leads Boolean functions team.

#1353

Anna Squicciarini

#177008

Overall Influence

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini is a computer scientist specializing in computer security and data privacy, including research on sentiment analysis, computational trust, and cloud computing. She is Edward Frymoyer Endowed Chair in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, and a program director for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace at the National Science Foundation.

#1354

Xia Zhou

#163165

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Xia Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Her current research centers on light. She co-directs the DartNets Lab and the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab . She was a visiting faculty in National Taiwan University from December 2016 to February 2017, and in University of Cambridge from April 2017 to June 2017.

#1355

Jane Hunter

#171754

Overall Influence

Jane Hunter was the interim Director of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network . She has held roles such as the Director of University of Queensland's e-Research Lab and Chair of the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Data in Science; Vice-President of the National Executive Committee for Digital Humanities; and Member of Scientific Committee of the ICSU World Data System. E-research has emerged through the exponential expansion of information technologies. New online tools, networks, data capture, management and visualisation techniques are needed to enhance...

#1356

Holly Hagan

#97448

Overall Influence

Holly Hagan is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and nurse. She is a full professor in the College of Global Public Health at New York University and director of the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research.

#1357

Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich

#106099

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Dr. Joanna Hoffmann-Dietrich is an artist and academic and a professor at the University of Fine Arts in Poznań in Poland and a Fellow of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage in Poland. From 1987 to 1992 Hoffmann-Dietrich studied for her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań before starting her MA in 1992 and gained her PhD in 2000.

#1358

Kathleen Fontaine

#141718

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Kathleen Fontaine is an adjunct professor of international policy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her research areas include ethics, data policy, and applied public policy. Career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Fontaine received a BS in physics and astrophysics from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1984. In 2002 she completed her Master of Arts in Science, Technology, and Public Policy from The George Washington University. In 2013 she completed her PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from Walden University. Fontaine's dissertation topic for her PhD was...

#1359

María Ángeles Gil

#120748

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

María Ángeles Gil Álvarez is a Spanish statistician whose research applies fuzzy mathematics and fuzzy random variables in statistics. She is a professor at the University of Oviedo, in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research and Mathematics Didactics.

#1360

Jean Springer

#81356

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Jean Springer born 12 September 1939 Life Springer was born in Kingston, Jamaica, to parents who were mathematics and physics schoolteachers. She was home-schooled from the age of two until six then attended Wolmer's High School for Girls, and then went on to the University of West Indies at Mona. She initially began studying medicine, but later switched courses and graduated with a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics, achieving "Student of the Year"

#1361

Mary Ann Weitnauer

#118233

Overall Influence

Mary Ann Weitnauer is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Georgia Tech, known for her research on optical communication, radar, wireless networks, and smart antennas. Weitnauer graduated from Georgia Tech in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1989. She joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1989, after completing her doctorate. At Georgia Tech, she was ADVANCE Professor of Engineering from 2006 to 2011.

#1362

Anne Ngu

#177038

Overall Influence

Anne Hee Hiong Ngu is an Australian-American computer scientist known for her research on middleware and quality of service for web services and the Internet of things. She is a professor of computer science at Texas State University.

#1363

Elizabeth McGovern

Elizabeth McGovern

#53126

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Elizabeth Lee McGovern is a British-American actress. She has received many awards, including a Screen Actors Guild Award, three Golden Globe Award nominations, and one Academy Award nomination. Born in Evanston, Illinois, McGovern spent most of her early life in Los Angeles. After attending the American Conservatory Theater and the Juilliard School, she made her feature film debut in Ordinary People . For her role as Evelyn Nesbit in the musical film Ragtime , she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She subsequently had lead roles in a number of major stu...

#1364

Shabaana Khader

#58868

Overall Influence

Shabaana A. Khader is an Indian-American microbiologist who is the Bernard and Betty Roizman Professor of Microbiology at the University of Chicago. She is also the Chair of the Department of Microbiology. In an effort to design new vaccines and therapeutic strategies, Khader studies host-pathogen interactions in infectious disease.

#1365

Clare Bryant

#82578

Overall Influence

Clare Bryant FLSW is a British veterinary scientist and clinical pharmacologist who is a professor at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in innate immunity. Bryant is a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge and of the British Pharmacological Society.

#1366

Trisha Donnelly

#81186

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Trisha Donnelly is a contemporary artist who is particularly well known as a conceptual artist. Donnelly works with various media including photography, drawing, audio, video, sculpture and performance. Donnelly is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Studio Art at New York University. She currently lives and works in San Francisco, California.

#1367

Holly Witteman

#171889

Overall Influence

Holly Witteman is a health informatics researcher. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Family & Emergency Medicine at the Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada. Witteman is the Canada Research Chair in Human-Centred Digital Health .

#1368

Myrna Combellack

#61645

Overall Influence

Myrna May Combellack is a British academic researcher and writer of the Institute of Cornish Studies , translator of Beunans Meriasek and author of several works of fiction. Early life She graduated in English from the University of York in 1971.

#1369

Haimei Zheng

#145856

Overall Influence

Haimei Zheng is a Chinese-American materials scientist who is a senior scientist in Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an adjunct professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research considers the nucleation, nanoscale materials transformations, and dynamic phenomena at solid-liquid interfaces, which she studies by developing the advanced in situ electron microscopy techniques. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society.

#1370

Thea D. Hodge

#103751

Overall Influence

1922 - 2008 (86 years)

Thea Drell Hodge was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a cofounder of the Minneapolis chapter of the Association for Women in Computing. Hodge was a pioneer for women in computer science and mentored many women in the field.

#1371

Janice Lourie

#72590

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (94 years)

Janice Richmond "Jan" Lourie is an American computer scientist and graphic artist. In the late 1960s she was a pioneer in CAD/CAM for the textile industry. She is best known for inventing a set of software tools that facilitate the textile production stream from artist to manufacturer. For the Graphical Design Of Textiles process she was granted IBM's first software patent. Other projects, in differing disciplines, share the focus on graphic representation. She returns throughout an ongoing career to the stacked two-dimensional tabular arrays of textiles and computer graphics, and the topolo...

#1372

Xanthippi Markenscoff

#109184

Overall Influence

Xanthippi Markenscoff is a Greek-American mechanical engineer specializing in the dynamics of defects and dislocations in materials, including Eshelby's inclusion; other topics in her research have included grasping and fixturing, and the relation between strain and natural frequency. She is a distinguished professor emerita in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

#1373

Ana Rodriguez

#159622

Overall Influence

Ana Rodriguez is a parasitologist and Professor in the Department of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on Plasmodium falciparum and Trypanosoma cruzi and she is known for her work on Plasmodium liver infection, Plasmodium immunity, and T. cruzi drug development.

#1374

Andréa Tommasi

#174512

Overall Influence

Andréa Tommasi is a geoscientist from Brazil known for her research on geodynamics and terrestrial deformation. She is a recipient of the CNRS silver medal and an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

#1375

Lynn M. Walker

#100587

Overall Influence

Lynn Walker is a professor of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research considers the rheology of complex fluids and how nanostructure impacts the behavior of complex systems. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Society of Rheology, and the American Physical Society.

#1376

Bugewa Apampa

#54265

Overall Influence

Bugewa Omawumi Apampa is a professor of Pharmacy Education at the University of Sussex and the former Director of Pharmacy Development. At the time of her promotion to professor, she was one of 18 black female university professors in the UK.

#1377

Mireille Broucke

#148626

Overall Influence

Mireille Esther Broucke is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Toronto, interested in control theory, mathematical systems theory, and swarm robotics. Broucke did her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where her father Roger A. Broucke, an immigrant from Belgium, was a professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics. She graduated in 1984, with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She went on to graduate study in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a m...

#1378

Grace Parraga

#173314

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Grace–Eve Párraga is a Canadian lung-imaging scientist. She is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Lung Imaging to Transform Outcomes at the University of Western Ontario. Early life and education Parraga was born in 1961. She completed her Bachelor of Science and Master's degree in biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario and her PhD at the University of Washington.

#1379

Karen Chan

#170563

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Karen Chan is an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark. She is a Canadian and French physicist most notable for her work on catalysis, electrocatalysis, and electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide.

#1380

Karyn Moffat

#111521

Overall Influence

Karyn Moffatt is a Canadian computer scientist working in human–computer interaction. She is an associate professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Inclusive Social Computing. Her research has included work on persuasive technology and computer accessibility.

#1381

Dee Mangin

#71746

Overall Influence

Derelie Mangin is a New Zealand primary care academic. As of 2018, she is a full professor at the University of Otago and holds the David Braley Nancy Gordon Chair in Family Medicine at McMaster University.

#1382

Adele Fielding

#175434

Overall Influence

Adele Kay Fielding is a British physician-scientist who is a Professor of Haematology at University College London. Fielding was President of the British Society for Haematology from 2020 until 2022.

#1383

Grace Goodell

#41036

Overall Influence

Grace E. Goodell is a retired professor of International Development at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. Goodell received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where she studied under Conrad Arensberg. She has been a visiting scholar at the Australian National University and at the Harvard Institute for International Development, a fellow in law and development at the Harvard Law School, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Goodell was previously the Director of the Program on Social Change and Develop...

#1384

Deborah Silver

#172934

Overall Influence

Deborah E. Silver is an American computer scientist specializing in information visualization, scientific visualization, and the use of skeletons in identifying the features of shapes. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where she is executive director of the Professional Science Master's Program and former associate dean for continuing and professional education in the School of Engineering.

#1385

Catherine Gebotys

#173347

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Catherine H. Gebotys is a Canadian computer engineer specializing in the security of embedded systems and in cryptographic algorithms more She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the

#1386

Ji-Seon Kim

#104813

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ji-Seon Kim is a South Korean physicist. She is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial College London. Early life and education Kim grew up in South Korea, and achieved a BSc in physics at Ewha Womans University in 1992. She completed a theoretical physics MSc under the supervision of Prof. Jeong Weon Wu in 1994 before moving to the UK to work at the University of Cambridge. Here she joined the growing research group of Professor Richard Friend, earning a PhD entitled Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes: Anode Surface Conditioning and Device Performan...

#1387

Hagit Hel-Or

#170946

Overall Influence

Hagit Zabrodsky Hel-Or is an Israeli computer scientist known for her research in image processing, computer vision, and the applications of symmetry to pattern matching and computational chemistry. She is a faculty member in the computer science department at the University of Haifa.

#1388

Mary Lovelace O'Neal

#99922

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Mary Lovelace O'Neal is an American artist and arts educator. Her work is focused on abstracted mixed-media and minimalism. She is a Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley and retired from teaching in 2006. O'Neal's art has been exhibited widely throughout North America and internationally, with group and solo shows in Italy, France, Chile, Senegal and Nigeria. She lives and works in Oakland, California, and maintains a studio in Chile.

#1389

Caterina Scoglio

#171305

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Caterina M. Scoglio is an Italian network scientist and computer engineer, the LeRoy and Aileen Paslay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Kansas State University, the director of the Network Science and Engineering Group in the department, and the former chair of the IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Medical and Health Care Systems.

#1390

Sarah Derrett

#66538

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Sarah Derrett is a New Zealand Injury prevention academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 2001 PhD titled 'Surgical prioritisation and patients : assessment, process and outcome' at the University of Otago, Derrett moved to the Massey University and then back to Otago, rising to full professor in 2017.

#1391

Linda Lawton

#23205

Overall Influence

Linda Lawton, Ph.D., FRSE is a Scottish researcher in microcystins and toxins produced by cyanobacteria and has researched into the impact of the so-called 'blue-green algae" from drinking water supply. Her detection method is now used worldwide and was used by the World Health Organization to develop drinking water safety standards, scientists are trained in it from Sri Lanka to fish farms in Scotland, and Lawton is investigating potential cancer treatments and positive uses such as digesting waste plastics in microbiology. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021. La...

#1392

Vivian Chu

#128395

Overall Influence

1987 - Present (37 years)

Vivian Chu is an American roboticist and entrepreneur, specializing in the field of human-robot interaction. She is Chief Technology Officer at Diligent Robotics, a company she co-founded in 2017 for creating autonomous, mobile, socially intelligent robots.

#1393

Maria Vittoria Salvetti

#169828

Overall Influence

Maria Vittoria Salvetti is an Italian aerospace engineer specializing in computational fluid dynamics and especially in the large eddy simulation of turbulence and complex flows. She is a professor of fluid dynamics at the University of Pisa, where she directs the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering.

#1394

Philomena Nyarko

#46850

Overall Influence

Philomena Efua Nyarko is a Ghanaian statistician and academic, and the former Government Statistician for Ghana, chief executive of the Ghana Statistical Service . Education Nyarko has a PhD in social statistics, awarded by the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. She also studied at the University of Ghana, and was awarded a graduate diploma in population studies.

#1395

Cynthia Bailey Lee

#175635

Overall Influence

Cynthia Bailey Lee is a lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University from Palo Alto, California. Her research interests are in computer science pedagogy and the flipped classroom approach. She has advocated for the greater inclusion of women and minorities in computer science, and is known for her "ladysplaining" article addressing the author of the controversial Google memo.

#1396

Sejal Saglani

#176376

Overall Influence

Sejal Saglani is a British medical researcher who is Professor and Head of the Inflammation, Repair and Development Section at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Her research considers wheeze and severe childhood asthma. She serves as an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

#1397

Hilary Parker

#141001

Overall Influence

Hilary S. Parker is an American biostatistician and data scientist. She was formerly a senior data analyst at the fashion merchandising company Stitch Fix. Parker co-hosts the data analytics podcast Not So Standard Deviations with Roger Peng. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has formerly been employed by Etsy.

#1398

Nancy Rubins

#59900

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Nancy Rubins is an American sculptor and installation artist. Her sculptural works are primarily composed of blooming arrangements of large rigid objects such as televisions, small appliancess, camping and construction trailerss, hot water heaters, mattresses, airplane parts, rowboats, kayaks, canoes, surfboards, and other objects. Works such as Big Edge at CityCenter in Las Vegas contain over 200 boat vessels. Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Monochrome I, Built to Live Anywhere, at Home Here, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, contains 66 used aluminum boats and rises to a height of ...

#1399

Lisa Stein

#176066

Overall Influence

Lisa Y. Stein is an American biologist who is a professor at the University of Alberta. Her research considers the microbiology of climate change. She was awarded the 2022 University of Alberta Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

#1400

Kathy High

#103594

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Kathryn High is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar known for her work in BioArt, video art and performance art. Background Kathy High graduated with a BA from Colgate University in 1976 and an MAH from the Center for Media Studies at University at Buffalo in 1981 where she studied with media pioneers Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Steina Vasulka. High was a founding member of The Standby Program in New York City and initiated the video exhibition program at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY in the 1980s.

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