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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1401

Saffronn Te Ratana

#78455

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Saffronn Te Ratana is a visual artist of Māori descent, born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Te Ratana went to Palmerston Intermediate Normal School, followed by Palmerston North Girls’ High School.

#1402

Jill Scott

#103455

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Jill Scott is an Australian media artist who lives in Switzerland. Her works are centered around the topics of Artificial intelligence and the impact of globalization on the human body. She has been living and working in Switzerland as an artist, professor and researcher since 2002. She founded the Artists-in-Labs Residency Program.

#1403

Hege R. Eriksen

#113672

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Hege Randi Eriksen is the Research Director of Uni Health and Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Eriksen holds a Candidate Scientist in Sport and Physical exercise from the Department of Biology and Medicine, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

#1404

Julia Scher

#68858

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Julia Scher is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art and performance art works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction.

#1405

Anna Lee

#179216

Overall Influence

#1406

Mary Fan

#100718

Overall Influence

Mary Fan is the Jack R. MacDonald Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Washington. She also is a core faculty member at Harborview Medical Center's Injury Prevention and Research Center, and part of the Firearms Injury and Policy Research Program team. Fan also was the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught criminal law, and a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the author of the book Camera Power: Policing, Proof, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data, published by Cambridge University Press, and numerous articles.

#1407

Ann E. Elsner

#175837

Overall Influence

Ann E. Elsner is an American researcher and Distinguished Professor of Optometry, Indiana University Bloomington. Biography Elsner earned a B.A. degree from Indiana University Bloomington, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. In 1987, she joined the Schepens Eye Research Institute as a researcher. In 2005, she moved to Indiana University Bloomington and became a professor in the School of Optometry and director of the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research. In the same year, she founded and became CEO of Aeon Imaging, a bioimaging technology firm.

#1408

Lenore Zuck

#178092

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Lenore D. Zuck is an Israeli-American computer scientist whose research involves formal methods in software engineering, as well as information privacy. She is a research professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Chicago.

#1409

Katrina Ray

#142731

Overall Influence

Katrina Ray is a biologist and the chief editor of Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology. Education Ray has a bachelor's degree in microbiology from the University of Manchester and a PhD from Imperial College London where she studied Shigella flexneri.

#1410

Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez

#69311

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez is a professor of informatics at the University of the Basque Country. In 1981, she began her work as a lecturer at the Faculty of Informatics of Donostia. As a specialist in language and computer technology, she has held positions of responsibility in Basque technology institutions.

#1411

Ana Flávia Nogueira

#177140

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Ana Flávia Nogueira is a Brazilian chemist who is a Full Professor at the State University of Campinas since 2004. Her research considers nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion. She was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Science in 2022.

#1412

Barbara van Schewick

#112845

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Barbara van Schewick is a German computer scientist and legal scholar who holds a professorship in Internet law at Stanford Law School. Life Van Schewick studied computer science at the Technical University of Berlin and law at the Free University of Berlin. After her first state law examination, she initially worked as a lawyer in Berlin, working, among other things, at a management consultancy and as a speechwriter for the then-Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen. After her second state law examination, she was the first residential fellow at Lawrence Lessig's newly founded Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University for 15 months.

#1413

Myriam Charpentier

#86233

Overall Influence

Myriam Charpentier is a molecular biologist, who specialises in cell and developmental biology at the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Charpentier studies the environmental and biological stimulus of nuclear calcium signalling in plants.

#1414

Nadine Gogolla

#168349

Overall Influence

Nadine Gogolla is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany as well as an Associate Faculty of the Graduate School for Systemic Neuroscience. Gogolla investigates the neural circuits underlying emotion to understand how the brain integrates external cues, feeling states, and emotions to make calculated behavioral decisions. Gogolla is known for her discovery using machine learning and two-photon microscopy to classify mouse facial expressions into emotion-like categories and correlate these facial expressions with neural activity in the insular...

#1415

Deborah Willis

#30406

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her awards and honors, she is a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University.

#1416

Sonia Gechtoff

#52432

Overall Influence

1926 - 2018 (92 years)

Sonia Gechtoff was an American abstract expressionist painter. Her primary medium was painting but she also created drawings and prints. Early life and education Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel and Leonid Gechtoff. Her mother managed art galleries, including her own East and West gallery located at 3108 Fillmore Street in San Francisco. Her father was a highly successful genre artist from Odessa, Ukraine. He introduced his daughter to painting and "had [her] sit beside him at his easel with a brush and paints and beginning at age six he was there to spur [her] on".

#1417

Yasamin Mostofi

#154648

Overall Influence

Yasamin Mostofi is an Iranian-American Scientist and a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara. Yasamin’s research is multi-disciplinary, expanding wireless communications, sensing, and control/robotics.

#1418

Kerstin Eckert

#179683

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Kerstin Eckert is a scientist. She is the head of the new Chair of Transport Processes at Interfaces, a combined chair of Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and TU Dresden created in October 2016.

#1419

Marcia Tucker

#48980

Overall Influence

1940 - 2006 (66 years)

Marcia Tucker was an American art historian, art critic and curator. In 1977 she founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art, a museum dedicated to innovative art and artistic practice in New York City, which she ran as the director until 1999.

#1420

Victoria Interrante

#178762

Overall Influence

Victoria Lynn Interrante is an American computer scientist specializing in computer graphics, scientific computing, and virtual environments. She is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, a founder of the annual ACM Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.

#1421

Yong Soon Min

#93074

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Yong Soon Min is a Korean-born American artist, curator, and educator. She serves as professor emeritus at University of California, Irvine. Her artwork deals with issues including Korean-American identity, politics, personal narrative, and culture. Min has been active in New York City and Los Angeles.

#1422

Wei Wang

#172282

Overall Influence

Wei Wang is a Chinese-born American computer scientist. She is the Leonard Kleinrock Chair Professor in Computer Science and Computational Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles and the director of the Scalable Analytics Institute . Her research specializes in big data analytics and modeling, database systems, natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational biology, and computational medicine.

#1423

Tatiana Segura

#178597

Overall Influence

Tatiana Segura is an American biomedical engineer who is a professor at Duke University. Her research considers biomedical engineering solutions to promote cell growth. She was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2017 and awarded the Acta Biomaterialia Silver Medal in 2021.

#1424

Lorna Thorpe

#170287

Overall Influence

Lorna E. Thorpe is an American epidemiologist who is a professor and Director of the Division of Epidemiology at NYU Langone Health. She serves as Vice Chair of Strategy and Planning in the Department of Population Health and on the Board of the American College of Epidemiology.

#1425

Micol Hebron

#98042

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (52 years)

Micol Hebron is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and associate professor at Chapman University, located in Southern California. Hebron critically examines and employs modes of feminist activism in art.

#1426

Jean Brenchley

#95032

Overall Influence

1944 - 2019 (75 years)

Jean E. Brenchley was an American microbiologist and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University and Purdue University. Early life Jean Elnora Brenchley was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of J. Edward Brenchley and Elizabeth Jefferson Brenchley. "My love of microorganisms started while growing up on a small dairy farm in Pennsylvania" she recalled later in life. As a high school student in Canton, Pennsylvania, Brenchley won a regional science fair competition, with a project about the way Myxomycetes slime mold reacts to light.

#1427

Mitra Hartmann

#82670

Overall Influence

Mitra J.Z. Hartmann is a professor of mechanical engineering and biomedical engineering at the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. She specializes in robotics, sensory acquisition behaviors, sensorimotor integration, and neuroethology. Her lab focuses on translating sensory signals felt by whiskers to robotics.

#1428

Kristin Yvonne Rozier

#114661

Overall Influence

Kristin Yvonne Rozier is an American aerospace engineer and computer scientist whose research investigates formal methods including temporal logic and model checking for the formal verification of safety-critical systems, especially those involving air transport, unmanned aerial vehicles, and air traffic control. She is Black & Veatch Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mathematics at Iowa State University, where she heads the Laboratory for Temporal Logic.

#1429

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek

#161546

Overall Influence

Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek is an electronics engineer specializing in digital filters. Originally from Yugoslavia, she works in Mexico as a professor and researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Puebla.

#1430

Sue Jones

#75110

Overall Influence

Susan Jones is a British computational biologist and bioinformatics group leader at the James Hutton Institute. Her work is specially focused on plant pathogen diagnostics, particularly virus diagnostics, using large datasets of RNA-Seq data. She also works on functional genomics, transcription regulation, protein-protein and protein-nucleic-acid interactions.,

#1431

Penny Rheingans

Penny Rheingans

#173285

Overall Influence

Penny L. Rheingans is an American computer scientist specializing in information visualization, including methods for non-photorealistic rendering of volumetric data and for visualizing uncertainty in data. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Maine, where she directs the School of Computing and Information Science.

#1432

Olabisi Ugbebor

#88696

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Olabisi Oreofe Ugbebor is the first female professor in mathematics in Nigeria. Born in Lagos, she studied mathematics at the University of Ibadan and then at the University of London, where she obtained a PhD in 1976.

#1433

Sarah Kay

#56398

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Sarah Kay is a professor of French at New York University. Education Kay was a student in the UK at the University of Oxford. Career She started her teaching career at the University of Liverpool then moved to the University of Cambridge. She was head of department at Cambridge from 1996 until 2001 and Director of Studies at Girton College, Cambridge, from 2003 to 2005. Kay has been a fellow of the British Academy since 2004 and was awarded a D.Litt. in 2005.

#1434

Jiha Moon

#87443

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Jiha Moon is a contemporary artist who focuses on painting, printmaking, and sculptural ceramic objects. Born in Daegu, South Korea, Moon is currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Early life and education Moon was born in Daegu, South Korea in 1973. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Korea University and her Master of Fine Arts in Western Painting from Ewha Womans University. After graduating, Moon relocated to the United States to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in painting at the University of Iowa.

#1435

Eva Rieger

#67125

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Eva Rieger is a German musicologist. Rieger specialized in the social and cultural history of women in music. Together with the German-Swiss patron Mariann Steegmann, Rieger founded the Mariann-Steegmann-Foundation, which is dedicated to the advancement of women in music and the arts. In 2012, she was appointed Honorary Senator of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.

#1436

Sanghamitra Pati

#110379

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Sanghamitra Pati, a physician cum scientist is currently the director of Public health at RMRC, Bhubaneswar the regional institution of the ICMR & the only institute in Odisha. She is an expert on multimorbidity research in public health settings, having been a lead in the first ever study of multimorbidity in India.

#1437

Susan Crile

#48155

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Susan Crile is an American painter and printmaker. Biography Crile was born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio. She attended Bennington College, graduating in 1965. In 1972 Crile was interviewed by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art. The same year her image was included the iconic poster Some Living American Women Artists by Mary Beth Edelson.

#1438

Taiwo Abioye

#90069

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Taiwo Olubunmi Abioye is a Nigerian professor of English with specialization in Stylistics and applied linguistics. She is the first woman to be Deputy Vice Chancellor in Covenant University. Early life and education Born January 17, 1958, in Kaduna to parents from Ogun State, Abioye had her first degree in Language Arts from Ahmadu Bello University. Graduating with second class upper division in 1987. She got her master's degree and doctorate degrees from the same institution in 1992 and 2004 respectively. In 1982, Abioye was the best graduating student in English department.

#1439

Abla Mehio Sibai

#125878

Overall Influence

Abla Mehio Sibai is a Professor of Epidemiology at the American University of Beirut , Lebanon. Sibai has served as the Interim Dean of AUB's Faculty of Health Sciences from 2020-22 and is currently the Dean of FHS. She is also the co-founder of the Center for Studies on Aging in Lebanon and co-founding director of the AUB University for Seniors Program.

#1440

Mary A. Sewell

#172024

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Mary Anne Sewell is a New Zealand marine biology academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 1993 PhD titled 'Reproductive cycle, sex change, and mortality during brooding of a viviparous sea cucumber Leptosynapta clarki' at the University of Alberta, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor.

#1441

Margo Davis

#98104

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Margo Baumgarten Davis is a photographer, educator and author of several photographer's books. Personal life Margo was raised in Connecticut and has lived for over 30 years in Palo Alto, California. She attended Bennington College, spent time at the Sorbonne studying French literature, and graduated from University of California, Berkeley. It was at UC Berkeley where she met her first husband Gregson Davis and traveled frequently to his home country of Antigua. She has a daughter, Anika and a son, Julian.

#1442

Teresa Pellegrino

#170010

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Teresa Pellegrino is an Italian chemist who is Professor of Chemistry at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Her research considers nanomaterials for biomedical applications. She was appointed Associate Editor of Nanoscale in 2022.

#1443

Christina Slade

Christina Slade

#61967

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Christina M. Slade is an Australian academic and author who was Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University, England, from 2012 to 2017. Biography Slade is an Emeritus Professor of Bath Spa University, having held the position of Vice-Chancellor from January 2012 to August 2017. During her time in office she was responsible for the University's strategic plan, financial management, academic quality and the external profile. One of her first projects, which she inherited, was the re-development of the university's Newton Park campus at a cost of £40 million. She was also responsible for driving a s...

#1444

Helle Ploug

#180174

Overall Influence

Helle Ploug is marine scientist known for her work on particles in seawater. She is a professor at the University of Gothenburg, and was named a fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography in 2017.

#1445

Valerie Maynard

Valerie Maynard

#109066

Overall Influence

1937 - 2022 (85 years)

Valerie Jean Maynard was an American sculptor, teacher, printmaker, and designer. Maynard's work frequently addressed themes of social inequality and the civil rights movement. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Sweden and Lagos, Nigeria. She had been selected for residencies in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New York City and received a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in printmaking. Maynard resided in Baltimore, Maryland.

#1446

Momina Duraid

#74915

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Momina Duraid is a Pakistani director and producer. She is a senior producer and creative head of television network Hum TV and CEO of her own production company MD Productions. She has produced and created several series including Dastaan , Qaid-e-Tanhai , Humsafar , Shehr-e-Zaat , Zindagi Gulzar Hai , Diyar-e-Dil , Sadqay Tumhare , Mann Mayal , Udaari , Bin Roye , Yaqeen Ka Safar , Suno Chanda and Ehd-e-Wafa .

#1447

Giusella Finocchiaro

#175299

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Giusella Finocchiaro is Professor of Private Law and Internet Law at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is also the founder of her own private legal practice. Besides her professional role, Giusella Finocchiaro is also the Chairperson of Working Group 4 of UNCITRAL . She has been Chairperson since 28 April 2014.

#1448

Abdeldjelil Belarbi

#83151

Overall Influence

Abdeldjelil "DJ" Belarbi is an Algerian-American Structural Engineer and Researcher whose research deals with the design, evaluation, and rehabilitation of reinforced and prestressed concrete bridges and buildings. He is currently the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor at University of Houston and previously a Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

#1449

Niki Davis

#117239

Overall Influence

Niki Davis is an educator and researcher based in Aotearoa New Zealand whose work has focused on equipping teachers to effectively deliver information and communication technologies in a global education context. Her research has explored how teaching, learning and assessment can be inclusive and ethically managed in non-traditional spaces involving E-learning while acknowledging the role of the knowledge of indigenous peoples in assisting to build critically reflective research communities. She worked in universities in the United Kingdom and the United States before becoming a Distinguished Professor at the University of Canterbury in 2008, retiring and becoming Professor Emeritus in 2020.

#1450

Carmen Navarro

#180859

Overall Influence

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