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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1451

Yvonne Jacquette

#55502

Overall Influence

1934 - 2023 (89 years)

Yvonne Helene Jacquette was an American painter, printmaker, and educator. She was known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapess, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique. Through her marriage with Rudy Burckhardt, she was a member of the Burckhardt family by marriage. Her son is Tom Burckhardt.

#1452

Mary Ellen Carroll

#90078

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City. The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum, Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, ICA London, PS1-New York, The Menil Collection in Houston, and MUMOK in Vienna.

#1453

Nancy Arana-Daniel

#105435

Overall Influence

Nancy Guadalupe Arana–Daniel is a Mexican computer scientist specializing in machine learning approaches including support vector machines and artificial neural networks applied to robot motion planning, computer vision and related problems. Her research has included the development of methods for robots working in disaster response to distinguish human victims from rubble.

#1454

Sachiko Tsuruta

#95376

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Sachiko Tsuruta is a Japanese-born American astrophysicist. Education Tsuruta received a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington in 1956. She subsequently went on to Columbia University where she earned a master's degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1964. While at Columbia she worked with Hong-Yee Chiu and Alastair G. W. Cameron at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

#1455

Lin Hsin Hsin

#166249

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Lin Hsin Hsin is an IT inventor, artist, poet and composer from Singapore, deeply rooted in mathematics and information technology. Early life and education Lin was born in Singapore. She graduated in mathematics from the University of Singapore and received a postgraduate degree in computer science from Newcastle University, England. She studied music and art in Singapore, printmaking at the University of Ulster, papermaking in Ogawamachi, Japan and paper conservation at the University of Melbourne Conservation Services.

#1456

Alison Ashcroft

#163350

Overall Influence

Alison E Ashcroft is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor of Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry at the University of Leeds. Her work is focused on method development in mass spectrometry to study protein folding and protein aggregation in relation to diseases.

#1457

Helen Glaves

#172764

Overall Influence

Helen Glaves is the Senior Data Scientist at the British Geological Survey. She serves as Editor for the American Geophysical Union Earth and Space Science journal and was awarded the European Geosciences Union Ian McHarg medal. Glaves will serve as the President of the European Geosciences Union from 2021 to 2023.

#1458

Susan Silas

#112531

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Susan Silas is a visual artist working primarily in video, sculpture and photography. Her work, through self-portraiture, examines the meaning of embodiment, the index in representation, and the evolution of our understanding of the self. She is interested in the aging body, gender roles, the fragility of sentient being and the potential outcome of the creation of idealized selves through bio-technology and artificial intelligence.

#1459

Alison Aune

#91470

Overall Influence

Alison Aune is a painter and Full Professor of Art Education at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Her work is inspired by Scandinavian patterns and motifs. It draws on a feminist aesthetic, honoring traditional folk arts and domestic arts. Many of her patterns are based on research of Scandinavian textiles and symbols, such as the eight-pointed star. Artists such as Gustav Vigeland, Harriet Backer and Gerhard Munthe have had an important influence on her work.

#1460

Sally Wyatt

#150933

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Sally Wyatt , is a researcher in Science and Technology Studies and the program Leader of the eHumanities group of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, director of The Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture and professor of Digital Society Bachelor Course at Maastricht University.

#1461

Karenleigh A. Overmann

#112560

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Karenleigh A. Overmann is a cognitive archaeologist known for her work on how ancient societies became numerate and literate. She currently directs the Center for Cognitive Archaeology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Before becoming an academic researcher, Overmann served 25 years of active duty in the U.S. Navy.

#1462

Hlaing Minn

#181224

Overall Influence

Hlaing Minn is an electrical engineer at the University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for his contributions to synchronization and channel estimation in communication systems.

#1463

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

#167719

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii is a computational linguist and a professor in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She is the author of Semiotics of Programming, an award-winning book semiotically analyzing computer programs along three axes: models of signs, kinds of signs, and systems of signs.

#1464

Paryse Martin

#123984

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Paryse Martin is an American-born Canadian artist. She works in multiple disciplines, including painting, sculpture, illustration and animation. Life and work Paryse Martin was born in Caribou, Maine in the United States. In 1986, she completed her bachelor's degree in fine art from Université Laval, followed by her Master's of Fine Arts in 1994, again at Laval. Martin became a professor of fine art at Université Laval in 2000, where she continues to work today. In 2007, she completed PhD in art at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

#1465

Karen Finley

#69360

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Karen Finley is an American performance artist, musician and poet. Her performance art, recordings, and books are used as forms of activism. Her work frequently uses nudity and profanity. Finley incorporates depictions of sexuality, abuse, and disenfranchisement in her work. She is currently a professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

#1466

Nathalie Revol

#168602

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Nathalie Revol is a French computer scientist known for her research on computer arithmetic, including floating-point arithmetic and interval arithmetic. She is a researcher for the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation , associated with the arithmetic and computing project of the Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme at the École normale supérieure de Lyon.

#1467

Diane Katsiaficas

#105066

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Diane Katsiaficas is an American visual artist of Greek heritage. Her work ranges from small journal drawings and paintings to large-scale installations and has been shown throughout the United States and Europe. She is a professor in the Art Department at the University of Minnesota.

#1468

Müge Çevik

#87742

Overall Influence

Müge Çevik is a physician who is an infectious diseases researcher and science communicator at the University of St Andrews. Her research considers HIV, viral hepatitis, emerging infections and tropical infections in developing countries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Çevik was an advisor to the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland and the World Health Organization, and is a member of New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group - an expert committee of the UK Department of Health advising Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.

#1469

Christine Patch

#120564

Overall Influence

Christine Patch is a nurse and genetic counsellor. She is a Principal Staff Scientist in Genomic Counselling in the Society and Ethics Research group, part of Wellcome Connecting Science, based on the Wellcome Genome Campus. She is also the Clinical Lead for Genetic Counselling at Genomics England, and a former President of the European Society of Human Genetics.

#1470

Gabriela de Queiroz

#174353

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (43 years)

#1471

Beth Rogers

#86003

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Beth Rogers was Head of the Marketing and Sales academic community at the University of Portsmouth Business School . She pioneered professional selling and sales management curricula for postgraduates, undergraduates and work-based learners at University of Portsmouth Business School. Portsmouth was the first UK business school listed as a "Top Sales School" by the University Sales Education Foundation. Dr Rogers chaired the steering group which launched National Occupational Standards for Sales in the UK and was also a member of the Learning Advisory Group of the Chartered Institute of Marketing .

#1472

Kay WalkingStick

#94961

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Kay WalkingStick is a Native American landscape artist and a member of the Cherokee Nation. Her later landscape paintings, executed in oil paint on wood panels often include patterns based on Southwest American Indian rugs, pottery, and other artworks.

#1473

Jo Ann Callis

#99307

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Jo Ann Callis is an American artist who works with photography and is based in California. Her work is held in various public collections. Life and work Callis was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Though she initially pursued a degree at Ohio State University in 1958, she dropped out in her second year when she got married. She and her husband moved to Southern California in 1961. Her father died after the birth of her first son, Stephen, in the same year. In 1963, her second son Michael was born. Callis enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles in 1970 initially in graphic design. When sh...

#1474

Liz Lightstone

#172735

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Elizabeth Beatrice Lightstone is a British physician and consultant who is a Professor of Nephrology at Imperial College London. Her research investigates disease in kidneys such as lupus nephritis, glomerular disease and chronic kidney disease . Lighthouse has also investigated healthcare inequalities.

#1475

Gabriella Gobbi

#174609

Overall Influence

Gabriella Gobbi is an Italo-Canadian psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose research explores novel treatments for mental health disorders. Gobbi is a professor at McGill University's Department of Psychiatry and a Canada Research Chair in Therapeutics for Mental Health.

#1476

Claire Greenhill

#111612

Overall Influence

Claire Greenhill is a British zoologist and the chief editor of Nature Reviews Endocrinology. Education Greenhill has a bachelor's degree in zoology from Durham University, and a master's degree in conservation biology from the University of Kent.

#1477

Tamara Doering

#177988

Overall Influence

Tamara Lea Doering is an American microbiologist known for her research in Cryptococcus neoformans, a pathogenic fungus. She is currently a professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine.

#1478

Maia Vergniory

#178390

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Maia Garcia Vergniory is a Spanish computational physicist who is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. Her work in topological quantum chemistry investigates the phases of topological materials. She was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.

#1479

Kate Larson

#180620

Overall Influence

Kate S. Larson is a Canadian computer scientist working as a professor, Pasupalak AI Fellow, and University Research Chair in the Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo. Education Larson majored in mathematics at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics 1997. After earning a master's degree in computer science at Washington University in St. Louis in 1999, she completed a Ph.D. in computer science in 2004 at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Mechanism Design for Computationally Limited A...

#1480

Linda Vallejo

#90734

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Linda Vallejo is an American artist known for painting, sculpture and ceramics. Her work often addresses her Mexican-American ethnic identity within the context of American art and popular culture. The founder of the commercial art gallery Galería Las Américas, she is also an arts educator and has been involved in traditional Native American and Mexican rituals and ceremonies for many years.

#1481

Tyra Wolfsberg

#170234

Overall Influence

Tyra Gwendolen Wolfsberg is an American bioinformatician. She is the associate director of the bioinformatics and scientific programming core at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Life Wolfsberg received a A.B. in molecular biology from Princeton University. She earned a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco. Her 1995 dissertation was titled Identification and characterization of ADAM, a novel gene family. Wolfsberg transitioned to computationally based research by performing a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at NIH.

#1482

Jóhanna Gunnlaugsdóttir

Jóhanna Gunnlaugsdóttir

#168651

Overall Influence

Jóhanna Gunnlaugsdóttir is a professor in Information and Records Management and Electronic Communications in the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Professional experience Jóhanna completed a BA in Library Science and History from the University of Iceland in 1985, an MSc in the Management and Operations of Companies, with emphasis on information institutions and companies' information systems from the University of Wales in 1998, and a doctorate in Information Science from the University of Tampere, Finland, in 2006. She is the first Icelander...

#1483

Holly Fay

#62509

Overall Influence

Holly Fay is a Canadian contemporary artist in Regina, Saskatchewan. She is known for her oil paintings and drawings, which explore themes of nature, perspective, landscape, representation, and history. Her works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally. She is currently an instructor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Regina and at the Neil Balkwill Civic Arts Centre.

#1484

Andrea Lawrence

#141761

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Andrea Lawrence is an American computer scientist and educator. She is an associate professor of computer science at Spelman College. Early life and education Lawrence was born in Asheville, North Carolina. She graduated from Allen High School in 1964 and went on to enroll at Spelman College, before ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from Purdue University in 1970. She earned Master of Science in computer science from Atlanta University in 1985, and in 1993, she became the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech.

#1485

Vicki L. Gregory

Vicki L. Gregory

#170378

Overall Influence

Dr. Vicki L. Gregory is professor emeritus at the School of Information at the University of South Florida . She and was director of the School from 1999 until 2007. Her fields of specialization include: academic libraries, digital librarianship, technical services, information science, library networking, library automation, and collection development. Prior to teaching at USF Dr. Gregory was Director of Systems and Operations for the Auburn University at Montgomery Library. She is currently President of Beta Phi Mu. She was Treasurer for the Association for Information Science and Technology and the winner of the 2014 Watson Davis Award.

#1486

Emily Black

#176790

Overall Influence

Emily Black is a British environmental scientist. As of June 2022, she is Professor of Meteorology at the University of Reading and a senior research fellow in National Centre for Atmospheric Science .

#1487

Margaret Ross

#154504

Overall Influence

Margaret Ross MBE, FBCS is an Emeritus Professor of Software Quality at Southampton Solent University. She serves on the BCSWomen Committee of the British Computer Society. BCS Women is a specialist group for networking and sharing knowledge amongst women computing professionals. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Staffordshire University, Hon FBCS and the John Ivison Award from the BCS. Margaret's work was recognised in 2008 with the MBE.

#1488

Joan Boyar

#181280

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Joan Faye Boyar is an American and Danish computer scientist whose research interests include online algorithms, cryptology, and the computational complexity of the Boolean functions used in cryptology. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark.

#1489

Sandie McCarthy

#180666

Overall Influence

Alexandra Leigh McCarthy is a New Zealand nursing academic and as of September 2018 she was a full professor at the University of Auckland. Academic career After a 2005 PhD titled 'A rebellious distemper : a Foucaultian history of breast cancer to 1900' at the Queensland University of Technology, she moved to the University of Auckland, rising to full professor. In early 2017 she was appointed head of the University School of Nursing.

#1490

Janet Scott

#157362

Overall Influence

1964 - 2022 (58 years)

Janet L. Scott was a South African chemist who was Professor of Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Bath. She also worked as the Director of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies.

#1491

Jessica Helfand

#21499

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jessica Helfand is a designer, author, and educator. She is a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, and founding editor of the website Design Observer. She is Senior Critic at Yale School of Art since 1994, a lecturer in Yale College, and Artist-in-Residence at Yale’s Institute for Network Science. Named the first Henry Wolf Resident in design at the American Academy in Rome in 2010, she is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Art Director’s Hall of Fame. In 2013, she won the AIGA medal.

#1492

Helen Greiner

#169258

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Helen Greiner is a co-founder of iRobot and former CEO of CyPhy Work, Inc., a start-up company specializing in small multi-rotor drones for the consumer, commercial and military markets. Ms Greiner is currently the CEO of Tertill Corporation.

#1493

Jetty Kleijn

#175932

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Jetty Kleijn is a Dutch computer scientist known for her work in automata theory and concurrent computing, on Petri nets, and on interactions between computer science and biology. A 2020 special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae was dedicated to Kleijn in celebration of her 65th birthday.

#1494

Jakita O. Thomas

#169726

Overall Influence

Jakita O. Thomas is a Philpott Westpoint Stevens Associate Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. Thomas is one of the co-founders of Pharaoh's Conclave, an organisation helping engage and prepare youth for careers and opportunities related to eSports. Thomas is also a founder of Black ComputeHer which is an organisation dedicated to supporting computing tech education and workforce development for Black women and girls.

#1495

Irina Perminova

#170382

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Irina Vasilievna Perminova is Russian scientist, Professor, Dr. Habil. in Analytical Chemistry, Chief Scientist, Head of the Laboratory of Natural Humic Systems at the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Fine Organic Synthesis of the Department of Chemistry of the Moscow University, Moscow, Russia

#1496

Amina Abubakar

#81245

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Amina Abubakar is a Kenyan associate Professor of Psychology and Public Health at Pwani University. She is a research fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute. Her research considers the developmental delay in children who have HIV, malnutrition and malaria. She is an honorary fellow at the University of Oxford.

#1497

Susanna Donatelli

#180238

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Susanna Donatelli is an Italian computer scientist specializing in discrete-event simulations and their specification, modeling, and analysis using Petri nets, stochastic Petri nets, stochastic process algebras, and the Unified Modeling Language . She is a professor of computer science at the University of Turin.

#1498

Pascale Domingo

#170215

Overall Influence

Pascale Domingo is a French combustion physicist and aerothermochemist who uses large eddy simulation to study flames and reactive flows in turbulent fuel-air mixtures. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , and is affiliated with the Complexe de Recherche Interprofessionnel en Aérothermochimie , a joint research unit of CNRS, the University of Rouen Normandy, and the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rouen.

#1499

Toshiko Takaezu

#52903

Overall Influence

1922 - 2011 (89 years)

Toshiko Takaezu was an American ceramic artist, painter, sculptor, and educator with an oeuvre spanning a wide range of mediums, including ceramics, weavings, bronzes, and paintings. She is noted for her pioneer work in ceramics and has played an important role in the international revival of interest in the ceramic arts. Takaezu was known for her rounded, closed ceramic forms which broke from traditions of clay as a medium for functional objects to explore its potential for aesthetic expression, taking on Abstract Expressionist concepts and placing her work in the realm of postwar abstractionism.

#1500

Sylvia Sleigh

#28072

Overall Influence

1916 - 2010 (94 years)

Sylvia Sleigh was a Welsh-born naturalised American realist painter who lived and worked in New York City. She is known for her role in the feminist art movement and especially for reversing traditional gender roles in her paintings of nude men, often using conventional female poses from historical paintings by male artists like Diego Vélazquez, Titian, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Her most well-known subjects were art critics, feminist artists, and her husband, Lawrence Alloway.

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