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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1501

Priti Shankar

#104411

Overall Influence

1947 - 2011 (64 years)

Priti Shankar was an Indian teacher, researcher, and educationist whose research focused on the areas of compiler design, formal language theory and algorithmic coding theory. Early life and career Priti Shankar was born in a Goan family. Her father, Innocencio Monteiro, was a Brigadier in the Indian Army while her mother, Sophia, was a mathematics and French teacher.

#1502

Arleen Schloss

#32073

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Arleen Schloss is an American performance artist, video/film artist, sound poet, director and curator of the lower Manhattan art, video, performance art and music scenes. Schloss began through A's – an interdisciplinary loft space that became a hub for music, exhibitions, performance art, films and videos. In the 1990s A's became A's Wave where website works and other forms of digital media were shown.

#1503

Wilma Dierkes

#182024

Overall Influence

Wilma K. Dierkes is a University of Twente Associate Professor and chair of the Elastomer Technology and Engineering group known for her research on elastomer sustainability. Education Dierkes completed an undergraduate degree in chemistry at Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany in 1990. After a period working in industry, she returned to study for a PhD in polymer science at University of Twente, completing her doctorate in 2010. She completed postgraduate study in environmental science at Foundation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise, Arlon, Belgium.

#1504

Nanako Shigesada

#154407

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Nanako Shigesada is a Professor Emeritus at Nara Women's University in Japan, most notable for her work in the fields of mathematical biology and theoretical ecology. Her established career in academia has seen many of her journals published to acclaim, as well as contributing to the education of researchers at Kyoto University and Doshisha University. Shigesasda has served as the Research Supervisor for the Basic Research Program PRESTO in the research area "Innovative Models of Biological Processes and its Development", supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency from 2007-2013. She...

#1505

Sarah Nash Gates

Sarah Nash Gates

#104201

Overall Influence

1949 - 2015 (66 years)

Sarah Nash Gates was a Seattle-based costume designer, and theatre arts professor at the University of Washington. She served as the president of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology from 1991 to 1994. From 1994 to 2014 she served as the executive director of the School of Drama at the University of Washington.

#1506

May Murr

#41518

Overall Influence

1929 - 2008 (79 years)

May Murr, sometimes written as Mayy Murr was a Lebanese professor, historian, writer, poet, and political activist. Before taking up writing, May Murr taught several subjects at several universities and institutions in Lebanon such as the Lebanese University and the Lebanese Army Military Academy, in which she taught mathematics, literature, history, history of art and geography.

#1507

Ailsa Hall

#173512

Overall Influence

Ailsa Jane Hall is a British researcher who is Director of the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews. Her research considers the impact of contaminants on the risk of mortality in marine mammals.

#1508

Nahid Shahmehri

#183233

Overall Influence

Nahid Shahmehri is a professor of Computer Science at Linköping University and also Senior Member of IEEE, specializing in computer and network security issues. External links

#1509

Ursula Goltz

#181623

Overall Influence

Ursula Goltz is a German computer scientist, professor emerita at the Technical University of Braunschweig, formerly affiliated with the Institute for Programming and Reactive Systems there, and former coordinator of a German Research Foundation program on long-lasting software systems. Her research concerns the theory of concurrent computing, including the use of Petri nets to model concurrent systems. Goltz earned her Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen University in 1988, with the dissertation, Über die Darstellung von CCS-Programmen durch Petrinetze.

#1510

Virginia Toy

#86958

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Virginia Gail Toy is a New Zealand geologist who studies fault zones and earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan and Ecuador. She is one of the leaders of the Deep Fault Drilling Project of New Zealand's Alpine Fault, and was a research scientist on the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project. She then worked as a research associate professor in geology and associate dean in the Division of Sciences at the University of Otago. Toy currently works as a Professor at the University of Mainz.

#1511

Sahika Inal

#128920

Overall Influence

Sahika Inal is a Turkish scientist who is an associate professor and Chair of the Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She is interested in the use of organic electronic materials for monitoring health, and the design of biocompatible devices that can interface with the human body. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Nature Portfolio Scientific Achievement award.

#1512

Martina López

#102955

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Martina Lopez is an American photographer known for her digital media works combining landscapes and 19th-century portraiture. She is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, although she is originally from Seattle, Washington.

#1513

Carmen Lefaucheur

#183497

Overall Influence

#1514

Shalinee Kishore

#166164

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Shalinee Kishore is an American electrical engineer whose research includes wireless networks, network schedulers, and energy management for smart buildings and smart grids. She is Iacocca Chair Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy at the Lehigh University P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.

#1515

Lois Dodd

#54178

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (97 years)

Lois Dodd is an American painter. Dodd was a key member of New York's postwar art scene. She played a large part and was involved in the wave of modern artists including Alex Katz and Yvonne Jacquette who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

#1516

Jennifer Packer

#51999

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (40 years)

Jennifer Packer is a contemporary American painter and educator based in New York City. Packer's subject matter includes political portraits, interior scenes, and still life featuring contemporary Black American experiences. She paints portraits of contemporaries, funerary flower arrangements, and other subjects through close observation. Primarily working in oil paint, her style uses loose, improvisational brush strokes, and a limited color palette.

#1517

A. L. Steiner

#76443

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

A. L. Steiner is an American multimedia artist, author and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her solo and collaborative art projects use constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, and performance. Steiner's art incorporates queer and eco-feminist elements. She is a collective member of the musical group Chicks on Speed; and, along with Nicole Eisenman, is a co-curator/co-founder of Ridykeulous, a curatorial project that encourages the exhibitions of queer and feminist art.

#1518

Margaret Morrison

#83129

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Margaret Morrison is an American fine art painter and professor. Morrison is a tenured professor of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the University of Georgia . Early life Morrison, born in Castlepark, Utah in 1960, was the youngest of six daughters. In her formative years, she lived in the Philippines and traveled extensively through the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

#1519

Wu Qidi

#43238

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Wu Qidi is a Chinese politician and engineer. She is the current president of the Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association. Education Wu completed her undergraduate degree in radio engineering at Tsinghua University in 1970. She worked as a technician in a factory making equipment for the Yunnan Central Office for telecommunications until 1975, when she moved to Beijing to become a technician in the China Electronics Standardization Institute.

#1520

Lois Privor-Dumm

#110277

Overall Influence

Lois Privor-Dumm is an expert in the field of vaccine introduction. She is especially recognized for her work with new vaccine introduction, which has included strategies to accelerate access in low and middle-income countries, policy research, advocacy, communications and large country introduction.

#1521

Beverly Grier

#82259

Overall Influence

Beverly Grier is an Americann academic in the study of child labor Sub-Saharan Africa, and former professor of government at Clark University. She is also the former president of the African Studies Association. She currently serves as Interim Associate Dean for Curriculum & Student Affairs at North Carolina A&T State University.

#1522

Sonya Clark

#86418

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sonya Clark is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the late 1990s, which received critical acclaim, evoked African traditions of personal adornment and moved these common forms into the realm of personal and political expression. Although African art and her Caribbean background are important influences, Clark also builds on practices of assemblage and accumulation used by artists such ...

#1523

Marilyn Wolf

#90585

Overall Influence

Marilyn Claire Wolf is an American computer engineer who works as Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Founding Director of the School of Computing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is an expert in embedded computing.

#1524

Yuri Suzuki

#132916

Overall Influence

Yuri Suzuki is a Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. She studies novel ground states and magnetic phenomena. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and an American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow of the National Science Foundation.

#1525

Kat Steele

#144705

Overall Influence

Katherine Muterspaugh Steele is the Albert S. Kobayashi Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States. Early life and education Steele was born to two engineers in Colorado. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree from the Colorado School of Mines and her Master's degree and Phd from Stanford University. In 2012, following the publication of her thesis, she received the NIH Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Award.

#1526

Burcu Özsoy

#128922

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Burcu Özsoy is a Turkish scientist who works with sea ice remote sensing in Antarctica. Özsoy is head of the first Turkish polar research center, ITU PolReC. Early life and education Özsoy is a native of Turkey and graduated from Yıldız Technical University with degrees of Bachelor and Master in Geodesy-Photogrammetry Engineering. In 2001 she started serving as Research Assistant in Istanbul Technical University. In 2003 she joined the Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Lab, Department of Geological Sciences at University of Texas at San Antonio . Özsoy always had an interest in statistical mathematics and geo-physical sciences and combined both fields by becoming a remote sensing expert.

#1527

Marie Severin

#85087

Overall Influence

1929 - 2018 (89 years)

Marie Severin was an American comics artist and colorist best known for her work for Marvel Comics and the 1950s' EC Comics. She is an inductee of the Will Eisner Comics Hall of Fame and the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame.

#1528

Sima Lev

#184037

Overall Influence

Sima Lev is an Israeli biologist and the Joyce and Ben B. Eisenberg Professorial Chair of Molecular Cell Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She looks to uncover the mechanisms that drive the development of triple-negative breast cancer, and to identify new therapeutic strategies.

#1529

Evgenia Antipova

Evgenia Antipova

#57074

Overall Influence

1917 - 2009 (92 years)

Evgenia Petrovna Antipova was a Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. She was known for her genre compositions, portraits, landscapes, and still life paintings, which she created using oils and watercolours. Among her favourite themes were apple orchards and Crimean landscapes.

#1530

Taisia Afonina

#50225

Overall Influence

1913 - 1994 (81 years)

Taisia Kirillovna Afonina was a Ukrainian and Russian painter and watercolorist. She lived and worked in Leningrad, was a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists , and is regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

#1531

Monika Płatek

#9661

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Monika Stanisława Płatek is a Polish legal scholar, criminologist, and politician. She is a professor at the University of Warsaw, and her research focuses on penal systems, criminal and civil law, gender studies, and feminist jurisprudence. She has been a candidate for the Senate of Poland and the European Parliament.

#1532

Trudie Lang

#110745

Overall Influence

Trudie Lang is a Professor of Global Health Research at the University of Oxford. She specialises in clinical trials research capacity building in low-resource setting, and helped to organise the trial for the drug brincidofovir during the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak.

#1533

Debora Greger

#99355

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Debora Greger is an American poet as well as a visual artist. She was raised in Richland, Washington. She attended the University of Washington and then the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She then went on to hold fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was professor of English and creative writing at the University of Florida until retiring.> She now works as Poet in Residence at the Harn Museum of Art.

#1534

Nancy D. Griffeth

Nancy D. Griffeth

#171227

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Nancy Davis Griffeth is an American computer scientist notable for approaches to the feature interaction problem. In 2014, she is a professor at Lehman College of The City University of New York and is modelling biological systems in computational biology.

#1535

Katerina Lanfranco

Katerina Lanfranco

#74424

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Katerina Lanfranco is a New York City-based visual artist making paintings, drawings, sculptures, and mixed media installations. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario. She studied art at the University of California, Santa Cruz where she received her B.A in Visual Art and in "Visual Theory and Museum Studies". She also attended the Sierra Institute studying Nature Philosophies and Religions while camping in the California wilderness. She received her M.F.A from Hunter College, City University of New York in Studio Art, with an emphasis in painting. In 2004, she studied at the Universitat der Kunst in Berlin, Germany on an exchange scholarship.

#1536

Yreina Cervantez

#85404

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Yreina Cervantez is an American artist and Chicana activist who is known for her multimedia painting, murals, and printmaking. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and her work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Mexican Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

#1537

Suzan Pitt

#76334

Overall Influence

1943 - 2019 (76 years)

Suzan Pitt Kraning , known professionally as Suzan Pitt, was an American film animator and painter, whose surreal, psychological animated films and paintings have been acclaimed and exhibited worldwide.

#1538

Elmer Lucille Allen

#54863

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (93 years)

Elmer Lucille Allen is a ceramic artist and chemist who graduated from Nazareth College in 1953. Both her father and brother were named Elmer and the family chose to name her Elmer Lucille. She became the first African-American chemist at Brown-Forman in 1966.

#1539

M. Alessandra Papa

#118216

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Maria Alessandra Papa is an Italian physicist specializing in the observation of gravitational waves. She is a professor of gravitational wave astronomy at Leibniz University Hannover, and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics . At the Max Planck Institute, she heads the Permanent Independent Research Group on Continuous Gravitational Waves; these are waves expected to be emitted continuously from rapidly rotating neutron stars, unlike the waves that have been detected from black hole and neutron star merger events. She also coordinates the use of the Einstein@Hom...

#1540

Sandra Ramos

#72336

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Sandra Ramos is a Cuban contemporary painter, printmaker, collagist, video and installation artist who explores nationality, gender, and identity in her work. She is known for works featuring her character of the Cuban Pioneer girl, who is composed of a self-portrait and an appropriated portion of an old illustration from 1895' L' illustration French magazine. Ramos currently lives in Miami, Florida, and serves as an artist in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex. Previously, she was a resident artist at The Foutain Head Art Studios. She is also a renowned curator in Cuba, and she won a nationa...

#1541

Shelley Anna

#172654

Overall Influence

Shelley Lynn Anna is an American chemical engineer and experimental fluid dynamics researcher who studies droplets, multiphase flow, and the effects of surfactants in microfluidics, the rheology of extensional and interfacial flows, and microscale transport. She is a professor of chemical engineering and associate dean for faculty and graduate affairs and strategic initiatives in the Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering.

#1542

Kim Beck

#106907

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Kim Beck is an American artist living and working in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beck works in drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, printmaking and multimedia, focusing her attention on subjects that might otherwise be overlooked. She is especially known for her artist's books and public artworks dealing with the subject of landscape.

#1543

Sally Morgan

#14820

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Sally Jane Morgan is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Her works are on display in numerous private and public collections in Australia and around the world. Early life, education, and personal life Morgan was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1951 as the eldest of five children. She was raised by her mother Gladys and her maternal grandmother Daisy. Her mother, a member of the Bailgu people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia, grew up in the Parkerville Children's Home as part of the Stolen Generations. Her father, William, a plumber by trade, died after a long-term battle with post-war experience post-traumatic stress disorder.

#1544

Rebecca Sitsapesan

#168521

Overall Influence

1959 - 2022 (63 years)

Rebecca Sitsapesan was a professor and cardiac pharmacologist known for her work on single channel recording, ryanodine receptors and TRIC proteins. She was Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford from 2013 to 2019, and Emeritus Professor from 2019 until her death in 2022.

#1545

Nikisha Jariwala

Nikisha Jariwala

#182209

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Nikisha B. Jariwala is an Indian professor and computer science researcher known for her work in devising a computer model for converting Indian text into Braille. She is a Professor of Computer Science at Smt. Tanuben & Dr. Manubhai Trivedi College of Information Science.

#1546

Risa Horowitz

#174203

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Risa Horowitz is a Canadian visual and media artist. Her works have been exhibited across Canada and internationally. Her work has been shown at Canada House in London, England, and is included in its permanent collection. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

#1547

Carla Gannis

#41343

Overall Influence

Carla Gannis is an American transmedia artist based in New York and professor at the Pratt Institute in the Department of Digital Arts until 2019 when she joined New York University. Her works combine digital imagery with well-known works of art such as paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. She received widespread attention in 2013 for her emoji version of Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.

#1548

Inga Berre

#86640

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Inga Berre is a Norwegian applied mathematician who studies numerical methods for the partial differential equations used to model fractured geothermal systems and porous media more generally. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Bergen, a scientific advisor to the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, and a leading researcher on geothermal energy in Norway.

#1549

Brigitte Fontaine

#45649

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Brigitte Fontaine, is a singer of avant-garde music. She has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry, and world. She has collaborated with Stereolab, Michel Colombier, Jean-Claude Vannier, Areski Belkacem, Gotan Project, Sonic Youth, Antoine Duhamel, Grace Jones, Noir Désir, Archie Shepp, Arno, and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. She is also a novelist, playwright, poet, and actress.

#1550

Cristina G. Fernandes

#180321

Overall Influence

Cristina Gomes Fernandes is Professor of Computer Science at the University of São Paulo. Fernandes has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo , a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University of São Paulo and a PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology , the title of her thesis was Approximation Algorithms for Planar and Highly Connected Subgraphs.

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