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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1701

Judith Mason

#63009

Overall Influence

1938 - 2016 (78 years)

Judith Mason born Judith Seelander Menge was a South African artist who worked in oil, pencil, printmaking and mixed media. Her work is rich in symbolism and mythology, displaying a rare technical virtuosity.

#1702

Eva-Maria Voigt

#92969

Overall Influence

1921 - 2013 (92 years)

Eva-Maria Voigt was a German classical philologist, known for her work on the archaic Greek poets Sappho and Alcaeus. Life She studied Classical Philology at the University of Hamburg, and received her doctorate in 1945 with a dissertation "Zur Nominal- und Verbalflexion bei Sappho und Alkaios". From 1955 to 1984, she worked as editor of the Lexicon of the Early Greek Epic, completed in 2010. In 1971, Voigt published Sappho et Alcaeus: Fragmenta. She was a professor of classical philology at the University of Hamburg. She retired in April 1983, to Waldkirch.

#1703

Renée Green

#100289

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Renée Green is an American artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her pluralistic practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, architecture, photography, prints, video, film, websites, and sound, which normally converge in highly layered and complex installations. She works to draw on cultural anthropology as well as social history, making her works well-researched and many times involving collaborators. Some of the topics she has covered include Sarah Baartman, the African slave trade, and hip hop in Germany.

#1704

Aura Timen

#122621

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Aura Timen is a Romanian medical doctor based in the Netherlands. She is head of the department of primary care and professor of primary and community care at Radboud University Nijmegen. Early years and education Timen has a degree in medicine from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania , but moved to the Netherlands in 1992 and had to requalify so also has a medical degree from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam . She has a PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands , where her thesis was on "Outbreak management: towards a model for the next crisis".

#1705

Ruth Massey

#186212

Overall Influence

Ruth Catherine Massey is a British molecular biologist who is a professor at University College Cork. Her research considers pathogens. She was elected to the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2023.

#1706

Lois Weaver

#54737

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Lois Weaver is a Guggenheim-winning artist, activist, writer, director, and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. She is currently a Wellcome Trust Fellow in Engaging Science. Her work centers on feminism, human rights and possibilities for public participation. Active for over four decades she is the founding member of significant New York theatre companies Spiderwoman Theater , Split Britches and WOW . Weaver came to London to take on the role of artistic director for Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company in 1992. She lives in New York and London.

#1707

Barbara Falkenbach Ryan

#179149

Overall Influence

Barbara Falkenbach Ryan is an American mathematician, computer scientist, statistician and business executive. She is known for developing the Minitab statistical software package, and for being president and CEO of Minitab, Inc.

#1708

Liliana Porter

#45597

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Liliana Porter is an Argentine contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art. Education and teaching experience Porter was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1941, lives and works in New York. As a teenager, she attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, Mexico, where she studied under Guillermo Silva Santamaria and Mathias Goeritz. She returned to Argentina and completed her training at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires. In 1964, she moved to New Yor...

#1709

Paige Fischer

#172656

Overall Influence

Paige Fischer is an environmental scientist from the Pacific Northwest whose research focuses mainly on the human dimensions of environmental changes. She is especially interested in forest ecology and conservation. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability, teaching upper level classes about analysis methods and social vulnerability to climate change.

#1710

Debbie Lindell

#187860

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Debbie Lindell is the Dresner Chair in life sciences and medicine at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She is known for her work on the interactions between viruses and their hosts in marine environments.

#1711

Dorothy Dehner

#52620

Overall Influence

1901 - 1994 (93 years)

Dorothy Dehner was an American painter and sculptor. Early life Dorothy Dehner was born on December 23, 1901, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was a pharmacist and her mother was a passionate suffragette. When Dehner was ten years old, her father died and her two aunts, Flo and Cora, moved in. Cora aroused Dehner's curiosity about foreign culture with extravagant tales of her travels abroad. Cora's tales would later provide the inspiration for Dehner's solo trip to Europe in 1925.

#1712

Ruth Chambers

#94045

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Ruth Chambers is an installation artist based in Regina, Saskatchewan. She works with a wide range of media, and her art has incorporated everything from unfired clay, ceramics and found objects to the latest in audio-visual media.

#1713

Clara Saraceno

#119830

Overall Influence

Clara Jody Saraceno is a laser scientist whose research involves the development of ultrafast lasers, a technology whose applications include ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and imaging biological processes at the molecular scale. Born in Argentina and educated in France and Switzerland, she works in Germany as a professor in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering of Ruhr University Bochum, where she holds the Chair of Photonics and Ultrafast Laser Science.

#1714

Mary Spencer Nay

#96631

Overall Influence

1913 - 1993 (80 years)

Mary Spencer Nay was an American painter and printmaker. Born in Crestwood, Kentucky, Nay studied at the Art Center Association School in Louisville from 1934 to 1940. She attended the Cincinnati Art Academy in 1942 and earned both her bachelor's and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Louisville, in 1941 and 1960, respectively. She also took lessons at the Art Students League of New York in 1942, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts under Boris Margo from 1950 to 1951. She taught at the University of Louisville for twenty years before retiring as the Marcia S. Hite professor of painting in 1979.

#1715

Michelle Mason

#117525

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Michelle Mason Bizri is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught since 2000. She has published numerous works in normative moral psychology, where her main contributions have been to defend the view that particular person-focused, esteem-based attitudes have a significant role to play in moral evaluation.

#1716

Kenny Williams

#84545

Overall Influence

1927 - 2003 (76 years)

Kenny J. Williams was an African American scholar and author, and an English professor at Duke University. Williams was born in Kentucky, and received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. She was from 1977 until her death, a professor in Duke University's Department of English. Her father was Joseph Harrison Jackson, President of the National Baptist Convention from 1941 to 1990.

#1717

Martina Callaghan

#116298

Overall Influence

Martina F. Callaghan is an Irish medical physicist who is the Director of the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology. Her research considers the development of in-vivo histology using MRI.

#1718

Asma Ismail

#122210

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Prof. Datuk Dr. Asma binti Ismail is a Malaysian academic and molecular biologist. She is the first female Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia appointed in 2016. She had previously been the first female VC of Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia , and first female Director General of Higher Education.

#1719

Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez

#138461

Overall Influence

Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez is a Mexican computer scientist whose research involves genetic programming and its applications in system identification, the problem of reconstructing models of dynamical systems from measurements of their behavior. She is a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico , in the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y Sistemas .

#1720

Twila Moon

#115508

Overall Influence

Twila Moon is a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center known for her work on the Greenland ice sheet. Education and career Moon has a B.S. from Stanford University and an M.S. from the University of Washington . She earned her Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Washington where she worked on ice mass loss from a Greenland glacier. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral work at the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the University of Oregon before joining the National Snow and Ice Data Center as a research scientist in 2017.

#1721

Donna Wolk

#164691

Overall Influence

Donna M. Wolk is an American microbiologist who is Director of Clinical Microbiology at the Geisinger Health System. In 2017, she was honored by the American Society for Microbiology for her efforts to improve patient care using microbiology.

#1722

Ann Gale

#91234

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Ann Gale is an American figurative painter based in Seattle, Washington. She is known for her portrait paintings, which consist of an accumulation of small color patches expressing the changing light and the shifting position of her models over time. Some of her main influences are Lucian Freud, Alberto Giacometti, and Antonio López García.

#1723

Glenda Anthony

#168016

Overall Influence

Glenda Joy Anthony is a New Zealand mathematics teaching academic. She is currently a full professor at the Massey University. Academic career After a master's degree and a PhD 'Learning strategies in mathematics education' at Massey University, Anthony joined the staff at Massey and rose to be full professor in 2010.

#1724

Elaine Saunders

#175757

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Elaine Saunders is an associate professor at the Swinburne University of Technology and executive director of Blamey Saunders, as well as an inventor, entrepreneur. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Technology and Engineering in 2019. She is one of only nine women out of 160 to win the Clunies Ross award for entrepreneurship, and has won many other awards, as well as given numerous keynote addresses on the value of entrepreneurship and innovation in STEMM.

#1725

Liddy Nevile

#168001

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Elizabeth 'Liddy' Nevile is an Australian academic and a pioneer in using computers and the World Wide Web for education in Australia. In 1989-1990 she was instrumental in establishing the first program in the world that required all students to have laptop computers, at Methodist Ladies College, Melbourne, Australia.

#1726

Judith K. Brodsky

#102098

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Judith Kapstein Brodsky is an American artist, curator, and author known for her contributions to feminist discourse in the arts. She received her B.A. from Harvard University where she majored in Art History, and an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey. A printmaker herself, Brodsky is founding Director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper in 1996, later renamed the Brodsky Center in her honor in September 2006, and which later joined the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts in 2018.

#1727

Madeleine Lim

#98295

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Madeleine Lim is a filmmaker, producer, director, cinematographer and LGBTQ activist. She is the founding Executive Director of the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project , and an adjunct professor of film studies at the University of San Francisco. Lim is also a co-founder of SAMBAL and the US Asian Lesbian Network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

#1728

Suzanne Jackson

Suzanne Jackson

#106798

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Suzanne Jackson is an American visual artist, gallery owner, poet, dancer, educator, and set designer; with a career spanning five decades. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Since the late 1960s, Jackson has dedicated her life to studio art with additional participation in theatre, teaching, arts administration, community life, and social activism. Jackson's oeuvre includes poetry, dance, theater, costume design, paintings , prints, and drawings.

#1729

Judith Hoffberg

#74801

Overall Influence

1934 - 2009 (75 years)

Judith Hoffberg was a librarian, archivist, lecturer, a curator and art writer, and editor and publisher of Umbrella, a newsletter on artist's books, mail art, and Fluxus art. Biography Hoffberg received a B.A. in Political Science from UCLA in 1956. She went on to get an M.A. in Italian Language and Literature in 1960 and an M.L.S. from the UCLA School of Library Service in June 1964.

#1730

Danica Galonić Fujimori

#184802

Overall Influence

Danica Galonić Fujimori is a Serbian-American chemical biologist who is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Her research considers nucleic acid synthesis and tissue engineering. In the search for new therapeutics and vaccines, she has studied the interactions between ribosomes and SARS-CoV-2.

#1731

Jennifer Angus

#88368

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Jennifer Angus is a Canadian artist, professor, and author. She is known for her site-specific installations that use large numbers of insects arranged in ornamental patterns that she has been creating since 1999. Angus anthropomorphizes insects in the hope that she can change people's entomophobia and create an interest in the role that insects play in ecosystems.

#1732

Judith Pringle

#151265

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Judith K. Pringle is a New Zealand organisational/social psychology academic. She is currently a full professor at the Auckland University of Technology. Academic career After a BSc in psychology and an OE in Asia and Europe, Pringle returned to the University of Otago for a 1983 PhD in social psychology titled 'The definition, structure and measurement of social skill.' After teaching at Deakin University and the University of Auckland she move to Auckland University of Technology.

#1733

Vanessa Tomlinson

#184150

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Vanessa Tomlinson is an Australian percussionist, composer, artistic director and educator. She is Director of Creative Arts Research Institute and Head of Percussion at Griffith University and has produced 150 publications. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of Clocked Out, along with Erik Griswold.

#1734

Lei Sun

#136291

Overall Influence

Lei Sun is a Chinese and Canadian statistical geneticist at the University of Toronto, where she is affiliated both with the department of biostatistics in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the department of statistical sciences in the faculty of arts and science.

#1735

Huazhen Lin

#158082

Overall Influence

Huazhen Lin is a Chinese statistician known for her research on survival analysis and nonparametric statistics. She works as a professor of statistics and director of the Center of Statistical Research at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.

#1736

Bushra Ateeq

#51319

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Bushra Ateeq is a Professor and a Senior Fellow of the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance in the Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering , IIT Kanpur specializing in cancer biology and molecular oncology. She was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in Medical Sciences in the year 2020. Her research interest involves exploration of the genetic and epigenetic changes that initiate cancer and its progression. She is also focusing on understanding the molecular events that drive cancer and resistance towards chemotherapeutic drugs.

#1737

Robin Wood

#86024

Overall Influence

1953 - 2021 (68 years)

Robin Wood was an American artist specializing in game art and fantasy. She is best known for her portraits of characters from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, the Robin Wood Tarot Deck and the cover art for several of Scott Cunningham's books on neo-Paganism.

#1738

Sinéad Farrell

#187480

Overall Influence

Sinéad Louise Farrell is a British-American space scientist who is Professor of Geographic Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research considers remote sensing and climate monitoring. She was science lead for the ICESat-2 Mission, which used laser altimetryy to make height maps of Earth.

#1739

Jeanine Oleson

#150183

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Jeanine Oleson is an American interdisciplinary artist working with images, materials and language that she forms into complex and humorous objects, performance, film, video, sound, and installation. Oleson's work explores themes including audience, language, land/site, music, and late Capitalist alienation

#1740

Babette Mangolte

#139161

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Babette Mangolte is a French cinematographer, film director, and photographer who has lived and worked in the United States since 1970. Life and career Mangolte was born and raised in France and moved to New York City in 1970. She attended L'Ecole Nationale de la Photographie et de la Cinematographie, graduating in 1966. Her move to New York was prompted by a disillusionment with the French film industry's male dominated climate, and an interest in experimental works by American filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage. In the 1970s she began documenting the performance works of notable choreographers such as Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs, David Gordon, and Yvonne Rainer.

#1741

Jean C. Chance

#84238

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Jean C. Chance is an American academic. She received her JM and MA from the University of Florida. She has served as a member of the Hearst Awards Committee for 25 of those years, and was also the chairman as well. In addition Chance has been a faculty member at UF since 1969. She was a professor of Journalism until her retirement in 2003, and was inducted into the UF Hall of Fame and Independent Florida Alligator Hall of Fame; she served as chairwoman of the Campus Communications Inc. board and Gator Wesley Foundation board.

#1742

Dana Fisman

#164254

Overall Influence

Dana Fisman is an Israeli computer scientist whose research has included work on the reconstruction of automaton-based models in computational learning theory including induction of regular languages, on temporal logic and the Property Specification Language, and on program synthesis. She is an associate professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

#1743

Nermin Gözükırmızı

#89060

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Nermin Gözükırmızı, scientific advisor and professor in Istanbul University, was born on June 18, 1951, in İzmit, Turkey. She enrolled in the Department of Botany-Zoology in Istanbul University in 1967 and graduated in 1972. She started as a PhD student at Department of Botanic and Genetic, PhD thesis entitled: Effects of some chemicals and rays on Vicia faba , defended in 1979.

#1744

Ulla von Brandenburg

#120797

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Ulla von Brandenburg is a German artist. She lives and works in Paris. She shows her work internationally and is one of the four finalists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2016. Background Ulla von Brandenburg was trained in Germany at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in scenography. She also studied visual arts at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg.

#1745

Edit Doron

#84411

Overall Influence

1951 - 2019 (68 years)

Edit Doron was an Israeli academic specializing in linguistics. Personal life and education Doron was born in Jerusalem. She earned a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1983. From 1984 to 1985 she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University.

#1746

Amy Adler

#138194

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Amy Adler is an American visual artist. She works in multiple mediums, using photography, film and drawing. She is currently a professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego. She has had one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and The Aspen Art Museum as well as galleries worldwide.

#1747

Lisa Adams

#104874

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Lisa Adams is an American painter who emerged in the mid-1980s. She is best known for her oil paintings of imaginary worlds that address both personal and collective realities. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the public collections of LACMA, Eli Broad, the San Jose Museum of Art, the USC Fisher Museum of Art, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, the Frederick R. Weisman Museum and the Laguna Museum of Art. She lives and works in downtown Los Angeles, California.

#1748

Davita Watkins

#161430

Overall Influence

Davita L. Watkins is an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Mississippi, where her research interest is in developing supramolecular synthesis methods to make new organic semiconducting materials for applications in optoelectronic devices, as well as studying their structural, optical, and electronic properties. Her group also investigates the design of dendrimer molecules for biomedical applications.

#1749

Jolene Rickard

#169687

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Jolene Rickard, born 1956, citizen of the Tuscarora Nation, Turtle clan, is an artist, curator and visual historian at Cornell University, specializing in indigenous peoples issues. Rickard co-curated two of the four permanent exhibitions for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

#1750

Nashlie Sephus

#186925

Overall Influence

Nashlie H. Sephus is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur specialized in machine learning and algorithmic bias identification. She is a technology evangelist at Amazon Web Services. Sephus is cofounder and chief executive officer of Bean Path, a nonprofit startup company developing Jackson Tech District, a planned community and business incubator in Jackson, Mississippi.

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