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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#1901

Emily Chenette

#106603

Overall Influence

Emily Chenette is an American biochemist and journal editor. She is the editor-in-chief of PLOS One. Career She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry from Columbia University in 2000. Chenette received her doctorate in genetics and molecular biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and did her postdoctoral research at Duke University.

#1902

Soumia Fahd

#57258

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Soumia Fahd is a Moroccan herpetologist at Abdelmalek Essaâdi University in Tétouan. Life and work In high school, Fahd studied experimental sciences. For her BSc, she studied Industrial Engineering at the University of Mons . She then returned to Morocco to study biology at the Mohammed V University and continued her education at the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan, earning a degree in animal biology in 1986. Fahd initially joined the Faculty of Sciences of Tetouan in 1986 as an assistant. She is a full professor at that university where she heads the Laboratory of Ecology, Systematics, Biodiv...

#1903

Jane Mulfinger

#168934

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Jane Mulfinger is an American conceptual artist and educator whose art includes installations, time-based works and sculpture. Mulfinger has been based in Berlin, London, and since 1994, at the University of California, Santa Barbara , where she is a professor. Her work collects and transforms human artifacts—ranging from found clothing or photographs to language to abandoned architectural spaces—in order to reflect on experience, perception, memory, and concealed histories. She has exhibited in the United Kingdom, the United States, Colómbia, Israel, and throughout Europe. Reviews and featu...

#1904

Joan Semmel

#54907

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Joan Semmel is an American feminist painter, professor, and writer. She is best known for her large scale realistic nude self portraits as seen from her perspective looking down. Education and political involvement Semmel was born in New York City. She began her artistic training at Cooper Union, where she studied under Nicholas Marsicano. She went on to study with Morris Kantor at the Art Students League of New York before earning a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1963.

#1905

Midori

#135943

Overall Influence

is a sexologist, educator, author, artist, speaker, and coach. Midori wrote the first English language book with instruction on Japanese rope bondage and continues to write on alternative sexual practices, including BDSM and sexual fetishism, bondage, erotic fiction, and more. She teaches classes, presents at conferences, coaches individuals and professionals, and facilitates in-depth weekend intensives. She is based in San Francisco, California.

#1906

Jean Lacy

#185592

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Jean Lacy was an American museum education specialist and visual artist who works primarily in mixed media and collage. She was of African American heritage, and believes her family is descended from indentured Africans at Jamestown Colony. Her work is inspired by creation myths and religious stories, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American culture. From 1975-77 she held the position of Curator of Education and Exhibitions at the Museum of African-American Life and Culture in Dallas, Texas. From 1977-88 she served as the Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Center of the...

#1907

Joyce Scott

#122718

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Joyce Scott FRSASA 'is an Australian artist working in drawing, oil painting and ceramics.' 'She has held ten independent exhibitions, is represented internationally and has received five awards.' 'Scott, née Mottershead, was born in Poynton, Cheshire, England in 1938 and migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia in 1951.'

#1908

Mary S. Hartman

#41846

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Mary S. Hartman joined the Douglass History Department in 1968 and served as director of the Women’s Studies Institute from 1975 to 1977. She was named acting dean in 1981, and named dean in 1982. As dean, she instituted a number of nationally acclaimed programs for women, including the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering; the Center for Women's Global Leadership; the Laurie New Jersey Chair in Women's Studies; and the Institute for Women's Leadership. Further, she gathered the first organization of Faculty Fellows committed to the Douglass College mission within the context of the reorganized University.

#1909

Shifra Shvarts

#83888

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Shifra Shvarts, born in June 1949 , holds the position of Professor Emeritus at the Center for Medical Education within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Ben-Gurion University. In addition to her academic role, she is a dedicated researcher specializing in the field of medical history. Shvarts holds significant positions as the Deputy Director-General of the International Society for the History of Medicine and as the Deputy Secretary General of the World Organization for the History of Medicine. Her research focuses on the examination of healthcare services' history and evolution in Israel, a...

#1910

Marie E. Johnson-Calloway

#157169

Overall Influence

1920 - 2018 (98 years)

Marie Edwards Johnson-Calloway was an American artist. She was born in Pimlico, Baltimore, Maryland to father, Sidney Edwards, a minister, and mother, Marie Edwards, a seamstress and an artist. She worked in the fields of painting and mixed-media assemblage.

#1911

Christine A. Brantner

#191202

Overall Influence

#1912

Phoebe Liebig

#191203

Overall Influence

1932 - 2021 (89 years)

#1913

Joanne Dru

#81130

Overall Influence

1922 - 1996 (74 years)

Joanne Dru was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, All the King's Men, and Wagon Master. Career Born in Logan, West Virginia, Dru moved to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen. After finding employment as a model, she was chosen by Al Jolson to appear in the cast of his Broadway show Hold On to Your Hats. When she moved to Hollywood, she found work in the theater. Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in Abie's Irish Rose . Over the next decade, Dru appeared frequently in films and on television.

#1914

Edda Sveinsdottir

#190086

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Edda Sveinsdottir was an Icelandic/Danish computer scientist, inventor, and professor. She is considered to be the first female Danish computer scientist and was the first female head of department at University of Copenhagen's Department of Computer Science.

#1915

Mariam Ghani

#31303

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Mariam Ghani is an Afghan-American visual artist, photographer, filmmaker and social activist. Biography Mariam Ghani was born in 1978 in Brooklyn, New York, of Afghan and Lebanese descent. Her father, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, was president of Afghanistan. Her mother, Rula Saade, is a Lebanese citizen. Ghani grew up in exile and was unable to travel to Afghanistan until 2002, at age 24. Her family lived in the suburbs of Maryland. Ghani earned her degrees from New York University and the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan in comparative literature and video photography and installation art. Ghani was an Eyebeam resident.

#1916

Jasvinder K Gambhir

#27012

Overall Influence

Jasvinder K Gambhir is an Indian doctor, researcher and professor in the fields of clinical biochemistry, diabetology and cardiology. Dr Gambhir completed her master's in biochemistry in 1972 from Punjab University and PhD from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research She has an experience in the field of over 40 years. She is Senior professor and Head of Department, Biochemistry at University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Senior Professor at School of Medical Sciences and Research Noida. Dr. Gambhir is also a member of American Association of Clinical Chemistry ...

#1917

Luciana Servo

#169854

Overall Influence

Luciana Mendes Santos Servo is a Brazilian economist and researcher. Servo has been the President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research since February 2023 when she was appointed by the Minister of Planning Simone Tebet.

#1918

Ruth Duckworth

#94670

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Ruth Duckworth was a modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics, she worked in stoneware, porcelain, and bronze. Her sculptures are mostly untitled. She is best known for Clouds over Lake Michigan, a wall sculpture.

#1919

Elizabeth Scarlett

#145549

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Elizabeth A. Scarlett is an American academic and writer. She is a Spanish professor in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. She completed her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, and her graduate degrees at Harvard University. She was a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in 1983-84 in Carcassonne, France, and was an exchange student in 1988-89 at the University of Seville, Spain.

#1920

Yaprak Gürsoy

#152844

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Yaprak Gürsoy is Professor of European Politics and the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the LSE she was a Senior Lecturer and the Undergraduate Programme Director of Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham. She previously worked as an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Istanbul Bilgi University and a senior member of the St Antony's College, Oxford University. Professor Gürsoy is also co-founder and co-convenor of The Turkish Politics Specialist Group of PSA .

#1921

Aditi Sahu

#185090

Overall Influence

Aditi Sahu is a senior scientist working at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City. Early research Sahu received the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna fellowship from the Government of India for her undergraduate research.

#1922

Tine Köhler

#189040

Overall Influence

Tine Köhler is a social scientist and professor of International Management in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is currently the co-editor of Organizational Research Methods, along with serving on the editorial board for Small Group Research and the Journal of Management Education. She is also the co-founder of Women in Research Methods.

#1923

Sohini Ramachandran

#176187

Overall Influence

Sohini Ramachandran is professor at Brown University known for her work in evolutionary biology and population genetics. Early life and education Ramachandran's parents were both professors. In the summer before her senior year of high school, Ramachandran completed a research project in plant genomics under the guidance of Marcus Feldman, which won her the fourth place prize in the 1998 Westinghouse Science Talent Search, where when she was the youngest finalist in the group. Ramachandran earned a B.S. from Stanford University in 2002. She went on to complete a Ph.D. at Stanford University in the Department of Biological Sciences, advised by Marcus Feldman.

#1924

Prachee Avasthi

Prachee Avasthi

#101918

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (45 years)

Prachee Avasthi is a Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Science Communicator at Dartmouth College and a co-founder, chief scientific advisor, and incoming CSO at Arcadia Science in Berkeley, California. She works on upwardly motile Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and is on the Board of Directors of eLife.

#1925

Renuka Ravindran

Renuka Ravindran

#102065

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Renuka Ravindran was the first woman to be the Dean of the Indian Institute of Science. Education and career She was a student at the Presentation Convent in Vepery in Chennai and later at the Women's Christian College in Chennai. She earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Science in Applied Mathematics and later Doktoringenieur from the Technische Hochschule Aachen in Aerodynamics in Germany. She joined the Indian Institute of Science in 1967 as a professor and the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, and then became the Dean of Indian Institute of Science. She has also been visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

#1926

Elin O'Hara Slavick

#190685

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

elin o'Hara slavick is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, professor, curator, critic and activist. She began teaching in the department of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994, where she held the titles of distinguished term professor, associate chair and director of graduate studies.

#1927

Shani Mootoo

#36607

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Shani Mootoo, writer, visual artist and video maker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1957 to Trinidadian parents. She grew up in Trinidad and relocated at the age of 19 to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

#1928

Nicole Wermers

#99294

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Nicole Wermers is a German artist, born in Emsdetten, and based in London. Education Wermers studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hamburg from 1991 to 1997 and received an MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 1999. She has participated in residencies at Delfina Studio Trust in London and Camden Arts Centre in London , and most recently received a fellowship at Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome .

#1929

Sara Kathryn Arledge

Sara Kathryn Arledge

#179280

Overall Influence

1911 - 1998 (87 years)

Sara Kathryn Arledge was an American artist and filmmaker acknowledged as "one of the foremothers of the American experimental cinema." Early life and education Born in Mojave, California, Arledge received a Bachelor of Education in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1936. She also attended Columbia University and studied painting at The Barnes Foundation. She taught at the Department of Art at the University of Oklahoma from 1943 to 1944, and at the University of Arizona, Tucson from 1945 to 1946.

#1930

Ulrike Rosenbach

Ulrike Rosenbach

#49884

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Ulrike Rose Bach is a video artist from Germany. Rose Bach works with videotapes, installations and performances. She was one of the first artists from Germany to use video for experiments with electronic images. Her videotapes critique the traditional representation of women and help formulate the identity of women from a feminist perspective.

#1931

Judith Barringer

#167276

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Judith Barringer is an American classical archaeologist and Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. She studies the archaeology, art and culture of ancient Greece from the Archaic to Hellenistic periods.

#1932

Elana Herzog

#185459

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Elana Herzog is an American installation artist and sculptor based in New York City. She is most known for abstract, tactile works in which she disassembles, reconfigures and embeds second-hand textiles in walls, modular panels and architectural spaces with industrial-grade metal staples. Herzog has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was a Woman Award and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, among others. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Arts and Design , Tang Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Sharjah Art Museu...

#1933

Anne-Christine Hladky

#167854

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Anne-Christine Hladky-Hennion is a French researcher in acoustic metamaterials. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , and scientific deputy director of the CNRS .

#1934

Martha Ásdís Hjálmarsdóttir

Martha Ásdís Hjálmarsdóttir

#120378

Overall Influence

Martha Ásdís Hjálmarsdóttir is a professor in biomedical science in the Department of Biomedical Science at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Iceland and is the head of department there.

#1935

Anna-Lind Pétursdóttir

#186718

Overall Influence

Anna-Lind Pétursdóttir is an Icelandic Professor of Psychology, Special Education and Behaviour Analysis in the School of Education at the University of Iceland. Professional career Anna-Lind completed a matriculation examination from Akureyri Junior College in 1991, BA degree in psychology from the University of Iceland in 1996, Cand. Psych. degree in School Psychology in 2001 and a Dr. Phil. degree in Special Education from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota in 2006. She received grants from Fulbright and the Val Bjornson Fund to pursue doctoral st...

#1936

Celeste Sánchez Romero

#179796

Overall Influence

1990 - 2022 (32 years)

Celeste Sánchez Romero was a Mexican dental researcher and federal deputy from the Labor Party in the first six months of the LXV Legislature of the Mexican Congress. Prior to becoming a legislator, she was an academic researcher.

#1937

Joanna Hendon

#133604

Overall Influence

Joanna C. Hendon is an attorney with Alston & Bird in New York who specializes in white collar criminal defense, securities enforcement, and complex civil litigation. Early life Hendon received her BA from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and her JD from Yale Law School in 1991.

#1938

Preetha Ram

#87490

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Preetha Ram is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Inquus Corporation, also known as OpenStudy. Currently on leave, she serves as the associate dean for prehealth and science education in the office of undergraduate education at Emory University. Here, she has held multiple distinguished roles, including founder and executive director of the Emory PreHealth Mentoring Office , founding co-director of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, and founder and director of the interdisciplinary science program for integrating science into education. During her tenure at Emory, she has founded n...

#1939

Johana Kotišová

#191483

Overall Influence

1989 - Present (35 years)

Johana Kotisova is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and was previously an Assistant Professor at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Kotisova’s current research investigates the emotional labor required of European crisis reporters. Her research interests include social anthropology, media studies, and creative research methods.

#1940

Biljana D. Obradović

Biljana D. Obradović

#102584

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Biljana D. Obradović is a Serbian-American poet, critic, translator, and professor of English who has lived in Yugoslavia, Greece, India and the United States. Early life Obradoviċ was born in Bitola, Macedonia of Serbian parents, Dragoslav and Vera Obradoviċ, who originally came from the area of Aleksinac, Serbia. Her father was a customs officer, then a diplomat. She learned English at the age of ten at Pinewood Schools of Thessaloniki in Salonika, Greece which she attended from grade five to nine. She moved to Belgrade, Serbia, briefly then to Bombay, India, where she attended Cathedral and...

#1941

Martha Davis

#74344

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Martha F. Davis is a professor of law at Northeastern University in Boston. She authored the book Brutal Need, a study of the welfare rights movement of 1960 to 1973. Early life and education Davis is a native of Kansas. She holds an A.B. in anthropology, magna cum laude from Harvard College , a B.A. and M.A. from Trinity College, Oxford, and a J.D. from University of Chicago Law School where she was a member of its Law Review.

#1942

Harriet Cornelia Mills

#106594

Overall Influence

1920 - 2016 (96 years)

Harriet Cornelia Mills was a scholar and professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Michigan from 1966 to 1990. In 1951, she was arrested by the government of the People's Republic of China and held until October, 1955 on charges of spying. On her release she told the western press that she was guilty.

#1943

Meredith Hay

#77210

Overall Influence

Meredith Hay is an American biomedical researcher and Professor in the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute and in the Department of Psychology at University Arizona. Academic background Hay, a Texas native, earned her B.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Denver, and her M.S. in neurobiology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and her Ph.D. in cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio. She trained as a postdoctoral fellow in the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Iowa College of Medicine and at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

#1944

Jo Mary Manning

#177869

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Joanna Mary Manning is a New Zealand academic, and a full professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. Academic career After an undergraduate at University of Auckland, Manning did a Masters at George Washington University and worked as a prosecutor before returning to academia at Auckland, rising to full professor.

#1945

Sonja Macfarlane

#185000

Overall Influence

Sonja Lee Macfarlane is a New Zealand education academic and an associate professor at the University of Canterbury. Macfarlane specialises in the development of cultural awareness in the New Zealand education system.

#1946

Awino Okech

#182904

Overall Influence

Awino Okech is a Kenyan academic, based at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies , where her "teaching and research interests lies in the nexus between gender, sexuality and nation/state making projects as they occur in conflict and post-conflict societies". Okech has also taught at the African Leadership Centre, based at King's College London, and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Feminist Africa.

#1947

Monica Majoli

#178885

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Monica Majoli is an American artist whose artwork examines the relationship between physicality and consciousness expressed through the documentary sexual image. Her work explores intimacy through sexuality, and some aspects of alternative lifestyles such as BDSM.

#1948

Massouma al-Mubarak

#163486

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Massouma al-Mubarak is Kuwait's first female government minister, sworn in on 20 June 2005. She was educated in the United States and is a professor of political science. Biography Massouma went to the US for higher education in 1971. In 1976 she completed an MA from The University of North Texas. She later earned a doctorate from the University of Denver. Since 1982 she has been teaching political science at the Kuwait University.

#1949

María Magdalena Campos Pons

#172896

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

María Magdalena Campos-Pons is a Cuban-born artist based in Nashville, Tennessee. Campos-Pons works primarily in photography, performance, audiovisual media, and sculpture. She is considered a "key figure" among Cuban artists who found their voice in a post-revolutionary Cuba. Her art deals with themes of Cuban culture, gender and sexuality, multicultural identity as well as interracial family , and religion/spirituality .

#1950

Ida Kohlmeyer

#84902

Overall Influence

1912 - 1997 (85 years)

Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer was an American painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Louisiana. Kohlmeyer took up painting in her 30s and achieved wide recognition for her work in art museums and galleries throughout the United States. Notably, her work is held by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Ms. Kohlmeyer, a member of the Reform Jewish movement, played an active role in the New Orleans Jewish community throughout her life. Touro Synagogue displays much of her artwork in th...

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