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List of the most influential female people in Computer Science,

#401

Mona Diab

#72849

Overall Influence

Mona Talat Diab is a computer science professor and director of Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute. Previously, she was a professor at George Washington University and a research scientist with Facebook AI. Her research focuses on natural language processing, computational linguistics, cross lingual/multilingual processing, computational socio-pragmatics, Arabic language processing, and applied machine learning.

#402

Diane Kelly

#68946

Overall Influence

Diane Kelly is an American computer scientist, notable for her work on the analysis of information seeking behaviours, and the development of experimental methods to support further research in the field. She is director of the faculties of Information Sciences and Communication & Information at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Kelly's work is strongly user-oriented, with human behaviour and interaction at the centre of her research. She received a simultaneous PhD in Information and Library Science and Cognitive Science Certificate from Rutgers University in 2004. She graduated with an...

#403

Vijay Atluri

#75084

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Vijayalakshmi Atluri is an Indian computer scientist specialized in information systems security and database management. She is a professor of management science and information systems at Rutgers Business School – Newark. Atluri is an advisory board member of the computer science department at the University of the People.

#404

Valerie King

#79250

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Valerie King is an American and Canadian computer scientist who works as a professor at the University of Victoria. Her research concerns the design and analysis of algorithms; her work has included results on maximum flow and dynamic graph algorithms, and played a role in the expected linear time MST algorithm of Karger et al.

#405

Alice Recoque

#62282

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Alice Recoque was a French computer scientist, computer engineer and computer architecture specialist. She worked on the designs of mini-computers in the 1970s and led research focused on artificial intelligence.

#406

L. Jean Camp

#47235

Overall Influence

Linda Jean Camp is an American computer scientist whose research concerns information security, with a focus on human-centered design, autonomy, and safety. She has also made important contributions to risk communication, internet governance, and the economics of security. She is a professor of informatics in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where she directs the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering.

#407

Yoshiko Ogata

#49848

Overall Influence

Yoshiko Ogata is a Japanese mathematical physicist whose research concerns quantum statistical mechanics, quantum information theory, and the quantum many-body problem. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Tokyo.

#408

Stephanie Weirich

#84181

Overall Influence

Stephanie Weirich is an American computer scientist specializing in type theory, type inference, dependent types, and functional programming. She is a professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania.

#409

Elza Erkip

#32992

Overall Influence

Elza Erkip is a Turkish-American electrical and computer engineer, professor and wireless technology researcher at New York University. Education Erkip received her B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. She ranked among the top 1% of highly cited scholars in computer science from 2002 to 2012 according to Thomson Reuters.

#410

Edith Cohen

#64493

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Edith Cohen is an Israeli and American computer scientist specializing in data mining and algorithms for big data. She is also known for her research on peer-to-peer networks. She works for Google in Mountain View, California, and as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel.

#411

Paola Inverardi

#55638

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Paola Inverardi is an Italian computer scientist specializing in software engineering. She is a professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, and the former rector of the university.

#412

Birgit Vogel-Heuser

#59176

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Birgit Vogel-Heuser is a German computer scientist and professor at The Technical University of Munich . She has been cited over 5,000 times. Vogel-Heuser's research focuses on systems and software engineering, and modeling of distributed embedded systems.

#413

Janet T. Powell

#88333

Overall Influence

#414

Susan B. Horwitz

#71326

Overall Influence

1955 - 2014 (59 years)

Susan Beth Horwitz was an American computer scientist noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. She had several best paper and an impact paper award mentioned below under awards.

#415

Barbara Hayes-Roth

#74327

Overall Influence

Barbara Hayes-Roth is an American computer scientist and psychologist whose research in artificial intelligence includes work on knowledge acquisition, automated planning and scheduling, spatial cognition, the blackboard system, adaptation, and intelligent behavior in interactive storytelling. She is a senior research scientist and lecturer in computer science at Stanford University.

#416

Marianne Winslett

#76918

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Marianne Southall Winslett is a professor emerita of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, specializing in databases. She is known for her "possible models" approach to belief revision.

#417

Christine Paulin-Mohring

#60812

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Christine Paulin-Mohring is a mathematical logician and computer scientist, and Professor Faculté des Sciences at Paris-Saclay University, best known for developing the interactive theorem prover Coq.

#418

Jana Košecká

#57925

Overall Influence

Jana Košecká is a Slovak computer scientist specializing in computer vision. She is a professor of computer science at George Mason University. Previously, Košecká was a researcher at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

#419

Dilma Da Silva

#83774

Overall Influence

Dilma Menezes Da Silva is a Brazilian-American systems software researcher known for her work in cloud computing. She holds the Ford Motor Company Design Professorship II at Texas A&M University, and is head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M.

#420

Amanda Randles

#53883

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Amanda Randles is an American computer scientist who is the Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Duke University. Randles is an associate professor of biomedical engineering with secondary appointments in computer science, mathematics, and mechanical engineering and materials science. She is a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. Her research interests include biomedical simulation, machine learning, computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance computing.

#421

Alice K. Jacobs

#75923

Overall Influence

Alice K. Jacobs is a professor at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine who specializes in interventional cardiology, coronary revascularization, and sex-based differences in cardiovascular disease.

#422

Shazia Sadiq

#55750

Overall Influence

Professor Shazia Sadiq is a computer scientist based in Queensland, Australia. Background Originally from Pakistan, Sadiq was one of a handful of women to undertake studies in a computer science program within Pakistan at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 1980s, and wrote her first computer program in Fortran using punched cards.

#423

Natalie Rusk

#52631

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Natalie Rusk is a research scientist in the Lifelong Kindergarten group, part of the MIT Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Education Rusk was educated at Brown University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus on Chinese language, Chinese literature and Computer science in 1988. She moved to the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she was awarded a Master of Education degree specializing in educational technology in 1989. She completed her PhD in child development supervised by Fred Rothbaum at Tufts University in 2011. Her thesis used a...

#424

Mor Harchol-Balter

#42886

Overall Influence

Mor Harchol-Balter is the Bruce J. Nelson Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is known for her work on queueing theory, scheduling and resource allocation, load balancing, data center power management, and heavy-tailed workloads.

#425

Xia Peisu

#22600

Overall Influence

1923 - 2014 (91 years)

Xia Peisu or Pei-su Hsia was a Chinese computer scientist and educator known for her pioneering research in computer science and technology. The leading developer of Model 107, the nation's first domestically designed general-purpose electronic computer, she has been called the "Mother of Computer Science in China". She and her husband Yang Liming were both elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. In 2010, she was honoured with the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the China Computer Federation.

#426

Marisa Olson

#60177

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Marisa Olson is an artist, writer, curator, and former punk singer. In 2004 she auditioned for popular American television show American Idol as an artistic project. Over the course of three months of daily "training exercises," it is revealed that she is critiquing gender norms entrenched by the show, while also using the popularity of her site to speak to readers about using their voice to vote in elections as well as on the show.

#427

Orna Kupferman

#74332

Overall Influence

Orna Kupferman is a Professor of Computer Science and former Vice Rector at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was elected to the Academia Europaea in 2016. Early life and education Kupferman served in the Israel Defense Force from 1986 to 1988. She earned her PhD at the Technion in 1995, where she was supervised by Orna Grumberg. In 1996 Kupferman joined the technical staff at Bell Labs. She moved to University of California, Berkeley in 1997, working with Thomas Henzinger.

#428

Janet Ritterman

#21592

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Dame Janet Elizabeth Ritterman is the Australian-educated former Director of the Royal College of Music in London, from 1993 to 2005. Ritterman was educated at North Sydney Girls High School, the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music , the University of Durham, and King's College, London. She held academic positions in England from 1975 when she was Senior Lecturer in Music at the Middlesex Polytechnic . Ritterman became the third Chancellor of Middlesex University on 3 July 2013.

#429

Heng Ji

#33255

Overall Influence

Heng Ji is a computer scientist who works on information extraction and natural language processing. She is well known for her work on joined named entity recognition and relation extraction, as well as for her work on cross-document event extraction. She has been coordinating the popular NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population task since 2010. She has been recognised as one of AI's 10 to watch by IEEE Intelligent Systems in 2013, and has won multiple awards, including a NSF Career Award in 2009, Google Research awards in 2009 and 2014, and an IBM Watson Faculty Award in 2012.

#430

Nancy R. Cook

#91281

Overall Influence

#431

Jessica Hammer

#48578

Overall Influence

Jessica Hammer is an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Early life and education Hammer, who was a finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, attended the Maimonides School, in Brookline, Massachusetts.

#432

Roberta Sinatra

#16730

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Roberta Sinatra is an Italian scientist and associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. She is known for her work in network science and conducts research on quantifying success in science.

#433

Petra Mutzel

#76926

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Petra Mutzel is a German computer scientist, a University Professor of computer science at the University of Bonn. Her research is in the areas of algorithm engineering, graph drawing and combinatorial optimization.

#434

Bette Korber

#35529

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Bette Korber is an American computational biologist focusing on the molecular biology and population genetics of the HIV virus that causes infection and eventually AIDS. She has contributed heavily to efforts to obtain an effective HIV vaccine. She created a database at Los Alamos National Laboratory that has enabled her to design novel mosaic HIV vaccines, one of which is currently in human testing in Africa. The database contains thousands of HIV genome sequences and related data.

#435

Alessandra Carbone

#68745

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Alessandra Carbone is an Italian mathematician and computer scientist. She is a professor in the computer science department of the Pierre and Marie Curie University. Since 2009 she has headed the laboratory of computational and quantitative biology. This laboratory studies the function and evolution of biological systems. She is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France and received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2010.

#436

Elizabeth Mynatt

#86196

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Elizabeth D. "Beth" Mynatt is the Dean of the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She is former executive director of the Institute for People and Technology, director of the GVU Center at Georgia Tech, and Regents' and Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing, all at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

#437

Liz Bacon

#79103

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Liz Bacon is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Abertay University, Dundee. Background Liz Bacon grew up in Kenley, Surrey. She studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at Thames Polytechnic, spending her third year on an industrial placement at CERN, graduating in 1986. She studied for her PhD in the field of artificial intelligence at the University of Greenwich, and was awarded her doctorate in 1993. Bacon is currently the past President of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT , and has had many serious roles, including the Chair of the BCS Academy, a BCS Council member and Trustee of the BCS.

#438

Hannah Dee

#29004

Overall Influence

Hannah-Mary Dee is a British cognitive scientist and computer scientist specialising in computer vision, with specialisms in plant science, navigation, art, and medical imaging. In 2014, she was one of 30 women identified by the British Computer Society in the "BCS Women in IT Campaign.

#439

Barbara G. Ryder

#82329

Overall Influence

Barbara G. Ryder is an American Computer Scientist noted for her research on programming languages and more specifically, the theoretical foundations and empirical investigation of interprocedural compile-time analysis.

#440

Frances A. Rosamond

#55427

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Frances Ann Novak Rosamond is an Australian computer scientist whose research interests include computer education and parameterized complexity. She is the editor of the Parameterized Complexity Newsletter, moderator of the parameterized complexity wiki, and publicity chair of the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation.

#441

Xiaoyuan Tu

#80761

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Xiaoyuan Tu is a Chinese researcher and computer scientist specializing in machine learning, behavior modeling, physics modeling, biomechanical modeling, motion control interfaces, and intelligent virtual characters. She holds a Ph.D in computer science from University of Toronto and currently serves as a lead scientist and software engineer at Apple Inc, researching and developing next generation motions control and recognition technology.

#442

Borka Jerman Blažič

#57080

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Borka Jerman Blažič is a Slovenian Internet pioneer, and the President of the Internet Society - Slovenia. She is also a computer networks scientist, founder and first general secretary of the Yugoslavian Network for the Academic and Education Community , which introduced the first Internet services in SFR Yugoslavia in 1991.

#443

Cristina Conati

#59773

Overall Influence

Cristina Conati is an Italian and Canadian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and computer-human interaction. She is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, and has served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing.

#444

Megan Squire

#20029

Overall Influence

Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University. A researcher and Anti-Defamation League fellow with a focus on right-wing political extremism online, her work has been described as operating as an intermediary between non-profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center and militant groups on the far-left.

#445

Renée Miller

#48310

Overall Influence

Renée J. Miller is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, a former professor of Computer Science at University of Toronto, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#446

Lili Qiu

#35067

Overall Influence

Lili Qiu is a Chinese computer scientist known for her research on wireless networks. She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and vice managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.

#447

Lila Kari

#77492

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Lila Kari is a Romanian and Canadian computer scientist, professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Biography Professor Kari earned a master's degree at the University of Bucharest in 1987, studying there with Gheorghe Păun, and then moved to the University of Turku in Finland for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of Arto Salomaa. She came to the University of Western Ontario as a visiting professor in 1993, and by 1996 had been hired there as a tenure-track faculty member. In 2017 she accepted a pos...

#448

Xie Quan

#94215

Overall Influence

#449

Nell B. Dale

#71538

Overall Influence

Nell B. Dale is an American computer scientist noted for her work in computer science education and computer science introductory programming textbooks. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981–85, and from 1987–93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991–93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 2000.

#450

Jianying Hu

#62552

Overall Influence

Jianying Hu is a Chinese-American computer scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, known for her work in data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence and health informatics. She is an IBM Fellow, Global Science Leader of AI for Healthcare and Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences Research at IBM. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has published over 150 scientific papers and holds more than 50 patents.

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