The Most Influential People Across History
Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines
Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.
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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,
#7001
Guosheng Shao
#143186
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#7002
Shumeet Baluja
#143187
Overall Influence
#7003
Einar Ringø
#143195
Overall Influence
#7004
My T. Thai
#87492
Overall Influence
My Tra Thai is an American computer science engineer, professor in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering department at the University of Florida, and Fellow of the IEEE. Early life and education Thai completed two bachelor's degrees in computer science and mathematics from Iowa State University in 1999 before enrolling at the University of Minnesota for her PhD.
Go to Profile#7005
Charles Robert Horsburgh
#143222
Overall Influence
#7006
Wei-shi Zheng
#143233
Overall Influence
#7007
Juan Carlos Espín
#143241
Overall Influence
#7008
Changhe Li
#143244
Overall Influence
#7009
Gada Kadoda
#132702
Overall Influence
1950 - Present (76 years)
Gada Kadoda is a Sudanese Engineer and associate professor at Garden City College for Science and Technology. She teaches at the University of Khartoum, where she introduced a course in knowledge management. She has previously served as President of the Sudanese Knowledge Society. She was selected as one of the BBC 100 Women in 2019.
Go to Profile#7010
Shamibrata Chatterjee
#143250
Overall Influence
#7011
Joanne Bechta Dugan
#119254
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Joanne Bechta Dugan is an American computer engineer whose research concerns fault tolerance in computer systems, fault tree analysis, and the dynamic fault tree method for the probabilistic analysis of fault tolerance. She is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia.
Go to Profile#7012
Tsuneyo Mimori
#143265
Overall Influence
#7013
Yoshihiko Futamura
#129295
Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
#7014
Nobuo Yaegashi
#143277
Overall Influence
#7015
Werner G. Krebs
#107683
Overall Influence
1977 - Present (49 years)
Werner G. Krebs is an American data scientist. He is currently CEO of data science and artificial intelligence startup Acculation, Inc. and has previously held positions at what are now Virtu Financial, Bank of America, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Go to Profile#7016
Derrick A Bennett
#143296
Overall Influence
#7017
Beth Plale
#141194
Overall Influence
Beth A. Plale is Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering at Indiana University. She is known for her work on open science, trust in artificial intelligence, and the policy implications of data science.
Go to Profile#7018
Victor J. Callan
#143317
Overall Influence
#7019
Justine Cassell
#143318
Overall Influence
#7020
Michael Peter Kennedy
#143334
Overall Influence
#7021
Matthias Kretzler
#143335
Overall Influence
#7022
Joan Francioni
#130863
Overall Influence
Joan Francioni is an American Professor of Computer Science who works at the Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. She received the first Ph.D. in Computer Science awarded by Florida State University in 1981. Francioni is noted for working with a number of community projects, including the Sustainable Foods Partnership and her work with visually impaired students.
Go to Profile#7023
Michael S. Bernstein
#143346
Overall Influence
#7024
Katsuhiko Yanaga
#143368
Overall Influence
2000 - Present (26 years)
#7025
Santanu Bhattacharya
#143369
Overall Influence
#7026
Philippe A. Jacquet
#143404
Overall Influence
#7027
Masafumi Fukagawa
#143410
Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
#7028
Makoto Matsumoto
#143418
Overall Influence
#7029
Michael A Weber
#143430
Overall Influence
#7030
Oksana Lockridge
#143443
Overall Influence
#7031
Jürgen Thomas Branke
#143446
Overall Influence
#7032
Iris Chi
#143457
Overall Influence
#7033
Geoffrey Peter Garnett
#143466
Overall Influence
#7034
Ramkumar Menon
#143469
Overall Influence
#7035
Henryk Woźniakowski
#143477
Overall Influence
#7036
Denis Richard
#143479
Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
#7037
John Alan Robinson
#143493
Overall Influence
#7038
Alexander T. Sack
#53715
Overall Influence
1972 - Present (54 years)
Alexander T. Sack is a German neuroscientist and cognitive psychologist. He is currently appointed as a full professor and chair of applied cognitive neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at Maastricht University. He is also co-founder and board member of the Dutch-Flemish Brain Stimulation Foundation, director of the International Clinical TMS Certification Course, co-director of the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and the Scientific Director of the Transcranial Brain Stimulation Policlinic at Maastricht University Medical Centre.
Go to Profile#7039
Frank Davidoff
#143509
Overall Influence
#7040
Agil Shirinov
#74883
Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Agil Shirinov Assistant Professor at the Department of Religious Studies. Rector of Azerbaijan Institute of Theology
Go to Profile#7041
Hirohisa Kishino
#143511
Overall Influence
#7042
Hiroaki Imai
#143526
Overall Influence
#7043
Yiannis Aloimonos
#143532
Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
#7044
Michael Spedding
#143536
Overall Influence
#7045
Joshua Knowles
#143549
Overall Influence
#7046
Badong Chen
#143566
Overall Influence
#7047
Karin Klingel
#143574
Overall Influence
#7048
Abraham Aviv
#143581
Overall Influence
#7049
Dario Leister
#143584
Overall Influence
#7050
Nicol Karssemeijer
#143600
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