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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

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Xiyan Li

#169547

Overall Influence

#10352

Ying Lu

#155851

Overall Influence

Ying Lu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Life Lu received her Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville in 2005. She then began her work at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln as an Assistant Professor.

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Joseph J. Berry

#167944

Overall Influence

Joseph J. Berry is an American scientist who is Principal Scientist at National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He leads the United States Department of Energy Solar Energy Technology Office program on perovskite solar cells, and is Director of the U.S. Manufacturing of Advance Perovskites consortium.

#10354

T. A. Venkitasubramanian

#54905

Overall Influence

1924 - 2003 (79 years)

Tathamangalam Ananthanarayanan Venkitasubramanian , popularly known as TAV, was an Indian biochemist, known for his researches on tuberculosis and the biochemistry of bacillus. He was a professor and the head of the department of biochemistry at Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1968, for his contributions to biological sciences.

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Dave Hickey

#22152

Overall Influence

1940 - 2021 (81 years)

David Hickey was an American art critic who wrote for many American publications including Rolling Stone, ARTnews, Art in America, Artforum, Harper's Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He was nicknamed "The Bad Boy of Art Criticism" and "The Enfant Terrible of Art Criticism". He had been professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and distinguished professor of criticism for the MFA program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.

#10356

Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir

Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir

#70432

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Guðbjörg Vilhjálmsdóttir is a professor in Career Guidance and Counselling on the Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Education and professional positions Guðbjörg received a BA degree in 1982 in Educational Science and Philosophy from the University of Iceland. A year later, she received her Teacher's Diploma from the same university. In 1979, she had completed a diploma in French from the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail in France. She received a post-graduate diploma in 1985 in school counselling from the University of Lyon in France and a master's degree in Educational Science in 1987 from Université Paris V - La Sorbonne.

#10357

David Ferrucci

#141005

Overall Influence

David Ferrucci is an American computer scientist who served as the principal investigator of a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers between 2007 and 2011 to the development of the Watson computer system, which won the television quiz show Jeopardy!.

#10358

Harmony Hammond

#52845

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Harmony Hammond is an American artist, activist, curator, and writer. She was a prominent figure in the founding of the feminist art movement in 1970s New York. Early life and education Harmony Hammond was born on February 8, 1944, in Hometown, Illinois. At 17, Hammond attended Miliken University in Decatur, Illinois. Later, she moved to Minneapolis and enrolled at the University of Minnesota. Hammond graduated with a B.A. of Arts in painting in 1967.

#10359

M Power

#169650

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Tapan K. Datta

#86598

Overall Influence

Tapan K. Datta is a Wayne State University civil engineering professor and researcher who highly specializes in transportation engineering and safety. After receiving his early schooling, undergraduate degrees, and field experience in Calcutta, India, he moved to the United States to complete his master's and doctoral degrees. While in Detroit, MI, he worked for and later owned Goodell Grivas, Inc., a structural engineering consulting firm, and became a full-time faculty member at Wayne State University in 1973. His most notable contributions include work on the roof of Cobo Hall, in Detroit, MI, and the steel structural work done on Jacobs Field in Cleveland, OH.

#10361

Zhigang Chen

#169658

Overall Influence

#10362

Robert Insall

#91897

Overall Influence

Robert Insall is a Professor of Mathematical and Computational Cell Biology at the University of Glasgow and a Senior Group Leader at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research. His work focuses on how eukaryotic cells move, and how they choose the direction in which they move. He is known for demonstrating that cells can spread in the body and find their way through mazes by creating gradients of chemoattractants.

#10363

Sytse Strijbos

#64432

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Sytse Strijbos is a Dutch academic, former lecturer of Philosophy of technology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and at Potchefstroom University in South Africa, and chairman of the International Institute for Development and Ethics IIDE, known for his work on systems science.

#10364

Lu Xiyun

#146814

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Lu Xiyun is a Chinese physicist currently serving as director of the School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China. Biography Lu was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu in April 1963. He completed his doctor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1992.

#10365

Cursino Jacobina

#169684

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Cursino Brandao Jacobina is a professor of electrical engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande in Paraíba, Brasil. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to the development of power converters and machine drives.

#10366

Deep Medhi

#165644

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Deepankar Medhi is an Indo-American computer scientist and inventor. He is on leave as Curators' Distinguished Professor in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is a fellow of IEEE.

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Tracy R. Lewis

#45162

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Tracy R. Lewis, is a Martin L. Black professor of business administration within the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Before arriving at Duke University in 2003, he was the James Walter Eminent Scholar in Economics at the University of Florida.

#10368

Hamid Etemad

#35988

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Hamid Etemad is a Canadian organizational theorist, and Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. He is best known for his work on international entrepreneurship and business, specifically the "internationalization of small and medium‐sized enterprises."

#10369

Kazuo Kawasaki

#101930

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Kazuo Kawasaki is a Japanese industrial designer born in Fukui Prefecture in 1949. He graduated from Kanazawa College of Art in 1972. Kawasaki is a professor at Osaka University and a visiting professor at Tama Art University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Representative works include the wheelchair "CARNA" , the "Kazuo Kawasaki" brand of eyeware and the "EIZO" brand of computer displays.

#10370

Jonathan Goldberg

#72996

Overall Influence

1943 - 2022 (79 years)

Jonathan Goldberg was an American literary theorist who was the Sir William Osler Professor of English Literature at Johns Hopkins University, and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Emory University where he directed Studies in Sexualities from 2008 to 2012. His work frequently deals with the connections between early modern literature and modern thought, particularly in issues of gender, sexuality, and materiality. He received his BA, MA, and PhD from Columbia University.

#10371

R. K. Kohli

#102230

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Prof. R. K. Kohli is an Indian educational administrator. He is Vice-Chancellor of Amity University Punjab, Mohali since August 22, 2020. Prior to joining Amity University, Mohali. He worked as the 2nd Vice-chancellor of Central University Punjab . He has also worked as the founder Vice Chancellor of DAV University, Jalandhar . He has 47 years of experience in teaching and research since July 1975. He is an elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi , The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bengaluru , the National Academy of Sciences , Allahabad , National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, New Delhi, , National Environmental Science Academy, New Delhi .

#10372

Adrian Piper

#9151

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial passing, and racism by using various traditional and non-traditional media to provoke self-analysis. She uses reflection on her own career as an example.

#10373

Joaquim Jorge

#169671

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Joaquim Armando Pires Jorge holds the UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence and Extended Reality and is University Professor in Computer Science Department at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa and senior researcher at INESC-ID. He serves as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society since 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University Wellington since 2022 and an Honorary Invited Professor at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro . He is a Fellow of the Eurographics Association, a Distinguished Member and Distinguished Spe...

#10374

Björn Jonson

#68291

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

Björn Jonson is a Swedish professor emeritus in clinical physiology at Lund University in Sweden. He developed the modern servo ventilator. In 1964, Jonson returned from Atlanta, USA, as a 24-year-old student, following a 3-month training in the field of respiratory physiology by professor Arend Bouhuys. Jonson was employed by Håkan Westling's newly established Department of Clinical Physiology in Lund. He was given responsibility for the department's lung physiology part and soon found that the equipment of the time had major flaws. In collaboration with Sven Ingelstedt, he began to think about how devices that should support patients' breathing should actually work.

#10375

Markus Lüpertz

#14353

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Markus Lüpertz is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He also publishes a magazine, and plays jazz piano. He is one of the best-known German contemporary artists. His subjects are characterized by suggestive power and archaic monumentality. Lüpertz insists on capturing the object of representation with an archetypal statement of his existence. His art work is associated to neo-expressionism. Known for his eccentricity, German press has stylized him as a "painter prince".

#10376

Bruce Jacob

#28781

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Bruce Robert Jacob is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Louie L. Wainwright, the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections, in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, decided in March 1963, regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The attorney representing the Petitioner, Clarence Gideon, was Abe Fortas, a Washington, D.C. lawyer who later became a Justice of the Supreme Court. The previous 1942 Supreme Court case of Betts v. Brady required the appointment ...

#10377

Rémy Card

#50817

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Rémy Card is a French software developer who is credited as one of the primary developers of the Extended file system and Second Extended file system for Linux. Bibliography Card, Rémy. Programmation Linux 2.0. Gestion 2000. .Card, Rémy; Dumas, Éric; & Mével, Franck. . The Linux Kernel Book. John Wiley & Sons. .

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Andrea Giuliani

#169925

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Matthias Frosch

#169933

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

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Jeremiah F. Hayes

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Overall Influence

1934 - 2018 (84 years)

Jeremiah F. Hayes was an award-winning North American professor of electrical engineering. In 1983, he was honored as an IEEE fellow for his first published book which was about computer communications. On that project, Hayes worked with Andrew Viterbi on combining Erlang with Shannon–Hartley theorem. He also co-authored a communications textbook entitled Digital Communications Principles with Stephen Weinstein and Richard D. Gitlin. He received the Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research in 1996, and was a senior editor of the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications . His most noted work was subgroup polling.

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Takashi Yoshida

#169953

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Vyacheslav Akhunov

#110565

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Vyacheslav Akhunov , is a Kyrgyz-born Uzbek visual artist, and author. He is known for performance art, video art, and painting. Akhunov lives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Biography Vyacheslav Akhunov was born in 1948 in Osh, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic , his mother was Russian and his father was Uzbek. He graduated in 1979 from Moscow State Institute of Art .

#10383

P Wolf

#169986

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Frances Brazier

#152918

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Frances Mary Theresa Brazier is a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the founders of NLnet, the first Internet service provider in the Netherlands and one of the first in Europe. She is a professor in Engineering Systems Foundations at the Delft University of Technology, where her research concerns multi-agent systems and participatory systems design.

#10385

Elemore Morgan Jr.

#102789

Overall Influence

1931 - 2008 (77 years)

Elemore Morgan Jr. was an American painter, photographer, and educator. He was recognized in the Southern United States as a leading contemporary landscape artist. He was a professor of art at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from 1965 until 1998. His paintings of rice farms in Vermilion Parish have been widely exhibited, from Paris to Los Angeles.

#10386

John A. McDermid

#130444

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

John A. McDermid is a computer scientist and professor at the University of York, UK, and chairman of Rapita Systems Ltd. UK. Education McDermid received his undergraduate education at Cambridge University and later his Ph.D. at the University of Birmingham, UK in 1981.

#10387

Khaled Elleithy

#167851

Overall Influence

Khaled Elleithy is an Egyptian professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He is the current Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education and he is also serving as Associate Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Bridgeport.

#10388

Ruth J. Person

#58985

Overall Influence

Ruth J. Person was the first woman and the seventh chancellor of the University of Michigan–Flint. In January 2014, she announced her intention to resign as chancellor and return to the faculty in the University of Michigan–Flint School of Management in January 2015. Her term as chancellor ended on July 31, 2014.

#10389

Rongxing Lu

#170074

Overall Influence

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Bradley Nelson

#73253

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Bradley James Nelson is an American roboticist and entrepreneur. He has been the Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at ETH Zurich since 2002 and is known for his research in microrobotics, nanorobotics, and medical robotics.

#10391

Hiroshi Ito

#170078

Overall Influence

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Eddo Stern

#124661

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Eddo Stern is a California-based artist and developer known for creating experimental video games, game art and machinima-based works. Stern was a founding member of the physical-computing based collective and artist-run space C-Level. He holds a BA in Electronic Media and Art from University of California at Santa Cruz and an MFA in Art and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. A professor at University of California Los Angeles' Design Media Arts program, he is additionally the director of the UCLA Game Lab.

#10393

Fatmah Baothman

#155058

Overall Influence

Fatmah Baothman is Saudi Arabian computer scientist who is the first woman in the Middle East with a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence. She was recently appointed the board president for the Artificial Intelligence Society. Baothman has worked over 25 years as, and is currently, an assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University Faculty of Computing & Information Technology Baothman established the women's Department which is the foundation of the Computer Science College at King Abdulaziz University, and became the first teaching assistant faculty member.

#10394

Danielle Dixson

#60909

Overall Influence

Danielle L. Dixson is an Associate Professor of Marine Ecology in the School of Marine Science and Policy at the University of Delaware. Her research focusses on how human-induced change to marine ecosystems impacts animal behaviour. Her work, now known to be fraudulent, was about understanding how ocean acidification affects the behaviour of coral reef fishes.

#10395

Victor Valderrabano

#95634

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Victor Valderrabano is a Swiss orthopedic surgeon and traumatologist specializing in sports traumatology, osteoarthritis surgery and reconstructive surgery of the lower extremity. Career Victor Valderrabano studied human medicine at the University of Zurich / Switzerland, where he received his doctorate in medicine. At the University of Calgary, he then completed a second PhD in biomechanics and osteoarthritis research. He did his residency/fellowship program at the Spital of Davos/Switzerland, Orthopaedic Department of the University Hospital of Basel/Switzerland and Orthopaedic Department o...

#10396

Kenichi Yoshida

#170108

Overall Influence

#10397

August-wilhelm Scheer

#170116

Overall Influence

#10398

Shim Hwa-jin

#30280

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Shim Hwa-jin is a South Korean academic specialising in the history of clothing and textiles. She was president of Sungshin Women's University from 2007 until 2017, when she was imprisoned for embezzlement.

#10399

Carola Wenk

#152041

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Carola Wenk is a German-American computer scientist known for her research on algorithms for finding similarities between geometric shapes, such as matching vehicle trajectories to road networks, comparing trajectories with each other using Fréchet distance, or testing similarity for gel electrophoresis data. Her work has also involved biomedical applications of geometric algorithms, including the use of virtual reality to diagnose glaucoma. She is a professor of computer science at Tulane University.

#10400

Franz-Erich Wolter

#98752

Overall Influence

Franz-Erich Wolter is a German computer scientist, chaired professor at Leibniz University Hannover, with research contributions especially in computational geometry and haptic/tactile Virtual reality.

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