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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#10501

Ping Zhang

#170377

Overall Influence

Ping Zhang is an American scholar in information systems and human–computer interaction. She is notable for her work on establishing the human–computer interaction community inside the information systems field, bridging various camps of human–computer interaction research and exploring intellectual characteristics of the information field. She co-authored with Dov Te’eni and Jane Carey the first HCI textbook for non-computer science students.

#10502

Maike Buchin

#156596

Overall Influence

Maike Buchin is a German computer scientist specializing in computational geometry, and in particular on the analysis of similarities and clustering of geometric trajectory data. She is a professor at Ruhr University Bochum, and head of the chair in theoretical computer science there.

#10503

Carol Wainio

#61515

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Carol Wainio is a Canadian painter. Her work, known for its visual complexity and monochrome color palette, has been exhibited in major art galleries in Canada, the U.S., Europe and China. She has won multiple awards, including the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.

#10504

Raymond Lister

#149394

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Raymond Lister is an Australian computer scientist and researcher on computer science education research. He was born in Casino, New South Wales and has spent most of his life in Sydney, NSW Australia. During his research and academic career he has specialised in understanding the learning and teaching of computer programming and is an associate professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.

#10505

Marine Carpuat

#168166

Overall Influence

Marine Carpuat is a computer scientist who works on machine translation and natural language processing. She is known for her research connecting cross-lingual semantics with machine translation. She has been recognized with a NSF Career Award in 2018, a Google Research award in 2016, and Amazon Faculty Awards in 2016 and 2018.

#10506

Patricia Olson

#127570

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Patricia Olson is an American graphic designer, painter, feminist artist, and educator whose works are categorized as figurative art. Olson was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her B.A. in studio art from Macalester College in 1973, and her M.F.A. in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1998. Olson's work has been on exhibition continuously throughout the United States since 1973, sometimes in group exhibitions, and sometimes in solo exhibitions. She has works that are part of permanent collections throughout the United States as well.

#10507

Hans Mulder

#95794

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

J.B.F. Mulder is a Dutch computer scientist, Venture manager in the IT industry, and Professor at the University of Antwerp, known for his work on enterprise engineering. Biography Mulder is the son of Theo Mulder , former professor at the Maastricht University and Venture capitalist. He received his BA in informatics in 1993 from The Hague University of Applied Sciences, and his MA in Business Administration in 1994 from Nyenrode University.

#10508

Chetan Sankar

#71940

Overall Influence

Chetan Sankar is the Advisory Council Emeritus Professor of Management Information Systems at Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University. He was the founder and director of the Geospatial Research and Applications Center .

#10509

Julio M. Fernandez

#37500

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Julio M. Fernandez is Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences Columbia University. Fernandez studied physics in Chile, then did his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles. He did post-doctorate work in Los Angeles and Germany. In 1987 he became professor at the Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Then, he moved to Rochester, Minnesota to the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Mayo Foundation. Since 2002 he is professor at the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University.

#10510

Subhash Saini

#67269

Overall Influence

Dr. Subhash Saini is a senior computer scientist at NASA. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and has held positions at University of California, Los Angeles , University of California, Berkeley , and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .

#10511

Sherman Wu

#66005

Overall Influence

1937 - 2010 (73 years)

Sherman Hsiu-huang Wu was a Chinese-American social activist and professor, whose experiences at Northwestern University brought the issue of discrimination against Asian Americans to the fore. The general condemnation of the prejudice exhibited against him presaged later actions in the Asian American movement.

#10512

Jenifer Haselgrove

#52038

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Jenifer Leech was a British physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations.

#10513

Umit Catalyurek

Umit Catalyurek

#168515

Overall Influence

#10514

Tina Eliassi-Rad

#161086

Overall Influence

Tina Eliassi-Rad is an American computer scientist and the inaugural President Joseph E. Aoun Professor at Northeastern University. Her research is at the intersection of artificial intelligence , network science, and applied ethics. In 2023, she won the Lagrange Prize for her work on ethical approaches to artificial intelligence.

#10515

Sato Honma

#170489

Overall Influence

Sato Honma is a Japanese chronobiologist who researches the biological mechanisms of circadian rhythms. She mainly collaborates with Ken-Ichi Honma on publications, and both of their primary research focuses are the human circadian clock under temporal isolation and the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus , its components, and associates. Honma is a retired professor at the Hokkaido University School of Medicine in Sapporo, Japan. She received her Ph.D. in physiology from Hokkaido University. She taught physiology at the School of Medicine and then at the Research and Education Center for Brain Science at Hokkaido University.

#10516

Taryn Young

#80109

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Taryn Young is the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Stellenbosch University. She is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Professor Young has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Her research has focused on summarising and interpreting medical research.

#10517

Emily Stanley

#92259

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Emily Stanley is an American professor of limnology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was named a 2018 Ecological Society of America Fellow and her research focuses on the ecology of freshwater ecosystems.

#10518

Abdul Gaffar Billoo

#61452

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Abdul Ghaffar Billoo is a Pakistani philanthropist who founded HANDS International a Nonprofit organisation in Pakistan which has been working since 1975. As a paediatric endocrinologist, he served at the Aga Khan University where he serve as professor of clinical paediatrics. He was awarded with Sitara-i-Imtiaz for public services the most prestigious civilian award by then-President of Pakistan General Pervez Musharraf in March 2007.

#10519

Ina Koch

#134397

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Ina Koch is a German bioinformatics researcher who holds the Chair of Molecular Bioinformatics at Goethe University Frankfurt, in the faculty of mathematics and computer science. She has published research on the use of maximum common subgraphs and Petri nets to model problems in biology, and on the prediction of deleterious alleles.

#10520

Xavier Pivot

#170565

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Xavier Pivot is a French oncologist, university professor, breast cancer specialist and general director of the Strasbourg Cancer Institute.⁣⁣ He is best known for his research on treatments with trastuzumab in HER2-positive breast cancers.

#10521

Forrest N. Iandola

#154878

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Forrest N. Iandola is an American computer scientist specializing in efficient AI. Career Iandola earned a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2016, advised by Kurt Keutzer. As part of his dissertation he co-authored SqueezeNet, a deep neural network for image classification that is optimized for smartphones and other mobile devices.

#10522

Debora Marks

#82195

Overall Influence

Debora S. Marks is a researcher in computational biology and a Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. Her research uses computational approaches to address a variety of biological problems.

#10523

Raymond Luebbers

#127365

Overall Influence

Dr. Raymond J. Luebbers was Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University and Ohio University, a Research Scientist at the Lockheed Martin Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, CA and founder of Remcom, Inc.

#10524

Robbie Conal

#47561

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Robert "Robbie" Conal is an American guerrilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for distributing his poster art throughout a city overnight using his "volunteer guerrilla postering army".

#10525

Stefania Serafin

#164640

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Stefania Serafin is a professor at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media technology at Aalborg University in Copenhagen. Education Stefania Serafin completed her master's degree in acoustics, computer science and signal processing applied to music, from IRCAM in 1997. Following, she received her PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics from Stanford University in 2004.

#10526

Shunri Oda

#171610

Overall Influence

Shunri Oda from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to silicon quantum dot devices.

#10527

Chip Gubera

#170397

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Chip Gubera is an American film director and producer. He also teaches digital media technology at the University of Missouri in the IT Program. Personal life Chip Gubera currently lives in Columbia, Missouri, where he teaches digital media technology in the Information Technology Program at the University of Missouri. He also freelances as a visual effects/motion graphics artist and a music composer.

#10528

Raj Kumar Gupta

#171648

Overall Influence

#10529

John Turner

#171650

Overall Influence

#10530

Samuel Mann

#123973

Overall Influence

Samuel Mann is a New Zealand computer scientist, with interests in computer science education and sustainability. He is a full Professor at Otago Polytechnic. He has published widely on sustainable practice, both in computing and more generally to apply to any discipline. Mann was educated at the University of Otago where he studied botany and geography, before completing a PhD in Information Science.

#10531

Charles Harpole

#56473

Overall Influence

Charles Henry Harpole is a šcholar of cinema and mass communications and a filmmaker. He received his doctorate from New York University and has taught at the University of Georgia, New York University, the New School, Southern Illinois University, the University of Texas at Dallas, Ohio State University, the University of Central Florida, and Mahidol University.

#10532

Sal Buscema

#58039

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Sal Buscema is an American comics artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, where he enjoyed a ten-year run as artist of The Incredible Hulk and an eight-year run as artist of The Spectacular Spider-Man. He is the younger brother of comics artist John Buscema.

#10533

Jörg Immendorff

Jörg Immendorff

#14129

Overall Influence

1945 - 2007 (62 years)

Jörg Immendorff was a German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor. He was a member of the art movement Neue Wilde. Early life and education Immendorff was born in Bleckede, Lower Saxony, near Lüneburg on the west bank of the Elbe. When he was 11 years old, his father left the family. This traumatic experience has been used to explain Immendorff's later feelings of inadequacy and emotional remoteness. He attended the boarding School ←Ernst-Kalkuhl Gymnasium as a student. At the age of sixteen he had his first exhibition in a jazz cellar in Bonn.

#10534

Han Song

#106009

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Han Song is a professor of Gangneung-Wonju National University in the department of dentistry. He also served as the university's president from 2003 to July 2011.

#10535

Osman Yaşar

#86451

Overall Influence

Osman Yaşar is Empire Innovation Professor at the Computational Science department at State University of New York College at Brockport. He holds 3 master's degrees and a Ph.D. degree . His area of interest is supercomputing applications, computational fluid and particle dynamics, engine combustion modeling, parallel computing, plasma and radiation hydrodynamics, and adaptive mesh refinement. He established the first undergraduate program in computational science in the United States. He also established computational approach to math, science, and technology as a pedagogy at K-12 level. Dr.

#10536

Fionn Dunne

#104180

Overall Influence

Fionn Patrick Edward Dunne is a Professor of Materials Science at Imperial College London and holds the Chair in Micromechanics and the Royal Academy of Engineering/Rolls-Royce Research Chair. Professor Dunne specialises in computational crystal plasticity and microstructure-sensitive nucleation and growth of short fatigue cracks in engineering materials, mainly Nickel, Titanium and Zirconium alloys.

#10537

Vijay Pereira

#169705

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Vijay Pereira is a scholar, consultant and professor at NEOMA Business School, France. He is presently a full professor of Strategic and International Human Capital Management. Career Pereira is the Editor in Chief of the journal International Studies of Management and Organizations, the Associate Editor for the Journal of Business Research and the Global Real Impact Editor for the Journal of Knowledge Management.

#10538

Steven J. Schwartz

#171764

Overall Influence

#10539

Randal Burns

#109254

Overall Influence

Randal Chilton Burns is a professor and Chair of the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute, Institute for Data-Intensive Science, Engineering and the Science of Learning Institute and National Academy of Sciences. His research interests lie in building scalable data systems for exploration and analysis of big data.

#10540

Vir Phoha

#152060

Overall Influence

Vir Virander Phoha is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science. Phoha is known for developing practicable foundations of behavioral biometrics for active and continuous authentication. His research focuses on attack-averse authentication, spoof-resistance, anomaly detection, machine learning, optimized attack formulation, and spatial-temporal pattern detection and event recognition. Phoha's work also provides protection for many classified information systems and his inventions have resulted in the widespread ...

#10541

Krishna Sivalingam

#153819

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Krishna Sivalingam is an Institute Chair Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Education and career Sivalingam obtained his B.E. degree in computer science and engineering in 1988 from College of Engineering, Guindy and then did his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at the University at Buffalo in 1990 and 1994 respectively. While at Buffalo State, he served as Presidential Fellow from 1988 to 1991.

#10542

Megan Povey

#75440

Overall Influence

Megan J. Povey is an English food physicist who is a professor at the University of Leeds. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and founding member of the Physics in Food Manufacturing group. Early life and education Povey earned her bachelor's degree in physics at Lancaster University. As a student in the 1960s, Povey became involved with political activism, campaigning against nuclear power and being part of Unite Against Fascism. Her doctorate involved work of military potential, and she was offered several research and development positions in defence contractors. Povey was not inte...

#10543

Susan Bernal

#85822

Overall Influence

Susan Andrea Bernal López is a Colombian materials scientist who is Professor of Structural Materials at the University of Leeds. Her research considers design, development and characterisation of novel cements. She was awarded the 2020 Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Rosenhain Medal and Prize.

#10544

Juan L. Maldonado

Juan L. Maldonado

#50872

Overall Influence

1948 - 2018 (70 years)

Juan Leandro Maldonado was a higher education administrator who served as the sixth president of Laredo Community College in Laredo in Webb County in South Texas, USA. In August 2007, upon the sudden retirement of Ramón H. Dovalina, Maldonado assumed the LCC presidency. Maldonado retired from LCC effective August 1, 2016.

#10545

Massimo Colombo

#171815

Overall Influence

#10546

Peter Nordin

#161113

Overall Influence

1965 - 2020 (55 years)

Peter Nordin was a Swedish computer scientist, entrepreneur and author who has contributed to artificial intelligence, automatic programming, machine learning, and evolutionary robotics. Studies and early career Peter Nordin was born in 1965 in Helsingborg but moved to Gothenburg in 1967, where he was raised. He began studies at Chalmers University of Technology in 1984 and completed the M.S. in computer science and engineering in 1988 and studied economics. He then worked as a knowledge engineer for artificial intelligence company, Infologics AB, focusing on research and development of know...

#10547

Andrew Coyle

#57479

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Andrew Coyle CMG is Emeritus Professor of Prison Studies at the University of London. Life Between 1997 and 2005, Coyle was founding director of the International Centre for Prison Studies at the School of Law, King's College London. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Prison Studies at the same School of Law. He was a visiting professor at the University of Essex from 2011 to 2014.

#10548

Kevin Zhu

#102227

Overall Influence

Kevin Zhu earned his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University and is currently a full professor at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego . His expertise is in IT for business, data analytics, e-commerce, software, digital transformation, as well as related executive training and business advisory.

#10549

David Armstrong

#171856

Overall Influence

#10550

Fabrizio Marrella

#21593

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Fabrizio Marrella, born in Venice, Italy, is Professor of International Law and of International Business Law at the University of Venice. In 2008, he was appointed as the E.MA Programme Director at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation where he was a member of the Board of Directors.

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