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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#10651

Rana el Kaliouby

Rana el Kaliouby

#150586

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Rana el Kaliouby is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed to identify the emotions expressed by the face. El Kaliouby's research moved beyond the field's dependence on exaggerated or caricatured expressions modeled by laboratory actors, to focus on the subtle glances found in real situations. She is the co-founder, with Rosalind Picard, and CEO of Affectiva.

#10652

David F. Clayton

#122052

Overall Influence

David Forrest Clayton is an American neuroscientist, biochemist, and academic. He is professor and the chair of the Department of Genetics & Biochemistry at Clemson University. Clayton is most known for his work on the interplay between the brain and the genome in regulating cognitive processes involved in the filtering, encoding, and retrieval of memories. He pioneered the application of molecular genetics to research using songbirds as a model for learning, memory, and brain development leading to whole genome sequencing of the zebra finch in 2010. His research has contributed to topics rang...

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William P. Blair

#172964

Overall Influence

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Tunç Erem

#37018

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Tunç Erem is a Turkish academic in international marketing and international trade and strategic management. Erem was born in Istanbul in 1938. After finishing Robert College High School in Istanbul, he graduated from the college of Business Administration of Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in 1962 with a BS degree. He received his doctorate from the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences in 1968. Erem was awarded the title of associate professor in 1971, and in 1977 a full professorship at the Istanbul Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences.

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Gillian Jacobs

#60540

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Gillian MacLaren Jacobs is an American actress and director. She is known for playing Britta Perry in the NBC sitcom Community , Mickey Dobbs in the Netflix romantic comedy series Love , and Mary Jayne Gold in Transatlantic , also on Netflix. Her other notable television roles include Mimi-Rose Howard in the fourth season of the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and Atom Eve in the animated superhero series Invincible .

#10656

William Pugh

#106856

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (31 years)

William Pugh is a British game designer best known for his work on The Stanley Parable, and for founding the game development studio Crows Crows Crows. Early life and career William Pugh's parents are art teachers. He developed an interest in video games after playing a Nintendo 64 during a hospital visit when he was six. He studied at the Leeds College of Art for two weeks, but dropped out to work on video games. Pugh taught himself video game environment design through working on modifications, or mods, of video games by Valve. He made levels for Team Fortress 2, campaigns for Left 4 Dead 2, and puzzles in Portal.

#10657

Patrick Heron

#20298

Overall Influence

1920 - 1999 (79 years)

Patrick Heron was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced by Cézanne, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard, Heron made a significant contribution to the dissemination of modernist ideas of painting through his critical writing and primarily his art.

#10658

William J. Welch

#172997

Overall Influence

#10659

Deborah Clark

#142717

Overall Influence

Deborah A. Clark is a Research and adjunct professor of Tropical Ecology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. For over 40 years she has worked with her partner David B. Clark on the zoology, botany, geosciences, ecology, and climatology of the rain forests in Costa Rica.

#10660

John Stein

#48117

Overall Influence

John Stein has been dean of students at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 2006. Education Stein went to Nazareth Regional High School in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated in 1975. He received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology in 1979 from State University of New York at Oneonta and a Master of Science in counseling and student personnel administration in 1982 from Long Island University. He later received a Master of Science in educational psychology from the State University of New York at Albany in 1997.

#10661

Newton Faller

#76047

Overall Influence

1947 - 1996 (49 years)

Newton Faller the son of Kurt Faller and Ada Faller from Rio Grande do Sul, was a Brazilian computer scientist and electrical engineer. He is credited with the discovery of adaptive Huffman codes while an employee of IBM do Brasil in Rio. He was later the head of the Brazilian UNIX development project at the Electronic Computing Center of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro.

#10662

Christine Piatko

#147547

Overall Influence

Christine Diane Piatko is a computer scientist known for her heavily cited publications on k-means clustering, high-dynamic-range imaging, computer graphics, and document classification. Piatko is a 1986 graduate of New York University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at Cornell University. Her dissertation, Geometric Bicriteria Optimal Path Problems, was supervised by Joseph S. B. Mitchell. She is an assistant research professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins University, and a research computer scientist in the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

#10663

Ajai K. Singh

#166188

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ajai Kumar Singh is an Indian chemist and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at IIT Delhi. Singh is known for his contribution to the development of new organochalcogen ligand family and their metal complexes for promoting carbon-carbon coupling and related transformations. Singh is an honorary member of Science Faculty of the University of Delhi.

#10664

Huili Grace Xing

#94275

Overall Influence

Huili Grace Xing is the William L. Quackenbush Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering in the Cornell University College of Engineering. In 2019, Xing was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for pioneering contributions in polar wide-bandgap semiconductors, 2D crystal semiconductors and layered crystals," as well as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2021.

#10665

Gary Babcock Gordon

Gary Babcock Gordon

#67029

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Gary Gordon is a retired engineer, naval officer, associate professor at San Jose State University, Agilent Technologies Fellow, and co-founder of Cambotics, a company pioneering robotic studio camera dollies.

#10666

Andrew Stewart Coats

#101753

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Andrew Justin Stewart Coats is an Australian–British academic cardiologist who has particular interest in the management of heart failure. His research suggested exercise training as a more effective treatment for chronic heart failure. He is known for putting forward the "muscle hypothesis" of heart failure. In addition to this, Coats is a fundraiser, university administrator, and inventor. His Imperial College patents have formed the basis of companies specialising in the treatment of cachexia .

#10667

Samuel Sánchez

#173147

Overall Influence

#10668

Pradeep Mathur

#99713

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Pradeep Mathur is an Indian organometallic and cluster chemist and the founder director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore. He is a former professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and is known for his studies on mixed metal cluster compounds. He is an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences 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 2000, for his contributions to chemical sciences.

#10669

Vladimir Ilyin

#99659

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ilyin was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, Professor at Moscow State University, Doctor of Science, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences who made significant contributions to the theory of differential equations, the spectral theory of differential operators, and mathematical modeling.

#10670

Georgios Magklaras

#149002

Overall Influence

Georgios V. Magklaras is a computer scientist working as a Senior Computer Systems Engineer at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, in Norway. He also co-founded Steelcyber Scientific, an information security based consultancy specialising in digital forensics. He is a high-performance computing engineer and information security researcher. He developed methods in the field of insider IT misuse detection and prediction and digital forensics. He is the author of the LUARM and POFR tools for the Linux Operating System. He has been a strong advocate of Linux, open source tools and the Perl ...

#10671

William Pope.L

#63962

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Pope.L is an American visual artist best known for his work in performance art, and interventionist public art. However, he has also produced art in painting, photography and theater. He was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award. Pope.L was also included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

#10672

Ricardo Bianchini

#173200

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Ricardo Bianchini from Rutgers University and Microsoft Research, Bellevue, Wash., was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to server and data center energy management. He was named an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow in 2016 for contributions to power, energy and thermal management of servers and datacenters.

#10673

Allan deSouza

#106190

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Allan deSouza is a Kenyan-born American photographer, art writer, professor, and multi-media artist. He is of Indian descent and his work deals with issues of migration, relocation, and international travel. He works in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he serves as the Chair of the Department of Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.

#10674

Norbert Schmitz

#173248

Overall Influence

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Will Wright

#123908

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

William Ralph Wright is an American video game designer and co-founder of the game development company Maxis, which later became part of Electronic Arts. In April 2009, he left EA to run Stupid Fun Club Camp, an entertainment think tank in which Wright and EA are principal shareholders.

#10676

Colin Atkinson

#173258

Overall Influence

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Judy Pfaff

#31158

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Judy Pfaff is an American artist known mainly for installation art and sculptures, though she also produces paintings and prints. Pfaff has received numerous awards for her work, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004 and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Major exhibitions of her work have been held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the Denver Art Museum and Saint Louis Art Museum. In 2013 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Video interviews can be found on ...

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Angela Karp

#95282

Overall Influence

Professor Angela Karp is an agricultural scientist with over 35 years experience in crop genetics and breeding. She is currently the Director and CEO of Rothamsted Research. She has authored over 135 peer-review publications and co-authored a book on crop genetics.

#10679

Charalambos Bouras

#65053

Overall Influence

1933 - 2016 (83 years)

Charalambos Bouras was a major Greek restoration architect, engineer and professor of architectural history. Amongst his most notable contributions are his restoration work on the Acropolis of Athens, in the ancient city of Brauron and on the monastery of Hosios Loukas, as well as his many books and scientific articles.

#10680

Hiroshi Matsuda

#173328

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

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Jacques Hm Cohen

#173329

Overall Influence

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Daniel B. Szyld

#159495

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Daniel B. Szyld is an Argentinian and American mathematician who is a professor at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has made contributions to numerical and applied linear algebra as well as matrix theory.

#10683

Chris Harrison

#173333

Overall Influence

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George Lau

#172705

Overall Influence

George Lau is a specialist in gastroenterology and hepatology, currently the founder and chairman of the Humanity and Health Medical Group in Hong Kong. Contributions Hepatitis-free Generation Project Lau was the attending physician of the late "Godfather of Hong Kong" Music" Roman Tam . They became good friends. Lau initiated "Hepatitis-free Generation " project. Roman was involved in proposing the project name and claimed "These five words are easy to remember and catchy!" In order to promote the "Hepatitis-free Generation" Project, three major foundations including Cheng Si Yuan Hepatiti...

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Bo Jiang

#173354

Overall Influence

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David G. Lowe

#173359

Overall Influence

#10687

Theodora Hatziioannou

#106063

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Theodora Hatziioannou is a Greek-American virologist. She known for her work discovering restriction factors that counteract HIV-AIDS and other primate lentiviruses, thus restricting them to specific species, and making it hard to study HIV-1 in animals. Her findings allowed her to develop the first HIV-1-based virus which is capable of recapitulating AIDS-like symptoms in a non-hominid . She is a Research Associate Professor in the Laboratory of Retrovirology at The Rockefeller University in New York. She is a co-author of a textbook on virology, Principles of Virology.

#10688

Ying Zou

#158962

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Ying Zou is a Canadian computer scientist. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University and a Canada Research Chair in Software Evolution. She was awarded the IBM CAS Research Faculty Fellow of the Year in 2014 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2007 and 2008.

#10689

Peter Müller

#173377

Overall Influence

#10690

Susanne Hambrusch

#168533

Overall Influence

Susanne Edda Hambrusch is an Austrian-American computer scientist whose research topics include data indexing for range queries, and computational thinking in computer science education. She is a professor of computer science at Purdue University.

#10691

Yunhao Liu

#167757

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Yunhao Liu is a Chinese computer scientist. He is the Dean of Global Innovation Exchange at Tsinghua University. Liu was named Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015 for contributions to sensor networks and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to wireless sensor networks and systems.

#10692

Choi Kiwoon

#167187

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Choi Kiwoon is a theoretical particle physicist researching focusing on particle theory and cosmology. He was a research professor at Chonbuk National University and a full professor at KAIST. He is the founding director of the Institute for Basic Science Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe. He is a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.

#10693

Muhammad Imran

#173412

Overall Influence

#10694

Sally Barrington

#86957

Overall Influence

Sally Barrington is a professor of positron emission tomography Imaging and National Institute for Health Research research professor at King's College London , England, United Kingdom. She joined KCL in 1993.

#10695

Takashi Miyata

#173477

Overall Influence

#10696

Brad Topol

#163174

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Brad B. Topol is a computer scientist best known as a former member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors and is also an OpenStack core contributor to Keystone-Specs, Pycadf, and Heat-Translator, and a member of the OpenStack speaker bureau. Topol has a history of open-source software contributions, including Kubernetes.

#10697

Kaya Thomas

#110341

Overall Influence

1995 - Present (31 years)

Kaya Thomas is an American app developer. She is the creator of We Read Too, an iOS app that helps readers discover books for and by people of color. Thomas is a volunteer mentor with Black Girls Code and a Made with Code role model. She has received recognition for her work to improve diversity in the tech industry and was honored in 2015 by Michelle Obama at BET's Black Girls Rock! award show and was named one of Glamour 2016 College Women of the Year.

#10698

Rosa Badia

#173095

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Rosa María Badia Sala is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in parallel computing, supercomputing, superscalar processing, and multi-core processing. She is a researcher of the Spanish National Research Council, affiliated with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, where she is the manager of the workflows and distributed computing group.

#10699

Arturo Arias

#52482

Overall Influence

1923 - 2001 (78 years)

Arturo Arias Suárez was a Chilean engineer and scientist, known for his contributions in the fields of soil mechanics, earthquake engineering and seismology. Career He graduated as a civil engineer from the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the University of Chile in 1948, after publishing his memory of the title called "Oscilations of a high pond". For years he worked as a professor and researcher, starting in 1946 as an assistant in vector calculus and rational mechanics courses.

#10700

Plamen Angelov

#136358

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Plamen P. Angelov is a computer scientist. He is a chair professor in Intelligent Systems and Director of Research at the School of Computing and Communications of Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom. He is founding Director of the Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous systems research centre. Angelov was Vice President of the International Neural Networks Society of which he is now Governor-at-large. He is the founder of the Intelligent Systems Research group and the Data Science group at the School of Computing and Communications. He is member of the Board of Governors also of the Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society of the IEEE for two terms and .

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