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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#10701

Jean-Luc Gaudiot

#89719

Overall Influence

Jean-Luc Gaudiot is a professor at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Education In 1977, he earned his M.S. at the University of California, Los Angeles and his Ph.D. there in 1982.

#10702

Herbert M. Sauro

#136951

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Herbert M. Sauro works in the field of metabolic control analysis and systems biology. Education and early life Sauro was born July 19, 1960, in Dyfed, Wales. He grew up in the village of Llangolman in Pembrokeshire and attended the Welsh comprehensive school Ysgol y Preseli.

#10703

Roger A. Lewis

#173581

Overall Influence

#10704

Guojun Wang

#173624

Overall Influence

#10705

Faith Gibson

#170099

Overall Influence

Faith Gibson is a British nurse who is Deputy Chief Nurse for Research, Nursing and Allied Health and Professor of Child Health and Cancer Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Her research investigates cancer care for children and young people. She was awarded the International Society of Paediatric Oncology Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.

#10706

Andréa W. Richa

#169158

Overall Influence

Andréa Werneck Richa is a Brazilian-American computer scientist known for her research in distributed computing, self-organizing particle systems, network routing and replication, and bio-inspired computing. She is a President's Professor of computer science and engineering at Arizona State University.

#10707

Ibrahim Baggili

#131912

Overall Influence

Ibrahim "Abe" Moussa Baggili is a cybersecurity and digital forensics scientist at Louisiana State University with a joint appointment between the college of engineering and the Center for Computation and Technology. Before that, he was the founder and director of the Connecticut Institute of Technology at the University of New Haven. Baggili was also a full professor and Elder Family Endowed Chair at UNewHaven. He has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Technology from Purdue University's Purdue Polytechnic Institute. Baggili is a Jordanian/Arab American first generation col...

#10708

Shahriar Negahdaripour

#63696

Overall Influence

Shahriar Negahdaripour from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to underwater computer vision.

#10709

Barry Dwolatzky

#147500

Overall Influence

Barry Dwolatzky was a South African software engineer. He was a professor emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand Joburg Centre for Software Engineering. Dwolatzky was on University of the People's computer science advisory board. He was an anti-apartheid activist and in the late 1980s he joined the African National Congress's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe .

#10710

Jade Alglave

#158274

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Jade Alglave is a French computer scientist whose research involves concurrency control, consistency models, weak hardware memory models, the relation between computer hardware and programming languages, and the "cat" domain-specific language for consistency models. She is a professor of computer science at University College London and a distinguished engineer at British semiconductor firm Arm.

#10711

Robert Walmsley

#108951

Overall Influence

1906 - 1998 (92 years)

Robert Walmsley FRSE FRCPE FRCSE TD was a 20th-century Scottish anatomist who served as Professor of Anatomy at the University of St Andrews. Early life He was born in Greenock on 24 August 1906, the son of Thomas Walmsley, a marine engineer living at 59 South Street. He was educated at Greenock Academy and at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MB ChB in 1930.

#10712

Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya

#173176

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Dhruba K. Bhattacharyya is a senior member of IEEE and a professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering in Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam. Early life and education Career Bhattacharyya served as the Dean of School of engineering, Tezpur University from February 2013 to February 2016 and also as the Dean of Academic affairs from January 2016 to March 2021. He held the office of the Pro Vice Chancellor of Tezpur University from April, 2021 to September, 2022. Currently he is the vice-chancellor of Tezpur University.

#10713

Bushra Ansari

#83219

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Bushra Ansari is a Pakistani actress, comedian, singer and playwright who started her career as a child performer in the 1960s. Ansari won numerous awards during her career, including the Presidential Pride of Performance Award in 1989 for her contributions to the arts of Pakistan Tv.

#10714

Samvel K. Shoukourian

#130531

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Samvel K. Shoukourian is an Armenian Computer scientist and engineer. Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics , Professor , academician of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia , Biography Samvel K. Shoukourian was born in Yerevan in the family of doctor, RA Honored Scientist Kim Shoukourian. In 1972 he graduated from Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. In 1972-1993 he worked at the Yerevan Computer Research and Development Institute, meanwhile, since 1977, at Yerevan State University. 1993-2007 he was the Head of the Chair of Algorithmic Languages, since 2007 - Head of the Department of I...

#10715

Erik van Nimwegen

#91076

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Erik van Nimwegen is a Dutch computational biologist and Professor at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Switzerland. Life Erik van Nimwegen studied theoretical physics at the University of Amsterdam. He performed his PhD studies at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe New Mexico, receiving his PhD from the Faculty of Biology at Utrecht University in 1999. This was followed by a year of post-doc studies at the SFI, and three years as a fellow at the Center of Studies in Physics and Biology at the Rockefeller University, New York. Since 2003 he is Professor of Computational Biology at...

#10716

Gilles Muller

#173713

Overall Influence

#10717

Eran Rabani

#122441

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Eran Rabani is an Israeli theoretical chemist. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, holding the Glenn T. Seaborg Chair in Physical Chemistry, and at the Tel Aviv University. Rabani serves as the director of The Sackler Center for Computational Molecular and Materials Science, and as a faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

#10718

Peymané Adab

#168623

Overall Influence

Peymané Adab is a British physician who is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Birmingham. She leads the Institute of Applied Health Research Chronic Disease Management Team. Adab investigates the epidemiology and management of obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

#10719

Hanhee Paik

#148726

Overall Influence

Hanhee Paik is a South Korean experimental quantum computing researcher who works for IBM Research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where she helps develop superconducting devices for storing and operating on qubits.

#10720

Carole Tucker

#118443

Overall Influence

Carole Tucker FLSW is a Professor at the School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales , and a member of the Institute of Physics and the Royal Astronomical Society. Her research focuses on astronomy instrumentation in the fields of far infra-red quasi-optics and spectroscopy. She is a member of the UK EPSRC THz Network, Teranet and a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology.

#10721

Edwin Wilson

#41587

Overall Influence

1923 - Present (103 years)

Edwin Graves Wilson is an American retired professor of English literature at Wake Forest University. His professional academic and administrative tenure at Wake Forest spanned from 1951 until his retirement in 1993.

#10722

Marilyn Ball

#96106

Overall Influence

Marilyn Ball is a professor at the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at the Australian National University , and leader of the Ball Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance.

#10723

Susan Scholz

#99367

Overall Influence

Susan Scholz is an associate professor and Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Kansas. Her academic interests lie in Accounting and Information Systems, more specifically Financial Accounting, Restatement of Financial Statements, and the Market for Auditing and Consulting Services.

#10724

Toshiyuki Yamamoto

#173788

Overall Influence

#10725

Joan Higgins

#67723

Overall Influence

Dame Joan Margaret Higgins, DBE FAcSS is a British academic, educator, and public health service manager. Career Higgins graduated in social administration from the University of York in 1971 and has held academic posts at the University of Portsmouth, University of Southampton and University of Manchester . In 2002–03 she was president of the European Health Management Association. Her roles include:Chair of the NHS Litigation Authority, 2007–2013Member of the QC Appointments PanelChair, Federal Working Group The Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health on complementary therapyChair , Pati...

#10726

Annabelle McIver

#143666

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Annabelle K. McIver is a computer scientist whose research involves the use of formal methods and information flow in computer security and the verification of probabilistic systems. Educated in mathematics in the UK, she works in Australia as professor in the School of Computing at Macquarie University, and as one of the founding leaders of Macquarie's Future Communications Research Centre.

#10727

James Kutsch

#152812

Overall Influence

James Kutsch is an American computer scientist who currently serves as the President of The Seeing Eye. As a teenager, he lost his eyesight as the result of a "backyard chemistry experiment that went wrong". He studied at West Virginia University, gaining a BSc in psychology and an MSc in Computer Science, before attending the University of Illinois, where he was awarded a PhD in Computer Science. As part of his PhD he designed the first talking computer for the blind, and also developed one of the earliest screen readers. After graduation, he held a number of roles with AT&T. In 1996 Kutsch b...

#10728

Soha Hassoun

#124543

Overall Influence

Soha Hassoun is American computer scientist. She is Professor and Past Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Hassoun's interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and systems biology.

#10729

Peter Campus

#123174

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Peter Campus , often styled as peter campus, is an American artist and a pioneer of new media and video art, known for his interactive video installations, single-channel video works, and photography. His work is held in the collections of numerous public institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Tate Modern, Museo Reina Sofía, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, and the Centre Georges Pompidou. The artist works on the south shore of Long Island.

#10730

Harald Heckmann

#104987

Overall Influence

1924 - Present (102 years)

Harald Heckmann was a German musicologist who focused on source documentation, particularly supported by electronic data processing, and music iconography. Besides teaching at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, he established in 1954 and led until 1971 the German Archive for the History of Music, and afterwards was chairman of the German Broadcasting Archive. He held leading positions of international organisations such as the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres , Répertoire International des Sources Musicales , and Répertoire International de Littératu...

#10731

Murray Baron

#173918

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#10732

Mark Cherry

#46151

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Mark J. Cherry is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics at St. Edward's University, Austin, Texas. He is the author of Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market , in which he argues that human body parts are commodities, and that the market is the most efficient and morally justified way to procure and allocate organs for transplant. His argument is based in part on what he calls the moral authority of persons over themselves. Cherry is the editor of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Christian Bioethics, editor-in-chief of the Health- Care Et...

#10733

David Cohen

#173922

Overall Influence

#10734

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė

#18065

Overall Influence

1927 - 2005 (78 years)

Aušra Augustinavičiūtė was a Lithuanian psychologist, economist and dean of the Vilnius Pedagogical University's department of family science. Founder of socionics, the theory of information processing and personality types.

#10735

Zhang Kangzhi

#34791

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Zhang Kangzhi , born in Tongshan, Jiangsu province, is one of the two Changjiang Scholars in the discipline of Public Administration, a professor and a tutor of a PhD in the Department of Public Administration of Renmin University of China , an adjunct professor of the Center for Public Administration Research of Sun Yat-Sen University, a standing director of the fifth council of the Chinese Public Administration Society, and guest professor, chair professor, and adjunct professor of many other universities.

#10736

Jens Lindhard

#73265

Overall Influence

1922 - 1997 (75 years)

Jens Lindhard was a Danish physicist and professor at Aarhus University working on condensed matter physics, statistical physics and special relativity. He was the president of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters between 1981 and 1988.

#10737

Joseph M Unger

#173956

Overall Influence

#10738

William M. Jackson

#87229

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

William Morgan Jackson is a Distinguished Research and Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Davis and pioneer in the field of astrochemistry. His work considers cometary astrochemistry and the development of laser photochemistry to understand planetary atmospheres. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society and the American Chemical Society. In addition to contributing research work, he is notable as a mentor and advocate for increasing minority participation in science where he was a founders of the Nationa...

#10739

Marco Zanetti

#173975

Overall Influence

#10740

Rupprecht Geiger

#34098

Overall Influence

1908 - 2009 (101 years)

Rupprecht Geiger was a German abstract painter and sculptor. Throughout his career, he favored monochromicity and color-field paintings. For a time, he concentrated solely on the color red. Life and work Geiger was born in Munich, the only child of painter Willi Geiger. Besides Germany, the family spent time in Spain, and he also joined his father on trips to Morocco and the Canary Islands. It was on these trips that Geiger began painting. From 1926 through 1935, he studied and taught architecture and art at academic institutions in Munich. From 1936 to 1940, he worked as an architect at several firms, also in Munich.

#10741

Gordon H Williams

#174000

Overall Influence

#10742

Linda Sharples

#127569

Overall Influence

Linda Sharples is a British statistician who is Professor of Medical Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research considers statistical analysis of medical interventions. She has provided expert advice to clinical trials on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

#10743

Michael Winter

#101650

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

David Michael Winter, is an expert on rural politics and economics. Early life He was born in Launceston, Cornwall in 1955, the son of David Winter a farmer and lecturer and his wife Jeanne Nanette. His early life was spent firstly in Devon, where the family farmed near Beaworthy before moving to Hampshire where his father lectured at Sparsholt College. He was educated at Peter Symonds College then at Wye College, Kent. He received a PhD from the Open University in 1988.

#10744

Nancy Pollard

#96862

Overall Influence

Nancy S. Pollard is an American computer scientist, roboticist, and computer graphics researcher. She is a professor in the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, where she heads the Foam Robotics Lab.

#10745

Kathrin Klamroth

#120360

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Kathrin Klamroth is a German mathematician and computer scientist whose research topics include combinatorial optimization and facility location. She is a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science at the University of Wuppertal.

#10746

Jesse Drew

#82544

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Jesse Drew is an American artist, author, media activist, and educator. Biography Jesse Drew was born at St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village, New York. He spent his early childhood in Queens, before the family moved to Hicksville, New York, home of Levittown. He became a teenage runaway at age 15, and lived on communes in Vermont and California. In 1974, he was a candidate for the State Legislature of Vermont on the Liberty Union Party ticket with Bernie Sanders. Because of his runaway status, he ran under the name of Jesse Clemens. In 1975, he was recruited by Fred Ross to work for the United Farmworkers Union in California.

#10747

Wei Pan

#174094

Overall Influence

#10748

Hagit Shatkay

#126236

Overall Influence

Hagit Shatkay was an Israeli-American computer scientist, known for her contributions to computational biology, medical informatics, bioinformatics, and machine learning. She was a professor in the department of computer and information sciences at the University of Delaware. Shatkay was a senior member and served on the board of directors of the International Society for Computational Biology.

#10749

Tom Spencer

#174131

Overall Influence

#10750

Igor Minin

#173470

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Igor V. Minin , a Russian physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Metrology and a full professor of Physics at the Tomsk Polytechnic University. He became known for contribution to the creation of new directions in science: THz 3D Zone plate, Mesotronics , subwavelength structured light, including acoustics and surface plasmon.

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