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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#10951

Joshua Reiss

#174596

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Joshua Reiss is a British author, academic, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for his work in intelligent audio technologies and his co-authorship of the book Audio Effects Theory Implementation and Application.

#10952

Sanjib Kumar Panda

#176499

Overall Influence

#10953

Keiko Nishikawa

#175025

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Keiko Nishikawa is a Japanese physical chemist known for her studies of supercritical fluids. She is an emeritus professor at Chiba University and research fellow at the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute.

#10954

David Parker

#176507

Overall Influence

#10955

Kenichi Osada

#163980

Overall Influence

Kenichi Osada is an electrical engineer from the Hitachi LTD., Tokyo, Japan, known for his work on static random-access memory. He won an award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2013 for his work on reconfigurable analog integrated circuit design. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016, "for contributions to reliable and low-power nanoscale SRAM".

#10956

Huia Jahnke

#72156

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Huia Jahnke, sometimes known as Huia Tomlins-Jahnke, is a New Zealand academic. She is Māori, of Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Toa Rangātira, Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Hine descent and as of 2018 is a full professor of Māori and indigenous education at Massey University.

#10957

Annalu Waller

#168661

Overall Influence

Annalu Waller is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Dundee and leads the Augmentative and Alternate Communication Research Group at the university. Career Waller was appointed an OBE in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to people with Complex Communication Needs. In September 2017 she was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists for her work on AAC. She received the honour from the RCSLT's patron, the Countess of Wessex. She is a trustee of Capability Scotland.

#10958

Xiaogang Wang

#176529

Overall Influence

#10959

Amparo Galindo

#171091

Overall Influence

Amparo Galindo is a Spanish chemist who is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She is the co-director of the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering. Her research considers the development of statistical mechanics and simulations to understand industrial processes. She was awarded the 2023 Institution of Chemical Engineers Guggenheim Medal.

#10960

Ashley Adamson

#170122

Overall Influence

Ashley Adamson is a British dietician, Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Newcastle University. She is director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research School for Public Health Research. Her research looks to understand the relationship between nutrient intake, food choices, socio-demographic characteristics and health outcomes. She was made a NIHR Senior Investigator in 2023.

#10961

Matt Law

#176545

Overall Influence

#10962

Eriko Takano

#115441

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Eriko Takano is a professor of synthetic biology and a director of the Synthetic Biology Research Centre for Fine and Speciality Chemicals at the University of Manchester. She develops antibiotics and other high-value chemicals using microbial synthetic biology tools.

#10963

Henrik Christensen

#176562

Overall Influence

#10964

Jacob George

#176584

Overall Influence

#10965

Ofer Feldman

#29592

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Ofer Feldman is an Israeli-Japanese Professor of Political Psychology and Political Behavior at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Ofer Feldman was born in Israel and moved to Japan in 1982. In 1994 he became a Japanese citizen. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1987. Since then he has published numerous academic papers in various international journals. In addition, he has published, edited and co-edited 23 books and monographs on Japanese political behavior and communication, political psychology, political discourse and political leadership and personality. He is the 1993 Recipient of the Erik H.

#10966

Konstantin Slavin

Konstantin Slavin

#171213

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Konstantin Slavin is a Professor and Head of the Department of Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is a former president of the American Society for Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery and current vice-president of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. His specialties include Aneurysm, Brain surgery, Brain Tumor, Cerebrovascular Disorders, Craniotomy, Dystonia, Essential Tremor, Facial Nerve Pain, Facial Pain, Glioblastoma, Headache disorders, Laminectomy, Lower back pain, Movement Disorders, Multiple Scl...

#10967

Arun Kumar Chatterjee

#176602

Overall Influence

#10968

Alex Stamos

#140943

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Alex Stamos is a Greek American computer scientist and adjunct professor at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is the former chief security officer at Facebook. His planned departure from the company, following disagreement with other executives about how to address the Russian government's use of its platform to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, was reported in March 2018.

#10969

Rachel Stevens

#68567

Overall Influence

Rachel Stevens is a sculptor, emeritus professor of art at New Mexico State University and a Fulbright Scholar. Stevens has exhibited both in the United States and internationally. Exhibitions and installations Stevens's public sculpture, "You are Here", is displayed at Ventanas Ranch Park, in Albuquerque, NM. Her work has been exhibited at the Artists Space, New York, El Paso Museum of Art, Siddhartha Gallery, Kathmandu, Nepal, the Boise Art Museum, Albany Institute of History and Art and the Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY. In 2018, her work, "A Key to the City: Three Ways of Visualizing Jewish...

#10970

Michael O'Neill

#51333

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Michael O'Neill received a doctorate in education from Harvard University in 1967. He is one of the pioneers in non-profit management education and founded the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management at the University of San Francisco.

#10971

David Adams

#176640

Overall Influence

#10972

Stefan Schulz

#176643

Overall Influence

#10973

Andrey Terekhov

#173382

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Andrey Nikolaevich Terekhov is a Russian IT developer who created the Algol 68 LGU Telecommunication systems. Education Terekhov studied Computer Science at Leningrad State University, graduating with Honors. He has a Doctorate in Physical Mathematical Sciences.

#10974

Andrea LaPaugh

#158330

Overall Influence

Andrea Suzanne LaPaugh is an American computer scientist and professor emerita of computer science at Princeton University. Her research has concerned the design and analysis of algorithms, particularly for graph algorithms, problems involving the computer-aided design of VLSI circuits, and document retrieval.

#10975

Jeanne Clare Adams

#124648

Overall Influence

1921 - 2007 (86 years)

Jeanne Clare Adams was an American computer scientist. She was Chairman of the ANSI X3J3 Fortran Standards Committee that "developed the controversial Fortran 8X proposal". She graduated with a BS in economics from the University of Michigan in 1943, and an MS in telecommunications and electrical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1979. Her longest held position was at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, from 1960 to 1981, serving from 1984 to 1997 as deputy head of the Computing Division. Adams was also chair of the International Standards Organizatio...

#10976

Dana R. Thomson

#176656

Overall Influence

#10977

Karin Schnass

#110630

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (46 years)

Karin Schnass is an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist known for her research on sparse dictionary learning. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Innsbruck. Education and career Schnass was born in Klosterneuburg. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Vienna in 2004, with a thesis surveying Gabor multipliers supervised by Hans Georg Feichtinger. She completed her Ph.D. in communication and information sciences at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009. Her dissertation was Sparsity & Dictionaries – Algorithms & Design, and ...

#10978

Yehuda Bacon

#48274

Overall Influence

1929 - Present (97 years)

Yehuda Bacon is an Israeli artist who survived the Holocaust. Biography Yehuda Bacon was born into a Hasidic family. In the fall of 1942, at the age of 13, Bacon was deported with his family from Ostrava to the Ghetto Theresienstadt, where he shared a room with George Brady. In Theresienstadt he played in the children's opera Brundibár. In December 1943, he was deported to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he and other imprisoned children were used to bedazzle the International Committee of the Red Cross in the so-called "family camp". In fact, the "Birkenau ...

#10979

Guoping Zhang

#176682

Overall Influence

#10980

Lawrence Joseph

#176689

Overall Influence

#10981

Astrid Lambrecht

#80964

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Astrid Lambrecht is a German physicist who is Director at Forschungszentrum Jülich. She previously worked as the Deputy Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research Institute of Physics.

#10982

Roland Ayers

#113486

Overall Influence

1932 - 2014 (82 years)

Roland Ayers was an African American watercolorist and printmaker. He is better known for his intricate drawings – black-ink figures of humans and nature intertwined in a dream-like state against a neutral backdrop. A poet and lover of jazz and books, he expressed his poetry through images rather than words, he often noted, and considered his artwork to be poetry.

#10983

Yu Morton

#169189

Overall Influence

Yu Morton is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Colorado State University from 2014 to 2017, and at Miami University of Ohio from 2000 to 2014.

#10984

Ruqian Wu

#160547

Overall Influence

Ruqian Wu is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine . His primary research area is condensed matter physics. He gained a Ph.D. at the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

#10985

Emily Ying Yang Chan

Emily Ying Yang Chan

#59475

Overall Influence

Emily Ying Yang Chan is a clinical humanitarian doctor and global academic expert in public health and humanitarian medicine based in Hong Kong. She is Assistant Dean and Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine, Professor at the Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Director at the Centre for Global Health , Director of the Collaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response , Director of the Centre of Excellence of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk , Visiting Professor of Public Health Medicine at...

#10986

Sarah Charlesworth

Sarah Charlesworth

#33870

Overall Influence

1947 - 2013 (66 years)

Sarah Edwards Charlesworth was an American conceptual artist and photographer. She is considered part of The Pictures Generation, a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, all of whom were concerned with how images shape our everyday lives and society as a whole.

#10987

John Sheridan

#176725

Overall Influence

#10988

Tao Hu

#176738

Overall Influence

#10989

Helena Edlund

#102005

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Helena Edlund is a Swedish professor and molecular biologist. She received her Ph.D. from Umeå University in 1991. She is a professor in Molecular Developmental Biology at Umeå University where she researches Type 2 diabetes and β-cell function. She is one of the founders, along with Thomas Edlund and Olof Karlsson, of the biopharmaceutical company Betagenon.

#10990

Walter Wilczynski

#113602

Overall Influence

1952 - 2020 (68 years)

Walter Wilczynski was an American ethologist, neuroscientist, and professor at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Early life and education Wilczynski was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's degree in both biology and psychology from Lehigh University in 1974, after which he received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 1978. He then completed his postdoc at the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University, where he worked in the lab of Robert Capranica.

#10991

Werner A. Baum

#34025

Overall Influence

Werner A. Baum was the 2nd chancellor of University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the 7th president of University of Rhode Island . Baum was a meteorologist by training and served as the president of the American Meteorological Society from 1977 to 1978.

#10992

Louxin Zhang

#130916

Overall Influence

Louxin Zhang is a Canadian computational biologist. He is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Singapore. He is recognized for his contributions to combinatorial semigroup theory in mathematics. In addition, he is recognized for his work on the mathematical understanding of phylogenetic trees and networks, as well as the analysis of spaced seeds for sequence comparison in bioinformatics.

#10993

Sally Brailsford

#109662

Overall Influence

Sally Brailsford is a British professor of management science within Southampton Business School at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on operational research and healthcare modelling to evaluate treatments and screening programmes, and to improve health service delivery.

#10994

Takanori Shibata

#176758

Overall Influence

#10995

Fernando Boavida

Fernando Boavida

#115179

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Fernando Boavida is a Portuguese computer scientist, informatics engineer, university professor, and writer, recognized as a pioneer of network science research and internet in the University of Coimbra and in Portugal.

#10996

Jianping Xie

#176793

Overall Influence

#10997

Ferdinand Peper

#131291

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Ferdinand Peper is a Dutch theoretical computer scientist. Peper obtained his PhD at the Delft University of Technology in 1989 with the thesis Efficient network topologies for extensible massively parallel computers. He currently is working in a senior research position at Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology. He is best known for his research on Nanocomputing, Asynchronous systems, Cellular automaton, Reconfigurable hardware and Instantaneous Noise-based logic. His research goals are to develop next-generation computing ...

#10998

Stephen Molyneux

Stephen Molyneux

#42040

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Stephen Molyneux is a British educational technologist whose work as Microsoft Professor of Advanced Learning Technology and Apple Distinguished Educator has led to him influencing the use of technologies across the British School system.

#10999

Ole Kæseler Andersen

#164071

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Ole Kæseler Andersen is a Danish professor at Aalborg University, who conducts research in health technology. In 2010 Andersen, Erika G. Spaich and Jonas Emborg won the Danish Scientific Result of the Year. The prize was awarded for the breakthrough in using electroshocks in order to make it possible for paralysed patients to regain their normal walking capacity.

#11000

Kameshwar Prasad

#69167

Overall Influence

Kameshwar Prasad is an Indian neurologist, medical researcher, academic and the head of the Department of Neurology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi , known as a proponent of evidence-based medicine and evidence-based healthcare . The government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1991.

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