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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11001

Edith Elkind

#111992

Overall Influence

Edith Elkind is an Estonian computer scientist who works as a professor of computing science at the University of Oxford and as a non-tutorial fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. She is known for her work in algorithmic game theory and computational social choice.

#11002

Yukiko Goda

#170039

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Yukiko Goda is a Japanese molecular biologist who is a professor and group leader at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Her research considers neural communication through synapses. She was elected a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization in 2023.

#11003

Alex McLean

#147112

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Alex McLean is a British musician and researcher. He is notable for his key role in developing live coding as a musical practice, including for creating TidalCycles, a live-coding environment that allows programmer musicians to code simply and quickly, and for coining the term Algorave with Nick Collins.

#11004

Francesco Trotta

#176878

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

#11005

He Tian

#176884

Overall Influence

#11006

Etta D. Pisano

#105860

Overall Influence

Etta Driscoll Pisano is an American breast imaging researcher. She is a professor in residence of radiology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and chief research dean at the American College of Radiology. In 2008, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

#11007

Tracy Montminy

#87395

Overall Influence

1911 - 1992 (81 years)

Tracy Montminy, who completed early works as Elizabeth Tracy, was an American artist and muralist. During the WPA's era, she painted murals in civic buildings, including murals in the library in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the fire and police building of Saugus, Massachusetts; the Milton, Massachusetts, post office; Medford, Massachusetts City Hall; the post office of Downers Grove, Illinois; and the post office in Kennebunkport, Maine, as well as others both in the U.S. and abroad. She was an art instructor at the University of Missouri and the American University of Beirut, continuing her own painting projects simultaneously with her teaching into the 1980s.

#11008

David A Wagner

#176907

Overall Influence

#11009

Malcolm Crowe

#171704

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Malcolm Kenneth Crowe is an Irish computer scientist and mathematician who retired to become professor emeritus at the University of West of Scotland after 46 years of service. Biography Crowe was born in Dublin on 13 January 1948. Studies in the final year of school encouraged an interest in philosophy. He gained a 1st class honours degree from Trinity College Dublin in 1969.

#11010

Pavel Tlustoš

#69079

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Pavel Tlustoš is a Czech agricultural chemist. From 2000-10 he was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Biology, Food and Natural Resources of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague , and 2010-February 2018 he was the Dean of the faculty. Since March 2018 he is again Vice Dean and responsible for international relations the faculty.

#11011

Michael R. Gold

#124083

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Michael R. Gold is a Canadian immunologist and cell biologist. He has served as head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia since July 2009. He is known for his discovery of how B-cell receptor stimulates Tyrosine phosphorylation and work in the signaling cascade of B-cell receptor.

#11012

Flaura K. Winston

#169430

Overall Influence

Flaura Ann Koplin Winston is an American pediatrician and engineer. She was one of the first to identify the first case of airbag-associated child death and her research and advocacy have led to drafting new federal airbag policies.

#11013

Håkon Wium Lie

#145905

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Håkon Wium Lie is a Norwegian web pioneer, a standards activist, and the chairman of YesLogic, developers of Prince CSS-based PDF rendering software. He was the Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software from 1998 until the browser was sold to new owners in 2016. He is best known for developing Cascading Style Sheets while working with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN in 1994.

#11014

Simon Lui

#169976

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Simon Lui is a computer music researcher. Lui is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Simon was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012-2013, and a Marie Curie Fellow in 2011.

#11015

Kevin Munro

#176956

Overall Influence

Kevin James Munro is Ewing Professor of Audiology and director of the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness at the University of Manchester. He is a principal fellow and former chairman of the British Society of Audiology and a NIHR senior investigator, the only audiologist to be awarded that distinction.

#11016

Lilya Budaghyan

#107545

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Lilya Budaghyan is a Norwegian-Armenian cryptographer, computer scientist, and discrete mathematician known for her work on cryptographic Boolean functions. She is a professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Bergen in Norway, where she directs the Selmer Center in Secure Communication and leads Boolean functions team.

#11017

Louis B. Sloan

#116680

Overall Influence

1932 - 2008 (76 years)

Louis B. Sloan was an African American landscape artist, teacher and conservator. He was the first Black full professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , and a conservator for the academy and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Although he painted urban neighborhoods and other cityscapes, he was mostly known for his plein-air paintings.

#11018

Gordon Higginson

#67232

Overall Influence

1929 - 2011 (82 years)

Sir Gordon Robert Higginson was an English engineer and academic who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton from 1985 to 1994. He was co-author of the standard text on hydrodynamic lubrication and the Higginson Report on A levels.

#11019

Anna Squicciarini

#177008

Overall Influence

Anna Cinzia Squicciarini is a computer scientist specializing in computer security and data privacy, including research on sentiment analysis, computational trust, and cloud computing. She is Edward Frymoyer Endowed Chair in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, and a program director for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace at the National Science Foundation.

#11020

Michael Davies

#177015

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

#11021

Tao He

#177017

Overall Influence

#11022

Lamberto Pignotti

#81584

Overall Influence

1926 - Present (100 years)

Lamberto Pignotti is an Italian poet, writer and visual artist. Biography In the early 1960s, he was one of the first artists who worked creating intersections between poetry, word and mass media, fixing theoretical basis and assembling traditions of avant-garde and Pop Art. Lamberto Pignotti, together with Eugenio Miccini, are considered to be one of the initiators of Italian visual poetry. He collaborated with national and international journals, with television programs of Rai. He was professor in the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence and in DAMS of Bologna, where he hold courses on avant-garde, mass-media, and new media.

#11023

Ilan Sadeh

#162574

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ilan Sadeh is an Israeli IT theoretician, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. He holds the position of Associate Professor of Computer Sciencess and Mathematics at the University for Information Science and Technology "St. Paul The Apostle" in Ohrid, North Macedonia.

#11024

Tekena Tamuno

#26498

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Tekena Nitonye Tamuno was a Nigerian historian and Vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan. He was the President of the Board of Trustees of Bells University of Technology. Education and career Tamuno attended St Peter's School in his hometown of Okrika for primary education. Upon completion he attended Okrika Grammar School. From 1953 to 1958 he studied history at the University of Ibadan before leaving the country in 1960 to continue his studies at Birkbeck, University of London and Columbia University. In 1962 he joined the Department of History at the University of Ibadan where he rem...

#11025

Richart E. Slusher

#87810

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (88 years)

Richart Elliott Slusher is a regents researcher and a principal research scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, and the director of the Georgia Tech Quantum Institute. Education Slusher received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965.

#11026

Jonathon Keats

#56560

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Jonathon Keats is an American conceptual artist and experimental philosopher known for creating large-scale thought experiments. Keats was born in New York City and studied philosophy at Amherst College. He now lives in San Francisco and Italy.

#11027

Hiroshi Shimizu

#177050

Overall Influence

#11028

Moti Herskowitz

#137778

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Moti Herskowitz is a professor of Chemical Engineering, the incumbent of the Israel Cohen Chair in Chemical Engineering and researcher in the fields of advanced materials, catalysis and multiphase reactors. He is the founder and director of the Blechner Center for Industrial Catalysis and Process Development.

#11029

Tamir Tuller

#175881

Overall Influence

Tamir Tuller is an Israeli engineer, a computer scientist, and a systems and synthetic biologist. He is a professor and the director of Tel Aviv University's Laboratory of Computational Systems and Synthetic Biology. As of February 2022, Tuller has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and hundreds of additional types of publications and patents. In addition, he is the founder and primary instructor of the International Genetically Engineered Machine program at Tel Aviv University and an entrepreneur.

#11030

Xia Zhou

#163165

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Xia Zhou is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. Her current research centers on light. She co-directs the DartNets Lab and the Dartmouth Reality and Robotics Lab . She was a visiting faculty in National Taiwan University from December 2016 to February 2017, and in University of Cambridge from April 2017 to June 2017.

#11031

Michael J Adams

#177089

Overall Influence

#11032

Harish Chander

#177101

Overall Influence

#11033

Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny

#43855

Overall Influence

Ibrahim M. El-Sherbiny is an Egyptian Professor of Nanomaterials and Nanomedicine at the University of Science and Technology Zewail City, Egypt. He is the Director of Nanoscience Program and the Center for Materials Science of the institution. He is a member Biomedical Engineering Society and a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry.

#11034

Arthur Berry

#73635

Overall Influence

1925 - 1994 (69 years)

Arthur Berry was an English playwright, poet, teacher and artist, who was born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent. His individual creative work became deeply rooted in the culture, people and landscape of the industrial pottery town of Burslem.

#11035

Hideyuki Suzuki

#177108

Overall Influence

#11036

Masahiro Yamaguchi

#177118

Overall Influence

#11037

Surendra Prasad

#120142

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Surendra Prasad is an Indian communications engineer, a former director and an Usha chair professor of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is also an emeritus professor of Bharti School of Telecommunication Technology And Management, a joint venture of IIT Delhi and is known for developing new techniques, algorithms and hardware in signal processing. He is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy and the National Academy of Sciences, India. as well as the Indian National Academy of Engineering....

#11038

John Byrne

#26190

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (86 years)

John Patrick Byrne was a Scottish playwright and designer. He wrote The Slab Boys Trilogy, plays which explore working-class life in Scotland, and the TV dramas Tutti Frutti and Your Cheatin' Heart. Byrne was also a painter, printmaker and theatre designer.

#11039

James A Anderson

#177171

Overall Influence

#11040

Paul Watters

#175571

Overall Influence

Paul Watters is an Australian academic. He is Academic Dean at AAPoly, and Honorary Professor at Macquarie University. Professor Watters has made significant research contributions to cybercrime detection and prevention, including phishing, malware, piracy and child exploitation.

#11041

Sanjay Kumar Singh

#177203

Overall Influence

#11042

Jack van Wijk

#107638

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Jarke J. van Wijk is a Dutch computer scientist, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and an expert in information visualization.

#11043

Henning Andersen

#177221

Overall Influence

#11044

Wen Gao

#177249

Overall Influence

#11045

Harry Mayerovitch

Harry Mayerovitch

#64019

Overall Influence

1910 - 2004 (94 years)

Harry Mayerovitch , was a Canadian architect, artist, illustrator, author and cartoonist. Mayerovitch was born in Montreal on April 16, 1910, to Romanian-Jewish parents from the region of Bessarabia. After completing a Bachelor of Arts at McGill University, he earned his degree in architecture in 1933.

#11046

Paul Chien

#32327

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Paul Kwan Chien is a Chinese-American biologist known for his research on the physiology and ecology of intertidal organisms and his support for intelligent design. Biography Chien was born on 1 January 1947 in Hong Kong and earned bachelor's degrees in Biology and Chemistry from Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1966 and his Ph.D. in 1971 from the University of California at Irvine in the laboratory of marine invertebrate physiologist, Grover C. Stephens. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Wheeler J. North at the Kerckhoff marine laboratory ...

#11047

Thomas Kühne

#177277

Overall Influence

#11048

Jane Hunter

#171754

Overall Influence

Jane Hunter was the interim Director of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network . She has held roles such as the Director of University of Queensland's e-Research Lab and Chair of the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Data in Science; Vice-President of the National Executive Committee for Digital Humanities; and Member of Scientific Committee of the ICSU World Data System. E-research has emerged through the exponential expansion of information technologies. New online tools, networks, data capture, management and visualisation techniques are needed to enhance...

#11049

Marco Luise

#159031

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Marco Luise is a professor of Digital Communications at the University of Pisa, Italy, where he leads the PhD program in ICT Engineering. Born in Livorno, Italy, in 1960, he was a Research Fellow of the European Space Agency at the research centre ESTEC in the Netherlands, and of the Consorzio Nazionale delle Ricerche , Italy. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to synchronization and signal processing in communications. He is presently the Chairman of the Conservatorio "Pietro Mascagni" in Livorno, Italy. His main research i...

#11050

Holly Hagan

#97448

Overall Influence

Holly Hagan is an American infectious disease epidemiologist and nurse. She is a full professor in the College of Global Public Health at New York University and director of the Center for Drug Use and HIV/HCV Research.

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