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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11201

Sejal Saglani

#176376

Overall Influence

Sejal Saglani is a British medical researcher who is Professor and Head of the Inflammation, Repair and Development Section at the National Heart and Lung Institute. Her research considers wheeze and severe childhood asthma. She serves as an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at the Royal Brompton Hospital.

#11202

José Luis Ballester

#178821

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#11203

Yongming Li

#178842

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#11204

John Long

#129249

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

John Brian Long is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Engineering at the University College London, known for his work on "cognitive ergonomics and human-computer interaction."

#11205

Peter Greenaway

#178863

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#11206

Toshio Suzuki

#178865

Overall Influence

#11207

Frank Sander

#52065

Overall Influence

1927 - 2018 (91 years)

Frank E. A. Sander was an American professor emeritus and associate dean of Harvard Law School. He pioneered the field of alternative dispute resolution and is widely credited with being a father of the field in the United States as a result of his paper, The Varieties of Dispute Processing, presented at the Pound Conference in 1976 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sander's book, Dispute Resolution: Negotiation, Mediation, and Other Processes, which he coauthored with Stephen B. Goldberg, Nancy H. Rogers, and Sarah Rudolph Cole, is used in law schools throughout the United States.

#11208

Shawn Brixey

#76447

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Shawn Brixey is an artist, educator, researcher, and inventor. Brixey attended both the Kansas City Art Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s to pursue a hybridized form of artmaking that employs engineering tools to create ephemeral and large-scale works. Since 1990, he has served as a visiting artist, faculty member, and chair of a number of North American arts institutions, including the Cranbrook Academy of Art, University of Washington, and Canadian Foundation for Innovation. In 2013, he became Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University, in Toronto, Ontario.

#11209

Hilary Parker

#141001

Overall Influence

Hilary S. Parker is an American biostatistician and data scientist. She was formerly a senior data analyst at the fashion merchandising company Stitch Fix. Parker co-hosts the data analytics podcast Not So Standard Deviations with Roger Peng. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has formerly been employed by Etsy.

#11210

Alex James

#99339

Overall Influence

Alex James is an Indian scientist who is a professor of AI hardware at School of Electronic Systems and Automation, and Dean at Digital University Kerala . He is the professor in charge of Maker Village, Kochi, Chief Investigator of the centre for Intelligent IoT Sensors, and India Innovation Centre for Graphene. James features in top 1% scientists list published by Elsevier BV in the world in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He appeared in the list for the third consecutive time. He specializes in the scientific field of Memristive Systems, AI hardware, Neuromorphic VLSI ...

#11211

Benjamin Bolger

Benjamin Bolger

#8099

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Benjamin Bradley Bolger was born in 1975 in Flint, Michigan. He and his family were in a severe car crash when he was a toddler, and the experience led him to try to accomplish as much as possible in his life. He has achieved this dream by becoming the second-most credentialed person in modern history: obtaining 14 degrees. Despite being diagnosed with dyslexia and relying on his mother to read assignments to him, Bolger is an enormously successful student. He began taking college classes at Muskegon Community College when he was only 12 years old, and he had completed his first degree (an Associate of Arts) by age 17.

#11212

Aman Ullah

#179000

Overall Influence

#11213

Nancy Rubins

#59900

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Nancy Rubins is an American sculptor and installation artist. Her sculptural works are primarily composed of blooming arrangements of large rigid objects such as televisions, small appliancess, camping and construction trailerss, hot water heaters, mattresses, airplane parts, rowboats, kayaks, canoes, surfboards, and other objects. Works such as Big Edge at CityCenter in Las Vegas contain over 200 boat vessels. Stainless Steel, Aluminum, Monochrome I, Built to Live Anywhere, at Home Here, at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, contains 66 used aluminum boats and rises to a height of ...

#11214

Bin Liu

#179048

Overall Influence

#11215

Gary Noffke

#87360

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Gary Lee Noffke is an American artist and metalsmith. Known for versatility and originality, he is a blacksmith, coppersmith, silversmith, goldsmith, and toolmaker. He has produced gold and silver hollowware, cutlery, jewelry, and forged steelware. Noffke is noted for his technical versatility, his pioneering research into hot forging, the introduction of new alloys, and his ability to both build on and challenge traditional techniques. He has been called the metalsmith's metalsmith, a pacesetter, and a maverick. He is also an educator who has mentored an entire generation of metalsmiths.

#11216

Parveen Kumar

#179066

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#11217

Michael Faber

#97747

Overall Influence

1929 - 2015 (86 years)

Michael Leslie Ogilvy Faber was a professor at the University of Sussex and a key adviser to the Zambian government for whom he negotiated favourable terms for the transfer of mineral rights formerly held by the British South Africa Company.

#11218

Mike Barnes

#179089

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#11219

Al Ghorbanpoor

#82342

Overall Influence

Al Ghorbanpoor is a civil engineer and professor emeritus of civil engineering and mechanics at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science. He completed his bachelor of science degree in civil engineering at Rezaieh College in Iran in 1974, followed by a master's degree at Howard University in 1979 and a Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1985. He joined the faculty of UW-Milwaukee in 1986, was appointed as a full professor in 1993, and has served as interim dean of the college and as associate dean for research. Ghorbanpoor is a Fello...

#11220

William F. Hamilton

#133453

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

William F. Hamilton is the Ralph Landau Professorship of Management and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania and a management consultant. Hamilton is a pioneer and advocate of joint-degree programs of business and engineering. He started the Management and Technology Program in 1977 and founded the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology in 1978. Hamilton served as Director of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology in the Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 2015. He co-founded the Department of Operations and Information Management at Wharton.

#11221

Daniel Joseph Martinez

#54977

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Daniel Joseph Martinez is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. Early life Martinez grew up in Lennox, California, a working-class area of Los Angeles County near Los Angeles International Airport. After high school, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he received his BFA in 1979. During the 1980s, he worked as a freelance photographer, and spent time working with Harry Gamboa Jr. and ASCO.

#11222

Masahiro Mori

#179117

Overall Influence

#11223

Lincoln Hurst

#49318

Overall Influence

1946 - 2008 (62 years)

Lincoln Douglas Hurst , also known as "Lincoln Hurst", "L. D. Hurst", or "Lincoln D. Hurst", was an American scholar of the Bible, religious history and film. He was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Davis , and adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California .

#11224

Kevin Morgan

#179131

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

#11225

Jing Qin

#179134

Overall Influence

#11226

Lisa Stein

#176066

Overall Influence

Lisa Y. Stein is an American biologist who is a professor at the University of Alberta. Her research considers the microbiology of climate change. She was awarded the 2022 University of Alberta Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

#11227

Kathy High

#103594

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Kathryn High is an American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and scholar known for her work in BioArt, video art and performance art. Background Kathy High graduated with a BA from Colgate University in 1976 and an MAH from the Center for Media Studies at University at Buffalo in 1981 where she studied with media pioneers Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Steina Vasulka. High was a founding member of The Standby Program in New York City and initiated the video exhibition program at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo, NY in the 1980s.

#11228

Peter B. Denyer

#107654

Overall Influence

1953 - 2010 (57 years)

Peter Brian Denyer was a British electronics engineer, academic, scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur who pioneered CMOS image sensor chips for many applications including mobile phones, webcams, video-conferencing cameras, and optical computer mouse. "Undoubtedly, his greatest legacy...was his work in fitting mini-cameras in mobile phones." wrote the Herald Scotland. From an EE professorship at the University of Edinburgh, he went on to found VLSI Vision Inc., later known as VISION Group plc, an early maker of CMOS image sensors that sold itself to STMicroelectronics. The first academic to ...

#11229

Peter Voulkos

#16791

Overall Influence

1924 - 2002 (78 years)

Peter Voulkos was an American artist of Greek descent. He is known for his abstract expressionist ceramic sculptures, which crossed the traditional divide between ceramic crafts and fine art. He established the ceramics department at the Los Angeles County Art Institute and at UC Berkeley.

#11230

Michael Lewis

#179164

Overall Influence

#11231

Saffronn Te Ratana

#78455

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Saffronn Te Ratana is a visual artist of Māori descent, born in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Te Ratana went to Palmerston Intermediate Normal School, followed by Palmerston North Girls’ High School.

#11232

Dipanjan Pan

#175440

Overall Influence

Dipanjan Pan is an Indian American academic who is the Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine at Pennsylvania State University. Early life and education Dipanjan Pan was born in India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and subsequently joined Washington University in St. Louis. There, he collaborated with Karen L. Wooley on investigating the utilization of self-assembled polymeric nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery applications.

#11233

Jill Scott

#103455

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Jill Scott is an Australian media artist who lives in Switzerland. Her works are centered around the topics of Artificial intelligence and the impact of globalization on the human body. She has been living and working in Switzerland as an artist, professor and researcher since 2002. She founded the Artists-in-Labs Residency Program.

#11234

Shrikant Lele

#83758

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Shrikant Lele is an Indian metallurgical engineer and a distinguished professor of Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi. He is a former director of the Institute of Technology of the university and is known for his studies on structural metallurgy. He is credited with reportedly original work on X-ray diffraction effects, solid state and martensitic transformations as well as spinodal decomposition in alloys and electron diffraction from quasicrystals. His researches have been documented in several peer-reviewed articles; and Google Scholar the online article repository of Indian Academy...

#11235

Hege R. Eriksen

#113672

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Hege Randi Eriksen is the Research Director of Uni Health and Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. Eriksen holds a Candidate Scientist in Sport and Physical exercise from the Department of Biology and Medicine, Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education and a Master of Science in Epidemiology from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

#11236

Julia Scher

#68858

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Julia Scher is an American artist who works primarily with themes of surveillance. She uses a variety of mediums and is most known for her installation art and performance art works. Her work addresses issues of control and seduction.

#11237

Masahiro Ito

#46750

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Masahiro Ito is a Japanese video game artist best known for his work with Team Silent. Career Ito worked as background and creature designer on the survival horror video game Silent Hill in 1999. He was art director for its sequel, Silent Hill 2 , working on both the original game and its reissue Restless Dreams, as well as being the chief monster designer/modeler. Ito was the art director again in Silent Hill 3 , as well as "drama camera designer".

#11238

Anna Lee

#179216

Overall Influence

#11239

Ghulam Nabi

#179220

Overall Influence

#11240

Simon Hackett

#133353

Overall Influence

Simon Hackett is a British academic and former social worker, who specialises in child protection and child maltreatment. He had been Principal of St Mary's College, Durham between September 2011 and 2018. From 2008 to 2011, he was Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University. Before returning to Durham as a professor, he was a Tutor at the University of Manchester, a lecturer at Durham University, and Professor of Child Welfare at the University of Bedfordshire. He had also worked as a Child Protection Officer and in youth justice.

#11241

Gert Jäger

#23955

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Gert Jäger is a German translation scholar and a specialist in the Polish and Czech languages. After obtaining his Abitur in 1952, Jäger studied Czech studies, Polish studies, Russian studies, Serbo-Croatian and Lithuanian at Leipzig University, obtaining his degree in 1956. While holding several posts at the University, he obtained his PhD in 1963 and another doctorate in 1973.

#11242

Mary Fan

#100718

Overall Influence

Mary Fan is the Jack R. MacDonald Endowed Chair in Law at the University of Washington. She also is a core faculty member at Harborview Medical Center's Injury Prevention and Research Center, and part of the Firearms Injury and Policy Research Program team. Fan also was the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School, where she taught criminal law, and a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the author of the book Camera Power: Policing, Proof, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data, published by Cambridge University Press, and numerous articles.

#11243

Andrej Mrvar

#100055

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Andrej Mrvar is a Slovenian computer scientist and a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He is known for his work in network analysis, graph drawing, decision making, virtual reality, electronic timing and data processing of sports competitions.

#11244

Zhihong Liu

#179279

Overall Influence

#11245

Christopher L.-H. Huang

#179284

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Christopher L.-H. Huang FRSB is professor of cell physiology at the University of Cambridge. Christopher L.-H. Huang was awarded a Florence Heale Scholar to read Medicine and Physiology at The Queen's College, Oxford. He completed his preregistration clinical appointments in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He then joined Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as an MRC Scholar to complete a PhD in membrane biophysics, and then successively became an Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Physiology, Reader and finally the Professor of Cell Physiology at Cambridge, whilst being Fellow and Director of Medical Studies at Murray Edwards College.

#11246

Miodrag Petković

Miodrag Petković

#72272

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Miodrag S. Petković is a mathematician and computer scientist. In 1991 he became a full professor of mathematics at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš in Serbia. Biography Petković specializes in the theory of iterative processes for solving nonlinear equations and Interval mathematics. He wrote 270 academic papers and 28 books, including four monographs Iterative Methods for Simultaneous Inclusion of Polynomial Zeros , Complex Interval Arithmetic and Its Applications , Point Estimation of Root Finding Methods , and Multipoint Methods for Solving Nonlinear Equations . ...

#11247

Ann E. Elsner

#175837

Overall Influence

Ann E. Elsner is an American researcher and Distinguished Professor of Optometry, Indiana University Bloomington. Biography Elsner earned a B.A. degree from Indiana University Bloomington, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. In 1987, she joined the Schepens Eye Research Institute as a researcher. In 2005, she moved to Indiana University Bloomington and became a professor in the School of Optometry and director of the Borish Center for Ophthalmic Research. In the same year, she founded and became CEO of Aeon Imaging, a bioimaging technology firm.

#11248

Ernest Braun

#71253

Overall Influence

1925 - 2015 (90 years)

Ernst Braun was a British-Austrian scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Biography Born in Vienna as Czechoslovak citizen, Braun grew up in Czechoslovakia. He studied physics at Charles University in Prague , PhD in solid state physics . Research in industrial research laboratory, then changed to University career. Appointed professor of physics at Aston University in Birmingham . In 1973 started an interdisciplinary post-graduate research unit, the Technology Policy Unit . The topics of research embraced all social aspects of technology, including questions of policy, technology assessment, and the process and effects of technological innovation.

#11249

Alec Lazenby

#96859

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Alec Lazenby is an academic who has held positions at the University of Cambridge, University of New England, University of Tasmania, the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Lazenby served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England from 1970 to 1977, and the University of Tasmania from 1982 to 1991.

#11250

M. M. Ayoub

#33093

Overall Influence

M. M. Ayoub is an Egyptian retired P.W. Horn Professor of Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is a pioneer in the field of ergonomics, specifically relating to the application of mechanics to manual material handling.

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