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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#11701

Stephen Cameron

#183293

Overall Influence

#11702

Andreas Clemens

#165972

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

Andreas Clemens is a German physician. He is an internist, endocrinologist and diabetologist. His main interest is the investigation and development of drugs in the field of cardiology, endocrinology, ophthalmology and very rare diseases.

#11703

Virginia Toy

#86958

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Virginia Gail Toy is a New Zealand geologist who studies fault zones and earthquakes in New Zealand, Japan and Ecuador. She is one of the leaders of the Deep Fault Drilling Project of New Zealand's Alpine Fault, and was a research scientist on the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project. She then worked as a research associate professor in geology and associate dean in the Division of Sciences at the University of Otago. Toy currently works as a Professor at the University of Mainz.

#11704

Xiaodan Gu

#168281

Overall Influence

Xiaodan Gu is the Nina Bell Suggs endowed professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at The University of Southern Mississippi . Since 2017, Gu has been a professor at Southern Miss where his research involves studying the physics and morphology of conjugated polymers.

#11705

Tony Clark

#183352

Overall Influence

#11706

Christopher P. Sloan

#149125

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Christopher P. Sloan is an artist, science communicator, art director, author, and avocational paleontologist. He describes himself as a conceptual realist and is an advocate for Art for Our Sake, a term he uses to distinguish art with a purpose from art for art's sake. He teaches modern approaches to science art, animal anatomy, and information visualization online for the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and the Maryland Institute College of Art . Sloan is a four-time award-winning author of children's books written for the National Geographic Society. Sloan started a science media and exhibitions company, Science Visualization, in 2010.

#11707

Jun Shao

#183369

Overall Influence

#11708

Christopher J. Bishop

#133929

Overall Influence

Christopher Bishop is an American mathematician on the faculty at Stony Brook University. He received his bachelor's in mathematics from Michigan State University in 1982, going on from there to spend a year at Cambridge University, receiving at Cambridge a Certificate of Advanced Study in mathematics, before entering the University of Chicago in 1983 for his doctoral studies in mathematics. As a graduate student in Chicago, his advisor, Peter Jones, took a position at Yale University, causing Bishop to spend the years 1985–87 at Yale as a visiting graduate student and programmer. Nonetheless...

#11709

Sahika Inal

#128920

Overall Influence

Sahika Inal is a Turkish scientist who is an associate professor and Chair of the Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She is interested in the use of organic electronic materials for monitoring health, and the design of biocompatible devices that can interface with the human body. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Nature Portfolio Scientific Achievement award.

#11710

Chan-Byoung Chae

#177756

Overall Influence

Chan-Byoung Chae is a Korean computer scientist, electrical engineer, and academic. He is an Underwood Distinguished Professor, the director of Intelligence Networking Laboratory, and head of the School of Integrated Technology at Yonsei University, Korea.

#11711

Arun Kumar Shukla

#183400

Overall Influence

#11712

Antony Unwin

#107619

Overall Influence

Antony Richard Unwin is an academic statistician and software developer. He is known for his work on interactive statistical graphics and the development of exploratory statistical software for large data sets using the programming language R.

#11713

Chen Greif

#149633

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Chen Greif is a professor and former department head of computer science at the University of British Columbia. In March 2022 he was elected a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for "contributions to scientific computing, especially in numerical linear algebra and its applications."

#11714

Hassan Farsam

#54650

Overall Influence

1932 - 2016 (84 years)

Hassan Farsam was an Iranian pharmacist and medical chemist. He studied pharmacy at Tehran University and became a medical chemistry specialist in 1960. Farsam received post doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Paris University and University of California . He was a Professor of Medical Chemistry in Faculty of Pharmacy of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He was also a permanent member of the Iranian Academy of Medical Sciences.

#11715

Ofer Levy

#183468

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#11716

Dave Smith

#172194

Overall Influence

1950 - 2022 (72 years)

David Joseph Smith was an American engineer and founder of the synthesizer company Sequential. Smith created the first polyphonic synthesizer with fully programmable memory, the Prophet-5, which had a major impact on the music industry. He also led the development of MIDI, a standard interface protocol for synchronizing electronic instruments and audio equipment.

#11717

Rick Prelinger

#114898

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Rick Prelinger is an American archivist, writer, and filmmaker. A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Prelinger is best known as the founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002 after 20 years' operation.

#11718

Martina López

#102955

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Martina Lopez is an American photographer known for her digital media works combining landscapes and 19th-century portraiture. She is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, although she is originally from Seattle, Washington.

#11719

Carmen Lefaucheur

#183497

Overall Influence

#11720

Shalinee Kishore

#166164

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Shalinee Kishore is an American electrical engineer whose research includes wireless networks, network schedulers, and energy management for smart buildings and smart grids. She is Iacocca Chair Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy at the Lehigh University P. C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.

#11721

Yuri Berlin

#121743

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (82 years)

Yuri Alfredovich Berlin is an American physical chemist of Soviet origin. He is a research professor in the department of chemistry at Northwestern University. Education Yuri Berlin received his master's degree in Physics from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in 1968, studying luminescence of aromatic molecules dissolved in organic liquids. During the period 1968-1974, Berlin worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Chemical Physics, the USSR Academy of Science, and in 1974 completed his PhD studies at the Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology under the supervision of Victor Talrose.

#11722

Shai Efrati

#111696

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Shai Efrati is a physician from Israel and an associate professor at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University as well as director of the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at the Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in Israel. As of 2008, Efrati has served as chairman of the Israeli Society for Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine. Efrati is also Co-Founder and Chair of Medical Advisory Board for Aviv Scientific.

#11723

Vinod Gupta

#183513

Overall Influence

#11724

Lois Dodd

#54178

Overall Influence

1927 - Present (99 years)

Lois Dodd is an American painter. Dodd was a key member of New York's postwar art scene. She played a large part and was involved in the wave of modern artists including Alex Katz and Yvonne Jacquette who explored the coast of Maine in the latter half of the 20th century.

#11725

Jennifer Packer

#51999

Overall Influence

1984 - Present (42 years)

Jennifer Packer is a contemporary American painter and educator based in New York City. Packer's subject matter includes political portraits, interior scenes, and still life featuring contemporary Black American experiences. She paints portraits of contemporaries, funerary flower arrangements, and other subjects through close observation. Primarily working in oil paint, her style uses loose, improvisational brush strokes, and a limited color palette.

#11726

Khalil Qureshi

#32347

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Khalil Ahmad Qureshi , is a Pakistani physical chemist and the professor of physical chemistry at the Punjab University. He has published notable papers in nuclear physical chemistry in international scientific journals as well contributing in the advancement of the scientific applications of the civilian usage of the fuel cycle.

#11727

Zhi Lin

#125410

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Zhi Lin is a Chinese American mixed-media artist, a native of Nanjing, China. While he was a graduate fellow at the University College London's Slade School in 1989, the political events and social movements around the world convinced him to use his artwork for social, history and cultural awareness, and "to engage political and social reforms in our society." Since that time his work has been a visual examination of the patterns of violence, intolerance, injustice, and complicity in public behavior."

#11728

Harry R. Lewis

#183608

Overall Influence

#11729

A. L. Steiner

#76443

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

A. L. Steiner is an American multimedia artist, author and educator, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her solo and collaborative art projects use constructions of photography, video, installation, collage, and performance. Steiner's art incorporates queer and eco-feminist elements. She is a collective member of the musical group Chicks on Speed; and, along with Nicole Eisenman, is a co-curator/co-founder of Ridykeulous, a curatorial project that encourages the exhibitions of queer and feminist art.

#11730

Margaret Morrison

#83129

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Margaret Morrison is an American fine art painter and professor. Morrison is a tenured professor of drawing and painting at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the University of Georgia . Early life Morrison, born in Castlepark, Utah in 1960, was the youngest of six daughters. In her formative years, she lived in the Philippines and traveled extensively through the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

#11731

Jianming Qian

#183584

Overall Influence

Jianming Qian from the University of Michigan, was awarded the status of Fellow in the American Physical Society, after he was nominated by their Division of Particles and Fields in 2009, for outstanding contributions and leadership in the analysis of high-energy particle interactions at CERN and at Fermilab, with especially noteworthy participation in the D-Zero experiment leading to the recent discovery of two new baryons containing b-qu.

#11732

Wu Qidi

#43238

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Wu Qidi is a Chinese politician and engineer. She is the current president of the Shanghai Overseas Returned Scholars Association. Education Wu completed her undergraduate degree in radio engineering at Tsinghua University in 1970. She worked as a technician in a factory making equipment for the Yunnan Central Office for telecommunications until 1975, when she moved to Beijing to become a technician in the China Electronics Standardization Institute.

#11733

Eduardo García de Enterría

#25459

Overall Influence

1923 - 2013 (90 years)

Eduardo García de Enterría y Martínez-Carande was a Spanish jurist and a major contributor to the research and teaching of Public Law in Spain. In 1984, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences for his "important research and teaching work".

#11734

Lois Privor-Dumm

#110277

Overall Influence

Lois Privor-Dumm is an expert in the field of vaccine introduction. She is especially recognized for her work with new vaccine introduction, which has included strategies to accelerate access in low and middle-income countries, policy research, advocacy, communications and large country introduction.

#11735

David P Goldberg

#183697

Overall Influence

#11736

Beverly Grier

#82259

Overall Influence

Beverly Grier is an Americann academic in the study of child labor Sub-Saharan Africa, and former professor of government at Clark University. She is also the former president of the African Studies Association. She currently serves as Interim Associate Dean for Curriculum & Student Affairs at North Carolina A&T State University.

#11737

Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski

#183478

Overall Influence

Jean-Luc Bertrand-Krajewski is a professor at INSA Lyon and Head of the DEEP Laboratory. Career Bertrand-Krajewski got his PhD in 1992. His research has focussed on Urban Drainage processes, modelling and monitoring. In his capacity as researcher, Bertrand-Krajewski is also a member of the Société hydrotechnique de France and was president of GRAIE, the organisation behind the Novatech conferences. On an international level, Bertrand-Krajewksi has been an elected member, chair and associate member of the Joint Committee Urban Drainage, a Fellow for the IWA, member of the Board of Directors of...

#11738

Arthur Frank Witulski

Arthur Frank Witulski

#137565

Overall Influence

Arthur Frank Witulski is an American electrical engineer. He is the Research Associate Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, where his research activities focus on microelectronics and semiconductor devices. He is affiliated with the Radiation Effects and Reliability Group at Vanderbilt University, where he works on the effects of radiation on semiconductor devices and integrated circuits. He also serves as an engineer at the Institute for Space and Defense Electronics at Vanderbilt. He is best known for his work in the field of Power electronics and ...

#11739

Jianlin Cheng

#183769

Overall Influence

#11740

Ke Yu

#183777

Overall Influence

#11741

Jason Micklefield

#183526

Overall Influence

Jason Micklefield is a British Biochemist and a professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester. His research involves the discovery, characterisation and engineering of biosynthetic pathways to new bioactive natural products, particularly antibiotics. He is also interested in the discovery, structure, mechanism and engineering of enzymes for synthetic applications, including the integration of enzymes with chemocatalysis for telescoping routes to pharmaceuticals and other valuable products.

#11742

Bernd Clement

#151331

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Bernd Clement is a German pharmacist and chemist. He is mostly known for his research in biotransformation and prodrugs as well as his engagement in many German and international committees and scientific organisations. His most noticeable achievement was the discovery of the mARC enzyme.

#11743

Paul F. Keene Jr.

#82282

Overall Influence

1920 - 2009 (89 years)

Paul Farwell Keene Jr. was a Philadelphia-area artist and teacher whose work helped raise the visibility of Black American artists. As a self-described "abstract realist," his story reflects both the accomplishments and the difficulties of African American artists in the 20th century.

#11744

Enrico Bertini

#183797

Overall Influence

#11745

Alain R. Thierry

#182483

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Alain Thierry is a French geneticist and cancer researcher. He specializes in the clinical applications of circulating DNA analysis, notably in cancer care management. He is currently Director of Research at the INSERM’s Cancer Research Institute in Montpellier, France.

#11746

Sonya Clark

#86418

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Sonya Clark is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. Her beaded headdress assemblages and braided wig series of the late 1990s, which received critical acclaim, evoked African traditions of personal adornment and moved these common forms into the realm of personal and political expression. Although African art and her Caribbean background are important influences, Clark also builds on practices of assemblage and accumulation used by artists such ...

#11747

John Virtue

#86974

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

John Virtue , is an English artist who specialises in monochrome landscapes. He is honorary Professor of Fine Art at the University of Plymouth, and from 2003 to 2005 was the sixth Associate Artist at London's National Gallery.

#11748

Paul Conway

#176800

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Paul Conway is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and has worked with Yale University and Duke University Universities after starting his career at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. His research and educational work focuses primarily on digital preservation and electronic media. He has published extensively throughout his career on library preservation, conservation issues, and education of library and archives personnel.

#11749

Michael Gross

#66485

Overall Influence

1920 - 2004 (84 years)

Michael Gross was an Israeli painter, sculptor and conceptual artist. Biography Michael Gross was born in Tiberias in the British-administered Palestine in 1920. He grew up in the farming village of Migdal. In 1939–1940, he left to study at the Teachers’ Training College in Jerusalem. In 1939, while he was away, his father was murdered by Arabs, and the family farm and home were destroyed. This event impacted on his work as an artist.

#11750

Wolfgang Kröger

Wolfgang Kröger

#125999

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Wolfgang Kröger has been full professor of Safety Technology at the ETH Zurich since 1990 and director of the Laboratory of Safety Analysis simultaneously. Before being elected Founding Rector of International Risk Governance Council in 2003, he headed research in nuclear energy and safety at the Paul Scherrer Institut . After his retirement early 2011 he became the Executive Director of the newly established ETH Risk Center. He has both Swiss and German citizenship and lives in Kilchberg/Zürich. His seminal work lies in the general area of reliability, risk and vulnerability analysis of la...

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