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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#13151

Jasvinder K Gambhir

#27012

Overall Influence

Jasvinder K Gambhir is an Indian doctor, researcher and professor in the fields of clinical biochemistry, diabetology and cardiology. Dr Gambhir completed her master's in biochemistry in 1972 from Punjab University and PhD from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research She has an experience in the field of over 40 years. She is Senior professor and Head of Department, Biochemistry at University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Senior Professor at School of Medical Sciences and Research Noida. Dr. Gambhir is also a member of American Association of Clinical Chemistry ...

#13152

Brian Tate

#147517

Overall Influence

1921 - 2011 (90 years)

Robert Brian Tate, FBA, FRHistS was a Northern Irish Hispanist and Renaissance scholar. He was the Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Nottingham from 1958 to 1983. Early life, war service and education Born on 27 December 1921, Tate attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution before studying modern languages at Queen's University, Belfast. With his education interrupted by service as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War , he completed his degree at Belfast in 1948. His tutor Ignasi González i Llubera encouraged him to visit to Barcelona and Girona and he began an association with Spanish scholars including Vicens Vives and Pierre Vilar.

#13153

Robert F. Murphy

#191228

Overall Influence

#13154

Renny Pritikin

#83559

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Renny Pritikin is an American curator, museum professional, writer, poet, and educator. He was the chief curator of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum from 2014 to 2018. He was Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California, Davis from 2004 to 2012.

#13155

Ha Duong Ngo

#184058

Overall Influence

Ha Duong Ngo is an academician, research scholar in the field of Electrical Engineering/Microsystems Engineering. As the professor at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin and PI researcher of Microsensors technology at Fraunhofer Institute IZM Berlin, Professor Ngo initiated the research on surface micromachined actuators in microoptical applications, on SOI- and SiC-devices for use in extreme conditions and on rGO for biosensing.

#13156

Evgeny Torchinov

Evgeny Torchinov

#11146

Overall Influence

1956 - 2003 (47 years)

Evgeny Torchinov , , was a Russian sinologist, Buddhist scholar, professor, and translator. He was best known as an eminent Russian researcher of ancient Chinese religion and philosophy, author of many books and translations of classical Chinese texts into Russian. He founded the chair of Eastern philosophy and cultures at St. Petersburg State University.

#13157

David Wendell

#77866

Overall Influence

David Wendell is an associate professor at the University of Cincinnati. Background David Wendell studied at Cornell University and University of California, Los Angeles. Wendell's field of study is nanotechnology and his PhD focused on biomedical engineering.

#13158

Steven L. Danver

#62023

Overall Influence

Steven Laurence Danver is an American historian. He is Managing Editor of the Journal of the West and has taught widely and written numerous influential works on the history of the Western United States, Native Americans, environmental policy and other subjects.

#13159

Luciana Servo

#169854

Overall Influence

Luciana Mendes Santos Servo is a Brazilian economist and researcher. Servo has been the President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research since February 2023 when she was appointed by the Minister of Planning Simone Tebet.

#13160

Andrew Miller

#191261

Overall Influence

#13161

Pablo Sinues

#171381

Overall Influence

Pablo Sinues is an associate professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Basel and lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Charles III University of Madrid and Habilitation in Analytical Chemistry at ETH Zürich. Sinues heads the Translational Breath Research group located at the University Children’s Hospital Basel

#13162

Ahmed Mohammed Ali Al-Madani

#86921

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Ahmed Mohamed Ali Al-Madani is a Saudi Arabian academic and the President of the Islamic Development Bank. Ahmed Mohamed Ali Al-Madani was born in 1934 in Medina, Saudi Arabia. He earned a B.A. degree in commerce and a degree in law from Cairo University, M.A. in public administration from the University of Michigan in 1962, and PhD in public administration from the State University of New York at Albany in 1967.

#13163

Wystan Curnow

#78588

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (87 years)

Wystan Tremayne Le Cren Curnow is a New Zealand art critic, poet, academic, arts administrator, and independent curator. He is the son of Elizabeth Curnow, a painter and printmaker, and poet Allen Curnow.

#13164

Peter G. Neumann

#191266

Overall Influence

#13165

Nicholas P Tippery

#191268

Overall Influence

#13166

Pier Cesare Bori

Pier Cesare Bori

#16623

Overall Influence

1937 - 2012 (75 years)

Pier Cesare Bori was a professor of religious history, moral philosophy, and multiculturalism at the University of Bologna. He was also a leading Italian Quaker and Tolstoy scholar. For many years he kept a writing studio in Livergnano near Bologna.

#13167

Ruth Duckworth

#94670

Overall Influence

1919 - 2009 (90 years)

Ruth Duckworth was a modernist sculptor who specialized in ceramics, she worked in stoneware, porcelain, and bronze. Her sculptures are mostly untitled. She is best known for Clouds over Lake Michigan, a wall sculpture.

#13168

Thomas Carr

#177610

Overall Influence

1907 - 1997 (90 years)

Thomas Howard Carr was an American actor and film director of Hollywood movies and television programs. Often billed as "Tommy Carr", he later adopted his more formal "Thomas Carr" birth name as his billing name.

#13169

Nicole Killian

#83437

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (44 years)

Nicole Killian is a new media artist and design educator based in Richmond, Virginia. Personal life and education Killian was born on September 16, 1982, in Buffalo, New York, and was raised in a Sicilian-American Catholic family. They earned their M.F.A from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2011 and their B.F.A from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2004. Their undergraduate studies were completed in Dessau Germany at the Bauhaus. Their background is in graphic design and is known for digital GIFs, publishing, and writing that deals with queerness, girlhood and popular culture. Killian lives in Richmond, Virginia where they teach at Virginia Commonwealth University.

#13170

Elizabeth Scarlett

#145549

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Elizabeth A. Scarlett is an American academic and writer. She is a Spanish professor in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. She completed her undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, and her graduate degrees at Harvard University. She was a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant in 1983-84 in Carcassonne, France, and was an exchange student in 1988-89 at the University of Seville, Spain.

#13171

John R Klaehn

#191284

Overall Influence

#13172

Yaprak Gürsoy

#152844

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Yaprak Gürsoy is Professor of European Politics and the Chair of Contemporary Turkish Studies at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining the LSE she was a Senior Lecturer and the Undergraduate Programme Director of Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham. She previously worked as an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at the Istanbul Bilgi University and a senior member of the St Antony's College, Oxford University. Professor Gürsoy is also co-founder and co-convenor of The Turkish Politics Specialist Group of PSA .

#13173

Deen Kemsley

#48616

Overall Influence

Deen Kemsley is an accounting professor and a Christian author. He earned a PhD in business and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995. He then served on the faculty at Columbia Business School from 1995 to 2004, taking a one-year visit to Yale School of Management in 2003. He now teaches at the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. In addition to his academic work, Professor Kemsley is the author of Trust in the Lord: Reflections of Jesus Christ .

#13174

James P. Liautaud

James P. Liautaud

#181312

Overall Influence

1936 - 2015 (79 years)

James P. Liautaud was an American industrialist, inventor and business theorist. He is the father of Jimmy John's founder Jimmy John Liautaud. Liautaud provided his son with the seed money to start his restaurant business in 1983.

#13175

Gabriel M. Rebeiz

#119985

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Gabriel M. Rebeiz is a Lebanese-American electrical and computer engineer, currently the Wireless Communications Industry Chair Chair and Professor at University of California, San Diego. He is the first to introduce MEMS and micromachining to the RF/microwave field by developing several novel components with this technology. He is also the pioneer of the integrated phased arrays for communication and defense systems. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 for contributions to radio frequency microelectromechanical systems and phased array technologies. He is ...

#13176

Aditi Sahu

#185090

Overall Influence

Aditi Sahu is a senior scientist working at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City. Early research Sahu received the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna fellowship from the Government of India for her undergraduate research.

#13177

Tine Köhler

#189040

Overall Influence

Tine Köhler is a social scientist and professor of International Management in the Department of Management and Marketing at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is currently the co-editor of Organizational Research Methods, along with serving on the editorial board for Small Group Research and the Journal of Management Education. She is also the co-founder of Women in Research Methods.

#13178

Christopher Minkowski

#43422

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Christopher Zand Minkowski is an American academic, who has been Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford since 2005. Education and early career Minkowski was educated at Gilman School before studying English at Harvard College. After receiving a diploma in Hindi from the University of Delhi in 1976, he returned to Harvard to obtain a master's degree, followed by a PhD in Sanskrit and Indian Studies in 1986. Thereafter, he taught at the University of Iowa and Brown University before a research year at Wolfson College, Oxford.

#13179

Alan Christoffels

#124544

Overall Influence

Alan Christoffels is a bioinformatics scientist, academic, and an author. He is Professor of Bioinformatics, and the director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape. He has been serving as a senior advisor to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Pathogen genomics & Partnerships and DSI/NRF Research Chair in Bioinformatics and Public Health Genomics.

#13180

Neil Swaab

#190997

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (48 years)

Neil Swaab is a New York based artist, designer, writer, and educator. His illustrations and comics have appeared in numerous publications in the US as well as abroad in Germany, Prague, and Italy and Russia. Swaab's most famous work is Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles, which deals with a pill-popping, foul-mouthed teddy bear. The comics frequently deal with sex, addiction, intoxication, psychosis, molestation, cross-dressing, self-hate and misanthropy. This weekly comic strip currently runs online as well as in The New York Press, Real Detroit Weekly, Internazionale , and New Times Broward-Palm B...

#13181

Mirosław Bałka

#45732

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Miroslaw Balka is a Polish contemporary sculptor and video artist. Life and career Miroslaw Balka is Balka is a sculptor also active in the field of experimental video and drawing, born in Warsaw, Poland.

#13182

Sohini Ramachandran

#176187

Overall Influence

Sohini Ramachandran is professor at Brown University known for her work in evolutionary biology and population genetics. Early life and education Ramachandran's parents were both professors. In the summer before her senior year of high school, Ramachandran completed a research project in plant genomics under the guidance of Marcus Feldman, which won her the fourth place prize in the 1998 Westinghouse Science Talent Search, where when she was the youngest finalist in the group. Ramachandran earned a B.S. from Stanford University in 2002. She went on to complete a Ph.D. at Stanford University in the Department of Biological Sciences, advised by Marcus Feldman.

#13183

Yangsheng Xu

#191315

Overall Influence

#13184

David Lyon

#191323

Overall Influence

#13185

Prachee Avasthi

Prachee Avasthi

#101918

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Prachee Avasthi is a Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology and Science Communicator at Dartmouth College and a co-founder, chief scientific advisor, and incoming CSO at Arcadia Science in Berkeley, California. She works on upwardly motile Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and is on the Board of Directors of eLife.

#13186

John Taylor

#191334

Overall Influence

#13187

Renuka Ravindran

Renuka Ravindran

#102065

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Renuka Ravindran was the first woman to be the Dean of the Indian Institute of Science. Education and career She was a student at the Presentation Convent in Vepery in Chennai and later at the Women's Christian College in Chennai. She earned her PhD from Indian Institute of Science in Applied Mathematics and later Doktoringenieur from the Technische Hochschule Aachen in Aerodynamics in Germany. She joined the Indian Institute of Science in 1967 as a professor and the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, and then became the Dean of Indian Institute of Science. She has also been visiting professor at various universities, including the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

#13188

Ivan J. Barrett

#177801

Overall Influence

1910 - 1999 (89 years)

Ivan Junius Barrett was an American author, professor, and historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Barrett was born in Mendon, Utah. As a young man he served in the LDS Church's Central States Mission. He received his bachelor's degree from Utah State University and his master's degree from Brigham Young University. Barrett was a longtime employee of the Church Educational System filling many positions, including starting the first LDS Seminary in Nevada.

#13189

Sree Bhushan Raju

#78624

Overall Influence

Sree Bhushan Raju M.D., D.M., Diplomate of National Board, is a nephrologist from Telangana, India. He is currently Senior professor and Unit head, Dept of Nephrology, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences Panjagutta, Hyderabad. Which is one of the largest Nephrology teaching Department in India having ten DM seats. He is one of the principal investigators of CKD task force by Indian Council of Medical Research to evaluate the prevalence of CKD in adult urban population in India. He is currently an associate editor of Indian Journal of Nephrology, Indian Journal of Organ Transplantation and Frontiers in Medicine.

#13190

Derek Diamond

#175821

Overall Influence

1933 - 2015 (82 years)

Derek Robin Diamond was an applied geographer and academic. He was Professor of Geography at the London School of Economics between 1982 and 1995, and was a specialist in urban and regional planning.

#13191

Elin O'Hara Slavick

#190685

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

elin o'Hara slavick is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, professor, curator, critic and activist. She began teaching in the department of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994, where she held the titles of distinguished term professor, associate chair and director of graduate studies.

#13192

Mark Weichold

#191348

Overall Influence

Mark Weichold is an engineer from Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to international development of engineering education.

#13193

Ian Carradice

#97137

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ian Carradice is an authority on the coinages of ancient Greece, Rome, Persia and Carthage, and the history of museums. He is the former professor of ancient numismatics at the University of St Andrews and the director of the museums of that university.

#13194

Scott Brown

#155354

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Scott Alexander Brown is a Glasgow-born Scottish disc jockey and music producer, now living in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Brown produces and plays a variety of genres, although he is most associated with bouncy techno. His music ranges from happy hardcore, through hard trance, to gabber. He is the founder of Evolution Records, which started in 1994.

#13195

Helen King

#191352

Overall Influence

#13196

Edgar Toppin

#112352

Overall Influence

1928 - 2004 (76 years)

Edgar Allan Toppin, Sr. was an African-American professor of history, and an author who specialized in Civil War, Reconstruction and African-American history. He spent the majority of his 40+ year teaching career at Virginia State University, and wrote ten books on the subjects of American and African-American history. He served on several historical boards including the National Park Service, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, the later serving as president. As president, he was instrumental in turning Black History Week into Bla...

#13197

Shani Mootoo

#36607

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Shani Mootoo, writer, visual artist and video maker, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1957 to Trinidadian parents. She grew up in Trinidad and relocated at the age of 19 to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She currently lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

#13198

Nicole Wermers

#99294

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (55 years)

Nicole Wermers is a German artist, born in Emsdetten, and based in London. Education Wermers studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Hamburg from 1991 to 1997 and received an MFA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in 1999. She has participated in residencies at Delfina Studio Trust in London and Camden Arts Centre in London , and most recently received a fellowship at Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome .

#13199

Basem Al-Shayeb

#191363

Overall Influence

Basem Al-Shayeb is a researcher at the Innovative Genomics Institute. He led the discovery of the largest known bacteriophages, the smallest CRISPR gene editing systems, and Borgs in methane-oxidizing archaea. He was named Forbes 30 Under 30 and Arab America's 30 Under 30.

#13200

Archie Boston Jr.

#155847

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Archie Boston Jr. is an American graphic artist and retired professor. Born to an impoverished family in a small town in southern Florida, Boston received an education in graphic design at Chouinard Art Institute located in Los Angeles. During school and after graduation, he worked in numerous ad agencies based in Los Angeles before forming Boston & Boston Design with his brother Bradford in 1967—one of the first Black-owned agencies in the United States. In 1972, at age 29, he became the president of the Art Director Club of Los Angeles, the second-largest in the nation. He was the first Bla...

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