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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#2051

Shahid Hussain Bokhari

#20527

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Shahid H. Bokhari is a highly cited Pakistani researcher in the field of parallel and distributed computing. He is a fellow of both IEEE and ACM. Bokhari's ACM Fellow citation states that he received the award for his "research contributions to automatic load balancing and partitioning of distributed processes", while his IEEE Fellow award recognises his "contributions to the mapping problem in parallel and distributed computing".

#2052

Chalermek Intanagonwiwat

#26369

Overall Influence

Chalermek Intanagonwiwat is a computer scientist best known for his work on directed diffusion under the supervision of Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, and John Heidemann. In 2013 he moved to San Jose, California to work at Cisco Systems, Inc. Intanagonwiwat earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Thailand and pursued his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, USA. He worked as postdoc researcher at Rutgers University, USA. His research interests include computer networks and distributed systems .

#2053

Vadim Gerasimov

#19889

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Vadim Viktorovich Gerasimov is an engineer at Google. From 1994 to 2003, Vadim worked and studied at the MIT Media Lab. Vadim earned a BS/MS in applied mathematics from Moscow State University in 1992 and a Ph.D. from MIT in 2003.

#2054

Okan Ersoy

#28936

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Okan Kadri Ersoy is a professor of electrical engineering and director of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Laboratory at Purdue University, West Lafayette School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of OSA and a Fellow of ISIBM. Ersoy contributed to the research and education in computer science and engineering, artificial intelligence and bioinformatics. He is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Functional Informatics and Personalized Medicine and International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design. He is also on the ad...

#2055

Bob O. Evans

#21748

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

Bob Overton Evans , also known as "Boe" Evans, was an American computer pioneer and corporate executive at IBM . He led the groundbreaking development of compatible computers that changed the industry.

#2056

Danqi Chen

#47749

Overall Influence

Danqi Chen is a Chinese computer scientist and assistant professor at Princeton University specializing in the AI field of natural language processing . In 2019, she joined the Princeton NLP group, alongside Sanjeev Arora, Christiane Fellbaum, and Karthik Narasimhan. She was previously a visiting scientist at Facebook AI Research . She earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University and her BS from Tsinghua University.

#2057

Eve Ensler

#1614

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

V, formerly Eve Ensler , is an American playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist. V is best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. In 2006 Charles Isherwood of The New York Times called The Vagina Monologues "probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade."

#2058

Nathan Netanyahu

#46057

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Nathan S. Netanyahu is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University. Netanyahu is the son of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu and Supreme Court of Israel justice Shoshana Netanyahu, the nephew of historian Benzion Netanyahu, and the cousin of current Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He did his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of David Mount and Azriel Rosenfeld.

#2059

Cheng-Chih Wu

#21743

Overall Influence

Cheng-Chih Wu is currently the president of the National Taiwan Normal University, and was the director of the Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education at NTNU. During his deanship at NTNU, he has put through many reforms, including abolishing the rule of expelling students who fail more than half of the registered courses. Wu once said, “students should be responsible for their own education, while we should give them a second chance instead of depriving them of their right to education with this rule.”

#2060

Tony Morgan

#52965

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Antony J. Morgan is a British computer scientist, data modeling consultant, and Professor in computer science at INTI International University. He is known for his work on "Business rules and information systems," and the 2010 "Information modeling and relational databases," co-authored with Terry Halpin.

#2061

Brian Warboys

#43268

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Brian Warboys , was a British Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1985 until he retired in September 2007. He was subsequently appointed as Professor Emeritus and continues to undertake research. Before joining the university he had worked for ICL, then the UK's largest computer manufacturer. During the 1970s he had been the chief designer of ICL's VME operating system. He is also the author of several non-fiction books.

#2062

Jon Deeks

#54812

Overall Influence

Jon Deeks is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham, England. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2021.

#2063

Heng Li

#32462

Overall Influence

Heng Li is a Chinese bioinformatics scientist. He is an associate professor at the department of Biomedical Informatics of Harvard Medical School and the department of Data Science of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was previously a research scientist working at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts with David Reich and David Altshuler. Li's work has made several important contributions in the field of next generation sequencing.

#2064

Martin Ester

#58339

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Martin Ester is a Canadian-German Full Professor of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University. His research focuses on researcher data mining and machine learning. Career After earning his MS.c., Ester worked for Swissair before earning a position at the University of Munich as an Assistant Professor in 1993. Three years later, in 1996, Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander and Xiaowei Xu proposed a data clustering algorithm called "Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise" . Their proposal won the 2014 KDD Test of Time Award for "outstanding papers from past KDD Confe...

#2065

Keith Marzullo

#50307

Overall Influence

Keith Marzullo is the inventor of Marzullo's algorithm, which is part of the basis of the Network Time Protocol and the Windows Time Service. On August 1, 2016 he became the Dean of the University of Maryland College of Information Studies after serving as the Director of the NITRD National Coordination Office. Prior to this he was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego. In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

#2066

Panos Ipeirotis

#33779

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (48 years)

Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis is a professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University.

#2067

Eric Nyberg

#44849

Overall Influence

Eric Nyberg is a professor in the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director for the Master of Computational Data Science . Nyberg has made significant research contributions to the fields of automatic text translation, information retrieval, and automatic question answering. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University , and his B.A. from Boston University . He has pioneered the Open Advancement of Question Answering, an architecture and methodology for accelerating collaborative research in automatic question a...

#2068

Michael J. Carey

#48409

Overall Influence

Michael James Carey is an American computer scientist. He currently serves as Bren Professor of Information and Computer Science in the Donald Bren School at the University of California, Irvine. Education Carey earned his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1983. He also holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University .

#2069

Robert J. Vanderbei

#26612

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Robert J. Vanderbei is an American mathematician and Professor in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. Biography Robert J. Vanderbei was born in Grand Rapids, MI, in 1955. He received his BS in Chemistry in 1976 and an MS in Operations Research and Statistics in 1978 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1981. In his thesis, he developed probabilistic potential theory for random fields consisting of tensor products of Brownian motions. He was postdoctoral research fellow at New...

#2070

Hans L. Bodlaender

#54629

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Hans Leo Bodlaender is a Dutch computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Utrecht University. Bodlaender is known for his work on graph algorithms and parameterized complexity and in particular for algorithms relating to tree decomposition of graphs.

#2071

Laurent Itti

#27486

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Laurent Itti is a computational neuroscientist. He received his MS in image processing from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris in 1994, and a PhD in computation and neural systems from Caltech in 2000. He is currently an associate professor of computer science, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California, where he has been since 2000.

#2072

James H. Pomerene

#27476

Overall Influence

1920 - 2008 (88 years)

James Herbert Pomerene was an electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Biography Pomerene was born June 22, 1920, in Yonkers, New York. His father was Joel Pomerene and mother was Elsie Bower. He received the BS degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1942. In 1945 he married Edythe Schwenn and had three children.

#2073

Nicholas J. Belkin

#39143

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Nicholas J. Belkin is a professor at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. Among the main themes of his research are digital libraries; information-seeking behaviors; and interaction between humans and information retrieval systems. Belkin is best known for his work on human-centered Information Retrieval and the hypothesis of Anomalous State of Knowledge . Belkin realized that in many cases, users of search systems are unable to precisely formulate what they need. They miss some vital knowledge to formulate their queries. In such cases it is more suitable to attem...

#2074

Kenneth Stanley

#45954

Overall Influence

Kenneth Owen Stanley is an artificial intelligence researcher, author, and former professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida known for creating the Neuroevolution of augmenting topologies algorithm. He coauthored Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective with Joel Lehman which argues for the existence of the "objective paradox", a paradox which states that "soon as you create an objective, you ruin your ability to reach it". While a professor at the University of Central Florida, he was the director of the Evolutionary Complexity Research Group which led the development of Galactic Arms Race.

#2075

Lawrence Rauchwerger

#15996

Overall Influence

Lawrence Rauchwerger is an American computer scientist noted for his research in parallel computing, compilers, and computer architecture. He is a speaker in the ACM Distinguished Speakers Program and the deputy director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences at Texas A&M University. He is the co-director of the Parasol Lab and manages the lab's software and systems group.

#2076

Surajit Chaudhuri

Surajit Chaudhuri

#42639

Overall Influence

Surajit Chaudhuri is an Indian-American computer scientist notable for his contributions to database management systems. He is currently a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, where he leads the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group. Chaudhuri is an ACM Fellow.

#2077

Rick Gibson

#8300

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Rick Gibson is a Canadian sculptor and artist best known for his performance works. Early life and education Gibson was born in Montreal and studied psychology at the University of Victoria, where between 1973 and 1974 he drew weekly comics for the student newspaper. After completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 he moved to Vancouver. He lived in London, England from 1983 to 1989. He received a Master of Science degree in Interactive Art and Technology from Simon Fraser University, Surrey in 2004.

#2078

Salvatore Pais

#11949

Overall Influence

Salvatore Cezar Pais is an American aerospace engineer and inventor, currently working for the United States Space Force. He formerly worked at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River. His patent applications for the US Navy attracted attention for their potential energy-producing applications, but also doubt about their feasibility, and speculation that they may be scams, pseudoscience, or disinformation intended to mislead the United States' adversaries.

#2079

Filippo Menczer

#26842

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Filippo Menczer is an American and Italian academic. He is a University Distinguished Professor and the Luddy Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University. Menczer is the Director of the Observatory on Social Media, a research center where data scientists and journalists study the role of media and technology in society and build tools to analyze and counter disinformation and manipulation on social media. Menczer holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics, is a founding member and advisory co...

#2080

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

#52143

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro is a data scientist and the co-founder of the KDD conferences, and co-founder and past chair of the Association for Computing Machinery SIGKDD group for Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining and Data Science. He is the founder and president of KDnuggets, a discussion and learning website for Business Analytics, Data Mining and Data Science.

#2081

Nicolas Courtois

#52460

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Nicolas Tadeusz Courtois is a cryptographer and senior lecturer in computer science at University College London. Courtois was one of the co-authors of both the XSL attack against block ciphers, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard, and the XL system for solving systems of algebraic equations used in the attack. Other cryptographic results of Courtois include algebraic attacks on stream ciphers, attacks on the KeeLoq and Hitag 2 systems used for remote keyless automobile entry systems, and an analysis of cryptographic weaknesses in public transit smart cards including the London Underground Oyster card and the Dutch OV-chipkaart.

#2082

Satoshi Matsuoka

#57023

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

is a Japanese computer scientist and the current head of the Riken Center for Computational Science at RIKEN, the largest Supercomputing center in Japan. Biography Matsuoka graduated from Musashi Senior High School in 1982 and the University of Tokyo in 1986. In his student days, he worked for HAL Laboratory, a Japanese video game company, and co-developed Pinball and Rollerball for Nintendo Entertainment System with Satoru Iwata. In 1989, Matsuoka became a research associate and lecturer at the University of Tokyo. In 1993, he submitted his thesis on "Language Features for Extensibility and Re-use in Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages" and acquired his Ph.D.

#2083

Peter Nelson

#49900

Overall Influence

Peter C. Nelson is an American Artificial Intelligence researcher and Computer Science professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as of 2008 he has been the Dean of the College of Engineering. Prior to assuming his deanship, he was head of the UIC Department of Computer Science. He received his B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from North Park University in 1984, and subsequently completed both his M.S. in Computer Science from in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1988 from Northwestern University.

#2084

Mark Harman

#43974

Overall Influence

Prof. Mark Harman is a British computer scientist. Since 2010, he has been a professor at University College London and since 2017 he has been at Facebook London. He was founder of the Centre for Research on Evolution Search and Testing initially at King's College London in 2006, latterly at UCL, and was the Director until 2017. Harman has received both of the major research awards for software engineering : the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award, for "fundamental contributions throughout software engineering, including seminal contributions in establishing search-based software engineering, reigni...

#2085

Bolesław Szymański

#51314

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Bolesław Karol Szymański is the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Network Science and Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is known for multiple contributions to computer science, including Szymański's algorithm.

#2086

James R. Goodman

James R. Goodman

#46416

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

James Richard "Jim" Goodman retired as professor of computer science at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand, and emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Education and research Goodman received a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison the same year as an assistant professor of computer science.

#2087

Lillian Lee

#34382

Overall Influence

Lillian Lee is a computer scientist whose research involves natural language processing, sentiment analysis, and computational social science. She is a professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

#2088

Eckhard D. Falkenberg

#46907

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (82 years)

Eckhard D. Falkenberg is a German scientist and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is known for his contributions in the fields of information modelling, especially object-role modeling, and the conceptual foundations of information systems.

#2089

Oriol Vinyals

#56091

Overall Influence

Oriol Vinyals is a Spanish machine learning researcher at DeepMind, where he is the principal research scientist. His research in DeepMind is regularly featured in the mainstream media especially after being acquired by Google.

#2090

Martin Dyer

#53949

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Martin Edward Dyer is a professor in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England. He graduated from the University of Leeds in 1967, obtained his MSc from Imperial College London in 1968 and his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1979. His research interests lie in theoretical computer science, discrete optimization and combinatorics. Currently, he focuses on the complexity of counting and the efficiency of Markov chain algorithms for approximate counting.

#2091

Rebecca N. Wright

#43989

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Rebecca N. Wright is an American computer scientist known for her research in computer security. She is the Druckenmiller Professor of Computer Science at Barnard College. Education and career Wright was an undergraduate at Columbia University, graduating in 1988. She went to Yale University for her graduate studies, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1994. Her dissertation, Achieving Perfect Secrecy Using Correlated Random Variables, was supervised by Michael J. Fischer.

#2092

Csaba Szabo

#37456

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Csaba Szabo, a physician and pharmacologist, is the Head of the Pharmacology Section of the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. The Public Library of Science Magazine, PLOS Biology, recognized Szabo in 2019 as one of the most cited researchers in the world.

#2093

Moshe Koppel

#20645

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Moshe Koppel is an American-Israeli computer scientist, Talmud scholar and political activist. Koppel was born and raised in New York, where he received a traditional Jewish education. He studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion, received a B.A. from Yeshiva University and in 1979 completed his doctorate in mathematics under the supervision of Martin Davis at the Courant Institute of New York University. He spent a post-doctoral year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before moving to Israel in 1980. He has been a member of the Department of Computer Science in Bar-Ilan University since t...

#2094

John Wozencraft

#19534

Overall Influence

1925 - 2009 (84 years)

John McReynolds "Jack" Wozencraft was an electrical engineer and information theorist, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the pioneers of coding theory, Wozencraft developed the sequential decoding techniques for convolutional codes that made error-free communication possible with relatively low computing power.

#2095

Pankaj Jalote

#45234

Overall Influence

Pankaj Jalote was the Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology. Jalote is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE. Before joining IIIT Delhi, he worked as the Microsoft Chair Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. Jalote has also taught at the Department of Computer Science at IIT Kanpur and University of Maryland.

#2096

Clarisse de Souza

Clarisse de Souza

#53295

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza is a full professor at the Informatics Department of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro , where she does research in the area of human–computer interaction and has developed the theory of Semiotic Engineering.

#2097

Steve Vickers

#18300

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Steve Vickers is a British mathematician and computer scientist. In the early 1980s, he wrote ROM firmware and manuals for three home computers, the ZX81, ZX Spectrum, and Jupiter Ace. The latter was produced by Jupiter Cantab, a short-lived company Vickers formed together with Richard Altwasser, after the two had left Sinclair Research. Since the late 1980s, Vickers has been an academic in the field of geometric logic, writing over 30 papers in scholarly journals on mathematical aspects of computer science. His book Topology via Logic has been influential over a range of fields . In October 2018, he retired as senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham.

#2098

Raymond Reiter

#37532

Overall Influence

1939 - 2002 (63 years)

Raymond Reiter was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed-world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems. He also contributed to the situation calculus.

#2099

Ray Turner

#24450

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Professor Raymond Turner is an English logician, philosopher, and theoretical computer scientist based at the University of Essex. He is best known for his work on logic in computer science and for his pioneering work in the philosophy of computer science. He is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Logic and Computation and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for Logic, Computation, and Agency.

#2100

Leif Kobbelt

#26861

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Leif Kobbelt is a German university professor for Computer Science with a specialization in Computer Graphics. Since 2001 he is the head of the Institute for Computer Graphics and Multimedia at RWTH Aachen university.

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