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List of the most influential people in Computer Science,

#3201

Tarek Sobh

#33938

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (59 years)

Tarek M. Sobh is an Egyptian American professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was the former Dean of the College of Engineering, Business, and Education of the University of Bridgeport and he is the current president of Lawrence Technological University.

#3202

Artur d'Avila Garcez

#77773

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Artur d'Avila Garcez is a researcher in the field of computational logic and neural computation, in particular hybrid systems with application in software verification and information extraction. His contributions include neural-symbolic learning systems and nonclassical models of computation combining robust learning and reasoning. He is a Professor of Computer Science at City, University London.

#3203

Pierre Isabelle

#78453

Overall Influence

Pierre Isabelle is Principal Scientist and Group Leader of the Interactive Language Technologies group at the National Research Council Canada . Isabelle holds a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics. He started his research career in 1975 as a member of the TAUM machine translation group at the Université de Montréal. Between 1985 and 1996, he was in charge of the machine-aided translation team of CITI, a research laboratory of the Canadian Department of Industry. In 1997 he returned to the Université de Montréal as head of the RALI laboratory of the computer science department. In 1999 he joi...

#3204

Wenfei Fan

#76883

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Wenfei Fan is a Chinese-British computer scientist and professor of web data management at the University of Edinburgh. His research investigates database theory and database systems. Education Fan was educated at Peking University and the University of Pennsylvania where he was awarded a PhD in Computer Science for research supervised by Peter Buneman and Scott Weinstein in 1999.

#3205

Ale Algra

#93452

Overall Influence

#3206

Daniel B. Mark

#93477

Overall Influence

#3207

Christopher G. Chute

Christopher G. Chute

#54184

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Christopher G. Chute is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, physician-scientist and biomedical informatician known for biomedical terminologies and health information technology standards. He chairs the World Health Organization Revision Steering Group for the revision of the International Classification of Diseases .

#3208

Shariff Enamul Kabir

Shariff Enamul Kabir

#18404

Overall Influence

Shariff Enamul Kabir is a Bangladeshi academic who served as the vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University from 24 February 2009 until May 2012. Early life and education Kabir was born on 28 February 1955 in Gopalganj District, East Pakistan, Pakistan. He has published more than three hundred articles in different journals. He has been an elected fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences since 1999.

#3209

David Kriegman

#70746

Overall Influence

David Kriegman is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to computer vision. Since 2007, he has also been the CEO and founder of Taaz, Inc.

#3210

Megan Squire

#20029

Overall Influence

Megan Squire is a professor of computer science at Elon University. A researcher and Anti-Defamation League fellow with a focus on right-wing political extremism online, her work has been described as operating as an intermediary between non-profits like the Southern Poverty Law Center and militant groups on the far-left.

#3211

Prasad V. Tetali

#45479

Overall Influence

Prasad V. Tetali is an Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist who works as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His research concerns probability theory, discrete mathematics, and approximation algorithms.

#3212

Paul Torgersen

#35254

Overall Influence

1931 - 2015 (84 years)

Paul Ernest Torgersen was the 14th President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Background Torgersen was born in Staten Island, New York. He earned a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Lehigh University in 1953. Subsequently, he went to Ohio State University, where he received an M.S. degree in industrial engineering in 1956 and a Ph.D. degree in 1959.

#3213

Renée Miller

#48310

Overall Influence

Renée J. Miller is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, a former professor of Computer Science at University of Toronto, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

#3214

Nitesh Chawla

#93446

Overall Influence

Nitesh V. Chawla is a computer scientist and data scientist currently serving as the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He is the Founding Director of the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. Chawla's research expertise lies in machine learning, data science, and network science. He is also the co-founder of Aunalytics, a data science software and cloud computing company. Chawla is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . He has received multipl...

#3215

Gregory G. Rose

#81988

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Gregory G. "Greg" Rose was a senior vice president of technology for Qualcomm. Rose is noted for designing the SOBER family of stream ciphers for wireless telephony. Together with Philip Hawkes, he also designed Turing, a cipher system based on the SOBER-t32. It was developed to address encryption issues, particularly the limitations to processing power, program space, and memory present in software encryption algorithms.

#3216

Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

#50008

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry is a Pakistani ICT Professional and an electronics engineer. He is the Distinguished National Professor, Meritorious Professor, Emeritus Professor and former Dean Faculty of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamashoro, Sindh, Pakistan.

#3217

Enn Tõugu

#93961

Overall Influence

1935 - 2020 (85 years)

Enn Tõugu was an Estonian computer scientist and mathematician. He dealt with system programming, declarative languages and topics related to artificial intelligence. In 1960s, he focused on the design and construction of the original STEM mini computer .

#3218

Antonio Plaza

#93985

Overall Influence

Antonio Plaza from the University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to hyperspectral data processing and parallel computing of Earth observation data.

#3219

Lili Qiu

#35067

Overall Influence

Lili Qiu is a Chinese computer scientist known for her research on wireless networks. She is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin and vice managing director of Microsoft Research Asia.

#3220

Bob Wielinga

#58796

Overall Influence

1945 - 2016 (71 years)

Bonne Jan "Bob" Wielinga was a Dutch professor at the University of Amsterdam. Wielinga studied physics at the University of Amsterdam, where he was awarded a PhD in 1972 for a study in nuclear physics. He has performed research on the methodology of knowledge-based system design and knowledge acquisition. In 1986, Wielinga was appointed full professor of Social Science Informatics in the Faculty of Psychology. Wielinga leads several research projects, including KADS, ACKnowledge, REFLECT and KADS-II and was one of the main contributors to the development of the KADS methodology for knowledg...

#3221

Paul Larson

#62201

Overall Influence

Paul Larson is a computer scientist. He is most famous for inventing the linear hashing algorithm with Witold Litwin. Paul Larson is currently a senior researcher in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE. In 2005 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

#3222

Thomas W. Clarkson

#69158

Overall Influence

Thomas W. Clarkson is a heavy metals toxicologist and an emeritus professor in the department of environmental medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. His area of expertise is mercury, and he has been involved in the Seychelles Child Development Study. After Karen Wetterhahn's death, Clarkson's lab analyzed the dimethylmercury levels that had been responsible for her death.

#3223

Lila Kari

#77492

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Lila Kari is a Romanian and Canadian computer scientist, professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Biography Professor Kari earned a master's degree at the University of Bucharest in 1987, studying there with Gheorghe Păun, and then moved to the University of Turku in Finland for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1991 under the supervision of Arto Salomaa. She came to the University of Western Ontario as a visiting professor in 1993, and by 1996 had been hired there as a tenure-track faculty member. In 2017 she accepted a pos...

#3224

Marcus Maurer

#94131

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (60 years)

#3225

Jerome Ritz

#94158

Overall Influence

#3226

Dorin Comaniciu

#79073

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Dorin Comaniciu is a Romanian-American computer scientist. He is the Senior Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation at Siemens Healthcare. Research Comaniciu is known for his work in computer vision, medical imaging and machine learning. His academic publications have 54,000 citations with an H-index of 85. As of 2022, he holds 308 US patents and 550 international patent applications. He joined Siemens in 1999 as a senior research scientist with a focus on computer vision applications for automotive systems. Since 2004, he has served in various research and leadership...

#3227

Xie Quan

#94215

Overall Influence

#3228

Claus Garbe

#94221

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

#3229

Tércio Pacitti

#58379

Overall Influence

1928 - 2014 (86 years)

Tércio Pacitti , São Paulo, Brazil was an electronic engineer and computer scientist in Brazil. Biography Pacitti was born in Atibaia-SP, Brazil, son of Antônio Pacitti and Isabel de Moraes Pacitti. He graduated as aeronautical engineer from ITA, first in the class of 1952, having completed a Masters and Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley. He was a student of David A. Huffman among others at Berkeley.

#3230

Jason Aaron Edward Weston

#94267

Overall Influence

#3231

Nell B. Dale

#71538

Overall Influence

Nell B. Dale is an American computer scientist noted for her work in computer science education and computer science introductory programming textbooks. She was on the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Board from 1981–85, and from 1987–93, and was Chair of SIGCSE from 1991–93. She was Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 1991 and Co-Chair of the SIGCSE Symposium in 2000.

#3232

Ramesh Govindan

#66109

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Ramesh Govindan is an Indian-American professor of computer science. He is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California.

#3233

Keum-Shik Hong

#33838

Overall Influence

Keum-Shik Hong is a South Korean mechanical engineer, academic, author, and researcher. He is a professor emeritus in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Pusan National University. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the Institute For Future, Qingdao University, China.

#3234

Yadong Yin

#94383

Overall Influence

#3235

Sergio Rossetti Morosini

Sergio Rossetti Morosini

#11051

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Sergio Rossetti Morosini is a Brazilian-American Scholar, artist and author of Venetian extraction who served as Brazil's Cultural attaché in New Orleans and is dedicated to preserving the Atlantic Forest and restoring the art in stone of New York City Landmarks.

#3236

John Fitzgerald

#70637

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

John S. Fitzgerald FBCS is a British computer scientist. He is a professor at Newcastle University. He was the head of the School of Computing before taking on the role of Dean of Strategic Projects in the university’s Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering. His research interests are in the area of dependable computer systems and formal methods, with a background in the VDM. He is a former Chair of Formal Methods Europe and committee member of BCS-FACS.

#3237

Deliang L. Wang

#94408

Overall Influence

#3238

Peter Boncz

#80783

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Peter Boncz is a Dutch computer scientist specializing in database systems. He is a researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the special chair of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management.

#3239

Marc Alexa

#61603

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (52 years)

Marc Alexa is a professor of computer science at TU Berlin working in the fields of computer graphics, geometric modeling and geometry processing. Life Alexa studied computer science at TU Darmstadt, receiving a Diplom in 1997 and a PhD in 2002. After his graduation, he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher with Greg Turk at Georgia Tech, returning the same year to become assistant professor at TU Darmstadt. In 2005, he became an associate professor for computer graphics at TU Berlin, transitioning to the full professorship in 2010. He conducted research at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon University, Disney Research, ETH Zurich, and the University of Toronto.

#3240

Jianying Hu

#62552

Overall Influence

Jianying Hu is a Chinese-American computer scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, known for her work in data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence and health informatics. She is an IBM Fellow, Global Science Leader of AI for Healthcare and Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences Research at IBM. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She has published over 150 scientific papers and holds more than 50 patents.

#3241

William Lawrence Kocay

#60567

Overall Influence

William Lawrence Kocay is a Canadian professor at the department of computer science at St. Paul's College of the University of Manitoba and a graph theorist. He is known for his work in graph algorithms and the reconstruction conjecture and is affectionately referred to as "Wild Bill" by his students. Bill Kocay is a former managing editor of Ars Combinatoria, a Canadian journal of combinatorial mathematics, is a founding fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications.

#3242

Bruce Gilchrist

#39418

Overall Influence

1930 - 2015 (85 years)

Bruce Gilchrist is considered one of the notable figures in modern computing history. Early life and education Gilchrist was born 4 August 1930 in Pontefract, Yorkshire, England and attended King Edward VII School in Kings Lynn. He harbored a keen interest in computing and computing devices from an early age.

#3243

Viktor K. Prasanna

#94634

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

#3244

Toru Ishida

#85996

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

is a Japanese computer scientist specializing in multi-agent systems. He has been working on action research projects including Digital City Kyoto, Intercultural Collaboration Experiments, and the Language Grid. He is a professor emeritus　of Kyoto University, and currently a visiting professor of Hong Kong Baptist University.

#3245

James D. Griffin

#75804

Overall Influence

#3246

Hank Levy

#74178

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Henry M. "Hank" Levy is an American computer scientist. He holds the Wissner-Slivka Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington . Work Levy's research concerns operating systems, distributed systems, the internet, and computer architecture. In his early career, Levy worked at Digital Equipment Corporation , where he was a member of the design and engineering team for the VMS operating system for the VAX computer. His graduate work resulted in the book Capability-Based Computer Systems. He joined the University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering as a faculty member in 1983.

#3247

Peter Buneman

#73730

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (83 years)

Oscar Peter Buneman, is a British computer scientist who works in the areas of database systems and database theory. Education Buneman was educated at the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts while studying the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Buneman went on to study at the University of Warwick, where he received his PhD in 1970.

#3248

Simone Severini

#48062

Overall Influence

Simone Severini is an Italian-born British computer scientist. He is currently Professor of Physics of Information at University College London, and Director of Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services.

#3249

Osvaldo Simeone

#76427

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (49 years)

Osvaldo Simeone is a Professor of Information Engineering with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at the Department of Informatics at King's College, London. He received an M.Sc. degree and a Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He was previously a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.

#3250

Amy Ashurst Gooch

#74607

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (53 years)

Amy Ashurst Gooch is a computer scientist known for her contributions in non-photorealistic rendering. She is currently the Chief Operations Officer at ViSOAR LLC, a data visualization research spin-off software company from the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. She is also an adjunct professor of computer science at Texas A&M University. Her current research is part of an interdisciplinary effort involving computer graphics, perceptual psychology, and computational vision. She is interested in better understanding the spatial information potentially available in CG imagery, determin...

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