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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#7851

Jie Shan

#172562

Overall Influence

#7852

Santosh Kurinec

#146768

Overall Influence

Santosh Kurinec is an IEEE fellow and a professor of Electrical & Microelectronic Engineering at Kate Gleason College of Engineering in Rochester Institute of Technology . She is an Indian American electronic engineer specializing in electronic materials and devices. She is a former IEEE Electron Devices Society distinguished lecturer. In 2018, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame.

#7853

Brian Wardle

#172611

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Brian Lee Wardle is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Wardle is Director of MIT's Nano-Engineered Composite aerospace STructures Consortium, and is a principal member of the Technology Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Structures . He is active in the MEMS@MIT community as part of the Microsystems Technology Laboratory .

#7854

Emily Mower Provost

#115980

Overall Influence

Emily Mower Provost is a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan. She directs the Computational Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Professional history Provost received her B.S. in electrical engineering from Tufts University in 2004, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA in 2007 and 2010, respectively. After postdoctoral research in the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab at the University of Southern California, Provost joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the ...

#7855

Phyllida Lloyd

#10131

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (69 years)

Phyllida Christian Lloyd, is an English film and theatre director and producer. Her theatre work includes directing productions at the Royal Court Theatre and Royal National Theatre, and opera director for Opera North and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Her adaptation of three Shakespeare plays received acclaim from critics, with The Guardian calling it "one of the most important theatrical events of the past 20 years".

#7856

Paul M. Smith

#87841

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Dr Paul M. Smith is a British photographer and educator. Deputy Head of School, Media and Performing Arts. BA Hons Photography course within Coventry University Department of Media. In 2001 he was the recipient of the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society. MBA and DBA Coventry University.

#7857

Adam S. T. Thomson

#114726

Overall Influence

1908 - 2000 (92 years)

Prof Adam Simpson Turnbull Thomson FRSE FIMechE FICE LLD was a 20th-century engineer and university administrator, serving as the first Vice Principal of Strathclyde University. As an engineer he was involved in rocket research.

#7858

Alex Anmahian

#123763

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Alex Anmahian is a Boston-based architect, co-founding partner of Anmahian Winton Architects and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University's department for architecture. He received his BA from the University of Florida and his MArch from Harvard. His firm designed the Innovation Centre for Orange, one of Britain's leading cellular telephone companies.

#7859

Detlev Marpe

#172706

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Detlev Marpe from the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications in Berlin, Germany was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to video coding research and standardization.

#7860

Kenneth Barner

#124823

Overall Influence

Kenneth Barner from the University of Delaware, Newark, DE was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions in nonlinear signal processing.

#7861

Timothy M. Pinkston

Timothy M. Pinkston

#148622

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Timothy M. Pinkston is an American computer engineer, researcher, educator and administrator whose work is focused in the area of computer architecture. He holds the George Pfleger Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Southern California . He also serves in an administrative role as Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

#7862

Arturo Azcorra

#123303

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (64 years)

Arturo Azcorra is a Spanish scientist and telecommunications engineer who is recognized as a pioneer of internet and network science research in Spain, as well as a promoter of telematics as a scientific and academic discipline born from the integration of telecommunications and informatics.

#7863

Leyla Soleymani

#81034

Overall Influence

Leyla Soleymani is a scientist and Canada Research Chair at McMaster University's faculty of engineering. Her research includes the development of advanced materials for biosensing and repellent surfaces.

#7864

Xiaodong Wang

#122811

Overall Influence

Xiaodong Wang is a Chinese-born American electrical engineer and information theorist. He currently serves as a professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He earned a BS degree in electrical engineering and applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiaotong University, an MS degree in electrical and computer engineering from Purdue University, and a PhD from Princeton University in electrical engineering. He formerly served as assistant professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University before he joined Columbia as an assistant professor in January 2002.

#7865

Weng Zuze

#159909

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Weng Zuze is a Chinese electrical engineer and academic. He served as president of Hunan University from December 1987 to July 1993. He is a member of the Jiusan Society. Biography Weng was born and raised in Shanghai. In 1964 he graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology, where he majored in electrical engineering. Weng joined the chemical engineering faculty of Hunan University in 1978 and was promoted to professor in June 1988. He was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia from January 1980 to 1982.

#7866

Surya Santoso

#163530

Overall Influence

Surya Santoso is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and directs the Laboratory for Advanced Studies in Electric Power & Integration of Renewable Energy Systems . A senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , he is actively involved in the IEEE Power and Energy Society and has hosted the IEEE Plain Talk on Power Quality in IEEE Power and Energy General Meeting since 2010.

#7867

Robert Meyer

#90565

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Robert Meyer is a Norwegian art photographer, professor, photo historian, collector, writer and publicist. He is the son of journalist Robert Castberg Meyer and homemaker Edel Nielsen; and brother of the industrial designer Terje Meyer.

#7868

John V. Breakwell

#148731

Overall Influence

1917 - 1991 (74 years)

John Valentine Breakwell was a noted American control theorist and a Professor of Astronautics at Stanford University. He is remembered for his contributions to the "science and applications of astrodynamics, for discovery of flight-trajectory optimization, and for outstanding academic service." He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981 and a recipient of the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award in 1983.

#7869

Benjamin C. Stark

#57646

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Benjamin "Ben" C. Stark is an American biologist and a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He grew up in a small city in mid-Michigan in the 1950s-1960s. After high school he majored in cellular biology at the University of Michigan and later he received his master and doctoral degrees from Yale University with Sidney Altman. After two postdoctoral positions, he took a faculty position at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he has worked since. He has carried out research in the area of genetic engineering and RNA biology.

#7870

Wade Trappe

#100080

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Wade Trappe is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, and an associate director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory .

#7871

Carolyn Hansson

#97394

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Carolyn M. Hansson is a Canadian materials engineer. She was the first female student to attend the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College, London, and the first woman to graduate with a PhD in metallurgy from there. Hansson was honoured for pioneering a monitoring system for evaluating the integrity of concrete structures.

#7872

John Gay

#87945

Overall Influence

1909 - 1999 (90 years)

John Gay was a photographer. Early life Gay attended art college in his home town. In 1933 he left Germany, following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, moving to England with his friend Walter Stern and Stern's family, including his mother, the photographer Martha Stern.

#7873

Geoffrey Barrows

#139999

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Geoffrey Louis Barrows is an American inventor and the founder of Centeye, a company that specializes in the development of insect vision for robotics. In 2003 he was recognized as a Young Innovator by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR100 list. Barrows owns more than six patents for his technology.

#7874

Marcia O'Malley

#168855

Overall Influence

Marcia Kilchenman O'Malley is an American mechanical engineer, the Thomas Michael Panos Family Professor in Mechanical Engineering and associate dean for research and innovation for the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Her research concerns "systems for enhancing the human sensorimotor control system", including work on exoskeletons, neuroprosthetics, haptic technology, and brain–computer interfaces.

#7875

Garry Baverstock

#118875

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Garry Frederick Baverstock is an Australian Perth-based architect, property developer, author and scientist, specialising in energy efficient building design. He was one of the pioneers of sustainable architecture in Australia, championing passive solar design of buildings and the use of solar energy.

#7876

Richard Roeper

#21168

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He co-hosted the television series At the Movies with Roger Ebert from 2000 to 2008, serving as the late Gene Siskel's successor. From 2010 to 2014, he co-hosted The Roe and Roeper Show with Roe Conn on WLS-AM. From October 2015 to October 2017, Roeper served as the host of the FOX 32 morning show Good Day Chicago.

#7877

Lina Jamil Karam

#78988

Overall Influence

Lina J. Karam is a Lebanese-American electrical and computer engineer and inventor. She is an IEEE Fellow. Her areas of work span digital signal processing, image/video processing, compression/coding and transmission, computer vision, machine learning/deep learning, perceptual-based visual processing, and automated mobility. She served as an expert delegate of the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 Committee and participated in JPEG/MPEG standardization activities. She served as expert consultant in matters related to Intellectual Property /Patent Litigation, Image/Video Compression and Streaming, Image/Video...

#7878

Max Kozloff

#30593

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (93 years)

Max Kozloff is an American art historian, art critic of modern art and photographer. He has been art editor at The Nation, and Executive Editor of Artforum. His essay "American Painting During the Cold War" is of particular importance to the criticism on American Abstract Expressionism.

#7879

Irina Viner

#11102

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Irina Alexandrovna Viner , formerly Irina Alexandrovna Viner-Usmanova , is an Uzbek-born Russian rhythmic gymnastics coach who is head coach of the Russian national team, president of the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation, and former vice president of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation.

#7880

Harold Dorschug

#158652

Overall Influence

1913 - 1999 (86 years)

Harold A. Dorschug was one of the master control engineers during The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS radio in October 1938. Later, he moved to West Hartford, CT and was Chief Engineer and Director of Research and Development of WTIC radio and Channel 3 television in Hartford, Connecticut for many years. He was a very generous gentleman and helped put many of the Hartford area educational stations on the air on a pro bono basis, including WQTQ at Weaver High School and WWUH at the University of Hartford. In 1975 he built and licensed WJMJ, the station in Bloomfield, CT licensed to St.

#7881

Arnold H. Green

#55161

Overall Influence

1940 - 2019 (79 years)

Arnold H. Green was a history professor retired from teaching at Brigham Young University, where he specialized in the modern history of the Middle East, especially the eras of European colonization and of decolonization.

#7882

Ernst Meyer

#173068

Overall Influence

#7883

Nachiappan Chockalingam

#108919

Overall Influence

Nachiappan Chockalingam, professionally known as Nachi Chockalingam is a British scientist, academic practitioner and expert in Clinical Biomechanics. He is a professor at Staffordshire University and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and has been appointed to a panel of experts for the Research Excellence Framework. He was elected as a Fellow of the International Society of Biomechanics in 2023. Between 2016 and 2022, he has contributed to the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Panel and serves in multiple other review panels of global grant awarding bodies including the EPSRC, MRC and the European Commission.

#7884

Alexandra Duel-Hallen

#45637

Overall Influence

Alexandra Duel-Hallen is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University known for her research in wireless networks. Education Duel-Hallen is a 1982 graduate of Case Western Reserve University, with a double major in mathematics and computer science. She earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1983, and completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1987. Her dissertation, Detection Algorithms for Intersymbol Interference Channels, was supervised by Chris Heegard.

#7885

Lynette Jones

#171551

Overall Influence

Lynette Anne Jones is a New Zealand mechanical engineer whose research concerns haptic technology, haptic perception, thermal output devices, microsurgery, and the function and mechanics of the human hand and skin. She is a senior research scientist in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editor-in-chief of the journal IEEE Transactions on Haptics.

#7886

Peter Schumann

#29478

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (92 years)

Peter Schumann is the co-founder and director of the Bread & Puppet Theater. Born in Silesia, he was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread & Puppet in New York City, and in 1970 moved to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, eventually settling in Glover, Vermont, where the company still performs. Schumann's best known work is the Domestic Resurrection Circus, performed annually by the Bread and Puppet Theater until 1998. He was married to theater co-founder Elka Schumann until her passing in August 2021.

#7887

Megan Konar

#83370

Overall Influence

Megan Konar is a scientist and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Konar’s research focuses on the intersection of food, water, and trade. She studies the connection between hydrology, environmental science, and economics.

#7888

Kakani Katija Young

#129676

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (43 years)

Kakani Katija is a bioengineer from Hawaii. While earning her Master's and PhD in Aeronautics and Bioengineering, Katija began to study the mechanics of swimming and feeding marine organisms. Biography Kakani Katija completed her bachelor's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington in 2004. She furthered her studies, earning a Master's in Aeronautics in 2005 at the California Institute of Technology and her Doctorate at Caltech in 2010 in Bioengineering.

#7889

Samuel Sánchez

#173147

Overall Influence

#7890

Ramon Lugo III

#126695

Overall Influence

Ramon "Ray" Lugo III is an American aerospace engineer who served as the Director of NASA's Glenn Research Center. He currently serves as the Director of the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida. He previously served as Glenn's Deputy Director from 2007 to 2010.

#7891

Bénédicte Cuenot

#154624

Overall Influence

Bénédicte Cuenot is a French engineer specializing in the numerical simulation of combustion and related phenomena, including turbulent flow, the flow of plasma, and heat transfer. Her software has been used to investigate the emission of pollutants and other products of combustion, non-carbon-based fuels including hydrogen, ammonia, and metal powders, the start and end of combustion, and the ability of combustion chambers to stand up under use. She heads the combustion research group at the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation in Toulouse, and holds a ...

#7892

Gail Brion

#167963

Overall Influence

1901 - Present (125 years)

Gail Montgomery Brion is an inventor and a professor of civil engineering and the Director of the Environmental Research and Training Laboratories at the University of Kentucky. An expert on waterborn illness, she holds a co-appointment in the College of Public Health. She works to introduce and maintain high quality water systems in rural regions.

#7893

Tony Turner

#80348

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Professor Anthony Peter Francis Turner, FRSC, usually known as Tony Turner, is a British academic specialising in the fields of biosensors and bioelectronics. Biography Professor Anthony Turner is an Emeritus Professor of Cranfield University in England, where he was previously the Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology and Principal of Cranfield University at Silsoe. He remained Innovations Director for Cranfield Ventures Ltd , with responsibility for licensing and spin offs from Cranfield University. He joined Linköping University in 2010, to help re-establish the university in the fiel...

#7894

Kai Sun

#173239

Overall Influence

#7895

Paula Nascimento

#173244

Overall Influence

1981 - Present (45 years)

Paula Nascimento is an Angolan architect and curator who along with Stefano Rabolli Pansera curated the Angolan pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia which won the Golden Lion for "best national participation".

#7896

Lucien A. Schmit Jr.

#170040

Overall Influence

1928 - 2018 (90 years)

Lucien André Schmit Jr. was an American engineer. He worked at Grumman between 1951 and 1953, then joined the Aeroelastic and Structures Research Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Schmit left MIT for the Case Institute of Technology in 1958, and was named Wilbert J. Austin Distinguished Professor of Engineering in 1969. The next year, Schmit began teaching at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was granted membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1985, and retired from UCLA in 1993. Schmitt died at the age of 89 on March 16, 2018, at home in Lynnwo...

#7897

Alan Muir Wood

#100123

Overall Influence

1921 - 2009 (88 years)

Sir Alan Marshall Muir Wood was a British civil engineer. Education Muir Wood was born on 8 August 1921 at Hampstead in London. Educated at Abbotsholme School, he later studied mechanical sciences at Peterhouse, Cambridge, from 1940 and graduated with a Master of Arts degree.

#7898

Roland Topor

#59322

Overall Influence

1938 - 1997 (59 years)

Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, who was known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish-Jewish origin. His parents were Jewish refugees from Warsaw. He spent the early years of his life in Savoy, where his family hid him from the Gestapo.

#7899

Cary Millholland Parker

#82860

Overall Influence

1902 - 2001 (99 years)

Cary Millholland Parker was an American landscape architect based in Washington, D.C. Education and personal life Cary Blunt Millholland was born in Cumberland, Maryland, on December 11, 1902. She was one of five children of James Allaire and Harriet Woodward Millholland. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1924 and then continued her studies informally while traveling around Europe and East Asia. Her travels in Asia developed her interest in trees as a landscape element. She went on to enroll in the landscape architecture program at the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Arc...

#7900

Judy Green

#64699

Overall Influence

Judy Green is an American volleyball coach. She is the former head coach of the volleyball team at the University of Alabama , and was formerly the head coach at the University of Montevallo from 1986-1995. She is a graduate of Tuscola High School in Waynesville, NC and of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC where she lettered in 12 varsity sports, the only WCU athlete to ever do so.

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