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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#8001

Robert Holden

#137061

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Robert Holden is a British landscape architect born in Preston and educated at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Later a director of Brian Clouston and Partners, and director of the MA Landscape Architecture programme at the University of Greenwich. From 2004 he served as Secretary General of the European Foundation for Landscape Architecture. Robert Holden has been described as the leading European landscape architecture critic of his generation.

#8002

J. Keith Motley

J. Keith Motley

#51164

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

James Keith Motley is a former academic administrator who served as the eighth chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Boston. Personal life and background Motley was born to Cornelia Motley Williams and John Motley Jr. He attended Peabody High School in Pittsburgh and is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's Upward Bound Program.

#8003

Badri Roysam

#121285

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Badrinath "Badri" Roysam is an Indian-American professor and researcher. He is the current chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Roysam is notable as the creator of the FARSIGHT project, which is a collaborative effort to create an open source software toolkit to analyze multidimensional images. Roysam's work as a researcher focuses on cancer immunotherapy and neuroscience.

#8004

Leonardo Meeus

#146259

Overall Influence

Leonardo Meeus is a Belgian academic who studies Nonmarket Strategy, EU Energy Policy and Energy Economics. He is the Director of the Florence School of Regulation and professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, in the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Director of the Energy Centre at Vlerick Business School in Brussels, Belgium.

#8005

Peng Gao

#174801

Overall Influence

#8006

Gustaaf Van Tendeloo

#174934

Overall Influence

#8007

Joan Burt

#148606

Overall Influence

1930 - Present (96 years)

Joan Burt was a Canadian architect and educator. She was born in Toronto and received a BArch from the University of Toronto in 1956, becoming the 21st woman to graduate from the program. Burt worked with architecture firm Mathers and Haldenby from 1956 to 1958 and with developer Irwin Burns from 1958 to 1959 before establishing her own firm in 1958. Since the 1960s, she has been involved in renovating 19th century rowhouses in downtown Toronto. New home projects include the Luella Booth Residence in Toronto, the Daymond House in Guelph and the O'Reilly Residence in Etobicoke. She was a membe...

#8008

Xing-Fang Li

#160309

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Xing-Fang Li is a toxicologist whose research involves the discovery and identification of water contaminants through the development of new analytical technologies, as well as the engineering of solutions to ensure safe drinking water. Li is a professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta in Canada. She is a Canada Research Chair in Analytical and Environmental Toxicology, and was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021.

#8009

Emily Cranston

#116021

Overall Influence

Emily D. Cranston is a Canadian chemist who is a professor at the University of British Columbia and President’s Excellence Chair in Forest Bioproducts. She investigates nanocellulose and hybrid bio-based materials. Cranston is an NSERC E.W.R. Steacie fellow and was awarded the Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry lectureship in 2018 and the Tappi NanoDivision Technical Award in 2021.

#8010

Jane Ammons

#114437

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Jane Chumley Ammons is an American industrial engineer known for her research on supply chain engineering and on the recycling of industrial goods, including carpet. She is the former chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, the former president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and a professor emerita at Georgia Tech.

#8011

John Prescott

#174966

Overall Influence

#8012

Sarah L. Waters

#48216

Overall Influence

Sarah Louise Waters is a British applied mathematician whose research interests include biological fluid mechanics, tissue engineering, and their applications in medicine. She is a professor of applied mathematics in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, and a Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Society.

#8013

Carey-Ann Burnham

#169685

Overall Influence

Carey-Ann Burnham is a clinical microbiologist, and a professor of Pathology and Immunology, Molecular Microbiology, Pediatrics and Medicine in Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology.

#8014

Roger Krone

#138854

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Roger A. Krone is the President and CEO of the Boy Scouts of America. Prior to his selection to lead the Boy Scouts of America, Krone, an aerospace engineer, was a former chief executive officer of Leidos. Krone worked for 45 years in the aerospace industry, where he also held senior program management and finance positions at Boeing, McDonnell Douglas Corp. and General Dynamics. Krone is also licensed airplane pilot and a marathon runner.

#8015

David Keith-Lucas

#63223

Overall Influence

1911 - 1997 (86 years)

David Keith-Lucas was a British aeronautical engineer. Early life David Keith-Lucas was one of the sons of Alys Hubbard Lucas and Keith Lucas, who invented the first aeronautical compass. After the death of Keith Lucas in 1916, his wife Alys changed the family name, and, as Alys Keith-Lucas, edited a short book giving his background together with reminiscences of him and a list of his publications. David Keith-Lucas was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read engineering.

#8016

Eric Edward Fullerton

#173705

Overall Influence

Eric Edward Fullerton from the University of California, San Diego, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 "for contributions to the synthesis and characterization of magnetic exchange coupled films, superlattices and recording media".

#8017

Khandker Nurul Habib

#175052

Overall Influence

Khandker Nurul Habib is a Bangladeshi-Canadian engineer and academic. He was born in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, and later moved to Canada. He is the 5th of 6 children of Abdur Razzaque Khandker and Salma Khandker. Currently, he is a tenured Full Professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering. He was also the endowed 'Percy Edward Hart Professor':2019-2022 at the University of Toronto. Professor Khandker Nurul Habib completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto . After finishing his Ph.D., he joined the University of Alberta as an assistant professor in civil engineering.

#8018

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou

#88106

Overall Influence

1942 - 2012 (70 years)

Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou was a professor of biomedical engineering and the Director of Computational Intelligence Laboratories at Rutgers University. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou was also a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering , a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , and a Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine. Dr. Micheli-Tzanakou's areas of interest included neural networks, information processing in the brain, image and signal processing applied to biomedicine, telemedicine, mammography, hearing aids and electronic equivalents of neurons.

#8019

Anne Lesage

#145094

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Anne Lesage is a French engineer who is a group leader at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. She is based at the High Field NMR Centre of the Lyon Institute of Analytical Sciences, where she develops novel nuclear magnetic resonance approaches to characterise solid-state materials.

#8020

A. Emin Aktan

#172521

Overall Influence

Ahmet Emin Aktan is an American engineer, focusing in health monitoring, currently the John Roebling Professor of Infrastructure Studies at Drexel University. He is an Honorary Professor at Muğla University.

#8021

Arno Fischer

#82151

Overall Influence

1927 - 2011 (84 years)

Arno Fischer was a German photographer and university teacher. Life Early years and war Arno Fischer's father worked as a type setter. Arno attended school locally from 1933 till 1941 when he started training in aspects of carpentry . On reaching 17 he joined the army in 1944/45 concluding his military career as a prisoner of war held by the British, who released him in 1946.

#8022

Domitilla Del Vecchio

#122611

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

Domitilla Del Vecchio is an Italian control theorist, whose research connects control theory to systems biology, synthetic biology, synthetic biological circuits, and regenerative medicine. She has also studied self-organization in traffic control. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the MIT Synthetic Biology Center.

#8023

Italo Insolera

#87511

Overall Influence

1929 - 2012 (83 years)

Italo Insolera was an Italian architect, urban and land planner, and historian. He published several books and essays dealing with the economic, social and cultural circumstances and conditions of urban development, and the use of the ancient town in the framework of metropolitan development. These issues were also the primary focus of his professional and academic work, where restoration and planning of historical towns and environmental systems prevail. He was especially interested in the relationship between archaeology and the modern city; he proposed solutions for the correct use of ancient towns that included traffic restriction, pedestrianization, and restoration.

#8024

Nelson C. Baker

#132558

Overall Influence

Nelson C. Baker is an American academic and civil engineer. He is the current dean of professional education at Georgia Tech and an associate professor in the institute's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

#8025

Roberto Sabatini

#175079

Overall Influence

Roberto Sabatini is an Italian-Australian research engineer and academic specializing in aerospace and defense systems. Currently, he is a full professor at Khalifa University of Science and Technology and honorary professor at RMIT University . Sabatini holds or has held visiting and consulting appointments at a number of institutions, including: Polytechnic University of Turin ; Chosun University ; Durban University of Technology/Space Science Center ; the UAE Space Agency; and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Additionally, Sabatini is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE A...

#8026

Alexander Mathys

#172567

Overall Influence

Alexander Mathys is a German scientist specializing in sustainable food systems and food technology. He is a tenure-track professor in Sustainable Food Processing at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. His work primarily focuses on finding sustainable and nutritional food and animal feed alternatives that would improve the sustainability performance.

#8027

Mohammad Reza Aref

#175254

Overall Influence

#8028

Nitza Metzger-Szmuk

Nitza Metzger-Szmuk

#151255

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

Nitza Metzger-Szmuk is an Israeli architect, and Emet Prize laureate in architecture for her work on documentation and preservation of Tel Aviv's White City. She also received the Rokach Prize in 2001.

#8029

Takao Kobayashi

#175274

Overall Influence

#8030

Agnar Pytte

#120548

Overall Influence

1932 - 2015 (83 years)

Agnar "Ag" Pytte was the fourth President of Case Western Reserve University. Pytte was born in Kongsberg, Norway, on December 23, 1932, to Ole and Edith Pytte. During his senior year of high school, Pytte moved to the United States in 1949 to attend Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He received his bachelor's degree in physics from Princeton University in 1953. He married Anah Currie Loeb on June 18, 1955. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1958 from Harvard University, he accepted a faculty position at Dartmouth College in Physics and Astronomy. Pytte later served as chairman of that dep...

#8031

Min Hyun-sik

#123718

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (80 years)

Min Hyun-sik is a South Korean architect. Biography Min was born in 1946, in Gyeongnam, Korea. After having worked and studied under architect Kim Swoo Geun of Space Group and architect Yoon Seung Joong of Wondoshi Architects Group , he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, UK, in 1989/1990. In 1992, he started his own practice H. Min Architect and Associates. In 1997, he was one of the core members to establish a school of visual arts at the Korea National University of Arts, at which he holds a professorship to this day.

#8032

Hong Chen

#174580

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Hong Chen is a Chinese engineer specializing in control theory and its application to automotive control systems and automated driving. She is a distinguished professor of control science and engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai,, dean of the Tongji University College of Electronic and Information Engineering, and holder of the Porsche Chair at Tongji University.

#8033

Alice Mary Stoll

Alice Mary Stoll

#105829

Overall Influence

1917 - 2014 (97 years)

Alice Mary Stoll was an American biophysicist who developed fire-resistant fabric. She was a pioneer in aerospace medicine. She received the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1969.

#8034

Walter Abraham

#106017

Overall Influence

1923 - 2006 (83 years)

Walter Victor "Wally" Abraham, BArch, DipTCP, ARAIA, FAPI was an Australian architect and town planner, noted for designing the layout of the campus of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, as well as overseeing the first 20 years of its development.

#8035

Sanjukta Deb

#172072

Overall Influence

Sanjukta Deb is a British professor of biomaterials science at the Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Sciences at King's College London , United Kingdom. She joined KCL in 1996. Biography Deb earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from Delhi University in 1986. According to Scopus, she has published more than 162 scientific documents with 2487 citations, and an h-index of 26. She has presented her work at various national and international conferences. Sanjukta has also authored many book chapters. She is an editor and a reviewer to various international scientific journals in the field of biomaterials science.

#8036

Richard J. Goodwin

#115617

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

Richard Goodwin is an Australian artist, architect and professor of Fine Arts and Design at the University of New South Wales School of Art and Design. Work Goodwin is the director of Richard Goodwin Pty Ltd, a Sydney-based practice that has evolved from performance art to sculpture, installations, parasitic architecture and freeway infrastructure. Goodwin's artwork is held in major collections including the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney and regional galleries across Australia. He regularly consults on major infrastructure projects such as bridges and freeway walls.

#8037

Kim Pickering

#175383

Overall Influence

Kim Louise Pickering is a New Zealand composite materials engineer. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato. Academic career After a BSc at Imperial College London, three years at Plessey Research Caswell and a PhD at the University of Surrey, Pickering started working at the University of Waikato in 1994 and rose to full professor in 2014.

#8038

David Ross

#121085

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (81 years)

David Ross is an English actor who has worked in theatre, cinema and television. His best-known roles include playing the first Kryten and the second Talkie Toaster in science-fiction comedy Red Dwarf, Elgin Sparrowhawk in the BBC One sitcom The Green Green Grass, and as Mr. Sedley in a 1998 serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair.

#8039

Fiona M. Doyle

#172770

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Fiona Mary Doyle is an American materials scientist who is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Donald H. McLaughlin Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016 and a Fellow of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society in 2021.

#8040

Kirsten Morris

#95375

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kirsten Anna Morris is a Canadian applied mathematician specializing in control theory, including work on flexible structures, smart materials, hysteresis, and infinite-dimensional optimization. She is a professor at the University of Waterloo, the former chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Activity Group on Control and Systems, the author of two books on control theory, and an IEEE Fellow.

#8041

Syed I. Ahson

#98638

Overall Influence

Syed I Ahson is a computer science professor, education management professional, researcher, and author. He specialises in multiple areas, including bioinformatics, computational biology, and Web 2.0. Ahson graduated from University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He was a National Merit Scholarship Award, India . He also won a British Council Overseas Scholarship Award for Ph.D. . He later taught in Saudi Arabia and India. His recent posting was at Patna University, Bihar as pro-Vice chancellor. While there he enacted educational reforms amide political chaos and bureaucracy.

#8042

Dacheng Ren

#170737

Overall Influence

Dacheng Ren is the Stevenson-endowed professor in the Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Syracuse University. He also serves as the director for the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute. Ren is known for research on biofilm growth and work on inhibition of bacterial growth on medical devices.

#8043

Sanjiv Narayan

#114950

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Sanjiv M. Narayan is a British-born American physician, biomedical engineer, and academic researcher. He is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. Narayan's work is focused on treating patients with heart rhythm disorders, particularly those with atrial fibrillation. His research applies bioengineering and computational methods to develop improved diagnostic tools and therapy.

#8044

Min Xiao

#175446

Overall Influence

#8045

John Alexander Carroll

#55098

Overall Influence

1925 - 2000 (75 years)

John Alexander Carroll was an American academic between the 1950s to 1980s. During this time period, he primarily worked for the University of Arizona and Troy State University. While with Arizona, Carroll created Arizona and the West in 1959. He remained as the journal's editor until 1963.

#8046

Laurence Weatherley

#138270

Overall Influence

Laurence Weatherley is a British engineer, currently the Albert P. Learned Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at University of Kansas. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand and, in 1992, he was the DuPont Endowed Chair at Queens University of Belfast. He was the head of the Department of Chemical & Process engineering at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, from 1998 to 2004.

#8047

Roshini Kempadoo

#78014

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Roshini Kempadoo is a British photographer, media artist, and academic. For more than 20 years she has been a lecturer and researcher in photography, digital media production, and cultural studies in a variety of educational institutions, and is currently a professor in Photography and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster.

#8048

Bill Cunningham

Bill Cunningham

#35867

Overall Influence

1929 - 2016 (87 years)

William John Cunningham Jr. was an American fashion photographer for The New York Times, known for his candid and street photography. A Harvard University dropout, he first became known as a designer of women's hats before moving on to writing about fashion for Women's Wear Daily and the Chicago Tribune. He began taking candid photographs on the streets of New York City, and his work came to the attention of The New York Times with a 1978 capture of Greta Garbo in an unguarded moment. Cunningham reported for the paper from 1978 to 2016.

#8049

Bob Guccione

#26723

Overall Influence

1930 - 2010 (80 years)

Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione was an American photographer and publisher. He founded the adult magazine Penthouse in 1965. This was aimed at competing with Hugh Hefner's Playboy, but with more explicit erotic content, a special style of soft-focus photography, and in-depth reporting of government corruption scandals and the art world. By 1982 Guccione was listed in the Forbes 400 wealth list, and owned one of the biggest mansions in Manhattan. However, he made some extravagant investments that failed, and the growth of free online pornography in the 1990s greatly diminished his market.

#8050

Sandi Sissel

#93028

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Sandra "Sandi" Sue Sissel is an American cinematographer, director and producer. Her interest in photography was apparent as early as high school, where she was a photojournalist for her school paper. She is best known for documentaries such as Chicken Ranch, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition , and Mother Teresa as well as TV shows like 60 Minutes, and feature films like Salaam Bombay!, Master and Commander Far Side of the World and Mr. and Mrs. Smith. She has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1994, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts a...

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