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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#9001

Yanda Li

#188182

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Yanda Li from the Tsinghua University, Beijing, China was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to research and education in signal processing and bioinformatics.

#9002

David Lubkeman

#188189

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

David Lubkeman from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to power system distribution systems. He holds Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

#9003

Anne Hardy

#72361

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (56 years)

Anne Hardy is a British artist. Her art practice spans photography, sculptural installation and audio. She completed an MA in photography at the Royal College of Art in 2000, having graduated from Cheltenham School of Art in 1993 with a degree in painting. Hardy lives and works in London.

#9004

Stephanie Schorge

#99135

Overall Influence

Stephanie Schorge is a Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology at University College London. She is known for her research into mutations that cause neurological diseases.

#9005

François Chaumette

#159985

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

François Chaumette is an electrical engineer at the University of Rennes 1 in Rennes, France. Chaumette was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his contributions to vision-based robot control.

#9006

Daniel A. Barber

#184862

Overall Influence

Daniel A. Barber is Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney and a Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Daniel has held academic positions and fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and Yale University, and at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and most recently as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at the Universität Heidelberg. He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowsh...

#9007

Shih-Ying Lee

#188206

Overall Influence

1922 - 2018 (96 years)

Shih-Ying Lee or S. Y. Lee was an American aerodynamicist, businessman, inventor, and mechanical engineer who was noted for his research and innovation in hydrodynamics-related technologies. He was also a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#9008

Matthew Dalby

#180356

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Matthew John Dalby FRSE is Professor of Cell Engineering at the University of Glasgow. His research is focused on mesenchymal stem cell interactions with nanotopography, with particular focus on the use of metabolomics, to study mechanotransduction.

#9009

Prasad Gogineni

#138555

Overall Influence

Sivaprasad "Prasad" Gogineni is an American engineer, currently the Cudworth Professor of Engineering at University of Alabama and formerly the Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor at University of Kansas.

#9010

Jeremy R. Jass

#188282

Overall Influence

#9011

Felix F. Wu

#188291

Overall Influence

#9012

JoAnne Akalaitis

#13327

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

JoAnne Akalaitis is an avant-garde Lithuanian-American theatre director and writer. She won five Obie Awards for direction and was founder in 1970 of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York City.

#9013

Mehdi Ashraphijuo

#72618

Overall Influence

Mehdi Ashraphijuo is an Iranian-American mathematician, financial risk manager, academic and writer, residing in New York City. Ash is currently a vice president and executive director at Goldman Sachs and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. He is a CFA and FRM charter-holder. In addition, he is a board member at business advisory board of School For Business at Metropolitan College of New York .

#9014

Jerry Turner

#114461

Overall Influence

1927 - 2004 (77 years)

Jerry Turner served as artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from 1971 to 1991. He transformed the festival from a summer program for semi-professional actors into one of the top regional theaters in the country by leading the Ashland, Oregon-based company beyond its Shakespearean repertoire. He produced plays by Bertold Brecht, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and August Strindberg and added the Angus Bowmer Theatre in 1970 and the Black Swan in 1977 to the festival's original theater, the Elizabethan Stage.

#9015

Jeff Carter

#102938

Overall Influence

1928 - 2010 (82 years)

Jeff Carter was an Australian photographer, filmmaker and author. His work was widely published and contributed iconic representation of the working population of the Australian bush as self-sufficient rugged and laconic.

#9016

T. R. Viswanathan

#115246

Overall Influence

T. R. Viswanathan is an American engineer, who is currently the Silicon Laboratories Endowed Chair in Electrical Engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. He is formerly the Dean of the Indian Institute of Technology. https://www.ece.utexas.edu/people/faculty/emeritus

#9017

Debbie Lindell

#187860

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Debbie Lindell is the Dresner Chair in life sciences and medicine at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She is known for her work on the interactions between viruses and their hosts in marine environments.

#9018

Lawrence Michael Brown

#101471

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Lawrence Michael Brown FRS HonFRMS is a British material scientist. He is emeritus fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge. In 2017 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society for his contributions to microscopy.

#9019

Herbert Woodson

#183399

Overall Influence

1925 - 2018 (93 years)

Herbert Horace Woodson was an American engineer, who was the Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair Emeritus and Dean Emeritus at Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. He was a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

#9020

Euan Mason

#98076

Overall Influence

Euan G. Mason is a Professor at the School of Forestry in the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. Biography Mason was born in Invercargill, New Zealand but raised in Lower Hutt and Geneva before moving on to New Jersey. His hobbies include astronomy, music, computer programming and football. Mason completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in 1992.

#9021

Louis B. Rosenberg

Louis B. Rosenberg

#184622

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Louis Barry Rosenberg is an American engineer, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur. He researches augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. He was the Cotchett Endowed Professor of Educational Technology at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He founded the Immersion Corporation and Unanimous A.I., and he wrote the screenplay for the 2009 romantic comedy film, Lab Rats.

#9022

Simone Schürle-Finke

#186807

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (41 years)

Simone Schürle-Finke is a German biomedical engineer, assistant professor, and Principal Investigator for the Responsive Biomedical Systems Laboratory in Switzerland. Schürle is a pioneer in nanorobotic and magnetic servoing technologies.

#9023

Ron Jude

#180842

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Ron A. Jude is an American photographer and educator, living in Eugene, Oregon. His photography, which "often explores the relationship between people, place, nature and memory", has been published in a number of books. Jude works as a professor of art at the University of Oregon.

#9024

Anjali Kusumbe

#176756

Overall Influence

Anjali Kusumbe is a British-Indian biologist who is the Head of the Tissue and Tumour Microenvironments Group at the Medical Research Council Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford. She was awarded the Royal Microscopical Society Award for Life Sciences in 2022.

#9025

Elaine Mayes

#34001

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (90 years)

Elaine Mayes is an American photographer and a retired professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Academia Beginning in 1968, she taught at the University of Minnesota, and in 1971 joined Jerome Liebling as part of the founding faculty at Hampshire College, where she taught for ten years. Her students included documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, Michel Negroponte, Roger Sherman, Buddy Squires, Kirk Simon, and Karen Goodman. In 1976, Mayes, and former students Burns and Sherman, founded a production company called Florentine Films in Walpole, New Hampshire. The company's name was borrowed from Mayes' hometown of Florence, Massachusetts.

#9026

Brian Bellhouse

#185454

Overall Influence

1937 - 2017 (80 years)

Brian J. Bellhouse was a British academic, engineer, and entrepreneur, the inventor of PowderJect, a needle-free injection system for delivering medications and vaccines. He was also a professor at the University of Oxford.

#9027

Ke Wu

#188477

Overall Influence

#9028

Ian Gibson

#176781

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (63 years)

Ian Gibson is a Professor of Design Engineering at the University of Twente. Gibson was selected as the scientific director of Fraunhofer Project Center at the University of Twente and is a recipient of lifetime achievement award, the Freeform and Additive Manufacturing Award. His main areas of research are in at the additive manufacturing, multi-material systems, micro-RP, Rapid Prototyping, Medical Modelling and tissue engineering.

#9029

Leon Narbey

#166993

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Leon Gordon Alexander Narbey is a New Zealand cinematographer. Born in Helensville, Narbey was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, specialising in sculpture. Married Anita Janske Narbey in 1966 and they had together two daughters Vanessa and Beatrix. He lectured at the University of Canterbury in 1972, before joining the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation as a news cameraman. In the mid-1970s, he shot the Geoff Steven documentary Te Matakite o Aotearoa, about the 1975 Māori land march. In 1978 he made Bastion Point: Day 507 with Merata Mita and Gerd Pohlmann which he also edited and co-produced with them.

#9030

Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill

#69109

Overall Influence

1924 - 2012 (88 years)

P. G. O'Neill was a British academic and writer on Japanese language and Noh drama. O'Neill was, with Ronald P. Dore, Sir Peter Parker and John R. McEwan, one of the "Dulwich boys", 30 sixth-formers who commenced study of Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in May 1942.

#9031

Gerhard Hancke

#173308

Overall Influence

Gerhard P. Hancke from the University of Pretoria, South Africa was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to wireless sensor networks. Education and career Hancke received a BEng and MEng from Stellenbosch University and DEng from the University of Pretoria in 1983. He is Chair of the Computer Engineering Program at the University of Pretoria and is responsible for undergraduate, graduate and research activities. He is head of a joint initiative between the University of Pretoria and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research ,...

#9032

Donald A. Danielson

#171253

Overall Influence

Donald A. Danielson is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Space Systems Academic Group at the Naval Postgraduate School. Early life and education Danielson received a B.S. degree in mathematics from MIT in 1964 and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1968.

#9033

Q. Jane Wang

#188155

Overall Influence

Qian Jane Wang is an American professor of mechanical engineering and the Executive Director for the Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology at Northwestern University. She is a tribologist whose research includes work on contact mechanics, lubrication, micromechanics, and solid-state batteries.

#9034

Anne-Marie Jolly-Desodt

#186824

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (74 years)

Anne-Marie Jolly-Desodt, , is a French engineer and academic. Also published as Anne-Marie Jolly, she was deputy director of Ensait from 2001 to 2005 and director of the École Polytechnique of the University of Orléans from 2008 to 2012. She received the Irène Joliot-Curie Prize as female scientist of the year in 2004.

#9035

Geoffrey Scammell

#179503

Overall Influence

1925 - 2006 (81 years)

Geoffrey Vaughan Scammell was a British historian and fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, who was an authority on Tudor and Stuart maritime history. Early life Geoffrey Scammell was born on 11 July 1925 in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. Attended Wallasey Grammar School. He graduated from Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, BA in 1948 . After service at sea and a position at Durham, he became a Fellow of Pembroke College 12 years later, where he remained as a lecturer and scholar until his retirement in 1992.

#9036

Ahmed Rubaai

#188596

Overall Influence

Ahmed Rubaai is an electrical engineer at Howard University in Washington, DC. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for his contributions to the development of high-performance controls for motor drives.

#9037

Miss Elizabeth

#38595

Overall Influence

1960 - 2003 (43 years)

Elizabeth Ann Hulette , best known in professional wrestling circles as Miss Elizabeth, was an American professional wrestling manager, occasional professional wrestler and professional wrestling TV announcer. She gained international fame from 1985 to 1992 in the World Wrestling Federation and from 1996 to 2000 in World Championship Wrestling , in her role as the manager to wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage, as well as other wrestlers of that period. She died as a result of an acute toxicity on May 1, 2003, in the home she shared with wrestler Lex Luger.

#9038

Peter Goin

#78321

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (75 years)

Peter Goin is an American photographer best known for his work within the altered landscape, specifically his photographs published in the book Nuclear Landscapes. His work has been shown in over fifty museums nationally and internationally and he is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Goin is currently a Foundation Professor of Art in Photography and Videography at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has also done extensive rephotography work in the Lake Tahoe region.

#9039

Jesse L. Martin

Jesse L. Martin

#55737

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Jesse Lamont Martin is an American actor and singer. He is best known for his role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical Rent and performed on television as NYPD Detective Ed Green on Law & Order, Captain Joe West on The Flash, and professor Alec Mercer on The Irrational.

#9040

Jean Grossholtz

#116458

Overall Influence

1929 - 2021 (92 years)

Thelma Jean Grossholtz was an American professor emeritus of politics and women's studies at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Beyond her academic work she was also known as an activist for peace and against forced prostitution, and as a senior bodybuilder.

#9041

Miguel Modestino

#187693

Overall Influence

Miguel A. Modestino is a Venezuelan-born chemical engineer and co-founder of Sunthetics along with Myriam Sbeiti and Daniela Blanco. Sunthetics uses artificial intelligence to optimize chemical reactions by inducing electrical pulses, from renewable energy, into the reaction instead of just heating them. Modestino is a part of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, which is a group focused on reducing the need for fossil fuel by developing solar fuels as a direct alternative. Modestino also formed a group called the Modestino Group, which specialize in developing state of the art elec...

#9042

Rohit Khare

#168894

Overall Influence

Rohit Khare is an Indian American computer scientist and entrepreneur who has been active in many aspects of the development of the World Wide Web. He is the founder of Ångströ, the co-founder of KnowNow, a former director of CommerceNet Labs and a key player in the microformats community. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine and bachelor's degree from Caltech, both in Computer Science. He previously worked on Internet security for the W3C. He is active in the Representational State Transfer community, and in August 2007 wrote the ARRESTED paper on syndication-oriente...

#9043

Eden Woon

#181393

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Eden Woon is an American academic, former military officer, and businessman. Woon currently serves as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, beginning September 1, 2022. Woon was formerly President of the Asian Institute of Technology, a graduate university located outside Bangkok, Thailand.

#9044

Corinne Vezzoni

#100240

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Corinne Vezzoni is a French architect. She was born in Arles and was educated at the . Vezzoni founded Agence Corinne Vezzoni & Associés at Marseille in 2000. Vezzoni is an instructor in planning and development at the University of Provence. She also teaches at the .

#9045

Claus Bech-Danielsen

#187602

Overall Influence

Claus Bech-Danielsen is a Danish professor in architecture and spatial planning at the Aalborg University, where he is also Head of Department at the Center for Housing Research. As part of his research, Claus Bech-Danielsen has been the principal investigator of a project designed to evaluate the renovation of social housing between 2014-2016. Furthermore, he has single-handedly carried out a project which explored trends in house building with the aim to chart the direction of future projects.

#9046

Michael Green

#188720

Overall Influence

#9047

Maurice Françon

Maurice Françon

#136026

Overall Influence

1913 - 1996 (83 years)

Maurice Françon was a French engineer and physicist. Early life Françon was born on rue de Littré in the 6th arrondissement of Paris on 15 June 1913. His father was related to the Edouard Herriot's family and worked as an Chemical Engineer at the Physical Research Laboratory of the Sorbonne managed by Gabriel Lippmann, then founded an automobile company.

#9048

Gordon Parks

#111538

Overall Influence

1912 - 2006 (94 years)

Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s , for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree.

#9049

Joshua Miele

#57573

Overall Influence

Joshua A. Miele is an American research scientist who specializes in accessible technology design. Since 2019, Miele has been Principal Accessibility Researcher at Amazon Lab126, a subsidiary of Amazon that works on hardware products. Before joining Amazon, Miele conducted research on tactile graphics and auditory displays at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in California for fifteen years. He has been blind since early childhood.

#9050

Alina Scholtz

#178854

Overall Influence

1908 - 1996 (88 years)

Alina Scholtz was a Polish landscape architect, known as one of country's pioneers in developing the field. Throughout her career she worked on various public and private projects for cemeteries, parks and green spaces. Some of her most noted works include the grounds of a villa on Kielecka Street in Warsaw for which she won a Silver Medal at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris, the memorial cemetery to the victims of the Palmiry massacre, and landscaping projects along the East-West traffic route of Warsaw. In addition to her design work, she served as one of the founding members of the Inter...

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