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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#1401

Thomas Roth

#71629

Overall Influence

#1402

Tony Fretton

#52671

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Tony Fretton is a British architect known for his residential and public gallery buildings, as well as other British and international design work. He graduated from the Architectural Association and worked for various practices including Arup, Neyland and Ungless, and Chapman Taylor, before setting up his own firm, Tony Fretton Architects, in 1982. His first major project was the Lisson Gallery in 1990. He is known for designing "location sensitive art spaces" using a combination of vernacular and minimalist approaches balancing new and age-old designs.

#1403

Teruo Okano

#71661

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

#1404

Biswanath Mukherjee

Biswanath Mukherjee

#58239

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Biswanath Mukherjee is an Indian-American Distinguished Professor of computer science at University of California, Davis. He is also a fellow of IEEE for contributions to architectures, algorithms, and protocols for optical networks.

#1405

Martin L. Beck

#41334

Overall Influence

Martin L. Beck was an architect, artist, and professor of architecture. Biography Undergraduate work at Royal Institute of Technology, Budapest, HungaryPratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1922–23Graduate College, School of Architecture, Princeton University , as winner of scholarship award in national competition.

#1406

Vojislav Bego

#64337

Overall Influence

1923 - 1999 (76 years)

Vojislav Bego was a Croatian electrical engineer. He was born in Split. He graduated in 1946 at the Technical Faculty in Zagreb. Worked in the company Rade Končar , where he led the project for manufacturing high-voltage instrument transformers with open core. In 1958 he started teaching at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he received his PhD in 1965, and professorship in 1968. In the period 1970-1972 he served as the faculty dean.

#1407

Peter Corrigan

#39566

Overall Influence

1941 - 2016 (75 years)

Peter Russell Corrigan was an Australian architect and was involved in the completion of works in stage and set design. Early life and achievements Corrigan was educated at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and then completed his degree in architecture, in 1966 at Melbourne University. He further pursued his studies at Yale University in 1969 under Robert Venturi, completing a master's degree in Environmental Design. Having worked for Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolf, César Pelli and Kevin Roche in New Haven, he returned to Australia in 1974 where he formed his practice, Edmond and Corrigan, a partnership with his wife, Maggie Edmond, initiated in 1975.

#1408

Arduino Cantafora

#44073

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Arduino Cantafora , Italian-Swiss architect, painter, and writer. He was the student of Aldo Rossi Biography Graduated at the Politecnico di Milano, he became renowned for his paintings with Renaissance influence, inspired by Giorgio de Chirico. He became acquainted with Aldo Rossi, of whom he was a pupil.

#1409

John Simpson

#38417

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

John Simpson , is a British New Classical architect. Education and career Simpson studied architecture at University College London. Simpson is Principal of John Simpson Architects LLP, Chartered Architects and Urban Designers, London.

#1410

Yoram Koren

#36627

Overall Influence

1938 - Present (86 years)

Yoram Koren is an Israeli-American academic. He is the James J. Duderstadt Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing and the Paul G. Goebel Professor Emeritus of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Since 2014 he is a distinguished visiting professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

#1411

Andrzej Cichocki

#55906

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Andrzej Cichocki is a Polish computer scientist, electrical engineer and a professor at the Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland and a visiting professor in several universities and research institutes, especially Riken AIP, Japan. He is most noted for his learning algorithms for Signal separation , Independent Component Analysis , Non-negative matrix factorization , tensor decomposition, Deep Matrix Factorizations for ICA, NMF, PCA, neural networks for optimization and signal processing, Tensor network for Machine Learning and Big Data, and brain–computer interfaces.

#1412

Nasrine Seraji

#45143

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Professor Nasrine Seraji-Bozorgzad AA Dipl FRIBA, is an Iranian-born French-British architect. She is a 2011 recipient of the Knight of the Legion of Honour, an Officier of l'Ordre national du Mérite and l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

#1413

John W. Kirklin

#72017

Overall Influence

#1414

Akbar Adibi

#32416

Overall Influence

1939 - 2000 (61 years)

Akbar Adibi was an Iranian electronic engineer, VLSI researcher, and university engineering professor. Biography Akbar Adibi was born on February 12, 1939, in the city of Songhor, in North East of province Kermanshah in Iran. He received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering Department from Tehran University in 1965 and he was offered a position as a university instructor at the Tehran Polytechnic . In 1965–66, he worked for the Alstom Power Plant, Tehran, Iran, In 1966–73, he served as an instructor at the Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran.

#1415

Soliman Abdel-hady Soliman

#37335

Overall Influence

Dr. Soliman Abdel-hady Soliman was an Egyptian professor of electrical engineering focusing on power and machines sector. Since 1997, he has been Professor of Electric Power System Analysis, Electrical Power & Machines Department, at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt,

#1416

Richard D. James

#54748

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Richard D. James is a mechanician and materials scientist. He is currently the Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. He was educated at Brown University and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University under the direction of J.L. Ericksen.

#1417

Domenico Grasso

Domenico Grasso

#34770

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Domenico Grasso is an American engineer, professor and the sixth chancellor of the University of Michigan–Dearborn. He has previously served as provost of the University of Delaware, vice president for research and dean of two different colleges at the University of Vermont. Grasso is Smith College's Picker Engineering Program's founding director.

#1418

Eliathamby Ambikairajah

#54067

Overall Influence

Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah is a Tamil Australian engineer, academic and head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales. Early life Ambikairajah was educated at Jaffna Hindu College between 1959 and 1969. He graduated from the University of Sri Lanka in 1974 with a BSc honours degree in electronic engineering and telecommunications.

#1419

Anton Mavretič

#59891

Overall Influence

1934 - 2019 (85 years)

Anton Mavretič was a Slovene electrical engineer who worked in the United States. Mavretič moved to the United States in 1957. He studied at the University of Denver and the Syracuse University. Then he worked at Westinghouse for two years developing color TV and finally studied at the Pennsylvania State University where he obtained PhD in ionospheric research. Later, he became an engineer at MIT where he worked on the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform. In 1978, he was employed at Harvard University and in 1980 became a professor and research associate at the Center for Space Physics at Boston University.

#1420

Galip Ulsoy

#37423

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ali Galip Ulsoy is an academic at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, where he is the C.D. Mote Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and the William Clay Ford Professor Emeritus of Manufacturing.

#1421

Jakob Stoustrup

Jakob Stoustrup

#28179

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Jakob Stoustrup is a Danish researcher employed at Aalborg University, where he serves as professor of control theory at the Department of Electronic Systems. Education Jakob Stoustrup received the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics in 1991, both from the Technical University of Denmark.

#1422

Martha Thorne

#49403

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Martha Thorne is an American architectural academic, curator, editor, and author. She is the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and Dean in the architecture school at IE University in Madrid. Formerly, she was a curator in architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago.

#1423

Christian J. Lambertsen

Christian J. Lambertsen

#10545

Overall Influence

1917 - 2011 (94 years)

Christian James Lambertsen was an American environmental medicine and diving medicine specialist who was principally responsible for developing the United States Navy frogmen's rebreathers in the early 1940s for underwater warfare. Lambertsen designed a series of rebreathers in 1940 and in 1944 and first called his invention breathing apparatus. Later, after the war, he called it Laru and finally, in 1952, he changed his invention's name again to SCUBA . Although diving regulator technology was invented by Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1943 and was unrelated to rebreathers, the current use of the word SCUBA is largely attributed to the Gagnan-Cousteau invention.

#1424

Benjamin William Zweifach

#72308

Overall Influence

#1425

Charles Nicholas Hales

#57353

Overall Influence

1935 - 2005 (70 years)

Charles Nicholas "Nick" Hales was an English physician, biochemist, diabetologist, pathologist, and professor of clinical biochemistry Biography After education at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stafford, C. Nicholas Hales matriculated in 1953 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1956. He studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BChir in 1959. At University College Hospital he was a house physician under Max Rosenheim. Hales returned to the University of Cambridge for graduate study in biochemistry. He received in 1964 his PhD under the superv...

#1426

Brian Norton

#26465

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Brian Norton is a solar energy applications researcher and technologist. As president of Dublin Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2018, he was an advocate for diversity of higher education in Ireland. He has also been associated with the relocation of DIT from a multiplicity of scattered buildings to a single city centre campus in the Grangegorman neighbourhood of Dublin and the creation of the Technological University Dublin, Ireland's first Technological University.

#1427

Surendra P. Shah

#72450

Overall Influence

#1428

Zhong Wanxie

#44275

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Zhong Wanxie , also known as Wan-Xie Zhong, was a Chinese civil engineer and physicist. He was a professor at the Dalian University of Technology who specializes in computational mechanics and engineering mechanics. He pioneered computational mechanics in China and served as the founding Chairman of the Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics and an executive committee member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.

#1429

Stephen E. Cross

Stephen E. Cross

#44878

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Stephen Edward Cross is the executive vice president for research at the Georgia Institute of Technology , a position to which he was appointed in 2010. As EVPR, Cross coordinates research efforts among Georgia Tech's colleges, research units and faculty; and provides central administration for all research, economic development and related support units at Georgia Tech. This includes direct oversight of Georgia Tech's interdisciplinary research institutes, the Georgia Tech Research Institute , the Enterprise Innovation Institute and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation .

#1430

Anthony Alofsin

#54444

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Anthony Alofsin is an architect, artist, art historian, writer, and professor. Educated at Memphis Academy of Art and Phillips Academy, Andover, he received from Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, respectively, a Bachelor Arts and Master of Architecture . From Columbia University, he obtained a Ph.D. in Art History and Archaeology .

#1431

Françoise-Hélène Jourda

#49587

Overall Influence

1955 - 2015 (60 years)

Françoise H Jourda was an award-winning French architect. Jourda has taught architecture internationally since 1979 at the Ecole d’Architecture de Lyon, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, the University of Minnesota, the Polytechnic of Central London, the Technical University of Kassel, Germany, and since 1999 at the Vienna University of Technology. Jourda has her own firm, JAP , and heads EO-CITE, an architecture and urban planning consulting firm.

#1432

Michael Gaster

#66656

Overall Influence

Michael Gaster FRS is a British aerospace engineer, and Professor of Experimental Aerodynamics, at City University, London. Gaster was awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 2010.

#1433

David A. Hodges

#24204

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (87 years)

David Albert Hodges was an American electrical engineer, digital telephony pioneer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Hodges was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1983 for innovative contributions to integrated circuit design techniques and their application to data and signal processing.

#1434

S. David Wu

#17540

Overall Influence

Szu-yung David Wu is a Taiwanese-American educator who is the President of Baruch College of the City University of New York since 2020. He is the first Asian-American appointed to this position at a CUNY college. Previously he held the position of Provost and Executive Vice President of George Mason University.

#1435

David Haussler

#6866

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

David Haussler is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that deepens understanding the molecular function and evolution of the genome.

#1436

Elsie Effah Kaufmann

Elsie Effah Kaufmann

#40598

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Elsie Akosua Biraa Effah Kaufmann is a Ghanaian academic, academic administrator, biomedical engineer, and current host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. In December 2020, Elsie Kaufmann was appointed an associate professor at the University of Ghana, and was appointed the Dean of the School of Engineering Sciences on 1 August 2022.

#1437

John Ochsendorf

#35417

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

John Ochsendorf is an American educator, structural engineer, and historian of construction; he is a professor in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is widely known for becoming a MacArthur Fellow in 2008 He served as the Director of the American Academy in Rome from 2017 to 2020. In 2022, he was appointed the founding director of the newly created MIT Morningside Academy for Design.

#1438

Warren E. Dixon

#17583

Overall Influence

Warren E. Dixon is a control theorist and a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida. He has served as the chair of the department since 2021. Bibliography

#1439

Maria Chudnovsky

Maria Chudnovsky

#11135

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Maria Chudnovsky is an Israeli-American mathematician working on graph theory and combinatorial optimization. She is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow. Education and career Chudnovsky is a professor in the department of mathematics at Princeton University. She grew up in Russia and Israel, studying at the Technion, and received her Ph.D. in 2003 from Princeton University under the supervision of Paul Seymour. After postdoctoral research at the Clay Mathematics Institute, she became an assistant professor at Princeton University in 2005, and moved to Columbia University in 2006. By 2014, she was the Liu Family Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia.

#1440

Wolfgang Knauss

#67582

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Wolfgang Gustav Knauss is an American engineer. He was Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics at Caltech . Education Knauss grew up in Siegen during the Second World War as the son of a Methodist pastor. In 1954 he made his Abitur at the Helmholtz Realgymnasium in Heidelberg. After the war, the acquaintance of a Methodist pastor from Pasadena , who visited the family in Heidelberg, enabled Knauss to attend Pasadena City College and study at Caltech from 1955 with a bachelor's degree in 1958. Originally, he wanted to study rocket technology, but ended up studying fracture mechanics with aeronautics professor Max L.

#1441

Sami Haddadin

#38854

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Sami Haddadin is an electrical engineer, computer scientist, and university professor in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence . Since April 2018, he has been the executive director of the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence at the Technical University of Munich and holds the Chair of Robotics and Systems Intelligence.

#1442

Dietmar Eberle

#55691

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Dietmar Eberle is an Austrian architect. Winner of over 150 national and international competitions, he has been a teacher in several universities in North America and Europe. Since 1999 he has been Professor at the ETH Zurich, becoming the Dean of the School of Architecture within the same university between 2003 and 2005. He has also been header of the Center of Housing and Sustainable Urban Development at the ETH Zurich.

#1443

Jan M. Rabaey

#40947

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Jan M. Rabaey is an academic and engineer who is Professor Emeritus and Professor in the Graduate School of in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves as the CTO of the Systems Technology Co-Optimization division at imec, Belgium.

#1444

Anupama Kundoo

#56787

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Anupama Kundoo is an Indian architect. Biography Anupama Kundoo studied architecture at the Sir J. J. College of Architecture, University of Bombay and received her degree in 1989. She was awarded the Vastu Shilpa Foundation Fellowship in 1996 for her thesis on "Urban Eco-Community: Design and Analysis for Sustainability". She got her doctoral degree from the Technical University of Berlin in 2008.

#1445

Takuo Aoyagi

#33604

Overall Influence

1936 - 2020 (84 years)

Takuo Aoyagi was a Japanese engineer, known for his work leading to the modern pulse oximeter. Early life, education and career Aoyagi was born February 14, 1936, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His parents were Monshichi and Tatsu Aoyagi. His father was a mathematics teacher and his mother was a homemaker.

#1446

Timon Rabczuk

#73035

Overall Influence

#1447

Reymond Clavel

#51684

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Reymond Clavel is director of the Laboratoire de Systèmes Robotiques 2 at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in the development of parallel robots, and the inventor of the notable Delta robot. His interest in research and his teaching are related mostly to robotics, micro-robotics and high precision mechanisms. His main domains of expertise are:Conception of parallel and hybrid kinematics for robots and tool-machines.Conception of robots with high speed, high dynamics and ultra high precision.Conception of high precision mechanisms.Concepti...

#1448

Ann Saterbak

#50651

Overall Influence

Ann Saterbak is a Professor of Biomedical engineering and Engineering Design and Communication at Duke University, and is a co-author of Bioengineering Fundamentals. She formerly worked at Rice University, also as a Professor of Biomedical engineering.

#1449

Michael Arad

#30035

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Michael Arad is an Israeli-American architect who is best known for being the designer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. He won the competition to design the memorial in 2004. Early life and education Arad, an Israeli citizen, was born in 1969 in London. London was where his father, Moshe Arad, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States and Mexico, was on a diplomatic mission. Arad lived in Jerusalem for nine years. He did his military service in a Golani Brigade commando unit.

#1450

Chang Chun-yen

#37269

Overall Influence

1937 - 2018 (81 years)

Chang Chun-yen was a Taiwanese electrical engineer and professor who served as President of National Chiao Tung University . He was a member of Academia Sinica. He was also elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for contributions to Taiwanese electronics industry, education, and materials technology.

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