Search People Result | Academic Influence

Find the most influential people in 24 academic disciplines and numerous subdisciplines

Find famous and important people related to your research. This is an excellent tool for research papers, topic papers, and building a bibliography. Using our influence-based algorithm, our rankings synthesize data from Wikipedia, Wikidata, Semantic Scholar, and CrossRef.

Students and researchers now have a fast and reliable way to find influential thinkers from 24 disciplines and 300 sub-disciplines (and growing). If you want to find history’s most influential philsosophers, or the world’s most influential mathematicians currently, now you can.

We also provide custom rankings of people by discipline as well as interviews with influential academics who are currently active.

To use this tool, select the discipline (and optional subdiscipline) relevant to your research, and specify influential academics by history, world, or US. Even results that are counterintuitive are often enlightening (our algorithm always picks up a signal).

Methodology: How and Why We Rank by Influence …

See additional learning tools, study tips, features on campus life and much more at our Student Resources Headquarters.

Search Influential People

Person Name

School

Gender

Country

Discipline

Subdiscipline

Ranking

List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#2551

Gordon Kenneth Moe

#99438

Overall Influence

#2552

Hermann W. Dommel

#85165

Overall Influence

1933 - Present (91 years)

Hermann W. Dommel received his Diplom Ingenieur in 1959 and Doktoringenieur in 1962, in Electrical engineering, from the Technical University in Munich. "In the 1960s he pioneered the foundation for the electromagnetic transients program, software that has become an indispensable tool in the power industry", according to the IEEE, winning him in 2013 the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering. Since 1973, he has been with the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he is currently Professor Emeritus.

#2553

Richard M Sharpe

#99487

Overall Influence

#2554

Mark Prausnitz

#78198

Overall Influence

Mark Robert Prausnitz is an American chemical engineer, currently Regents’ Professor and J. Erskine Love, Jr. Chair in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at Emory University and Adjunct Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He is known for pioneering microneedle technology for minimally invasive drug and vaccine administration, which has found applications in transdermal, ocular, oral, and sustained release delivery systems...

#2555

Arthur Robert Calderbank

#99513

Overall Influence

#2556

Kathryn Huff

#58687

Overall Influence

1986 - Present (38 years)

Kathryn D. Huff is an American engineer serving as the assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy. In January 2022, she was nominated to the position. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on May 5, 2022 by a 80–11 vote and sworn in on May 11, 2022.

#2557

Waldemar Karwowski

#99528

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

#2558

Marianne Cusato

#57514

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Marianne Cusato is a designer, educator, author, and urban designer based in Miami, Florida. She was the designer of the "Katrina Cottage," conceived in 2005 as an alternative to the FEMA emergency trailers supplied to some of the newly homeless survivors of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In 2006, Cusato entered into a licensing agreement with the Lowe's Home Centers to make the cottages available in kit form in all Lowe's stores nationwide or the plans alone online.

#2559

Paolo Piva

#80259

Overall Influence

1950 - 2017 (67 years)

Paolo Piva was an Austrian-Italian architect and designer. Biography Paolo Piva was born on 13 March 1950, in Adria in the Veneto region of Northern Italy. He studied architecture under Prof. Carlo Scarpa in Venice.

#2560

Dean Roden Chapman

#83881

Overall Influence

1922 - 1995 (73 years)

Dean Roden Chapman was a mechanical engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and at Stanford University. Biography He played basketball for the oft-maligned Caltech Beavers men's basketball team while he got a B.S. from Caltech. He began his professional career at Ames Aeronautical Laboratory in 1948, where he later became Director of Astronautics. He left government service in 1980 to join the faculty at Stanford University. At the time of his death from cancer at age 73, he was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Aeronautics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.

#2561

Florian Idenburg

#90768

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Florian Idenburg is a Dutch architect and co-founder of the award-winning architectural design firm SO – IL in New York City. Education and early career Idenburg studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, receiving a MSc. in Architectural Engineering in 1999. From 2000 to 2007, Idenburg served as Associate at SANAA, where he was in charge of the design and realization of two internationally acclaimed museums .

#2562

Sarah Hainsworth

Sarah Hainsworth

#38344

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sarah Victoria Hainsworth is Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bath. Previously she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University, Professor of Materials and Forensic Engineering, and Head of the Department of Engineering, at the University of Leicester.

#2563

Michael Kjaer

#99673

Overall Influence

#2564

Calvin Mooers

#8553

Overall Influence

1919 - 1994 (75 years)

Calvin Northrup Mooers , was an American computer scientist known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC. Early life Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, attended the University of Minnesota, and received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1941. He worked at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory from 1941 to 1946, and then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a master's degree in mathematics and physics. At M.I.T. he developed a mechanical system using superimposed codes of descriptorss for information retrieval called Zatocoding.

#2565

Amilcare Porporato

#84007

Overall Influence

Amilcare M. Porporato is an Italian-American engineer. As of 2018 he is Thomas J. Wu ’94 Professor at Princeton University. From 2014 to 2017 he was the Addy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University and an Elected Fellow of American Geophysical Union. His current concerns are earth sciences and its relationships and systems.

#2566

Philip G. Hubbard

#90427

Overall Influence

1921 - 2002 (81 years)

Philip Gamaliel Hubbard was a university professor and administrator who was the first African-American faculty member at the University of Iowa, the first African-American administrator at any of Iowa's state universities and the first African-American vice president at a Big 10 university. In August 2012 Hubbard was inducted into the Iowa African American Hall of Fame.

#2567

Lawrence Scarpa

Lawrence Scarpa

#57797

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Lawrence Scarpa is an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. He used conventional materials in unexpected ways and is considered a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainable design.

#2568

Maurice Heemels

#91306

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Maurice Heemels is a Full Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 for contributions to analysis and design of hybrid, networked, and event-triggered systems.

#2569

Volker Staab

#61680

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Volker Staab is a German architect. Life Born in Heidelberg, Staab studied architecture from 1977 bis 1983 at the ETH Zürich . From 1985 to 1990, he worked as a freelancer for the office of Dietrich Bangert, Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz and in Berlin. In the same year, he collaborated on the design for the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

#2570

Franz Dr. Prof. Durst

#99714

Overall Influence

#2571

Branka Vucetic

#89975

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Professor Branka Vucetic is an Australian-based expert in coding theory and its applications in wireless technology. She works at the University of Sydney where she holds the positions of ARC Laureate Fellow, Peter Nicol Russell Chair in Telecommunications, and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications.

#2572

Richard Vaughan

#67572

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Richard Vaughan is a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Since 2018, Vaughan is on leave from SFU and is working at Apple. He is the founder and director of the SFU Autonomy Laboratory. In 1998, Vaughan demonstrated the first robot to interact with animals and in 2000 co-founded the Player Project, a robot control and simulation system.

#2573

Mohanarajah Gajamohan

#81376

Overall Influence

1980 - Present (44 years)

Mohanarajah Gajamohan is Swiss-based Sri Lankan robot scientist. Gajamohan has made significant contributions to cloud robotics by being the chief developer of Rapyuta robot database. His other notable project being Cubli self-balancing cube.

#2574

Mark M. A. Mintun

#99846

Overall Influence

#2575

Anette Kolmos

#47836

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Anette Kolmos is a Danish professor in engineering education and problem-based learning at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University. Education In 1984, Anette Kolmos got her MA in social science and psychology at Aalborg University. By 1989, she had completed her Ph.D. in technology and gender studies.

#2576

Ǵabor C. Temes

#99928

Overall Influence

#2577

Velimir Neidhardt

#38842

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Velimir Neidhardt is a Croatian architect, president of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2019. Neidhardt is a professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Architecture, former president of the Croatian Architects’ Association , and a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Since June 2015, he is also a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

#2578

Susan Wu

#85606

Overall Influence

Ying Chu Lin Wu was a Chinese-born American businesswoman and engineer in magnetohydrodynamics, aeronautics, and aerospace engineering. Education and career Wu was born in Peking, China studied mechanical engineering at National Taiwan University, and earned a B.S. in 1955. She moved to the United States in 1957 and earned an M.S. from Ohio State University in 1959 before moving to the California Institute of Technology , where she became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in aeronautics in 1963. Wu worked at Electro-Optics Corporation for two years. In 1965 she joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee Space Institute where she was promoted to professor in 1973.

#2579

Robert Love Taylor

#99977

Overall Influence

#2580

David Roberts

#31034

Overall Influence

1943 - 2021 (78 years)

David Stuart Roberts was an American climber, mountaineer, college professor, and author of books and articles about climbing and the history of the American Southwest. He was particularly noted for his books The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, chronicling major ascents in Alaska in the 1960s, which had a major impact on the form of mountaineering literature.

#2581

Farrokh Ayazi

#75118

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Farrokh Ayazi is a professor, the director of the Georgia Tech Analog Consortium and the Ken Byers Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to micro-electro-mechanical resonators and resonant gyroscopes.

#2582

Randy D Gascoyne

#100064

Overall Influence

#2583

Ahmed A. Kishk

#100134

Overall Influence

#2584

Leslie Leiserowitz

#51336

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Leslie Leiserowitz is an Israeli chemist and crystallographer. Leiserowitz studied electrical engineering at the University of Cape Town with a bachelor's degree, and then worked briefly as an electrical engineer and received a master's degree in physics . In 1959 he joined the X-ray crystallography department at the Weizmann Institute under Gerhard Schmidt, a student of Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin. The group at the Weizmann Institute has an international reputation in solid-state chemistry. From 1966 to 1968 he set up the organic chemistry X-ray crystallography department at the University of Heidelberg at the invitation of Heinz Staab.

#2585

Amar K. Mohanty

#97906

Overall Influence

Amar K. Mohanty is a material scientist and biobased material engineer, academic and author. He is a Professor and Distinguished Research Chair in Sustainable Biomaterials at the Ontario Agriculture College and is the Director of the Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre at the University of Guelph.

#2586

Takeo Uesugi

#66650

Overall Influence

1940 - 2016 (76 years)

was a Japanese-American landscape architect who designed acclaimed Japanese garden installations. He was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Kyoto University. Works Born in Osaka, Uesugi's prominent works include:The James Irvine Garden at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Little Tokyo, Los AngelesThe Huntington Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CaliforniaThe Gardens of Belief at the City of Hope National Medical CenterThe Japan Pavilion at the Expo '70, Suita, OsakaThe Hotel Nikko in Atlanta, GeorgiaThe Japanese Friendship Garde...

#2587

Jinsong Ren

#100200

Overall Influence

#2588

Xi-Cheng Zhang

#73579

Overall Influence

Xi-Cheng Zhang is a Chinese-born American physicist, currently serving as the Parker Givens Chair of Optics at the University of Rochester, and the director of the Institute of Optics. He is also the Chairman of the Board and President of Zomega Terahertz Corporation.

#2589

Mohammad J. Taherzadeh

#100242

Overall Influence

#2590

Mihaela Van Der Schaar Schaar

#100281

Overall Influence

#2591

Ravishankar K. Iyer

#74583

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Ravishankar K. Iyer is the George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a specialist in reliable and secure networks and systems.

#2592

Everett Peter Greenberg

#64770

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Everett Peter Greenberg is an American microbiologist. He is the inaugural Eugene and Martha Nester Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Microbiology of the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is best known for his research on quorum sensing, and has received multiple awards for his work.

#2593

Hiroaki Okamoto

#100341

Overall Influence

#2594

Mark S. Lundstrom

#72711

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Mark S. Lundstrom is an American electrical engineering researcher, educator, and author. He is known for contributions to the theory, modeling, and understanding of semiconductor devices, especially nanoscale transistors, and as the creator of the nanoHUB, a major online resource for nanotechnology. Lundstrom is Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in 2020 served as Acting Dean of the College of Engineering at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana.

#2595

Tobias Faber

#86140

Overall Influence

1915 - 2010 (95 years)

Tobias Faber, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect best known for his academic achievements, He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy's School of Architecture and the academy's president from 1954 to 1973. He was a strong advocate of keeping a human scale in architecture.

#2596

Isaak D. Mayergoyz

#44953

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Isaak D. Mayergoyz is the Alford L. Ward Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his master and PhD degrees in the former Soviet Union, where he was a senior research scientist at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences before emigrating to the US in 1980. In the next year, he was appointed full professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Maryland. In 1987, he received the Outstanding Teacher Award of the university's College of Engineering. In 1988, he was ...

#2597

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

Fulufhelo Nelwamondo

#54824

Overall Influence

1982 - Present (42 years)

Fulufhelo Vincent Nelwamondo is an electrical engineer by training, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, in South Africa. He is the youngest recipient of the Harvard-South Africa Fellowship Programme amongst other honours. His research and practical experience has covered a wide spectrum of areas, including software engineering and computational intelligence. His interests include biometrics-based systems, data mining and machine learning tools.

#2598

Christopher Barner-Kowollik

#82558

Overall Influence

1973 - Present (51 years)

Christopher Barner-Kowollik FAA, FQA, FRSC, FRACI is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow, the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President of the Queensland University of Technology and Distinguished Professor within the School of Chemistry and Physics at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Polymer Chemistry, a principal investigator within the Soft Matter Materials Laboratory at QUT and associate research group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

#2599

Felice Petraglia

#100411

Overall Influence

#2600

Jeremy Burroughes

#77824

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Jeremy Henley Burroughes is a British physicist and engineer, known for his contributions to the development of organic electronics through his work on the science of semiconducting polymers and molecules and their application. He is the Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Display Technology, a company specialising in the development of technologies based on polymer light-emitting diodes.

« Previous Next »

Image Attributions