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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#3001

Hakan Fehmi Oztop

#107453

Overall Influence

#3002

Lang Tong

#107459

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#3003

Frederick Nelson

#72496

Overall Influence

1932 - 2009 (77 years)

Frederick Nelson was professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. His areas of professional interest included acoustics, vibration, shock and rotordynamics. He wrote or co-authored more than 50 articles in professional publications. He wrote a monograph entitled An Introduction to Rotordynamics which was published posthumously by SAVIAC. Professor Nelson graduated from the Tufts College of Engineering in 1954 and received his Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Harvard University in 1961. He joined the Tufts faculty in 1955.

#3004

Behnam Malakooti

#54065

Overall Influence

Behnam Malakooti , is professor of systems engineering of department of electrical engineering and computer science at the Case Western Reserve University , Ohio, US. He has been affiliated with CWRU since 1982. He is a pioneer researcher in risk, operations management, manufacturing systems, multiple criteria optimization. He developed artificial neural networks for predicting decision-making behavior for out-of-sample data. He also pioneered the theory of multiple-objective optimization for solving decision making, operations and manufacturing systems, machinability of materials, artificial...

#3005

William K. George

#76547

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

William Kenneth George is an American-born fluid dynamicist holding both American and Swedish citizenships. He is currently senior research investigator in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. George is known for his research on both theoretical and experimental turbulence.

#3006

Stephen Shore

#10874

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (77 years)

Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places and American Surfaces , photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.

#3007

Peter Alan Cundall

#107540

Overall Influence

#3008

Yusuf Altintas

#107592

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

#3009

Ilija Arnautović

#99313

Overall Influence

1924 - 2009 (85 years)

Ilija Arnautović was a Serbian and Yugoslav architect, known for many projects from the 1960s to 1980s in Serbia and Slovenia. He was born in Niš, Kingdom of Yugoslavia and died in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

#3010

Neil Levine

#77023

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Neil Arthur Levine is an American art historian and educator, who is a specialist on Frank Lloyd Wright. Career Levine graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1963, and wrote a senior thesis on Beaux-Arts architecture in the United States, supervised by Robert Rosenblum. Levine then received a Master of Arts, studying Frank Heyling Furness, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History from Yale University in 1975. His dissertation was on the architect Henri Labrouste and the Sainte-Geneviève Library, supervised by Vincent Scully.

#3011

Weisi Lin

#103621

Overall Influence

Weisi Lin is a professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering of Nanyang Technological University , Singapore. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2016 "for contributions to perceptual modeling and processing of visual signals." He is also a Fellow of IET. He has been a Highly Cited Researcher , and a Distinguished Lecturer for both IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association . He has been elected for the COE Research Award 2023, NTU.

#3012

Weibo Cai

#107701

Overall Influence

#3013

E. Christopher Poulton

#107745

Overall Influence

#3014

Mitchell Silver

#37451

Overall Influence

Mitchell J. Silver is the former commissioner for the New York City Parks Department. Appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, he assumed office May 2014, and led the department until his resignation in July 2021. He was president of the American Planning Association between 2011 and 2013, the first African American to hold the title.

#3015

Gary Sullivan

#54764

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Gary Joseph Sullivan is an American electrical engineer who led the development of the AVC, HEVC, and VVC video coding standards and created the DirectX Video Acceleration API/DDI video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system.

#3016

C.J. Lim

#84422

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

CJ Lim is the Academic Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London ; and served as Vice-Dean and Pro-Provost of University College London. He is the founder and director of Studio 8 Architects, a UK-based multidisciplinary and international practice in sustainable urban planning, architecture and landscape, focusing on interpretations of social, cultural and environmental programmes. Along with Simon Dickens and Bernd Felsinger , Lim leads PG Unit 10 within The Bartlett School of Architecture's Architecture MArch cours...

#3017

David K. Gardner

#107769

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

#3018

Moshe Ben-Akiva

#92991

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Moshe E. Ben-Akiva is an Israeli-American engineer currently the Edmund K. Turner Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been awarded honorary degrees by University of the Aegean, Royal Institute of Technology, University of Antwerp and Université Lumière Lyon. His research is centered on transportation demand.

#3019

Liberato Manna

#107812

Overall Influence

#3020

Paul H. Kocher

#12558

Overall Influence

1907 - 1998 (91 years)

Paul Harold Kocher was an American scholar, writer, and professor of English. He wrote extensively on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien as well as on Elizabethan English drama, philosophy, religion, and medicine. His numerous publications include studies of Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon. He also authored books on the Franciscan missions of 18th- and 19th-century California.

#3021

Cardinal Warde

#81734

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Cardinal Warde is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works on optoelectronic materials for information processing, communications and holography. Warde is involved with education policy in the Caribbean, acting as a scientific advisor for the Government of Barbados and helping high school students access science education.

#3022

Constantino Sotelo

#107870

Overall Influence

#3023

Ben Munk

#98268

Overall Influence

1929 - 2009 (80 years)

Benedikt "Ben" Aage Munk was professor of electrical engineering at the ElectroScience Laboratory at The Ohio State University , Columbus, Ohio, US. Munk is best known for his contributions to the field of applied electromagnetic, especially periodic surfaces and antenna arrays. He is the author of many papers on periodic surfaces and antennas, as well as two key books. The most significant work are the "Finite Antenna Arrays and FSS" in which he discusses the design of the ultra wide band tightly coupled dipole antenna array and "Frequency Selective Surfaces: Theory and Design". Unlike ot...

#3024

Richard Padovan

#19003

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Richard Padovan is an architect, author, translator and lecturer. In the 1950s he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture; he has practised architecture in several European countries, and taught at the University of Bath and Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education. He is the namesake of the Padovan sequence.

#3025

Bao Yin Li

#107952

Overall Influence

#3026

Kian Tajbakhsh

#45700

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Kian Tajbakhsh is an Iranian-American scholar, social scientist, and urban planner. He has taught at both American and Iranian universities. Tajbakhsh is an international expert in the areas of local government reform, urban planning, civil society capacity building, and international public policy research collaboration. He has also directed international projects in the areas of public health and social policy.

#3027

H.-S. Philip Wong

#106048

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

H.-S. Philip Wong is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell professor in the School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Chinese-American electrical engineer whose career centers on nanotechnology, microelectronics, and semiconductor technology.

#3028

Flora Samuel

#70457

Overall Influence

Flora Samuel is a British architect, author and academic. In 2009 she became the Head of the School of Architecture at Sheffield University, the first woman to hold the post. Prior to this, she worked for ten years at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff. She was educated at Cambridge University.

#3029

Meyya Meyyappan

#108006

Overall Influence

#3030

John Michael Conlon

#108041

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#3031

Albert Alan Townsend

#108053

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#3032

Farzad Ebrahimi

#108078

Overall Influence

#3033

Michael Haverland

#69447

Overall Influence

Michael Haverland is an architect based in New York City and East Hampton, New York. His work includes residential, retail, commercial, institutional and urban design projects. Most recently, he collaborated with Calvin Klein on the design of a new house in Southampton, New York.

#3034

Paolo Toth

#84544

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (83 years)

Paolo Toth is an Italian scientist and engineer, and an Emeritus Professor of Operations Research at the University of Bologna. He is known for his research in operations research and mathematical programming. He made significant contributions in the areas of vehicle routing, knapsack and other cutting and packing problems, train scheduling, set covering, vertex coloring and, in general, combinatorial optimization. As of 2023, he published over 170 peer-reviewed articles and was cited more than 10,000 times.

#3035

Marimuthu Palaniswami

#72991

Overall Influence

Marimuthu Palaniswami from The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2012 for contributions to computational intelligence, learning systems, and nonlinear modelling.

#3036

Patricia Lyon Mokhtarian

#108121

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#3037

Walter Clark Randall

#108158

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#3038

Abbas Jamalipour

#100633

Overall Influence

Abbas Jamalipour received a PhD from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. He is Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

#3039

Louis Stettner

#54054

Overall Influence

1922 - 2016 (94 years)

Louis Stettner was an American photographer of the 20th century whose work included streetscapes, portraits and architectural images of New York and Paris. His work has been highly regarded because of its humanity and capturing the life and reality of the people and streets. Starting in 1947, Stettner photographed the changes in the people, culture, and architecture of both cities. He continued to photograph New York and Paris up until his death.

#3040

Paul Green

#32996

Overall Influence

1924 - 2018 (94 years)

Paul Eliot Green, Jr. was an American electrical engineer who researched spread spectrum and radar technology. He was the son of playwright Paul Green. Biography Green was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 14, 1924. Green majored in physics at the University of North Carolina. He also served in the Naval ROTC and continued in the Navy Reserve for many years, eventually retiring as a lieutenant commander. He received a master's degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University in 1948. His masters studies focused on cryptographic research, and were followed by Ph.D.

#3041

Jun Ni

#108213

Overall Influence

#3042

Luis M. Rocha

#28311

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Luis M. Rocha is the George J. Klir Professor of Systems Science at the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University . He has been director of the NSF-NRT Complex Networks and Systems graduate Program in Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He is also director of the Center for Social and Biomedical Complexity, between Binghamton University and Indiana University, Bloomington, a Fulbright Scholar, and Principal Investigator at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal. His research is on complex systems and networks, computational and s...

#3043

Abbas El Gamal

#101451

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Abbas El Gamal is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to network information theory, field-programmable gate arrays , and CMOS imaging sensors and systems. He is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. He has founded, co-founded and served on the board of directors and technical advisory boards of several semiconductor, EDA, and biotechnology startup companies.

#3044

Jian‐ming Jin

#108254

Overall Influence

#3045

Jamie Paik

#96067

Overall Influence

Jamie Paik is a Canadian engineer who is a professor and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Early life and education Paik was born in Canada. Her father is a scientist and her mother is a painter. She completed her bachelor's degree at University of British Columbia. She majored in mechanical engineering. She earned her PhD at Seoul National University, sponsored by Samsung Electronics. Her PhD considered the limbs of anthropomorphic robots.

#3046

Annette Gigon

#91635

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Annette Gigon is a Swiss architect born in Herisau, Switzerland. She is a founding partner of the office Gigon/Guyer and held a Chair of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Life Annette Gigon graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1984. After graduating, she worked for Marbach & Rüegg architects in Zurich from 1984 to 1985. Then, from 1985 to 1988, she worked for Herzog & de Meuron architects in Basel. She also worked as an independent architect from 1987 to 1989.

#3047

Shou‐zhuo Yao

#108265

Overall Influence

#3048

Rob Linsenmeier

#72602

Overall Influence

Rob Linsenmeier is a researcher and Professor at Northwestern University, and lives in Chicago. He is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurobiology & Physiology. He receives funding for his work from the National Eye Institute. His recent work has been on the oxygenation of the retinas of cats, which serves as a good model for the human retina. He is the winner of the 2007 Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award.

#3049

Fouad Tobagi

#96309

Overall Influence

Fouad Tobagi is a professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering. Education Fouad Tobagi received the Engineering Diploma from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, France, in 1970. He completed MS and PhD in Computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles .

#3050

Philip H. Lewis Jr.

Philip H. Lewis Jr.

#82334

Overall Influence

1925 - 2017 (92 years)

Philip Howard Lewis Jr. was an emeritus professor of landscape architecture who promoted the "environmental corridor" concept. He taught for more than 40 years at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin–Madison . Charles Little, author of Greenways for America, describes Lewis as the "...most inventive figure in regional landscape planning theory in the country".

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