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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#3051

Weihua Zhuang

#108323

Overall Influence

#3052

Antonio Cesare Nanni

#108341

Overall Influence

#3053

John R. Hetling

#85193

Overall Influence

John R. Hetling is an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the Richard and Loan Hill Department of Bioengineering and department of ophthalmology and visual sciences. He is also the director of undergraduate studies for the department of bioengineering and the director of the Neural Engineering Vision Laboratory at UIC, and chief science officer of RetMap, Inc. At UIC, Hetling developed the first undergraduate course track in neural engineering, and in 2008, he and his students authored a widely accepted definition of the field.

#3054

David Kirk

#66935

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

David Blair Kirk is a computer scientist and former chief scientist and vice president of architecture at NVIDIA. As of 2019, he is an independent consultant and advisor. Kirk holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. From 1989 to 1991, Kirk was an engineer for Apollo Systems Division of Hewlett-Packard. From 1993 to 1996, Kirk was Chief Scientist and Head of Technology for Crystal Dynamics, a video game manufacturing company. From 1997 to 2009...

#3055

Stanford Robert Ovshinsky

#108392

Overall Influence

#3056

Yukio Ninagawa

#11493

Overall Influence

1935 - 2016 (81 years)

Yukio Ninagawa was a Japanese theatre director, actor and film director, particularly known for his Japanese language productions of Shakespeare plays and Greek tragedies. He directed eight distinct renditions of Hamlet. Ninagawa was also emeritus of the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music.

#3057

Marina Waisman

#91801

Overall Influence

1920 - 1997 (77 years)

Marina Kitroser de Waisman was an Argentine architect, critic, and writer. She was awarded the Premio América in 1987. Biography Waisman was born in Buenos Aires. She graduated as an architect from the National University of Córdoba in 1944. She was a professor at the same university from 1948, when the first Chair of Contemporary Architecture was created, until 1971. Between 1956 and 1959, she taught at National University of Tucumán with Enrico Tedeschi and Francisco Bullrich, creating Instituto Interuniversitario de Historia de Arquitectura .

#3058

Eran Neuman

#75149

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Eran Neuman is an Israeli architect and architectural historian. Currently, he is the dean of the Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University. Between 2010 and 2018, Neuman headed the Azrieli School of Architecture at TAU. He is the founder of the Azrieli Architectural Archive at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and was a co-founder of the international research collaborative Open Source Architecture.

#3059

Antonio J. Conejo

#108466

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#3060

Arnold Ganser

#108486

Overall Influence

#3061

Panagiotis D. Christofides

#108504

Overall Influence

#3062

Murad Hasratyan

#46349

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Murad Hasratyan is an Armenian architectural historian. Biography He was born in Yerevan to an educated family. His father, Morus Hasratyan was a renowned historian-philologist, honorary figure of the Armenian SSR, the first student of the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University, later, he was the Director of History Museum of Armenia.

#3063

Gyula Strommer

#90235

Overall Influence

1920 - 1995 (75 years)

Gyula Strommer was a Hungarian mathematician and astronomer. He discovered an asteroid, 1537 Transylvania, on 27 August 1940. This was his first scientific success. From 1942, he was a teaching assistant at the Descriptive Geometry Department of the Technical University of Budapest. In 1952, he became the head of the Descriptive Geometry Department. In 1972, he was appointed a university professor. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

#3064

David Cardwell

#71752

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

David A. Cardwell, FREng, is a British superconducting engineer. He is a professor of superconducting engineering, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning at the University of Cambridge, former head of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, former co-director of the KACST-Cambridge Research Centre and a fellow of Fitzwilliam College. In 2012, Cardwell was elected as a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

#3065

Mark K. Wax

#108543

Overall Influence

#3066

John V. Wehausen

John V. Wehausen

#63342

Overall Influence

1913 - 2005 (92 years)

John Vrooman Wehausen was an American applied mathematician considered to be one of the world's leading researchers and pioneers in the field of marine hydrodynamics. His contributions were in the area of ship waves, ship maneuverability, floating systems in waves, and ship-generated solitary waves. In 1960, he and Edmund V. Laitone published the comprehensive review article Surface Waves, which to this day is still an important resource for understanding the dynamics of water waves. Wehausen was emeritus professor of engineering science at the University of California, Berkeley.

#3067

Chaouki Abdallah

#82483

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Chaouki Tanios Abdallah is a Lebanese-American engineer and academic administrator who served as the 22nd President of the University of New Mexico. Early life and education Abdallah was born and raised in Lebanon. He began his education at the Saint Joseph University before earning a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Youngstown State University. Abdallah earned a Master of Science and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech.

#3068

Vivek Goyal

#68384

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Vivek K Goyal is an American engineering professor, author, and inventor. He is currently Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University . He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for contributions to information representations and their applications in acquisition, communication, and estimation. He was named OSA Fellow in the 2020 class for outstanding inventions in computational imaging and sensing, including unprecedented demonstrations of the utility of weak, mixed, and indirect optical measurements. He is also a member ...

#3069

Chinthananda Tellambura

#108592

Overall Influence

#3070

Richard Muther

#89946

Overall Influence

1913 - 2014 (101 years)

Richard Muther was an American consulting engineer, faculty member at MIT, and author. He developed fundamental techniques used in plant layout, material handling, and other aspects of industrial engineering. He was also known as "Mister Systematic".

#3071

Junichiro Kono

#93865

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Junichiro Kono is a professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science and NanoEngineering, at Rice University. Early life Junichiro Kono received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and 1992, respectively, and completed his Ph.D. in physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995. He was a postdoctoral research associate in condensed matter physics at the University of California Santa Barbara from 1995-1997, and the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory Fellow in the Department of Physics at Stanford University from 1997-2000.

#3072

Konstantinos N. (kostas) Plataniotis

#108707

Overall Influence

#3073

Marcel Stive

#97103

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Marcel J.F. Stive is a Dutch professor of coastal engineering at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology. Biography Education and career Marcel Stive studied Civil engineering at the Delft University of Technology, where he graduated in 1977 and received his doctorate in 1988 under professor Jurjen Battjes.

#3074

John M. Pauly

#108224

Overall Influence

John Mark Pauly is the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is co-director of the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Laboratory , which designs improved MRI techniques and equipment. He is Advisor to Stanford Student Space Initiative.

#3075

Christos Kozyrakis

#64893

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Christos Kozyrakis is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University, where he leads the multi-scale architecture & systems team . His current research interests are on resource efficient cloud computing, energy efficient compute and memory systems, and architectural support for security. Kozyrakis was the 2015 ACM Maurice Wilkes Award for outstanding contributions to transactional memory systems.

#3076

Walker H. Land

#65023

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Walker Haden Land, Jr. is a former research professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Binghamton University. Land joined the faculty at Binghamton after a long career at IBM, and has publications in the fields of complex adaptive systems, statistical learning theory, bioinformatics, and cancer research.

#3077

Joseph H. Ogura

#108839

Overall Influence

#3078

Jiashi Feng

#108846

Overall Influence

#3079

Hans G. Hornung

Hans G. Hornung

#88632

Overall Influence

1934 - Present (90 years)

Hans G. Hornung is an emeritus C. L. "Kelly" Johnson Professor of Aeronautics and Director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology . He received his bachelor and master degrees from the University of Melbourne and his Ph.D. degree in Aeronautics from Imperial College, London. He worked in the Aeronautical Research Laboratories, Melbourne , and in the Physics Department of the Australian National University , with a sabbatical year as a Humboldt Fellow in Darmstadt, Germany, 1974. In 1980 he accepted an offer to head the Institute for Experimental Fluid Mechanics of the DLR in Göttingen, Germany.

#3080

Sadaoki Furui

#108860

Overall Influence

#3081

Junseok Chae

#95005

Overall Influence

1974 - 2020 (46 years)

Junseok Chae was a South Korean engineer and academic administrator specialized in microelectromechanical systems. He was a professor at the Arizona State University School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering and associate dean of research and innovation at ASU Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering.

#3082

Elizabeth Gerber

#85008

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Gerber is an associate professor in the Segal Design Institute, Mechanical Engineering, and Technology and Social Behavior departments at Northwestern University. Early life and education Gerber earned her B.A. at Dartmouth College in Studio Art and Engineering in 1998, and her M.S. at Stanford University in the Joint Program in Product Design in 2003. She earned her Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University in 2007 working with Robert I. Sutton, Chip Heath, and Pamela Hinds.

#3083

Teddy Cruz

#87905

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Teddy Cruz is an American architect, urbanist, Professor in Ancient Architecture and Urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego. Cruz studied at Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City, Guatemala, but moved to the United States at the age of 20, continuing his education at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#3084

Bernard Crossland

#47240

Overall Influence

1923 - 2011 (88 years)

Sir Bernard Crossland was a British professor of engineering with a career spanning some seven decades. He was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1987 and was knighted in 1990 for services to Northern Ireland.

#3085

Joan Margarit

#65352

Overall Influence

1938 - 2021 (83 years)

Joan Margarit i Consarnau was a Catalan poet, architect and professor. Most of his work is written in the Catalan language. He won the 2019 Miguel de Cervantes Prize. Life and career Born in Sanaüja to Joan Margarit i Serradell, an architect from Barcelona, and Trinitat Consarnau i Sabaté, a teacher at l'Ametlla de Mar , he grew up at the time of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. His family moved to various locations in Catalonia. In 1954, they settled in the Canary Islands, but in 1956 Margarit returned to Barcelona to complete his architecture studies, lodging at the University hall of residence the Col·legi Major Sant Jordi.

#3086

Vishwani Agrawal

#78140

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Vishwani D. Agrawal is the James J. Danaher Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. He has over four decades of industry and university experience, including working at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, Rutgers University, TRW and IIT, Delhi. He is well known as a cofounder and long-term mentor of the International Conference on VLSI Design held annually in India since 1985.

#3087

Shōji Ueda

#32396

Overall Influence

1913 - 2000 (87 years)

Shōji Ueda was a photographer of Tottori, Japan, best known for his distinctive, dreamlike black-and-white images with staged figures, taken on the Tottori sand dunes. The term Ueda-chō has been used to refer to his cool and mysterious atmospheric style.

#3088

James Merritt Downey

#109010

Overall Influence

#3089

Jacek M. Zurada

Jacek M. Zurada

#56413

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Jacek M. Zurada is a Polish engineer who serves as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. His M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are from Politechnika Gdaṅska ranked as #1 among Polish universities of technology. He has held visiting appointments at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Princeton, Northeastern, Auburn, and at overseas universities in Australia, Chile, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, and South Africa. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of International Neural Networ...

#3090

Marcos Intaglietta

#109050

Overall Influence

#3091

Andrew Clennel Palmer

#53922

Overall Influence

1938 - 2019 (81 years)

Andrew Clennel Palmer was a British engineer who worked on offshore geotechnical problems of submarine pipeline design and the study of the properties of ice. He spent much of his career as a teacher and academic researcher, at the University of Liverpool, Cambridge University, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and the National University of Singapore, punctuated by work in industry, while also serving as an expert witness and as a member of various industrial and academic committees.

#3092

Martin Haenggi

#103804

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Martin Haenggi is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2014 for his contributions to the spatial modeling and analysis of wireless networks.

#3093

Fuhui H. Wang

#109081

Overall Influence

#3094

William Sethares

#69898

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

William A. Sethares is an American music theorist and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. In music, he has contributed to the theory of Dynamic Tonality and provided a formalization of consonance.

#3095

Graham Barnfield

#42497

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Graham Barnfield is a British academic and pundit associated with the hard left Revolutionary Communist Party . In 1993 he began writing on cultural politics in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Barnfield also comments on documentary representation, leading to some radio and television appearances discussing reality television and happy slapping. He teaches journalism at the University of East London.

#3096

Peter G. Ryan

#109124

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

#3097

Ali Javey

#109133

Overall Influence

#3098

Gui-yun Yu

#109147

Overall Influence

#3099

Peter E. Caines

#17107

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Peter Edwin Caines, FRSC is a control theorist and James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which he joined in 1980.

#3100

Horst Mittelstaedt

#38273

Overall Influence

1923 - 2016 (93 years)

Horst Mittelstaedt was a German biologist and cybernetician. Together with Erich von Holst he demonstrated the "Reafference Principle" in 1950 concerning how an organism is able to separate reafferent sensory stimuli from exafferent sensory stimuli. This concept largely dealt with interactive processes between the central nervous system and its periphery.

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