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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#4501

Rupert Goold

#9604

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Rupert Goold is an English director who works primarily in theatre. He is the artistic director of the Almeida Theatre, and was the artistic director of Headlong Theatre Company . Early years Goold was born in Highgate, England, a suburb of north London. His father was a management consultant, and his mother was an author of children's books. He attended the independent University College School, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1994 with a First in English literature and studied performance studies at New York University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He was trainee director at Don...

#4502

Robert A. Scholtz

#130895

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#4503

Kirill Horoshenkov

#122846

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (66 years)

Kirill Horoshenkov is a Russian-born British academic and professor at the University of Sheffield. He is an expert in outdoor sound propagation, acoustic materials and instrumentation. In recognition of his contribution to the field of acoustics, he was awarded the Tyndall Medal by the Institute of Acoustics in 2006. He was elected a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America in 2014 and fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020.

#4504

Jean-pierre Merlet

#130906

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#4505

Jannick Rolland

#124325

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (65 years)

Jannick Rolland is the Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester. She is also the co-founder and CTO of LighTopTech, a women-owner business founded in 2013 to create medical imaging technologies with biomimetic noninvasive imaging technology. At the University of Rochester, she is the Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics . She is also the Director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering that engages undergraduates in optical design, fabrication, and metrology.

#4506

A.J. Han Vinck

#48943

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (77 years)

Adrianus Johannes "Han" Vinck is a Dutch computer scientist. He serves as senior professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, since September 2014. He is a member of the digital signal processing group at the electrical engineering Department. His interest is in Information and Communication theory, Coding and Network aspects in digital communications. He is the author of the textbook Coding Concepts and Reed-Solomon Codes.

#4507

Cyril Agodi Onwumechili

#39556

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (94 years)

Cyril Agodi Onwumechili was a Nigerian physicist, academic administrator, and professor of geophysics at the University of Ibadan and later University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was the fourth Vice Chancellor of the University of Ife from January 1979 to December 1982 and the former President/Vice Chancellor of the Anambra State University of Technology, Enugu, Nigeria, from January 1983 to December 1986 . He delivered the Ahiajoku lecture on 20 November 2000. He was the first Nigerian geophysicist and the second president of the Nigerian Academy of Science. He was elected as president of the ...

#4508

Wesley L. Harris

#130936

Overall Influence

1941 - Present (85 years)

Wesley L. Harris is an American physicist currently the C.S. Draper Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been awarded honorary doctorates by Milwaukee School of Engineering, Lane College and Old Dominion University.

#4509

Mariam Kamara

#75707

Overall Influence

1979 - Present (47 years)

Mariam Issoufou Kamara is a Nigerien architect. Her designs focus on open living spaces and make use of locally produced materials available to African communities: cement, recycled metal and raw earth.

#4510

Supratik Guha

#122904

Overall Influence

Supratik Guha is an Indian–American materials scientist. Guha graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985 and earned a doctorate in materials science from the University of Southern California in 1991. Between 1995 and 2015, he worked for IBM. He headed the Center for Nanoscale Materials from 2015 to 2019. After vacating the directorship, Guha remained a senior adviser to Argonne National Laboratory and on the faculty of the University of Chicago.

#4511

Taylan Altan

#130999

Overall Influence

#4512

Shiping Zhu

#131000

Overall Influence

Shiping Zhu is a Canadian engineer, currently a Canada Research Chair Distinguished Professor at McMaster University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Engineering Institute of Canada, Chemical Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, .

#4513

B. Prof. Denkena

#131030

Overall Influence

#4514

Fredrik Tufvesson

#131037

Overall Influence

#4515

Konstantina Nikita

#120719

Overall Influence

Konstantina "Nantia" Nikita is a Greek electrical and computer engineer and a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens , Greece. She is director of the Mobile Radiocommunications Lab and founder and director of the Biomedical Simulations and Imaging Lab, NTUA. Since 2015, she has been an Irene McCulloch Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California.

#4516

Arnold Kaufmann

#26104

Overall Influence

1911 - 1994 (83 years)

Arnold Kaufmann was a French engineer, professor of Applied Mechanics and Operations Research at the Mines ParisTech in Paris, at the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the Université catholique de Louvain, and scientific advisor at Groupe Bull. He is known for writing the first book on fuzzy sets, and as cofounder of the International Project Management Association.

#4517

Alison Marsden

#98653

Overall Influence

1976 - Present (50 years)

Alison Lesley Marsden is an American pediatric cardiologist and bioengineer. She is the Douglass M. and Nola Leishman Professor of cardiovascular disease in the departments of Pediatrics , Bioengineering, and, by courtesy, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is the daughter of Canadian-American mathematician Jerrold E. Marsden.

#4518

Bo Ai

#131111

Overall Influence

#4519

Viktor Mechtcherine

#131116

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

#4520

Ryūji Miyamoto

#40144

Overall Influence

1947 - Present (79 years)

Ryūji Miyamoto is a Japanese photographer, best known as the “ruins photographer”. Having studied graphic design at Tama Art University in Tokyo, he taught himself photography and began as an architectural journalist for magazines and newspapers. Inspired by the landscapes of post-war Japan that marked his childhood he came to reckon the imagery of destruction when he received a commission from Asahi Graph to document the demolition of the Nakano Prison in Tokyo.

#4521

Daniel Axelrod

#131121

Overall Influence

#4522

Kelin Wang

#111911

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (70 years)

Kelin Wang is a senior research scientist and has worked for the Geological Survey of Canada since 1992. His research encompasses geodynamics and natural hazards, with major contributions in researching slow-slip events along the Cascadia subduction interface.

#4523

Lee Copeland

#98846

Overall Influence

1937 - Present (89 years)

Lee G. Copeland is an American architect and urban designer. He served as Dean of the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning from 1972 to 1979 and thereafter as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts from 1979 to 1991. He is currently a consulting principal at Mithun.

#4524

Linda Brubaker

#131149

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#4525

Amit Misra

#131163

Overall Influence

#4526

Mario Gooden

#99362

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (61 years)

Mario Gooden is an architect in the United States. He is the director at Mario Gooden Studio based in New York, New York. He was previously the principal of Huff + Gooden Architects which he co-founded with Ray Huff in 1997. Gooden is also a Professor of Practice and Director of the Master of Architecture program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, where he teaches architectural design and theory. Gooden held previous academic appointments at the Yale School of Architecture as the Louis I. Khan Distinguished Visiting Professor, the Southe...

#4527

Peter Haasen

#131196

Overall Influence

#4528

Giulio Maier

#131220

Overall Influence

1931 - Present (95 years)

#4529

Christian Beaulieu

#131231

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

Christian Beaulieu is a Canadian biomedical engineer, currently a Canada Research Chair at University of Alberta. External links CV

#4530

Suhny Abbara

#131261

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#4531

James J. Walker

#131265

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (26 years)

#4532

Edward G. Gregorich

#131276

Overall Influence

#4533

Dinesh Mohan

#131284

Overall Influence

#4534

Paul M. Newman

#131298

Overall Influence

#4535

Piero Baglioni

#131305

Overall Influence

#4536

Nadhir A. Al-ansari

#131324

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#4537

Bao Yu Xia

#131327

Overall Influence

#4538

Karim Zaghib

#95398

Overall Influence

Karim Zaghib is an Algerian-Canadian electrochemist and materials scientist known for his contributions to the field of energy storage and conversion. He is currently Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University. As former director of research at Hydro-Québec, he helped to make it the world’s first company to use lithium iron phosphate in cathodes, and to develop natural graphite and nanotitanate anodes.

#4539

Yunfei Chen

#131332

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#4540

Shuguang Zhang

#131334

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#4541

Jian‐zhang Li

#131354

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#4542

Alaide Chieffo

#131382

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#4543

Pierre L. Fauchais

#131383

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#4544

Belkis Valdman

#40881

Overall Influence

1942 - 2011 (69 years)

Belkis Valdman was a Turkish born naturalised Brazilian researcher, teacher and academic chemical engineer, who worked in the field of instrumentation and process control in chemical engineering. Early life and education Belkis Valdman was born in Turkey on 5 May 1942, the daughter of Moise Dwek and Esterina Duek , one of three children, and became a naturalised Brazilian citizen in 1967.

#4545

Feng-lin Yang

#131397

Overall Influence

#4546

Oskaras Koršunovas

#27713

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (57 years)

Oskaras Koršunovas is a Lithuanian theatre director. Biography Oskaras Koršunovas was born on March 6, 1969, in Vilnius, Lithuania. He began his career as a theatre director in 1994 at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he obtained his master's degree in directing. During his studies he established already his individual signature in the most important theaters in Lithuania by producing a trilogy of plays such as the There to be Here , The Old Woman and Hello Sonya New Year , which were based on the work of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky, both Russian avant-garde writers of the twentieth century.

#4547

Hedi Mattoussi

#114920

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (67 years)

Hedi Mattoussi is a Tunisian-American materials scientist and professor at Florida State University. His research considers colloidal inorganic nanocrystals for biological imaging and sensing. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society and Materials Research Society.

#4548

Yoshifumi Naka

#131414

Overall Influence

#4549

Hannu Tenhunen

#131419

Overall Influence

#4550

Myrna Báez

#64885

Overall Influence

1931 - 2018 (87 years)

Myrna Báez was a Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, considered one of the most important visual artists in Puerto Rico. She has been instrumental in promoting art and art education in her country. Her work has been shown and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work has been characterized as confident and complex. She lived and worked in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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