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List of the most influential people in Engineering,

#4751

Zoya Popovic

#111348

Overall Influence

Zorana Popović is a Serbian American microwave engineer, currently Hudson Moore Jr. Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado. Popović was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2002, "for contributions to the development of active antenna arrays and quasi-optical power combining techniques".

#4752

Rong Hai Qu

#134472

Overall Influence

#4753

King Seng Chiang

#134497

Overall Influence

#4754

Ida Holz

#49221

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (91 years)

Ida Holz Bard is a Uruguayan engineer, computer scientist, professor, and researcher, known as a pioneer in the field of computing and the Internet. Biography Coming from a Jewish family of Polish origin, from age 18 to 22 Ida Holz went to Israel, where she was in the army and on a kibbutz.

#4755

Ammar Eloueini

#100265

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (58 years)

Ammar Eloueini is an architect who established AEDS | Ammar Eloueini Digit-all Studio in Paris in 1997. Since 1999 the office has operated with locations in Europe and the United States. AEDS has completed projects at different scales in a range of geographic locations. From object design such as urban furniture for the city of New Orleans, to six retail spaces in Europe for Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake, the office has developed an expertise in solving a wide range of design problems, while serving a wide range of clients including the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Ener...

#4756

Qilin Li

#95500

Overall Influence

Qilin Li is a Chinese environmental engineer who is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rice University. She develops new technologies to analyze and treat contaminated water. Li is a Fellow of the International Water Association.

#4757

David Collins

#87703

Overall Influence

1955 - 2013 (58 years)

David Collins was an Irish architect who specialised in designing the interiors of bars and restaurants in London. Biography Early life David Collins was born in Dublin, Ireland on 1 March 1955. He studied architecture at the Bolton Street School of Architecture in Dublin.

#4758

Carlo Reggiani

#134560

Overall Influence

#4759

Pete Souza

#16805

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (72 years)

Peter Joseph Souza is an American photojournalist, the former chief official White House photographer for Presidents of the United States Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama and the former director of the White House Photography Office. He was a photographer with The Chicago Tribune, stationed at the Washington, D.C., bureau from 1998 to 2007; during this period he also followed the rise of then-Senator Obama to the presidency.

#4760

Luigi Ambrosio

#134590

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

#4761

And Andrew J. Lovinger

#134607

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#4762

Alan Connelly

#134611

Overall Influence

#4763

Christine E. Schmidt

#126631

Overall Influence

Christine E. Schmidt is an American biomedical engineer. As a professor at the University of Florida, Schmidt was inducted into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame for her creation of the Avance Nerve Graft which has "improved the lives of numerous patients suffering from peripheral nerve damage."

#4764

Frank Gohlke

#51096

Overall Influence

1942 - Present (84 years)

Frank Gohlke is an American landscape photographer. He has been awarded two Guggenheim fellowships, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar Grant. His work is included in numerous permanent collections, including those of Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Art Institute of Chicago.

#4765

Wen‐qin Wang

#134626

Overall Influence

#4766

Valter Torri

#134643

Overall Influence

#4767

Charles E. Rackley

#134661

Overall Influence

#4768

Greta Magnusson-Grossman

Greta Magnusson-Grossman

#81098

Overall Influence

1906 - 1999 (93 years)

Greta Magnusson-Grossman was a Swedish furniture designer, interior designer, and architect. She was one of the few female designers to gain prominence during the mid-20th century architectural scene in Los Angeles. Her early exposure to European Modernism deeply influenced her later architectural work, seen as a synthesis of European ideals and the culture and lifestyle of Southern California.

#4769

Linda McCartney

Linda McCartney

#16050

Overall Influence

1941 - 1998 (57 years)

Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, vegetarian cookbook author and advocate, and entrepreneur. She was the keyboardist in the band Wings, which also featured her husband, Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

#4770

Sylvain Martel

#115639

Overall Influence

Sylvain Martel is a Canadian researcher noted for his work on the development of innovative cancer treatments. Martel is a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada and the Director of the NanoRobotics Laboratory. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2015 for contributions to medical micro- and nano-robotics and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair.

#4771

Sabino Iliceto

#134679

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (73 years)

#4772

Elvino Silveira Sousa

#121132

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (76 years)

Elvino Silveira Sousa is a Professor of Electrical Engineering Professor and Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Computer Networks and Innovation at the University of Toronto, Ontario. He is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and in 2012 was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to wireless systemss, including modulation techniques and transmitter diversity.

#4773

Martha Gray

#93129

Overall Influence

Martha Gray is a biomedical engineer and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jointly appointed in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Health Sciences and Technology . Gray became the first woman to lead a department of science or engineering at MIT when she became the co-director of the Harvard–MIT Program of Health Sciences and Technology in 1987. She has developed multidisciplinary programs at MIT. Her research focuses on understanding and preventing Osteoarthritis, and her team developed the imaging technology dGEMRIC, now used to examine cartilage.

#4774

Michael Unser

#107265

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (68 years)

Michael Unser is a Swiss engineer and a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne . His research focuses on the field of biomedical image processing. Career Unser obtained a M.S. in 1981 and a PhD in 1984 in electrical engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne . In 1985, he moved to the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program. There, he became head of the Image Processing Group in 1990. In 1997, he was named associate professor at EPFL, where he was promoted full professor in 2000.

#4775

Benjamin Thompson

#87184

Overall Influence

1918 - 2002 (84 years)

Benjamin C. Thompson was an American architect. He was one of eight architects who founded The Architects Collaborative in 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the most notable firms in post-war modernism, and then started his own firm, Benjamin Thompson and Associates , in 1967.

#4776

Ryong‐joon Roe

#134715

Overall Influence

#4777

Carlotta Berry

#75038

Overall Influence

Carlotta Berry is an American academic in the field of engineering. She is professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. She is co-director of the Rose Building Undergraduate Diversity program. She is a co-founder of Black In Engineering and a co-founder of Black In Robotics.

#4778

Brian F. Mccabe

#134718

Overall Influence

#4779

Hilmi Volkan Demir

#134725

Overall Influence

#4780

Ian Bennion

#134726

Overall Influence

#4781

Germane Barnes

#92806

Overall Influence

Germane Barnes is an American architect, designer and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Miami in Florida. Barnes was a 2021 recipient of the Rome Prize in Architecture. Early life and education Barnes was born and raised in the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. He studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture in 2008. After graduation, he worked in an architecture practice in Cape Town, South Africa on pro-bono projects for underprivileged communities. Upon return to the United States, he attended Gra...

#4782

Mischa Dohler

#134737

Overall Influence

#4783

Miho Mazereeuw

#107049

Overall Influence

Miho Mazereeuw is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism in the Department of Architecture at MIT where she also directs the Urban Risk Lab. Mazereeuw is most known for her work in disaster risk reduction.

#4784

G. Faye Boudreaux-Bartels

#109336

Overall Influence

Gloria Faye Boudreaux-Bartels is an American electrical engineer known for her work on signal processing, including time–frequency representation, wavelet transforms, and the Wigner distribution function. She is a professor emerita of electrical, computer and biomedical engineering at the University of Rhode Island.

#4785

Shin–ichi Hirano

#134758

Overall Influence

#4786

Ronald Paxton-sheets Mahler

#134760

Overall Influence

#4787

Carlos Arroyo

#102944

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

Carlos Arroyo Zapatero is a contemporary architect, urbanist and critic from Madrid, Spain. His work claims to set the frame for a new architectural culture, language and aesthetics, through the ethics, technology and parameters of sustainability. He claims that his architecture is not designed to be photographed, but to be lived-in and enjoyed through time. He has developed a diagrammatic graphic style for his presentations which is inspirational for a whole generation of architects. In contrast, his built work is often portrayed by photographer-artists, producing innovative formats like photo-novellas, gif's, or video.

#4788

Hidetoshi Fujii

#134776

Overall Influence

#4789

C. Alan Short

#77860

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (71 years)

Charles Alan Short is a British architect and academic. He has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge since 2001, and President of Clare Hall, Cambridge since 2020. He champions low-energy buildings that will be resilient to climate change.

#4790

Benoı̂t Champagne

#134792

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#4791

Ermanno Bonucci

#134794

Overall Influence

#4792

Xin-liang Zhang

#134826

Overall Influence

#4793

Satinder Kaur Brar

#134828

Overall Influence

#4794

Kurt Thoroughman

#79726

Overall Influence

1972 - Present (54 years)

Kurt A. Thoroughman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is known for his work in the study of motor control, motor learning, and computational neuroscience.

#4795

Margaret Allen

#25244

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (78 years)

Margaret Allen is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and an academic at the Benaroya Research Institute. She was the first woman to perform a heart transplant and is a former president of the United Network for Organ Sharing.

#4796

William A. Pearlman

#134857

Overall Influence

#4797

Jordi Arbiol

#134884

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (51 years)

#4798

David M. Brienza

David M. Brienza

#120918

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (62 years)

David M. Brienza is a professor of rehabilitation science at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. He holds additional professorial appointments in bioengineering and electrical engineering.

#4799

Christopher I. Byrnes

#134893

Overall Influence

#4800

Marina Bosi

#83327

Overall Influence

Marina Bosi is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics . Originally a flutist and flute teacher, she is known for her work on digital audio coding formats.

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