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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1601

Irene Beyerlein

#61180

Overall Influence

Irene Jane Beyerlein is an American materials scientist who is the Mehrabian Interdisciplinary Endowed Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society.

#1602

Alicia Prieto Langarica

#142255

Overall Influence

1983 - Present (41 years)

Alicia Prieto Langaricar is an American applied mathematician and professor of mathematics at Youngstown State University. Education and career Prieto Langaricar is the granddaughter of Mexican footballer Max Prieto. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas, and received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from University of Texas at Arlington in 2012. Her dissertation, From Discrete to Continuous Models of Cell Movement: An Application to Medical Implants was completed under the guidance of Hristo Venelinov Kojouharov.

#1603

Ying Guo

#113527

Overall Influence

Ying Guo is a Chinese biostatistician specializing in biomedical imaging, neuroimaging, and high-dimensional data analysis. She is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Emory University, where she directs the Emory Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics.

#1604

Angelika van der Linde

#121327

Overall Influence

Angelika van der Linde-Ploumbidis is a statistician. She earned a Ph.D in 1982 or 1983 at the Freie Universität Berlin with the dissertation Zur numerischen Behandlung von Versuchsplanungsproblemen für lineare Regressionsmodelle mit korrelierten Beobachtungen .

#1605

Aline Gouget

#128609

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Aline Gouget Morin is a French mathematician and cryptographer whose works include contributions to the design of the SOSEMANUK stream cipher and Shabal hash algorithm, and methods for anonymized digital currency. She is a researcher for Gemalto, an international digital security company.

#1606

Dawn Tilbury

#82608

Overall Influence

Dawn Marie Tilbury is an American control theorist whose research topics include logic control, networked control systems, robotics, human–machine systems, and autonomous vehicles. She is a professor of mechanical engineering and of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, and the head of the directorate for engineering at the National Science Foundation.

#1607

Beate Neumann

#167201

Overall Influence

#1608

Jie Chen

#103259

Overall Influence

Jie Chen is a statistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia. As well as biostatistics, her research interests include change detection. Chen earned a bachelor's degree in statistics from Chongqing University in China in 1985, and became a lecturer at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics from 1985 to 1988. She returned to graduate school for a master's degree from the University of Akron in 1990, and a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in 1995, under the supervision of Arjun Kumar Gupta. She joined the Department o...

#1609

Jeanette Shakalli

Jeanette Shakalli

#144302

Overall Influence

1985 - Present (39 years)

Jeanette Shakalli is a Panamanian mathematician best known for her outreach activities in the Republic of Panama. She is currently Executive Director of the Panamanian Foundation for the Promotion of Mathematics a private non-profit foundation established to promote the study of mathematics in Panama.

#1610

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter

#125572

Overall Influence

1959 - Present (65 years)

Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter is an Austrian statistician and professor of applied statistics and econometrics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She is known for her research in Bayesian analysis. In 2020 she was the President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

#1611

Grace E. Kissling

#129264

Overall Influence

Grace Elizabeth Kissling is a biostatistician who works at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences as chief statistician for the National Toxicology Program. Kissling graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics. She completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1981 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, supervised by Lawrence L. Kupper, was A Generalized Model for Analysis of Nonindependent Observations.

#1612

Terri Windling

#8566

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Terri Windling is an American editor, artist, essayist, and the author of books for both children and adults. She has won nine World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award, and her collection The Armless Maiden appeared on the short-list for the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

#1613

Jill Adler

#150043

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Jillian Beryl Adler née Smidt is a South African Professor of Mathematics education at the University of the Witwatersrand and the President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction . Adler's work has focused on the teaching and learning of mathematics particularly in multilingual classrooms.

#1614

Margaret Wu

#120374

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Margaret Wu is an Australian statistician and psychometrician who specialises in educational measurement. She is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne. Early life Wu studied statistics at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 1972. She worked at Monash University as a research assistant from 1973 to 1975, where she taught herself to program. She worked with Watterson on the Watterson estimator, a means to determine the genetic diversity of a population.

#1615

Paula Roberson

#91772

Overall Influence

Paula Karen Roberson is a biostatistician at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, where she chairs the department of biostatistics. Her research interests include the design of clinical trials, nonparametric statistics, and feature selection. She was president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 2015.

#1616

Fabienne Comte

#90285

Overall Influence

Fabienne Comte is a French statistician known for her research on topics including statistical finance, stochastic volatility, autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity, and deconvolution. She is a professor in the unit for mathematics and computer science at the University of Paris.

#1617

Francesca Chiaromonte

#111025

Overall Influence

Francesca Chiaromonte is an Italian statistician known for her work on statistical genetics and dimensionality reduction. She works at Pennsylvania State University as the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences, professor of statistics, and director of the Genome Sciences Institute, and in the Institute of Economics of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Italy as the scientific coordinator for Economics and Management in the era of Data Science.

#1618

Susan S. Ellenberg

#108166

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Susan S. Ellenberg is an American statistician specializing in the design of clinical trials and in the safety of medical products. She is a professor of biostatistics, medical ethics and health policy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the 1993 president of the Society for Clinical Trials and the 1999 President of the Eastern North American Region of the International Biometric Society.

#1619

Kathy Ensor

#84607

Overall Influence

Katherine Bennett Ensor is an American statistician specializing in numerous methods in computational and statistical analysis of time series data, stochastic process modeling, and estimation to forecast issues in public health, community informatics, computational finance, and environmental statistics.

#1620

Agnes Berger

#83968

Overall Influence

1916 - 2002 (86 years)

Agnes P. Berger was a Hungarian-American mathematician who served as an associate professor of biostatistics at Columbia University's School of Public Health, as well as a statistical consultant at Mount Sinai.

#1621

Natalia Sobczak

#66137

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Natalia Sobczak is a professor of materials engineering at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the 2023–2026 term. She specializes in the physicochemistry of metals and alloys, physical metallurgy and heat treatment, foundry engineering, and the practice and theory of metal composites.

#1622

Kaumudi Joshipura

#110444

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Kaumudi Jinraj Joshipura is an Indian American Epidemiologist, Biostatistician, Dentist & Scientist. She is Adjunct Full Professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University and NIH Endowed Chair and Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Health Promotion and a Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus. Her research work has been covered by global media including CNN, ABC, NBC, NHS, Newsweek, Nature, Telegraph, Japanese Journals and Japanese TV etc.

#1623

Ioanna Tzoulaki

#148485

Overall Influence

Ioanna Tzoulaki is a professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London. She investigates prognostic risk factors and models for chronic diseases and meta-epidemiology. In 2019 she received a Greek L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Award for Women in Science.

#1624

Erica Moodie

#124969

Overall Influence

Erica Eleanor Margret Moodie is a Canadian biostatistician known for her work on dynamic treatment regimes. She is Canada Research Chair and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health at McGill University.

#1625

Hélène Massam

#120516

Overall Influence

1949 - 2020 (71 years)

Hélène Menexia Massam was a statistician known for her research on the Wishart distribution and on graphical models. She was a professor of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada.

#1626

Daniela De Angelis

#161296

Overall Influence

Daniela De Angelis is an Italian biostatistician in the area of infectious disease modelling. Her current roles are Professor of Statistical Science for Health at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Primary Care and Public Health and Deputy Director and Programme Leader at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit. She has published research on the development and application of statistical methods to monitor infectious diseases such as SARS COVID-19, influenza, HIV and hepatitis C. Daniela is member of scientific advisory groups such as NICE, WHO, and UNAIDS. She is a memb...

#1627

Sybilla Beckmann

#137269

Overall Influence

Sybilla Beckmann is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia and a recipient of the Association for Women in Mathematics Louise Hay Award.

#1628

Chao Agnes Hsiung

#127420

Overall Influence

Chao Agnes Hsiung is a Taiwanese biostatistician. She is a Distinguished Investigator in the Taiwanese National Health Research Institutes , and Director of the Institute of Population Health Sciences and of the Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics within the NHRI.

#1629

Veronica Czitrom

#125288

Overall Influence

Veronica A. Czitrom is a Mexican-American statistician known for her applications of statistics to the quality control of semiconductor manufacturing. Education and career Czitrom is originally from Mexico City. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in physics, continued at Berkeley for a master's degree in engineering, and became a professor of systems engineering and applications at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Subsequently, she returned to graduate study in mathematics and statistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her 198...

#1630

Joan Hu

#129171

Overall Influence

Xiaoqiong Joan Hu is a Chinese and Canadian statistician. Her research has involved pseudolikelihood, estimating functions, missing data, and varied applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics at Simon Fraser University.

#1631

Deborah A. Nolan

#122206

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Deborah A. Nolan is an American statistician and statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she chairs the department of statistics. Education and career Nolan graduated from Vassar College in 1977; she gained her first experience in statistics in a summer job at Vassar, doing statistical analyses for author Caroline Bird. After graduating, she began working as an applications programmer for IBM. Needing to learn more statistics for her work, she studied at Columbia University for a year, and then entered full-time graduate study in statistics at Yale University.

#1632

Karla Hoffman

#94730

Overall Influence

Karla Leigh Hoffman is an American operations researcher, and the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. She is a professor of systems engineering and operations research in the Volgenau School of Engineering of George Mason University. Her research has focused on practical applications of operations research and optimization to problems including transportation scheduling, airport landing slot allocation, spectrum auctions, and telecommunications budgeting.

#1633

Helen Abbey

#106540

Overall Influence

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

Helen Abbey was an American biostatistician known for her research on the health effects of radiation and on infections among Native Americans, and for her prolific mentoring of students in statistics. She was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University for over 50 years.

#1634

Ivy Liu

#110598

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Ivy I-Ming Liu is a Taiwanese and New Zealander statistician specializing in categorical and ordinal data. She works as an associate professor and as head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

#1635

Charmaine Dean

#129522

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Charmaine B. Dean is a statistician from Trinidad. She is the vice president for research at the University of Waterloo, a professor of statistical and actuarial sciences at both Waterloo and Western University, the former president of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society, the former President of the Statistical Society of Canada. Her research interests include longitudinal studies, survival analysis, spatiotemporal data, heart surgery, and wildfires.

#1636

Katrina Sharples

#87860

Overall Influence

Katrina Jane Sharples is a New Zealand biostatistician. She is full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, and head of statistics at Otago. Sharples completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Washington in 1989. Her dissertation, Regression Analysis of Correlated Binary Data, was supervised by Norman Breslow.

#1637

Rachel M. Harter

#66947

Overall Influence

Rachel Margaret Harter is an American statistician and an expert in small area estimation and survey methodology. She works at RTI International as a senior research statistician and as director of the Behavioral Statistics Program.

#1638

Maria Silvia Lucido

#152760

Overall Influence

1963 - 2008 (45 years)

Maria Silvia Lucido was an Italian mathematician specializing in group theory, and a researcher in mathematics at the University of Udine. Life, education and career Lucido was originally from Vicenza, where she was born on 22 April 1963. After working for a bank and a travel agency, she entered mathematical study at the University of Padua in 1986, graduating in 1991. Already as an undergraduate she began research into the theory of finite groups, and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the subject under the supervision of Franco Napolitani. She completed a Ph.D. at Padua in 1996 with the disse...

#1639

Florence Newman Trefethen

#130133

Overall Influence

1921 - 2012 (91 years)

Florence Marion Newman Trefethen was an American codebreaker, historian of operations research, poet, and English professor. Early life and education Florence Marion Newman was born in 1921, in Philadelphia. She graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1943.

#1640

Sally McClean

#114623

Overall Influence

Sally Ida McClean is a Northern Irish statistician, computer scientist, and operations researcher. She is a professor of mathematics in the school of computing at Ulster University, and a former president of the Irish Statistical Association. Topics in her research include workforce modeling, health administration, interactive architecture, and survey methodology.

#1641

Huixia Judy Wang

#141157

Overall Influence

Huixia Judy Wang is a statistician who works as a professor of statistics at George Washington University. Topics in her research include quantile regression and the application of biostatistics to cancer.

#1642

Debbie Dupuis

#71227

Overall Influence

Debbie Janice Dupuis is a Canadian statistician who works in decision science and robust statistics with applications to statistical finance and environmental statistics. She is a professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at HEC Montréal.

#1643

Julie Legler

#131831

Overall Influence

Julie M. Legler is an American biostatistician and statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at St. Olaf College. Legler did her undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota, and continued there for a master's degree. As a doctoral student in biostatistics at Harvard University, she became one of the early recipients of the Gertrude Cox Scholarship of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Women in Statistics. Her 1993 dissertation, supervised by Louise M. Ryan, was Statistical Analysis for Multiple Binary Outcomes: The Analysis of Birth Defects Data.

#1644

Judi Hewitt

#132665

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Judith Elaine Hewitt is a Finnish-New Zealand bio-statistician and soft-sediment benthic ecologist. She currently works at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, and have with an association with the University of Auckland.

#1645

Marjorie Clarke

#74278

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Marjorie J. "Maggie" Clarke is an American environmental scientist who specializes in recycling participation, waste prevention methods, waste-to-energy/incinerator emissions controls, environmental impacts of the World Trade Center fires and collapse, and community botanical gardening. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks she has focused on increasing participation in New York City's waste prevention and recycling programs.

#1646

Rui Song

#127464

Overall Influence

Rui Song is a Chinese-American statistician. Her research interests include machine learning, causal inference, and independence screening for variable selection, with applications to precision medicine and economics. She works for Amazon as a senior principal scientist.

#1647

Catherine McGeoch

#42505

Overall Influence

Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems. She is currently Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College. She has been the Editor in Chief of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and was a member of the ACM Publications Board.

#1648

Judy R. Dubno

#170203

Overall Influence

Judy R. Dubno is an American scientist and researcher in the field of audiology. She is a distinguished university professor and director of research in the department of otolaryngology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She is recognized for her scientific contributions to the understanding of presbycusis, a condition of hearing loss that occurs gradually for many aging adults. She has been involved in the development and implementation of several new methods for assessing hearing loss, including the Hearing in Noise Test and Speech Intelligibility Index . She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology in 2011.

#1649

Elizabeth DeLong

#80542

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Ray DeLong is an American biostatistician. She is a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University, where she chairs the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and is affiliated with the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke Cancer Institute.

#1650

Yvonne Bishop

#117688

Overall Influence

1925 - 2015 (90 years)

Yvonne Millicent Mahala Bishop was an English-born statistician who spent her working life in America. She wrote a "classic" book on multivariate statistics, and made important studies of the health effects of anesthetics and air pollution. Later in her career, she became the Director of the Office of Statistical Standards in the Energy Information Administration.

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