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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1651

Merlise A. Clyde

#132566

Overall Influence

Merlise Aycock Clyde is an American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics. She is a Professor of Statistical Science and immediate past chair of the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2013, and chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association for 2018.

#1652

Lily Wang

#142902

Overall Influence

Li Lily Wang is a Chinese statistician whose research interests include nonparametric statistics, semiparametric statistics, large data sets and high-dimensional data, and official statistics. She is an associate professor of statistics at George Mason University .

#1653

Melody Goodman

#101349

Overall Influence

Melody S. Goodman is an American biostatistician whose interests include social determinants of health, health literacy, and stakeholder engagement in health research. Goodman has spoken publicly about racial disparities in access to healthcare, and is an advocate for public outreach and engagement on health issues. She is an associate professor of biostatistics and associate dean for research in the New York University School of Global Public Health.

#1654

Kimberly Weems

#142669

Overall Influence

Kimberly Sherrille Weems is an American statistician, active in mentoring women and members of underrepresented minority groups in statistics and encouraging them to pursue advanced studies in statistics. She is an associate professor of statistics at North Carolina Central University. Her research interests include count data and statistical dispersion. She was recognized by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2019 Honoree.

#1655

Nagambal Shah

#90214

Overall Influence

Nagambal D. "Swarna" Shah is an American mathematician and statistician known for her mentorship of students at Spelman College. She is the founder of the annual StatFest of the American Statistical Association, a leader of the association's Diversity Mentoring Program, and the former chair of the association's Committee on Minorities in Statistics.

#1656

Nancy H. Hensel

#69226

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Nancy H. Hensel is an American academic and university administrator. She held faculty positions at the University of Toledo and University of Redlands before joining the University of Maine system in 1992. In 1992[6] Hensel was appointed Dean of the College of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington.[11] From 1995 to 1999 she filled the post of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.[11] In 1999 she was named to a one-year term as interim president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle, becoming the second woman to head the campus in its history.[1] In 2000 she acced...

#1657

Judith Glynn

#145755

Overall Influence

Judith Glynn is a Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She worked on the Karonga Prevention Study on HIV and Tuberculosis in Malawi. She is also a sculptor. Education and early career Glynn completed an MSc in Epidemiology at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in 1990. She completed her PhD in infectious diseases in 1993.

#1658

Tricia Carmichael

#33620

Overall Influence

Tricia L. Carmichael is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor. She develops new materials for stretchable electronics with a current focus on wearable electronic devices.

#1659

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

#95453

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics. She is a professor in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University .

#1660

Carol Joyce Blumberg

#92745

Overall Influence

Carol Joyce Blumberg is an American statistician whose professional interests include survey methodology, design of experiments, and statistics education. Education and career Blumberg earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan in 1972 and 1974 respectively. She earned a second master's degree at Michigan State University in 1981, and completed her Ph.D. there in 1982.

#1661

M. J. Bayarri

#151555

Overall Influence

1956 - 2014 (58 years)

María Jesús Bayarri García was a Spanish Bayesian statistician who served as president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis and of the Sociedad Española de Biometría . Education and career After earning a bachelor's degree in 1976, a master's degree in 1979, and a doctorate in 1984 from the University of Valencia, Bayarri remained at the university as a faculty member for the rest of her career. After the death of her husband in 1984, she became a Fulbright scholar, and frequently visited the US, becoming an adjunct professor at Duke University.

#1662

Naisyin Wang

#146530

Overall Influence

Naisyin Wang is a Taiwanese statistician who works as a professor of statistics at the University of Michigan. She was president of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010. Education and career Wang did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University, graduating in 1986. After earning a master's degree in statistics from Ohio State University in 1987, she completed her doctorate from Cornell University in 1992, under the supervision of David Ruppert. She worked as a faculty member at Texas A&M University from 1992 until 2009, when she moved to Michig...

#1663

S. Lynne Stokes

#143500

Overall Influence

Sara Lynne Stokes is an American statistician at Southern Methodist University where she is a professor and chair of the Department of Statistical Science. Her research interests include the modeling of non-sampling errors, and mark and recapture methods; she is also an expert on opinion polls.

#1664

Fabrizia Mealli

#150425

Overall Influence

1966 - Present (58 years)

Fabrizia Mealli is an Italian statistician at the University of Florence, known for her research on causal inference, missing data, and the statistics of employment. In 2013 she was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#1665

Sherry Towers

#57665

Overall Influence

Sherry Towers is an American and Canadian statistician and data scientist working as an independent consultant and an affiliate scholar with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany following a seven year position as a faculty research associate at Arizona State University. Towers is perhaps best known for her study of the contagion effect of mass shootings. She is also the founder and owner of Towers Consulting LLC, a consulting company that provides visual analytics, data mining, applied statistics, and computational modeling services to industry, academia, and t...

#1666

Amanda L. Golbeck

#122196

Overall Influence

Amanda L. Golbeck is a statistician, social scientist, and academic leader. She is known for her book, Leadership and Women in Statistics, and her book on Elizabeth L. Scott, Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley. She is known for her pioneering definition of health numeracy.

#1667

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

#112553

Overall Influence

1936 - Present (88 years)

Margaret Elaine Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

#1668

Yayuan Liu

#127833

Overall Influence

1992 - Present (32 years)

Yayuan Liu is a Chinese-American materials scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research considers electrochemistry, nanomaterials and materials characterisation for the development of next-generation batteries. She was selected as one of the 2019 American Chemical Society Young Investigators and included in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 list of top scientists.

#1669

Jiayang Sun

#121652

Overall Influence

Jiayang Sun is an American statistician whose research has included work on simultaneous confidence bands for multiple comparisons, selection bias, mixture models, Gaussian random fields, machine learning, big data, statistical computing, graphics, and applications in biostatistics, biomedical research, software bug tracking, astronomy, and intellectual property law. She is a statistics professor, Bernard J. Dunn Eminent Scholar, and chair of the statistics department at George Mason University, and a former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#1670

Jennifer D. Parker

#130685

Overall Influence

Jennifer D. Parker is an American statistician who works as the Director of the Division of Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics. Her publications include highly-cited works relating socioeconomic status, air pollution, and birth weight of infants.

#1671

Kate Calder

#169736

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Catherine A. "Kate" Calder is an American statistician who works as chair of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She was previously a professor of statistics at Ohio State University. Calder earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1999, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics from Duke University in 2003 under the joint supervision of David Higdon and Michael L. Lavine. She joined the Ohio State faculty in 2003, and was promoted to full professor in 2015.

#1672

Sylvia Esterby

#73028

Overall Influence

Sylvia Rose Esterby is a Canadian environmental statistician known for her research on water quality. She is an associate professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia , a founder of the International Environmetrics Society, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

#1673

Marina Umaschi Bers

#93030

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Marina Umaschi Bers is the Augustus Long Professor of Education at Boston College. Bers holds a secondary appointment in Boston College's Department of Computer Science. Bers directs the interdisciplinary DevTech Research Group, which she started in 2001 at Tufts University. Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote children's positive development. She is known for her work in the field of early childhood computer science with projects of national and international visibility. Bers is the co-creator of the free ScratchJr programming language, us...

#1674

Telba Irony

#131688

Overall Influence

Telba Zalkind Irony is a Brazilian statistician, operations researcher, and proponent of Bayesian statistics. She works at the Food and Drug Administration, where she was formerly chief of biostatistics at the Office of Device Evaluation and is now deputy directory of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.

#1675

Maryse Marpsat

#134120

Overall Influence

1951 - Present (73 years)

Maryse Marpsat is a French sociologist and statistician whose work employs methods drawn from sociology and statistics but also mathematics. Her major sociological works concern poverty, inequality and homeless situation. She is a civil servant, administrator of the French National Institute of Statistics and a fellow of the CSU, a French research institute specializing in sociological studies in urban societies.

#1676

Elisa T. Lee

#155083

Overall Influence

1939 - Present (85 years)

Elisa T. Lee is a Chinese-American statistician, affiliated with the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where she is Regents Professor Emeritus, George Lynn Cross Research Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and director of the Center for American Indian Health Research.

#1677

Eun Sug Park

#149931

Overall Influence

Eun Sug Park is an American statistician who works as a senior research scientist in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. She is known for her research on the statistics of traffic safety, and on whether public transportation reduces air pollution, as well as for her book on traffic simulation.

#1678

Irene Hess

#133615

Overall Influence

1910 - 2009 (99 years)

Ida Irene Hess was an American statistician who was an expert on survey methodology for scientific surveys and who directed the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Life Hess was born on August 27, 1910, in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, the daughter of a Central City mining engineer. After three years of study at Evansville College, she completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Indiana University, graduating in 1931, and returned home to become a mathematics teacher at a junior high school in Central City.

#1679

Lynn Eberly

#113969

Overall Influence

Lynn Elizabeth Eberly is a professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, whose research involves longitudinal studies, medical imaging, and other forms of correlated data.

#1680

Sharon Xiangwen Xie

#141474

Overall Influence

Sharon Xiangwen Xie is a Chinese biostatistician and epidemiologist who studies neurodegenerative diseases. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1681

Christina Kendziorski

#132936

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Christina Marie Kendziorski is a biostatistician whose research involves genomics, statistical genetics, and the statistical analysis of data from high-throughput sequencing. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,

#1682

Roxy Peck

#154249

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Roxy Lynn Peck is a statistics educator. She is a professor emeritus at California Polytechnic State University ; she was chair of statistics at Cal Poly for six years and associate dean for thirteen more.

#1683

María del Pilar Díaz

#136575

Overall Influence

María del Pilar Díaz is an Argentine statistician. She is a professor of statistics in the Faculty of Economics at the National University of Córdoba . Pilar Díaz was an instructor in the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics in the School of Nutrition in the at UNC in 1983.

#1684

Kim Cobb

#53175

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Kim M. Cobb is an American climate scientist. She is Professor of Environment and Society and Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at Brown University, where she directs the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society. Cobb was previously a professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is particularly interested in oceanography, geochemistry and paleoclimate modeling.

#1685

Krista Gile

#131611

Overall Influence

Krista Jennifer Gile is an American statistician known for her research on respondent-driven sampling, on exponential random graph models, and more generally on the statistical behavior of social networks. She is an associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

#1686

Elizabeth Stasny

#145124

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Ann Stasny is a professor emeritus of statistics at Ohio State University. She is an expert on survey methodology and particularly on missing data in surveys. Education Stasny earned her Ph.D. in 1983 at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation, Estimating Gross Flows in Labor Force Participation Using Data From the Canadian Labour Force Survey, was supervised by Stephen Fienberg.

#1687

Sarah Nusser

#85789

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Sarah Margaret Nusser is an American statistician and expert on survey methodology. She is vice president for research at Iowa State University, where she is also a professor of statistics and the former director of the Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology. As well as survey statistics, her research publications have included contributions to human nutrition and to environmental statistics.

#1688

Beth Gladen

#156967

Overall Influence

Beth Charmaine Gladen is an American biostatistician who worked at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, where she did pioneering research on children’s environmental health with physician Walter J. Rogan, including influential studies on the harmful effects of polychlorinated biphenyl as transmitted to children in utero and through breast milk, and on correlations between breastfeeding and infant mental development. The Rogan–Gladen estimator, a frequentist correction to observed prevalence rates to account for misclassifications based on sensitivity and specificity is name...

#1689

Ruth Mickey

#133088

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Ruth Mary Mickey is a retired American statistician known for her research on feature selection to control the effects of confounding on statistical inference, and on the applications of statistics to issues of public health and natural resources. She is a professor emerita in the University of Vermont Department of Mathematics & Statistics.

#1690

Carole Hodgson

#35052

Overall Influence

1940 - Present (84 years)

Carole Hodgson is an English sculptor. Biography Hodgson studied at the Wimbledon School of Art from 1957 to 1962 and at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1962 to 1964. She is an Emeritus Professor of Fine Art and Sculpture Kingston University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

#1691

Rebecca Hubbard

#131850

Overall Influence

Rebecca Allana Hubbard is an American biostatistician whose research interests include observational studies and the use of electronic health record data in public health analysis and decision-making, accounting for the errors in this type of data. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

#1692

Marcia Ciol

#52560

Overall Influence

Márcia Aparecida Ciol is a Brazilian-American medical statistician and biostatistician known for her research on comorbidity. She works as a research associate professor in the University of Washington's Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, maintains an affiliation with the Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma, and is a past president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#1693

Celia Greenwood

#131889

Overall Influence

Celia Margaret Theodora Greenwood is a Canadian biostatistician specializing in statistical genetics. She is a James McGill Professor of Oncology at McGill University. Greenwood was born in Victoria, British Columbia and attended universities in Ontario and Quebec. Greenwood earned a doctorate in biostatistics from the University of Toronto in 1998. She was affiliated with The Hospital for Sick Children and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health before joining the McGill University faculty and the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research in 2010.

#1694

Joan Bailey-Wilson

Joan Bailey-Wilson

#166299

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Joan Ellen Bailey-Wilson is an American statistical geneticist. She is a senior investigator and co-chief of the Computational and Statistical Genomic Branch of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

#1695

Wendy Lou

#84615

Overall Influence

Wen-Yi Wendy Lou is a biostatistician who works as a professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health of the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the theory of runs and patterns in sequence data and applications of statistics to health care.

#1696

Nancy Temkin

#98650

Overall Influence

Nancy R. Temkin is an American statistician who works on the biostatistics of traumatic brain injury. She is a professor of neurological surgery and biostatistics at the University of Washington, and serves on the National Research Council Committee on Sports-Related Concussions in Youth.

#1697

Sharon R. Browning

#158720

Overall Influence

Sharon Ruth Browning is a statistical geneticist at the University of Washington, and a research professor with its Department of Biostatistics. Her research has various implications for the field of biogenetics.

#1698

Barbara Tilley

#97235

Overall Influence

Barbara C. Tilley is an American biostatistician. Early life Tilley was born in San Rafael, California. Education Tilley graduated from California State University, Northridge in 1972. She earned a master's degree in biomathematics at the University of Washington in 1975, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Texas School of Public Health in 1981.

#1699

Karen Bandeen-Roche

#93988

Overall Influence

Karen Jean Bandeen-Roche is an American biostatistician known for her research on aging and aging-related frailty. She is Hurley Dorrier Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Biostatistics Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

#1700

Alexandra M. Schmidt

#141762

Overall Influence

Alexandra M. Schmidt is a Brazilian biostatistician and epidemiologist who works as an associate professor of biostatistics at McGill University in Canada. She is known for her research on spatiotemporal and multivariate statistics and their applications in environmental statistics.

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