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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1751

Jane Pendergast

#85929

Overall Influence

Jane Pendergast is an American biostatistician specializing in multivariate statistics and longitudinal data. She is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University.

#1752

Gego

#27331

Overall Influence

1912 - 1994 (82 years)

Gertrud Louise Goldschmidt , known as Gego, was a modern German-Venezuelan visual artist. Gego is perhaps best known for her geometric and kinetic sculpturess made in the 1960s and 1970s, which she described as "drawings without paper".

#1753

Motomi Mori

#145901

Overall Influence

Motomi Mori is a Japanese biostatistician. Formerly the Walter & Clora Brownfield Professor of Cancer Biostatistics at the Knight Cancer Institute of Oregon Health & Science University , she was named endowed professor and chair of biostatistics at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2020. She is the chair of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for 2021.

#1754

Tatjana Ždanoka

#80527

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Tatjana Ždanoka or Tatyana Zhdanok is a Latvian politician and a Member of the European Parliament. She is co-chairwoman of the Latvian Russian Union and its predecessor parties since 1993. From 1988 to 1989 she was one of the leaders of the Interfront, a political front organization opposing Latvia's independence from the Soviet Union and rapid market reforms. She remained active in the Communist Party of Latvia after January 1991, when the party leadership called for a coup against the government of the Latvian SSR . In 1997, Ždanoka was elected to Riga municipal council, but was deprived ...

#1755

Marijka Batterham

#177489

Overall Influence

Professor Marijka J. Batterham is a multidisciplinary statistician, Director of the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, and the first dedicated appointment as Director of the Statistical Consulting Centre at the University of Wollongong.

#1756

Susan van den Heever

#169947

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Susan Claire van den Heever is a South African atmospheric scientist who is a professor at Colorado State University. Her research considers cloud physics and mesoscale modelling. She is a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and an editor of the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

#1757

Ruth King

#138074

Overall Influence

Ruth King FRSE FLSW is the current Thomas Bayes' Chair of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, having held the position since 2015. Prior to this she held positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews.

#1758

Shili Lin

#167827

Overall Influence

Shili Lin is a statistician who studies the applications of statistics to genomic data. She is a professor of statistics at Ohio State University, and is president-elect of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#1759

Jill Dever

#111453

Overall Influence

Jill A. Dever is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology who works as a senior researcher and senior director in the division for statistical & data sciences at RTI International.

#1760

Genevera Allen

#105602

Overall Influence

Genevera Irene Allen is an American statistician whose research has involved interpretable machine learning, the reproducibility of machine learning results, and the neuroscience of synesthesia. She is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, statistics, and computer science at Rice University, and also holds affiliations with Texas Children's Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine.

#1761

Nancy Mathiowetz

#96232

Overall Influence

Nancy A. Mathiowetz is an American sociologist and statistician, known for her pioneering combination of cognitive psychology with survey methodology and for her research on poverty and disability. She is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the former president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and the former editor-in-chief of Public Opinion Quarterly

#1762

Vanessa Peterson

#173983

Overall Influence

Vanessa K. Peterson is a Neutron Instrument Scientist, at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation . She established an independent research program at ANSTO which specialised on improving understanding of energy systems and how they work. She manages the Echidna program, a high-resolution powder diffractometer, as well as Wombat - a high-intensity powder diffractometer. Peterson's expertise includes synchtron and laboratory x-ray techniques, as well as neutron powder diffraction, as well as single crystal x-ray diffraction.

#1763

Sarah Lucas

#6369

Overall Influence

1962 - Present (62 years)

Sarah Lucas is an English artist. She is part of the generation of Young British Artists who emerged in 1988. Her works frequently employ visual puns and bawdy humour by incorporating photography, sculpture, collage and found objects.

#1764

Ethel Gilbert

#64862

Overall Influence

Ethel S. Gilbert is an American biostatistician and an expert in the risks of radiation-induced cancer, including cancers in nuclear workers and second cancers in radiation therapy patients. Education and career Gilbert is a graduate of Oberlin College, and completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of Michigan.

#1765

Aryness Joy Wickens

#139543

Overall Influence

1901 - 1991 (90 years)

Aryness Joy Wickens was an American economist and statistician who served as acting commissioner of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics and as president of the American Statistical Association, and who helped develop the United States Consumer Price Index.

#1766

Judy Zeh

#113096

Overall Influence

Judith E. Zeh is an American statistician. She retired from the University of Washington, where she spent her entire career, and is a research professor emerita of statistics at Washington. She is known for her research on bowhead whale populations.

#1767

Ingrid Kristine Glad

#109553

Overall Influence

1965 - Present (59 years)

Ingrid Kristine Glad is a Norwegian statistician whose research topics have included nonparametric regression, DNA microarray data, and image processing. She is a professor of statistics and data science at the University of Oslo.

#1768

Susan Paddock

#167829

Overall Influence

Susan Mary Paddock is an American statistician whose publications have included work on nonparametric Bayesian inference, substance abuse, and the safety of autonomous vehicles. Paddock is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has a Ph.D. from Duke University. Her 1999 doctoral dissertation, Randomized Polya Trees: Bayesian Nonparametrics for Multivariate Data Analysis, was supervised by Mike West. Formerly head of the RAND Statistics Group at the RAND Corporation, she moved to NORC at the University of Chicago in 2019 as chief statistician and executive vice president.

#1769

Brenda Strassfeld

#169005

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Brenda Carol Strassfeld is a mathematics educator and the chair of the Mathematics Education Program in the Graduate School of Education at Touro College. Much of her research concerns teachers’ and students’ attitudes and beliefs regarding teaching and learning mathematics, specifically geometry. Strassfeld has presented her research and worked to improve teacher education at the local, national and international level for over thirty years.

#1770

Cyntha Struthers

#168653

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Cyntha Anne Struthers is a Canadian mathematical statistician whose research topics include missing data in longitudinal studies and proportional hazards models. She is an associate professor of statistics and actuarial science at the University of Waterloo, and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#1771

Cathryn S. Dippo

#134686

Overall Influence

Cathryn S. Dippo is an American statistician. She became a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1989. Education She obtained a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from George Washington University.

#1772

Ayse Bilgin

#139759

Overall Influence

Ayşe Ayşin Bombaci Bilgin is an Australian statistician and statistics educator. She is an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Macquarie University and the president of the International Association for Statistical Education. Bilgin’s research explores applications of statistics in health sciences and learning and teaching in statistics.

#1773

Ying Hung

#141562

Overall Influence

Ying Hung is a Taiwanese-American statistician whose research centers on computer experiments, the use of the design of experiments to plan scientific and engineering simulations, and includes work on kriging, metamodeling, and the use of computer optimization techniques in the design of experiments. She is a professor of statistics at Rutgers University.

#1774

Tena Katsaounis

#163342

Overall Influence

Parthena Ipsilantis Katsaounis is a Greek-American statistician interested in the factorial design of physical experiments. She is a lecturer in mathematics at The Ohio State University at Mansfield, and the former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.

#1775

Ellen Hamaker

#173777

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Ellen Louise "E.L." Hamaker is a Dutch-American psychologist, and statistician. Since 2018 she has been a full professor at Utrecht University, holding the chair Longitudinal Data Analysis at the Department of Methodology and Statistics. Her work focuses on the development of statistical models for the analysis of intensive longitudinal data in psychology, mainly within the frameworks of structural equation modeling and time series analysis.

#1776

Malwina Luczak

#168565

Overall Influence

Malwina J. Luczak is a mathematician specializing in probability theory and the theory of random graphs. She is Professor of Applied Probability and Leverhulme International Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester.

#1777

Lori E. Dodd

#140794

Overall Influence

Lori Elizabeth Dodd is an American mathematical statistician specializing in clinical trials methodology, statistical analysis of genomic data, design of clinical trials using biomarkers and imaging modalities, and statistical methods for analyzing biomarkers. She is a statistician in the biostatistics research branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

#1778

Gabrielle Kelly

#106709

Overall Influence

Gabrielle Elizabeth Kelly is an Irish statistician. She is currently a professor of statistics at University College Dublin, and the former president of the Irish Statistical Association. Her research has included studies of the correlation between birth and death dates, and on correlations between student attendance at university lectures and the time of day of the lecture.

#1779

Jenna Carpenter

#79009

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Jenna P. Carpenter is the Founding Dean and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University. She was on the faculty at Louisiana Tech University for twenty-six years, where she was most recently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor of Mathematics in the College of Engineering and Science. She became the Founding Dean of Engineering and Professor of Engineering at Campbell University in 2015. She researches the importance of diversity in STEM fields, mainly focusing on women, as well as innovative STEM curricula.

#1780

Sallie Ann Keller

#159547

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Sallie Ann Keller is a statistician and a former president of the American Statistical Association . She is currently a Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity and director of the Social and Decision Analytics Division within the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. She also joined the United States Census Bureau in October 2022 as Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Research and Methodology, replacing John M. Abowd.

#1781

Marjorie Schick

Marjorie Schick

#87468

Overall Influence

1941 - 2017 (76 years)

Marjorie Schick was an innovative American jewelry artist and academic who taught art for 50 years. Approaching sculptural creations, her avant-garde pieces have been widely collected. Her works form part of the permanent collections of many of the world's leading art museums, including the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia; the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan; the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania; and the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.

#1782

Ida Craven Merriam

#110481

Overall Influence

1904 - 1997 (93 years)

Ida Craven Merriam was an American economist and statistician who became "one of the seminal figures in the early administration of the Social Security program", helping to found the nonprofit National Academy of Social Insurance.

#1783

Hyune-Ju Kim

#169416

Overall Influence

H. Hyune-Ju Kim is a Korean-American statistician known for her research on change point detection, segmented regression, and applications to the analysis of mortality and incidence of cancer. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at Syracuse University.

#1784

Krista Varady

#104309

Overall Influence

Krista A. Varady is a Canadian-American scientist known for her studies of intermittent fasting on chronic disease risk in human subjects. Varady was one of the first scientists to study intermittent fasting in humans. As of 2022, she is a professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois Chicago in the department of Kinesiology and Nutrition. She also serves as the director of the Human Nutrition Research Center at UIC. Her work is primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. She is also the co-author of a book about intermittent fasting for the general public, titled The Every ...

#1785

Alice Mary Hilton

#67718

Overall Influence

1936 - 2011 (75 years)

Alice Mary Hilton was a British-American academic and author. She coined the term cyberculture in 1963. She served as president of The Institute for Cybercultural Research, which she founded, and of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science.

#1786

Kristen Olson

#168717

Overall Influence

Kristen Marie Olson is an American sociologist and statistician specializing in survey methodology. She is the Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and also directs its Bureau of Sociological Research.

#1787

Marcia Gumpertz

#124927

Overall Influence

1952 - Present (72 years)

Marcia Lynn Gumpertz is an American statistician known for her research on agricultural statistics, spatial analysis, the design of experiments, and plant disease epidemiology. She has also studied employment issues for women and members of underrepresented minorities in science and technology. She is a professor of statistics at North Carolina State University.

#1788

Sophie Schbath

#167970

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Sophie Schbath is a French statistician whose research concerns the statistics of pattern matching in strings and formal languages, particularly as applied to genomics. She is a director of research for the French National Institute for Research in Agriculture, Food, and Environment , and a former president of the French BioInformatics Society.

#1789

Sophie Achard

#110869

Overall Influence

1977 - Present (47 years)

Sophie Achard is a French statistician and neuroscientist whose research concerns the statistics of the pattern of connectivity in the brain. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research , affiliated with the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation laboratory at Grenoble Alpes University.

#1790

Cristina Parel

#172451

Overall Influence

1901 - 2011 (110 years)

Cristina Perlas Parel was a Filipina statistician, the first Filipino to earn a doctorate in statistics, the former dean of the Statistical Center at the University of the Philippines, and at the time of her death the only professor emeritus of statistics at the University of the Philippines. She was president of the Philippine Statistical Association in 1966 and 1969, the first female president of the association.

#1791

Bonnie Ray

#108111

Overall Influence

Bonnie Kathryn Ray is an American statistician and data scientist, the head of data science at Chartbeat, a publisher data analytics firm. Her publications in statistics have concerned long-range dependence, change detection, orthogonal defect classification, and wide-ranging applications including financial market analysis, climate models, and software engineering.

#1792

Kiki Smith

#8242

Overall Influence

1954 - Present (70 years)

Kiki Smith is a German-born American artist whose work has addressed the themes of sex, birth and regeneration. Her figurative work of the late 1980s and early 1990s confronted subjects such as AIDS, feminism, and gender, while recent works have depicted the human condition in relationship to nature. Smith lives and works in the Lower East Side, New York City, and the Hudson Valley, New York State.

#1793

Yang Fuqing

#122785

Overall Influence

1932 - Present (92 years)

Yang Fuqing is a Chinese computer software expert who is a professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Peking University, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and currently chairwoman of the university's School of Software and Microelectronics and director of National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering.

#1794

Amelia Haviland

#173542

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Amelia M. Haviland is an American statistician currently the Anna Loomis McCandless Professor of Statistics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.

#1795

Inge Koch

#169888

Overall Influence

Inge Koch is an Australian statistician, author, and advocate for gender diversity in mathematics. Koch is the author of Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data , and is a Professor in Statistics at the University of Western Australia. Previously, she has worked as an associate professor at University of Adelaide and taught statistics at the University of New South Wales.

#1796

Virginia Lesser

#63819

Overall Influence

Virginia Marie Lesser is an American biostatistician and environmental statistician known for her research on non-sampling error, survey methodology, and agricultural applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics and chair of the statistics department at Oregon State University.

#1797

Barbara A. Bailar

#170919

Overall Influence

1935 - Present (89 years)

Barbara Ann Bailar is an American statistician, who worked for many years at the United States Census Bureau but resigned in protest over the decision not to adjust its 1990 results. She is the only person to have been both president and executive director of the American Statistical Association.

#1798

Silvia Bolland

#181042

Overall Influence

Silvia Bolland is an American biomedical scientist serving as chief of the autoimmunity and functional genomics section at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. She earned a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Cantabria and received postdoctoral training at Harvard and Rockefeller University. Her areas of research include the identification of new genetic modifiers of systemic autoimmune disease, dose effect of Toll-like receptor genes and its role in autoimmune pathologies, and inhibitory signaling pathways mediated by the IgG Fc receptor and the phosphoin...

#1799

Jill DeMatteis

#159224

Overall Influence

Jill Marie Montaquila DeMatteis is an American statistician specializing in survey methodology. She has worked as a statistician in the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, and is a research associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and a vice president in the Statistics and Evaluation Sciences Group of Westat.

#1800

Kary Myers

#148838

Overall Influence

Kary Lynn Myers is an American statistician whose research has included work on scientific data analysis and radiation monitoring. She is a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she has been the deputy leader of the Statistical Sciences group. She is also known as the founder and organizer of the biennial Conference on Data Analysis , for data-driven research within the United States Department of Energy.

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