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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1801

Estelle Russek-Cohen

#169607

Overall Influence

Estelle Russek-Cohen is an American biostatistician and expert on biometrics. Formerly a professor at the University of Maryland, College Park and division director in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research or the Food and Drug Administration, she has retired to become a statistical consultant.

#1802

Katherine Monti

#155827

Overall Influence

Katherine Lane Monti is an American biostatistician known for her works on graphical techniques in statistics and on the statistics of pet health. Education and career Monti is the daughter of Katherine Buckley Nuckolls, the former chair of pediatric nursing at Yale University. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1971, married sociologist Daniel J. Monti Jr., and completed a Ph.D. in biostatistics in 1975 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, The Locally Optimal Combination of Certain Multivariate Test Statistics, was supervised by Pranab K. Sen.

#1803

Lurdes Inoue

#145112

Overall Influence

1970 - Present (54 years)

Lurdes Yoshiko Tani Inoue is a Brazilian-born statistician of Japanese descent, who specializes in Bayesian inference. She works as a professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health.

#1804

Lynn Kuo

#168770

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Lynn Kuo is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications .

#1805

Bonnie Duran

#161217

Overall Influence

Bonnie Duran is an American public health researcher and Professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health. Duran studies the public health of indigenous communities, and has partnered with the Navajo Nation, Indian Health Service and National Congress of American Indians.

#1806

Trude Storelvmo

#149831

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Trude Storelvmo is a Norwegian meteorologist who is a professor at the University of Oslo. She specializes in atmospheric science and studies the impact of aerosols and clouds on the climate of the Earth. She was awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2018. She serves as editor-in-chief of Global and Planetary Change.

#1807

Sidonia Făgărășan

#52642

Overall Influence

Sidonia Făgărășan is a Romanian biological scientist who is a professor at the Riken Institute in Japan. Her research considers the molecular mechanisms that underpin processes in gut microbioata and the mucosal barrier. In 2020, she was awarded the Kobayashi Foundation Award.

#1808

Mikyoung Jun

#165260

Overall Influence

Mikyoung Jun is a Korean-American statistician whose research topics have included the covariance of non-stationary spatial models, and applications in atmospheric science and climate modeling as well as to understanding the spatiotemporal patterns of global terrorism. She is ConocoPhillips Professor of Data Science in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Houston.

#1809

Jodi Lapidus

#116406

Overall Influence

Jodi Ann Lapidus is a professor of biostatistics and director of biostatics education at Oregon Health & Science University . Education Lapidus comes from a family of teachers. She did her undergraduate studies at the State University of New York, graduating in 1986, and then earned a master's degree from Columbia University in 1988. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico in 1998 with a dissertation on Multivariate Statistical Methods Using Continuous and Discrete Data.

#1810

Linda M. Haines

#109726

Overall Influence

1944 - Present (80 years)

Linda Margaret Haines is an English and South African statistician. Originally a chemist, she is known for her research in the design of experiments and in the application of those designs in clinical trials. She is a professor emeritus of statistical sciences at the University of Cape Town, the past president of the South African Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

#1811

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

#92757

Overall Influence

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser is a Swiss statistician who develops methods for statistical inference with applications to research fields ranging from social, economics to experimental sciences . She is a professor in the Geneva School of Economics and Management, part of the University of Geneva, and was the founding dean of the school.

#1812

Marian Scott

#112384

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Ethel Marian Scott, is a Scottish statistician, author and academic, specialising in environmental statistics and statistical modelling. She is Professor of Environmental Statistics at the University of Glasgow. She is additionally vice-president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.

#1813

Ji-Hyun Lee

#170214

Overall Influence

Ji-Hyun Lee is an American statistician whose research involves clinical trials, especially for the treatment of cancer. Lee did her graduate studies in biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a master's degree in 2000 and completed her doctorate in 2003. She joined the faculty at the University of South Florida in 2003, and in 2014 moved to the University of New Mexico as a professor of internal medicine and director of biostatistics in the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Since 2018 she has been a professor of biostatistics at the University of Flor...

#1814

Monica Riley

#83150

Overall Influence

1926 - 2013 (87 years)

Monica Riley was an American scientist who contributed to the discovery of messenger RNA in her Ph.D work with Arthur Pardee, and was later a pioneer in the exploration and computer representation of the Escherichia coli genome.

#1815

Kellie Archer

#168570

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Kellie Jo Archer is a biostatistician specializing in microarray analysis techniques. She is a professor of biostatistics and chair of the biostatistics department at the Ohio State University. Education and career Archer graduated summa cum laude from Franklin College in 1991. After earning a master's degree at the Ohio State University in 1993, she worked for several years as a medical data analyst before completing her Ph.D. at the Ohio State University College of Public Health in 2001. Her dissertation, Goodness-of-Fit for Logistic Regression Models Developed Using Data Collected from a ...

#1816

Alice Larkin

#123655

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Alice Larkin is a Professor of Climate Science and Energy Policy in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester. She works on carbon budgets, international transport and cumulative emissions.

#1817

Nancy L. Garcia

Nancy L. Garcia

#102455

Overall Influence

Nancy Lopes Garcia is Professor of Statistics at University of Campinas in Brazil. Her research interests include modeling of and inference for spatial point processes, chains of infinite or variable memory, and inference for functional data.

#1818

Roxana Moslehi

#78359

Overall Influence

Roxana Moslehi is an Iranian-born genetic epidemiologist. Her research is on cancer and cancer precursors, including work on radiation-induced cancer of the eyes, and ethnic differences in breast cancer incidence. Born in Iran and raised there and in Canada, she is an associate professor in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University at Albany in New York state.

#1819

Cécile Ané

#180309

Overall Influence

Cécile Ané is an evolutionary biologist, botanist, and statistical geneticist whose research involves the inference of evolutionary trees and the evolution of inherited traits, especially for plant species, as well as the mathematical statistics underlying these methods. Educated in France, she works in the US as a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with joint appointments in the departments of botany and statistics.

#1820

Barbara Gertrude Yates

#176180

Overall Influence

1919 - 1998 (79 years)

Barbara Gertrude Yates was an Irish mathematician who seems to have been the first woman born and brought up in Ireland to gain a PhD in pure mathematics. Life and career She was born in January 1919 in Dublin, to a family with a tradition of excelling in mathematics at Trinity College Dublin. Her Offaly-born father James Yates had been a Trinity Scholar in Mathematics prior to his graduation in 1891, and was a school inspector in various parts of Ireland until 1922, when the whole family moved to Belfast following the partition of Ireland. Her older brothers Henry George Yates and James Garrett Yates had also been Trinity Scholars in Mathematics, in 1927 and 1936 respectively.

#1821

Nedret Billor

#169882

Overall Influence

Nedret Billor is a Turkish statistician known for her work on robust statistics and outlier detection. She is a professor of statistics at Auburn University. Education and career Billor graduated from Ankara University in 1983, and earned a master's degree at Çukurova University in 1985. She completed a Ph.D. in statistics at the University of Sheffield in 1992; her dissertation, Diagnostic Methods in Ridge Regression and Errors-in-variables Model, was supervised by Robert Loynes.

#1822

Renee M. Johnson

#95977

Overall Influence

1950 - Present (74 years)

Renee M. Johnson is an American scientist specializing in the mental health of adolescents and young adults. She researches substance abuse, substance use epidemiology, and violence in marginalized youth including persons of color, LGBTQ, and immigrants. Johnson is an associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

#1823

Gael M. Martin

#90691

Overall Influence

Gael Margaret Martin is an Australian Bayesian econometrician, known for her work in simulation-based inference and time series analysis of non-Gaussian data. She is a professor of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University, an associate investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

#1824

Jennie Stephens

#180413

Overall Influence

1975 - Present (49 years)

Jennie C. Stephens is an academic researcher, professor, author, and social justice advocate. She is Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is also affiliated with the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, the department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the department of Cultures, Societies & Global Studies.

#1825

Margaret P. Martin

#144507

Overall Influence

1915 - 2012 (97 years)

Margaret Pearl Martin was an American statistician, associated with the University of Minnesota. Most of her statistical research was performed as a consultant on public health studies, in connection with her work teaching statistics in medical schools.

#1826

Elizabeth Mannshardt

#169810

Overall Influence

Elizabeth Mannshardt is an American environmental statistician, professor, and government executive. She is the Associate Director of the Information Access and Analytic Services Division at the United States Environmental Protection Agency and an adjunct associate professor in the department of statistics at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on climate change and extremes in climate and weather.

#1827

Laura O'Dwyer

#169009

Overall Influence

Laura Mary O'Dwyer is a professor of Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics at Boston College known for her work on examining the impact of technology in education, especially science education, and for quantifying outcomes for K-12 student success.

#1828

Tian Zheng

#171825

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Tian Zheng is a Chinese-American applied statistician whose work concerns Bayesian modeling and sparse learning of complex data from applications including social networks, bioinformatics, and geoscience. She is a professor of statistics at Columbia University, and chair of the Columbia Department of Statistics.

#1829

Susan Cain

#6902

Overall Influence

1968 - Present (56 years)

Susan Horowitz Cain is an American writer and lecturer. She is the author of the 2012 non-fiction book Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, which argues that modern Western culture misunderstands and undervalues the traits and capabilities of introverted people. In 2015, she co-founded Quiet Revolution, a mission-based company with initiatives in the areas of children , lifestyle, and the workplace. Her 2016 follow-on book, Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts, focused on introverted children and teens, the book also being directed to their educators a...

#1830

Nell Sedransk

#170272

Overall Influence

Nell Sedransk is an American statistician who directed the National Institute of Statistical Sciences . She continues to work at NISS, and is a research professor of statistics at North Carolina State University. Her research interests include Bayesian inference and experimental design for complex experiments, and includes participation in a study of reading comprehension.

#1831

Júlia Volaufová

#171009

Overall Influence

Júlia Volaufová is a Slovak biostatistician whose research has applied statistics to questions involving food intake, dietary supplements, calorie restriction, body weight, and diabetes. Her more theoretical interests include mixed linear models, regression analysis, and statistical hypothesis testing. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans.

#1832

Jian-Jian Ren

#171192

Overall Influence

Joan Jian-Jian Ren is an American statistician whose research concerns survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis for biomedical applications. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park.

#1833

Valérie Chavez-Demoulin

#169142

Overall Influence

Valérie Chavez-Demoulin is a Swiss statistician whose research includes statistical models of extreme events and their application to risk management. She is a professor of statistics at HEC Lausanne.

#1834

Katherine Halvorsen

#89453

Overall Influence

Katherine Taylor Halvorsen is an American statistician and statistics educator whose research topics have included statistical significance for contingency tables, and the conditional logistic regression method for analysis of multiple risk factors in case–control studies. She was co-author of four editions of Mathematics Education in the United States, a quadrennial review publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and serves on the Mathematical Sciences Academic Advisory Committee of the College Board.

#1835

Yasemin Arda

#131050

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Yasemin Arda is a Turkish-Belgian management scientist and operations researcher specializing in supply chain management. She is a professor in the management school of the University of Liège, vice-dean for education in the school, and the president for the 2021–2022 term of the Belgian Society for Operations Research.

#1836

Erica Plambeck

#172066

Overall Influence

Erica L. Plambeck is an American operations researcher specializing in supply chain management and environmental sustainability. She is Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information & Technology in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, professor in the Stanford University Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, senior fellow in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the 2022–2023 Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Stanford University.

#1837

Susan Ahmed

#174063

Overall Influence

1946 - Present (78 years)

Susan Mae Wolofski Ahmed is an American statistician. After early work in biostatistics, she became chief mathematical statistician in the National Center for Education Statistics and president of the Washington Statistical Society.

#1838

Rachel Fewster

#177590

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Rachel M. Fewster is a British and New Zealand environmental statistician and statistical ecologist known for her work on wildlife population size, population genetics, and Benford's law, and for the development of the CatchIT citizen science project for monitoring invasive species. She is a professor of statistics in New Zealand at the University of Auckland.

#1839

Carol A. Gotway Crawford

#137631

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Carol Anne Gotway Crawford is an American mathematical statistician and from 2018 to 2020 served as Chief Statistician of the U.S. Government Accountability Office . She joined the GAO in May 2017. From August 2014 to April 2017, she was with the Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service. She was formerly at the National Center for Environmental Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also holds an adjunct faculty position at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, and is an expert in biostatistics, spatial analysis, environmental statistics, and the statistics of public health.

#1840

Judith T. Lessler

#170777

Overall Influence

1943 - Present (81 years)

Judith T. Lessler is an American statistician and expert on survey methodology, particularly on surveys relating to health and epidemiology. Lessler was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, and grew up on a farm in Iredell County, North Carolina. She earned her Ph.D. in 1974 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation, A Double Sampling Scheme Model for Eliminating Measurement Process Bias and Estimating Measurement Errors in Surveys, was jointly supervised by Daniel G. Horvitz and Gary Grove Koch.

#1841

Stefanie Barz

#136771

Overall Influence

Stefanie Barz is a German physicist and Professor of Quantum Information and Technology at the University of Stuttgart. She studies quantum physics and quantum information in photonics. Early life and education Barz studied mathematics, physics and computer sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. During her undergraduate studies she was an Erasmus Programme student at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in Vienna before moving to the University of Oxford, where she worked in quantum photonics. She was awarded the University of Vienna LaudiMaxima Prize for her dissertation.

#1842

Fang Liu

#169587

Overall Influence

Fang Liu is a Chinese-American statistician and data scientist whose research topics include differential privacy, statistical learning theory, Bayesian statistics, regularization, missing data, and applications in biostatistics. She is a professor in the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Notre Dame.

#1843

Kathi Irvine

#158228

Overall Influence

Kathryn Mary Irvine is an American research statistician for the United States Geological Survey , affiliated with the Bozeman Environmental and Ecological Statistics Research Group, at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center in Bozeman, Montana. Her research involves environmental statistics including both the fundamentals of spatial statistics and its application to wildlife populations including bats, pikas, elk, pine trees, and sagebrush steppes.

#1844

Keumhee Carrière Chough

#180044

Overall Influence

Keumhee Carrière Chough is a Korean-Canadian statistician whose theoretical contributions include work on repeated measures design; she is co-editor of Analysis of Mixed Data: Methods & Application, and has also contributed to highly cited works on public health. She is a professor of mathematical and statistical sciences at the University of Alberta.

#1845

Leslie McClure

#158553

Overall Influence

Leslie Ain McClure is an American biostatistician. She is a Full professor of biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health and was the inaugural Associate Director of Diversity for the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute .

#1846

Janet Sinsheimer

#92653

Overall Influence

Janet Suzanne Sinsheimer was an American expert in statistical genetics who worked as a professor of human genetics, biomathematics and biostatistics in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Topics in her research included genome-wide association studies, epigenetics, and Bayesian methods for phylogenetics.

#1847

Joanne Wendelberger

#171576

Overall Influence

Joanne Roth Wendelberger is an American statistician and a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Education and career Wendelberger is a 1981 graduate of Oberlin College. She completed her Ph.D. in 1991 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her dissertation, Impact, Identification and Estimation of Sources of Transmitted Variation , was supervised by George E. P. Box, and her graduate work was also influenced by William Hunter and Brian Joiner.

#1848

Nandini Kannan

#161949

Overall Influence

Nandini Kannan is the Executive Director at the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum . Education and career Kannan received her PhD in Statistics from Pennsylvania State University in 1992. Her dissertation, Estimation of Direction of Arrival in Signal Processing Models, was supervised by C. R. Rao.

#1849

Joan Staniswalis

#137805

Overall Influence

1957 - 2018 (61 years)

Joan Georgette Staniswalis was an American statistician who made "significant contributions to theory and biomedical applications" of statistics, including the effects of air quality and racial inequality on health.

#1850

Julie Swann

#91773

Overall Influence

Julie LeAnne Swann is an American systems engineer and operations researcher who studies optimization-based improvements to supply chains, logistics, health care, the mathematical modelling of infectious disease, and disaster relief. She is A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor and head of the Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University. She was elected President-Elect of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in 2023

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