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List of the most influential female people in Mathematics,

#1851

Nancy Cox

#76248

Overall Influence

1949 - Present (75 years)

Nancy J. Cox is an American virologist who has served as the director of the Influenza Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2006 to 2014 and as director of the CDC's World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology and Control of Influenza from 1992 to 2014. Cox served as the Chair and Co-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of GISAID, between the years 2008 and 2017 and is frequently recognized for having played an instrumental role in the success of GISAID.

#1852

Hilary Parker

#141001

Overall Influence

Hilary S. Parker is an American biostatistician and data scientist. She was formerly a senior data analyst at the fashion merchandising company Stitch Fix. Parker co-hosts the data analytics podcast Not So Standard Deviations with Roger Peng. She received her PhD in biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has formerly been employed by Etsy.

#1853

Shujie Ma

#169028

Overall Influence

Shujie Ma is a Chinese-American statistician specializing in nonparametric regression and semiparametric regression and their applications in machine learning. She is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Riverside.

#1854

Jackie Dawson

#175352

Overall Influence

Jackie Dawson is a Canadian academic who holds the Canada Research Chair in Environment, Society and Policy. Dawson is also co-Scientific Director of ArcticNet, where she is currently a member of the Board of Directors.

#1855

Katrina A. B. Goddard

#170069

Overall Influence

Katrina A. Blouke Goddard is an American genetic epidemiologist and biostatistician specializing in public health genomics and the translation of genomic applications into clinical practice. Goddard is the director of the division of cancer control and population sciences at the National Cancer Institute . She was previously the distinguished investigator and director of translational and applied genomics at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research and a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University.

#1856

Rosemary Pattenden

#101453

Overall Influence

Rosemary Pattenden is emeritus professor at UEA Law School. She took the degrees of bachelor of commerce and bachelor of laws at the University of New South Wales and doctor of philosophy at the University of Oxford. On the completion of her DPhil in 1979 she joined the University of East Anglia where she was lecturer, senior lecturer, reader and, between 1998 and 2013, professor.

#1857

Emma Benn

#171523

Overall Influence

Emma Katherine Tara Benn is an American biostatistician whose research includes causal inference in health disparities as a way to help find targets for intervention against these disparities. She works at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Science, affiliated with the Center for Biostatistics. She is also associate dean of faculty well-being and development, and the founding director of the Center for Scientific Diversity at the Icahn School.

#1858

Sarah Abramowitz

#178385

Overall Influence

1967 - Present (57 years)

Sarah Knapp Abramowitz is an American statistician specializing in statistics education and known for her textbooks on the use of statistical software packages. She is the John H. Evans Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Drew University, where she chairs the Mathematics & Computer Science Department.

#1859

Sarah J. Greenwald

#183190

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Sarah J. Greenwald is professor of mathematics at Appalachian State University and faculty affiliate of gender, women's and sexuality studies. Research Greenwald's research interests include geometry and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She also investigates connections between mathematics and society, such as women, minorities and popular culture. For example, she was part of a team that looked into allusions to mathematics in The Simpsons.

#1860

Rachel Kyte

#63537

Overall Influence

2000 - Present (24 years)

Rachel Elizabeth Kyte is a British academic who served as the 14th dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University from October 2019 to June 2023, and the first woman to lead the oldest graduate-only school of international affairs in the United States. She was the former Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All, and Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All.

#1861

Dalene Stangl

#170832

Overall Influence

1956 - Present (68 years)

Dalene Kay Stangl is an American statistician known for development and promotion of Bayesian statistical methods in health-related research. Education and career Stangl grew up on a farm in Cass County, Iowa, and was the first in her family to attain a Ph.D. She graduated from Iowa State University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology, and earned a master's degree in 1980 from the University of Iowa. She later attended graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University, she earned a second master's degree in statistics in 1988 and a Ph.D. in 1991. Her dissertation was Mode...

#1862

Leslie M. Moore

#127993

Overall Influence

Leslie Melissa Moore is a statistician at Los Alamos National Laboratory. At Los Alamos, she applies statistics to scientific experiments and simulations, as well as studying algorithms for statistical problems and the design of experiments for computerized studies.

#1863

Andriëtte Bekker

#169804

Overall Influence

1958 - Present (66 years)

Andriëtte Bekker is a South African mathematical statistician. She is a professor at the University of Pretoria, and head of the statistics department at the university. Education Bekker earned her Ph.D. in 1990 at the University of South Africa. Her dissertation, Veralgemening, samestelling en karakterisering as metodes om parameterryke verdelings te vind [Generalising, compounding, and characterising as methods to obtain parameter-rich distributions], was supervised by J. J. J. Roux.

#1864

Iyanla Vanzant

#84414

Overall Influence

1953 - Present (71 years)

Iyanla Vanzant is an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, life coach, and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, her eponymous talk show, and her appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. From 2012 to 2021, she served as host of OWN's Iyanla: Fix My Life.

#1865

Sue-Jane Wang

#172661

Overall Influence

Sue-Jane Wang is a biostatistician at the United States Food and Drug Administration , where she works as the Biostatistics Lead and as the liaison from the Office of Biostatistics to the FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Biomarker Qualification Program. She is also deputy division director for biometrics in the Office of Biostatistics.

#1866

Lisa M. Sullivan

#176803

Overall Influence

1961 - Present (63 years)

Lisa Marie Sullivan is a biostatistician associated with the Framingham Heart Study. She is a professor of biostatistics at Boston University, where she is associate dean for education in the School of Public Health and the former chair of the biostatistics department.

#1867

Suzan Johnson Cook

#39151

Overall Influence

1957 - Present (67 years)

Suzan Denise Johnson Cook is a U.S. presidential advisor, pastor, theologian, author, activist, and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013. She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University, a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary, a pastor at a number of churches, a television producer, and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the fir...

#1868

Fan Li

#171329

Overall Influence

Fan Li is a Chinese-American biostatistician whose research includes causal inference and propensity score matching, and their application to comparative effectiveness research in health care. She is a professor in the Duke University Department of Statistical Science, with a secondary appointment in Duke's Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics.

#1869

Julie Verhoeven

#88802

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Julie Verhoeven is a British illustrator and designer who has collaborated with brands such as Louis Vuitton, Versace and Peter Jensen. While she is recognised primarily for her work in fashion, she has also contributed illustrations to books, magazines and album covers. Her work has been widely exhibited, including at London's Hayward Gallery. She is a design academic at both Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art.

#1870

Isabelle Aubert

#184131

Overall Influence

Isabelle Aubert is a Canadian neuroscientist with expertise in developing regenerative therapies for neurodegenerative disorders . She is a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute , and is a professor in laboratory medicine and pathobiology at the University of Toronto. In 2019, Aubert was appointed as a Canada Research Chair in Brain Repair and Regeneration.

#1871

Theresa Utlaut

#172949

Overall Influence

Theresa Lynn Utlaut is an American statistician, and a principal engineer at the Intel Corporation, where she develops statistical methods for Intel's microprocessor and integrated circuit manufacturing processes, as well as providing statistical consultation and training. She is also a user of the JMP statistical software package and its scripting language, and a coauthor of the book JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP® Scripting Language.

#1872

Lilly Sanathanan

#171996

Overall Influence

Lalitha Padman Sanathanan is an Indian statistician. Sanathanan's early research concerned estimation of population size from sampled data, in the context of particle physics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1969, at the University of Chicago; her dissertation, Estimating Population Size in the Particle Scanning Context, was supervised by David Lee Wallace. After several years as an assistant and associate professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, she moved to Argonne National Laboratory in the late 1970s.

#1873

Dina Merhav

#85424

Overall Influence

1936 - 2022 (86 years)

Dina Merhav was a Yugoslav-born Israeli sculptor. Biography Dina Gross was born in Vinkovci to a Yugoslav Jewish family of Zlatko and Steffi Gross. During World War II her father, as a Royal Yugoslav Army officer, was captured and imprisoned in a war camp in Germany. Merhav, her mother and rest of the family managed to escape to Split, from there to Switzerland through Italy. After the war they returned to Yugoslavia to be reunited with Dina's father. In 1949 the entire family made aliyah to Israel. In Israel she studied and graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.

#1874

Iwona Chmielewska

Iwona Chmielewska

#86531

Overall Influence

1960 - Present (64 years)

Iwona Chmielewska is a Polish author and illustrator, who publishes mainly for children but also for adults. Many of her works are published in South Korea where she has gained considerable popularity. She lives and works in Toruń in northern Poland where she teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.

#1875

Judith O'Fallon

#119959

Overall Influence

Judith O'Fallon, née Judith Rich, is a retired American statistician. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1984, and is also a lifetime member of it. Education In 1973 she received a PhD in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her dissertation was "Discriminant Analysis Under Truncation" and her advisor was N.L. Johnson.

#1876

Vanesa Magar Brunner

#117958

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Vanesa Magar is a Franco-Mexican scientist who works at the Physical Oceanography Department, Ensenada Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education in Mexico, since 2014. She runs the Geophysical and Environmental Modelling Lab.

#1877

Mary Beth Landrum

#111021

Overall Influence

Mary Elizabeth Landrum is a British-American statistician specializing in biostatistics, examining health services and the quality of health care delivery. She is a professor in the Department of Health Care Policy of the Harvard Medical School.

#1878

Younghi Pagh-Paan

#104776

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Younghi Pagh-Paan is a South Korean composer. Life Pagh‑Paan was born in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. She studied music at the Seoul National University from 1965 to 1971. In 1974 she received a DAAD scholarship to study in Germany and entered the Freiburg Musikhochschule, where she studied composition with Klaus Huber, analysis with Brian Ferneyhough, music theory with Peter Förtig and piano with Edith Picht-Axenfeld.

#1879

Margaret C. Wu

#172689

Overall Influence

Margaret C. Wu is a Chinese-American biostatistician who worked at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute on topics including the analysis of clinical trials, longitudinal studies, and censored data.

#1880

Mimi Kim

#119195

Overall Influence

Mimi Y. Kim is the Harold and Muriel Block Chair in epidemiology and population health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she heads the division of biostatistics. Kim graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in bioengineering in 1986, and completed an Sc.D. in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1990. She joined the New York University School of Medicine in 1990, becoming an assistant professor in 1994 and an associate professor in 2000. She moved to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2003. She was given the Block Professorship in...

#1881

Paula Diehr

#170976

Overall Influence

Paula K. Hagedorn Diehr is an American biostatistician whose research topics generally concern health systems and ageing, and have included work on spatial variability and longitudinal data, health care utilization, mental health, insurance, diagnosis, and prediction of healthy life expectancies. She is a professor emerita of biostatistics, with a joint appointment in health systems and population health, at the University of Washington.

#1882

Olga Pendleton

#95767

Overall Influence

Olga J. Pendleton is an American statistician known for her research on road traffic safety and alcohol-impaired driving as a statistician at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and as a member of the "Zero Alcohol" committee of the National Research Council. She has also published highly-cited work on the geometric design of roads and, with Ronald R. Hocking, on multiple linear regression.

#1883

Sirindhorn

#26282

Overall Influence

1955 - Present (69 years)

Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand, the Princess Royal and the Princess Debaratana Rajasuda , formerly Princess Sirindhorn Debaratanasuda Kitivadhanadulsobhak , is the second daughter of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and younger sister of King Vajiralongkorn. Thais commonly refer to her as "Phra Thep" , meaning "princess angel". Her title in Thai is the female equivalent of the title once held by her brother, King Maha Vajiralongkorn. The Thai constitution was altered in 1974 to allow for female succession, thus making her eligible for the throne. Having been the eldest female child of the royal fami...

#1884

Jana Asher

#154801

Overall Influence

Jana Lynn Asher is a statistician known for her work on human rights and sexual violence. She is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Slippery Rock University. She was a co-editor of the book Statistical Methods for Human Rights with David L. Banks and Fritz Scheuren.

#1885

Elaine Martin

#120520

Overall Influence

Elaine Barbara Martin OBE FREng FIChemE CEng is a chemical engineer and statistician and Head of School at the University of Leeds. She is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Royal Statistical Society and Royal Academy of Engineering.

#1886

Nancy D. Griffeth

Nancy D. Griffeth

#171227

Overall Influence

1945 - Present (79 years)

Nancy Davis Griffeth is an American computer scientist notable for approaches to the feature interaction problem. In 2014, she is a professor at Lehman College of The City University of New York and is modelling biological systems in computational biology.

#1887

Bronwyn Harch

#147427

Overall Influence

1969 - Present (55 years)

Bronwyn Harch is an Australian data scientist. Early life and education Harch comes from a farming family in the rural Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane. Career She has worked with initiatives with government and industry, predominantly in the environmental and agricultural sectors. These large-scale projects combined statistical expertise with the expertise of scientists from other parts of CSIRO as well as universities, government and industry. The projects were initiated to address environmental issues, for example monitoring the ecological health of waterways in one of Australia's most populous regions, south-east Queensland.

#1888

Julia Silge

#127167

Overall Influence

1978 - Present (46 years)

Julia Silge is an American data scientist and software engineer. She has developed tools for statistical modelling in the R programming language, including the text mining package tidytext. Silge currently works for Posit, formerly known as RStudio.

#1889

Anna Goldsworthy

#113852

Overall Influence

1974 - Present (50 years)

Anna Louise Goldsworthy is an Australian classical pianist, writer, academic, playwright, and librettist, known for her 2009 memoir Piano Lessons. She has held several academic positions, and is director of the Elder Conservatorium at the University of Adelaide. She is a founder member of the Seraphim Trio, which has toured Australia and the world since 1995.

#1890

Ellen Cohn

#79649

Overall Influence

Ellen R. Cohn is an associate dean and associate professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, with a secondary faculty appointment at University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. She is a faculty member of the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine.

#1891

Linda Williams Pickle

#175024

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Linda Williams Pickle is an American statistician and expert in spatial analysis and data visualization, especially as applied to disease patterns. She worked as a researcher for the National Cancer Institute, for Georgetown University, and for the National Center for Health Statistics before becoming a statistics consultant and adjunct professor of geography and public health services at Pennsylvania State University.

#1892

Jennifer Taback

#187259

Overall Influence

1971 - Present (53 years)

Jennifer Taback is an American mathematician whose research focuses on geometric group theory and combinatorial group theory. She is the Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Bowdoin College in Maine.

#1893

Valerie Plame

#26556

Overall Influence

1963 - Present (61 years)

Valerie Elise Plame is an American writer, spy novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency officer. As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post. She described this period and the media firestorm that ensued as "mortifying, and I think I was in shock for a couple years".

#1894

Jane Zuengler

#108230

Overall Influence

1948 - Present (76 years)

Jane Ellen Zuengler is an American academic who works in the field of linguistics. Career She is currently a professor in the English department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Additionally, she is the executive editor of the academic journal Applied Linguistics. Zuengler has published widely in the field of linguistics. Her research centers on language acquisition, classroom discourse, and global English. Zuengler received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and completed her M.A. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She then received her M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Co...

#1895

Andréa Sardinha Taschetto

#187104

Overall Influence

Andréa Sardinha Taschetto or A. S. Taschetto; Andréa Taschetto is a climate change scientist at the University of New South Wales, and winner of the Dorothy Hill award. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in 2016. Her research has contributed to improved understanding of the role of oceans, on climate variability at regional scales, and from seasonal to mulit-decade timescales. This research also has assisted with future climate projections.

#1896

Nadine Barrie Smith

#101391

Overall Influence

1962 - 2010 (48 years)

Nadine Barrie Smith was an American biomedical researcher in the field of therapeutic ultrasound and non-invasive drug delivery. She was also an educator and mentor, especially to women students. Personal life Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois to Jean and Barron Smith. The family has deep roots in Japan , associated with the Sekiguchi and Asaki clans. She has two sisters, Arnette Bosch and Jolene Smith. She graduated from Chicago’s Lane Tech High School in 1980. She was married to Andrew Webb in New Zealand. Outside of her scientific career, she was an accomplished sports photographer, equestrian, and mountaineer.

#1897

Laure Wynants

#181595

Overall Influence

Laure Wynants is a Belgian epidemiologist who is a professor at Maastricht University. She studies prediction models in medicine and hospital acquired infections. Early life and education Wynants studied biostatistics at KU Leuven in Belgium. She remained there for her doctoral research, where she focused on prediction models. Her doctorate sought to predict whether ovarian tumours are benign or malignant, and how likely it is that the insertion of a catheter will cause bloodstream infection.

#1898

Elfriede Abbe

#69418

Overall Influence

1919 - 2012 (93 years)

Elfriede Martha Abbe was an American sculptor, wood engraver and botanical illustrator, often displaying nature and simple country living inspired by her Upstate New York home. A self-publisher, Abbe created numerous hand-printed books, which she printed on a printing press in her studio.

#1899

Marti Noxon

#62419

Overall Influence

1964 - Present (60 years)

Martha Mills Noxon is an American television and film writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her work as a screenwriter and executive producer on the supernatural drama series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . She was also executive producer, writer, and creator of the Bravo comedy-drama series Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and the Lifetime drama series UnREAL , and an executive producer of the CBS medical drama series Code Black .

#1900

Lee Bontecou

#19964

Overall Influence

1931 - 2022 (91 years)

Lee Bontecou was an American sculptor and printmaker and a pioneer figure in the New York art world. She kept her work consistently in a recognizable style, and received broad recognition in the 1960s. Bontecou made abstract sculptures in the 1960s and 1970s and created vacuum-formed plastic fish, plants, and flower forms in the 1970s. Rich, organic shapes and powerful energy appear in her drawings, prints, and sculptures. Her work has been shown and collected in many major museums in the United States and in Europe.

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