Aad van der Vaart

Adrianus Willem "Aad" van der Vaart (born 12 July 1959) is a Dutch professor of Stochastics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University. Van der Vaart was born in Vlaardingen. He earned his PhD at Leiden University in 1987. Before starting at Leiden van der Vaart was a professor at the VU University Amsterdam. He has been member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009. He was also the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant in 2012.


Abhijit Banerjee

Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Bengali: অভিজিৎ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; born 1961) is an Indian economist. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at MIT. Banerjee is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (along with economists Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan), a research affiliate of Innovations for Poverty Action, and a member of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty. Banerjee was a president of the Bureau for the Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, an international research fellow of the Kiel Institute, fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Econometric Society.


Alan J. Dix

Alan Dix is a British author and university professor, specialising in human–computer interaction. He is one of the four co-authors of the university level textbook Human–Computer Interaction. He was previously a professor at Lancaster University.


Alan K. Mackworth

Alan Mackworth is a Professor of Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He is known as "The Founding Father" of RoboCup. He is a former President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).


Albert-László Barabási

(The native form of this personal name is Barabási Albert László. This article uses the Western name order.) Albert-László Barabási (born March 30, 1967) is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. He introduced in 1999 the concept of scale-free networks and proposed the Barabási–Albert model to explain their widespread emergence in natural, technological and social systems, from the cellular telephone to the World Wide Web or online communities.


Albrecht Zimmermann

Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Zimmermann (23 April 1860, Braunschweig – 22 February 1931, Berlin) was a German botanist.


Aleksandar Lazarevic

Aleksandar Lazarevic (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Лазаревић) is a computer scientist who specializes in research on Data mining. In addition, his research interests include security applications, video surveillance, parallel and distributed computing. He earned B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1994 and 1997 respectively. In 1997, he went to United States, and in 2001, he received the PhD degree in Computer and Information Science from Temple University in Philadelphia.


Alexander Clark

Alexander G. Clark was an African-American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Liberia. He was born in 1826 in Pennsylvania to parents who had been freed from slavery. Clark is most famous for suing to allow his Afro-American daughter to attend public school in Iowa. Clark's son Alexander Jr. became the first black to graduate from the University of Iowa College of Law. Clark himself became the second.


Alexander Strehl

Alexander Strehl (born in Nuremberg) is a computer scientist, management consultant and business school professor. His areas of expertise are business software, enterprise resource planning, business intelligence, strategies, personalization, artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, and data mining. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University Of Texas At Austin, was the creator of  cluster ensembles, a director of flatfox AG, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He is currently teaching at the University of Aalen and serves as an independent industry consultant.


Alexey Ya. Chervonenkis

Alexey Yakovlevich Chervonenkis (Russian: Алексей Яковлевич Червоненкис; 7 September 1938 – 22 September 2014) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, and, with Vladimir Vapnik, was one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory, also known as the "fundamental theory of learning" an important part of computational learning theory. Chervonenkis held joint appointments with the Russian Academy of Sciences and Royal Holloway, University of London.


Alex Pentland

Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1952) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor at MIT, and serial entrepreneur. He is one of the most cited authors in computer science, and helped create the MIT Media Lab.


Alex Rutherford

Alex Rutherford is the pen name of two writers, Diana Preston and her husband Michael Preston. "Rutherford" is known for the six-book historical fiction series Empire of the Moghul. The Prestons studied at University of Oxford reading History and English respectively. Both are keen travellers and have visited more than 140 countries so far. Empire of the Moghul series consists of six books which is about the reign of the epic rise and fall of one of the world’s most powerful, opulent and glamorous dynasties - Mughal Empire across two hundred turbulent years.


Alfred Z. Spector

Alfred Zalmon Spector is an American computer scientist and research manager. Spector received his Bachelor of Arts degree in applied Mathematics from Harvard University.He received his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1981, where his research included measurements of remote procedure call operations on experimental Ethernet.His dissertation was titled Multiprocessing Architectures for Local Computer Networks, and advisor was Forest Baskett III.


Algirdas Saudargas

Algirdas Saudargas (born April 17, 1948 in Kaunas, Lithuania, is a Lithuanian politician and the signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. He was the first foreign minister of post-Soviet Lithuania. He was foreign minister from March 24, 1990 to December 12, 1992 and again from December 4, 1996 to October 30, 2000. In 1992, Algirdas Saudargas, together with 9 other Baltic Ministers of Foreign Affairs and an EU commissioner, founded the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) and the EuroFaculty. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009.


Alon Cohen

Alon Cohen (born in Israel, 1962) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the co-inventor of the Audio Transceiver (U.S. Patent 5,825,771) that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry, that changed the face of the telecommunication industry. Cohen holds 4 US patents on different communications technologies. He is currently Executive VP and CTO at Phone.com.


Alon Y. Halevy

Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a leading researcher in the area of data integration. He was a research scientist at Google from 2005 to 2015, when he left to become head of Recruit Institute of Technology. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993. At Google he has been involved in Google Fusion Tables.


Anatoliy Skorokhod

Anatoliy Volodymyrovych Skorokhod (Ukrainian: Анато́лій Володи́мирович Скорохо́д; September 10, 1930 – January 3, 2011) was a Soviet and Ukrainian mathematician, and an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine from 1985 to his death in 2011. In 1956–1964 he worked at Kyiv University. From 1964 until 2002, he was at the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. At the same time, he was a professor at Kyiv University. Since 1993, he had been a professor at Michigan State University, U.S., and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.


András Kornai

András Kornai (born 1957 in Budapest), son of economist János Kornai, is a mathematical linguist. He earned his mathematics PhD in 1983 from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest where his advisor was Miklós Ajtai. He earned his linguistics PhD in 1991 from Stanford University, where his advisor was Paul Kiparsky. He is on the board of the journal Grammars and YourAmigo PLC. His research interests include all mathematical aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition, and OCR.


Andreas Wagner

Andreas Wagner (born 26 January 1967) is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is known for his work on the role of robustness and innovation in biological evolution. Wagner is professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zürich.


Andrei Z. Broder

Andrei Zary Broder (Hebrew: אנדרי זרי ברודר) is a Distinguished Scientist at Google. Previously he was a Research Fellow and Vice President of Computational Advertising for Yahoo!. Prior to Yahoo he worked for AltaVista as the vice president of research, and for IBM Research as a Distinguished Engineer and CTO of IBM's Institute for Search and Text Analysis.


Andrew Jaffe

Andrew Jaffe (August 2, 1938 – February 26, 2010) was a journalist and executive of Adweek. Jaffe joined Adweek in 1986 and presided over the company as it acquired the Clio Awards for its parent corporation BPI Communications. He left BPI in 2003, creating a consulting firm, Compass Consulting, and authoring a book, Casting for Big Ideas. Jaffe was married to Eileen Ast and had two sons.


Andrew McCallum

Andrew McCallum is a professor and researcher in the computer science department at University of Massachusetts Amherst. His primary specialties are in machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction, information integration, and social network analysis. In 2009 he was elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is now the president-elect of International Machine Learning Society (IMLS), which supports the International Conference on Machine Learning.


Andrew Y. Ng

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (traditional Chinese: 吳恩達; simplified Chinese: 吴恩达; pinyin: Wú Ēndá; born 1976) is Chief Scientist at Baidu Research in Silicon Valley. In addition, he is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical Engineering by courtesy at Stanford University. He is chairman of the board of Coursera, an online education platform that he co-founded with Daphne Koller.


Andrew Zisserman

Andrew Zisserman FRS (born 1957) is a British computer scientist and a professor at the University of Oxford, and a researcher in computer vision. As of 2014, he is also affiliated with Google DeepMind.


Andy Palmer

Andrew Charles Palmer CMG (born June 1963) is an English chartered engineer and businessman. He is the CEO of Aston Martin. Palmer was previously the Chief Planning Officer, Executive Vice-President and Member of the Executive Committee of Nissan Motor Company. Reporting directly to Nissan's President and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, Palmer shared the chief operating officer role with two Nissan executives. Palmer also served as Chairman of Infiniti, and as President of Nissan Motor Light Truck Co., Palmer was a member of the board of directors of Nissan (China) Investment Company (NCIC), and of Nissan's joint ventures with India's Ashok Leyland.


Anindya Ghose

Anindya Ghose (born ca 1974) is an Indian-born American academic, and Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences and a Professor of Marketing at New York University's Stern School of Business, and Director of the Center for Business Analytics at NYU Stern. He is the co-Chair of the NYU-AIG Partnership on Innovation for Global Resilience. He is the Robert L. & Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow and a Daniel P. Paduano Fellow of Business Ethics at NYU Stern. He has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the Wharton School of Business. He serves as the Chief Data Scientist of 3TI World in China, Scientific Expert with Cornerstone Research  and Scientific Advisor to OneVest in USA.


Antonio Galves

Jefferson Antonio Galves, known simply as Antonio Galves, is a Brazilian mathematician, professor of the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo and member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His field of studies is related to statistician issues models, in particular models that have stochasticity and variable range of memory. In 2007 he won the National Order of Scientific Merit. Professor Galves is also the leader of NeuroMat, a research center established in 2013 at the University of São Paulo that is dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience.


Anuška Ferligoj

Anuška Ferligoj is a Slovenian mathematician, born August 19, 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, whose work in network analysis research is internationally recognized. Her interests include multivariate analysis (constrained and multicriteria clustering), social networks (measurement quality and blockmodeling), and survey methodology (reliability and validity of measurement). She is Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.


Arkadi Nemirovski

Arkadi Nemirovski (born March 14, 1947) is a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been a leader in continuous optimization and is best known for his work on the ellipsoid method, modern interior-point methods and robust optimization.


Arvind Narayanan

Arvind Narayanan is a computer scientist. He is an assistant professor in computer science at Princeton University. Narayanan is recognized for his research in the de-anonymization of data.


Ashish Garg

Ashish Garg is an education futurist. She studies emerging trends in K-12 education and its impact on the future of learning. A strong advocate of the ‘innovation ready over career ready' paradigm, she is better known for her 'Discover Tomorrow Progressive Principals Workshops'. A former member of the UN ICT Task Force, her experiences with ‘tech in ed’ and 'youth development’ give her a unique perspective on defining the future of learning. She advises and consults with country governments, education boards and progressive school leaders; across India, Middle East and Africa.


Ashwin Ram

Ashwin Ram (born July 27, 1960) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He was chief innovation officer at PARC from 2011 to 2016, and published books and scientific articles and helped start at least two companies.


Athanasios Papoulis

Athanasios Papoulis (Greek: Αθανάσιος Παπούλης; 1921 – April 25, 2002) was a Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician.


Avner Friedman

Avner Friedman (Hebrew: אבנר פרידמן; born November 19, 1932) is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Ohio State University. His primary field of research is partial differential equations, with interests in stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, free boundary problems, and control theory. He has been adviser to 27 doctoral students, has published 20 books, and over 400 papers.


Avrim Blum

Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a prominent computer scientist. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest. Since 1991 he has been a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. His main work has been in the area of theoretical computer science, with particular activity in the fields of machine learning, computational learning theory, algorithmic game theory, and algorithms.


Barney Pell

Barney Pell (born March 18, 1968) is an American entrepreneur, angel investor and computer scientist. He is co-founder, Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Moon Express; co-founder and Chairman of LocoMobi; and Associate Founder of Singularity University. He was co-founder and CEO of Powerset, a pioneering natural language search startup, search strategist and architect for Microsoft's Bing search engine, a pioneer in the field of General Game Playing in Artificial Intelligence, and the architect of the first intelligent agent to fly onboard and control a spacecraft.


Bart van Leeuwen

Bart van Leeuwen (Amsterdam, 1950) is a Dutch photographer and author. He published his first pictures in 1967, graduated from the School for Professional Photography in The Hague in 1969 and started to work as a freelance photographer in 1971. Inspired by film noir, Italian neorealism and photographers like Avedon, Brassaï, Frank, Kertész, Lartigue, Newton and Penn he developed a narrative, cinematographic style, linking facts and fiction. He published "Nabelichting", an autobiographical novel, in 2012, and "Niets is Echt", a book about photography and reality, in 2015. Due to a neuromuscular disorder he ceased the creation of new photographic works in 2005 and now lives with his wife and son just outside Amsterdam.


Benjamin Goodrich

Benjamin Franklin Goodrich (November 4, 1841 – August 3, 1888) was an American industrialist in the rubber industry and founder of B.F. Goodrich Company.


Benjamin Kuipers

Benjamin Kuipers (born 7 April 1949) is an American computer scientist at the University of Michigan, known for his research in qualitative simulation.


Ben Taskar

Ben Taskar (March 3, 1977 – November 18, 2013) was a professor and researcher in the area of machine learning and applications to computational linguistics and computer vision. He was a Magerman Term Associate Professor for Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. He co-directed PRiML: Penn Research in Machine Learning, a joint venture between the School of Engineering and Wharton. He was also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Public Policy. At the University of Washington, he held the Boeing Professorship.


Bernhard Schölkopf

Bernhard Schölkopf (born February 20, 1968) is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he heads the Department of Empirical Inference. He is a leading researcher in the machine learning community, where he is particularly active in the field of kernel methods. He has made particular contributions to support vector machines and kernel PCA. A large part of his work is the development of novel machine learning algorithms through their formulation as (typically convex) optimisation problems.


Bernt Øksendal

Bernt Karsten Øksendal (born 10 April 1945 in Fredrikstad) is a Norwegian mathematician. He performed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oslo, working under Otte Hustad. He obtained his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1971; his thesis was titled Peak Sets and Interpolation Sets for Some Algebras of Analytic Functions and was supervised by Theodore Gamelin. In 1991, he was appointed as a professor at the University of Oslo. In 1992, he was appointed as an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway.


Bertrand Meyer

Bertrand Meyer (/ˈmaɪər/; French: [mɛjɛʁ]; born 21 November 1950) is a French academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language and the idea of design by contract.


Bin Yu

Bin Yu is a Chinese-American statistician. She is currently Chancellor's Professor in the Departments of Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.


Borka Jerman Blažič

Borka Jerman Blažič is a Slovenian and Yugoslavian Internet pioneer, and the President of the Internet Society - Slovenia. She is also a computer networks scientist, founder and first general secretary of the Yugoslavian Network for the Academic and Education Community, which introduced the first Internet services in SFR Yugoslavia in 1991. Among other contributions, she was part of the Internet Architecture Board Character Set Workshop in 1996, and part of her previous work was used in the preparation of the RFC.


Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle (/ˈkeɪl/ KAYL; born October 22, 1960) is an American computer engineer, Internet entrepreneur, internet activist, advocate of universal access to all knowledge, and digital librarian. He is the founder of the Internet Archive, the Internet Archive Federal Credit Union, Alexa and Thinking Machines and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.


Brian Caffo

Brian Caffo, PhD is a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He graduated from the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida in 2001, and from the Department of Mathematics at UF in 1995. He works in the fields of computational statistics and neuroinformatics and co-created the SMART working group. He has been the recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Golden Apple and AMTRA teaching awards.


Brian Nosek

Brian Arthur Nosek is an American social psychologist, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, and the co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science. He has been on the faculty of the University of Virginia since 2002.


Brooke Anderson

Brooke Victoria Anderson (born May 13, 1978) was a co-host of The Insider, and is now a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight. Previously, she was a culture and entertainment anchor and producer for CNN and served as co-host for Showbiz Tonight on HLN. Based in CNN's Los Angeles, California bureau, Anderson joined the network in July 2000. Anderson graduated in 2000 with honors from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She is a member of the Kappa Delta sorority.


Bryan Matthews

Sir Bryan Harold Cabot Matthews CBE FRS (14 June 1906 – 23 July 1986) was Professor of Physiology, Cambridge University 1952–1973, Emeritus professor thereafter and Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His elder brother was the zoologist Leonard Harrison Matthews.


Cédric Villani

Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (born 5 October 1973) is a French mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010.


C. A. R. Hoare

Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare FRS FREng (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.


C. Raymond Perrault

Charles Raymond Perrault is an artificial intelligence researcher and the director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International. He was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project, which is the predecessor for several AI technologies including Siri.


Carl Kesselman

Carl Kesselman is an Institute Fellow at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and a Professor in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, also at the University of Southern California. Carl Kesselman is an acknowledged authority in grid computing technologies. This term was developed by him and professor Ian Foster in book The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure. He and Foster are winners of the British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal for their pioneering grid work.


Carole A. Goble

Carole Anne Goble, CBE FREng FBCS, CITP (born 10 April 1961) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. She is Principal Investigator (PI) of the myGrid, BioCatalogue and myExperiment projects and co-leads the Information Management Group (IMG) with Norman Paton.


Carsten Peterson

Carsten Peterson is a Swedish theoretical physicist and professor at Lund University. His current field of research is computational biology. After finishing his PhD studies in theoretical physics at Lund University in 1977, Peterson worked as a postdoctoral researcher at NORDITA in Copenhagen in 1978-1979 and at Stanford University in 1980-1982. He then returned to Lund, where he spent the rest of his career, except for a sabbatical period in 1986-1988 when he worked at Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation in Austin, Texas.


Charles Dugas

Charles Dugas (22 October 1885, Alès – 4 October 1957, Montpellier) was a 20th-century French archaeologist, specialized in the study of pottery of ancient Greece, a member of the French School at Athens and dean of the Faculté des lettres de Lyon.


Charles Elachi

Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese professor (emeritus) of electrical engineering and planetary science at the California Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2016 he was director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of Caltech.


Charles R. Severance

Dr. Charles "Chuck" Russell Severance is an American computer scientist and academic who currently serves as Clinical Associate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan. Severance studied at Michigan State University, gaining his BS in 1984, his MS in 1990, and his PhD in 1996, all in computer science. After graduation, he became an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Michigan State, also serving as Director of the Division of Engineering Computer Services. He left this role in 1999 to become Associate Director for Advanced Technology at the University of Michigan's Media Union, and left the institution entirely in 2001 to serve as Director of Product Development for Strategic Interactive.


Charles X. Ling

Charles X. Ling (Chinese name: 凌晓峰) is a computer scientist who specializes in research on Data Mining and Machine Learning. He obtained his BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1985, and PhD from University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Science Distinguished Research Professor, at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has published over 150 refereed papers in international journals and conferences. He is a Senior member of IEEE.


Cheng Li

Cheng Li is a Chinese-American scholar specializing in Chinese elite politics and contemporary Chinese society; he has served as the director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution since 2014, replacing Kenneth Lieberthal in the role. Li is a prominent authority on Chinese politics, specifically leadership dynamics and the changes in leaders over generations.


Cheng Xiang Zhai

Chengxiang Zhai is a computer scientist. He is Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.


Chih-Jen Lin

Chih-Jen Lin (Chinese: 林智仁; pinyin: Lín Zhìrén) is Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at National Taiwan University, and a leading researcher in machine learning, optimization, and data mining. He is best known for the open source library LIBSVM, an implementation of support vector machines.


Chi Wang

Dr. Chi Wang is Co-chair of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation. The Foundation supports various activities through its Committee for U.S. Libraries and Museum Exchange. He is also a professor of U.S.-China relations and modern China at Georgetown University. Prior to his current positions, Dr. Wang was the head of the Chinese Section at Library of Congress (LC), had worked in the field of librarianship for forty-eight years before retiring from LC in October 2004.


Christiaan Heij

Christiaan Heij (born 1950s) is a Dutch mathematician, Assistant Professor in statistics and econometrics at the Econometric Institute at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, known for his work in the field of mathematical systems theory, and econometrics.


Christine L. Borgman

Christine L. Borgman is Distinguished Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of more than 200 publications in the fields of information studies, computer science, and communication. Both of her sole-authored monographs, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet (MIT Press, 2007) and From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in a Networked World (MIT Press, 2000), have won the Best Information Science Book of the Year award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. She is a lead investigator for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, where she conducts data practices research.


Christopher A. Welty

Christopher A. Welty is an American computer scientist, who works at Google Research in NY. He is best known for his work on ontologies, in the Semantic Web, and on IBM's Watson. While on sabbatical from Vassar College in 1999-2000, he collaborated with Nicola Guarino on OntoClean; he was co-chair of the W3C Rule Interchange Format working group from 2005-2009.


Christopher M. Bishop

Chris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum field theory.


Christopher Ré

Christopher Ré is an American computer scientist. He is currently employed by Stanford University, where he is an Assistant Professor. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015. Ré specializes in big data analysis.


Christopher Webb

Christopher Rahere Webb (1886-1966) was an English stained glass designer. His unusual second name was derived from that of the founder of St Bartholomew’s Priory in London where his father, Sir Aston Webb carried out restoration work. Webb was educated at Rugby School and at the Slade School of Art and then articled to Sir Ninian Comper. His glass work is among the finest of the first half of the 20th century. Sixteen examples of his mature work dating from 1935 to 1948 are at Sheffield Cathedral; among these are the unique series on the history of Sheffield in the Chapter House.


Christos Faloutsos

Christos Faloutsos (Greek: Χρήστος Φαλούτσος) is a Greek computer scientist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), 22 best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD. He has published over 300 refereed articles, one monograph, and holds five patents. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, fractals, indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data bases, and performance.


Christos H. Papadimitriou

Christos Harilaos Papadimitriou (Greek: Χρήστος Χαρίλαος Παπαδημητρίου; born August 16, 1949 in Athens) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist, and professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.


Chris Dyer

Chris Dyer (born 12 February 1968) is the chief engineer of BMW's DTM programme and the former race engineer of Michael Schumacher and Kimi Räikkönen at the Ferrari Formula One team.


Claire J. Tomlin

Claire Jennifer Tomlin (born 1969 Southampton, England) is a British researcher in hybrid systems, distributed and decentralized optimization and control theory.


Claire Mathieu

Claire Mathieu (formerly Kenyon) is a French computer scientist and mathematician, known for her research on approximation algorithms, online algorithms, and auction theory. She works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and as a professor at the École Normale Supérieure. She was an invited speaker at the 2014 International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming and at the 2015 Symposium on Discrete Algorithms.


Clark Glymour

Clark Glymour is the Alumni University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. He is the founder of the Philosophy Department at Carnegie Mellon University, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences a Phi Beta Kappa lecturer, and is a Fellow of the statistics section of the AAAS. Glymour and his collaborators created the causal interpretation of Bayes nets. His areas of interest include epistemology (particularly Android epistemology), machine learning, automated reasoning, psychology of judgment, and mathematical psychology.


Claude Sammut

Claude Sammut is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Group. He was the UNSW node Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems (CAS) and a member of the joint ARC/NH&MRC project on Thinking Systems.


Clifford Stein

Clifford Seth Stein (born December 14, 1965), a computer scientist, is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Stein is chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia, Stein was a professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.


Constantinos Daskalakis

Constantinos Daskalakis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δασκαλάκης; born 1981) is a Professor at MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department and a member of CSAIL. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the 2008 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Together with Paul Goldberg and Christos Papadimitriou, they received the 2008 Game Theory and Computer Science Prize for their paper "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium". He became a tenured Professor at MIT in May 2015.


Corinna Cortes

Corinna Cortes is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to machine learning. She is currently the Head of Google Research, New York. Cortes is a recipient of the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for her work on theoretical foundations of support vector machines.


Curtis Huttenhower

Huttenhower gained his BS from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2000, where he majored in computer science, chemistry and mathematics. He then spent two years as a software developer for Microsoft, working on the Microsoft Natural Language Development Platform. Huttenhower gained his MS in computational linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2003, where he studied with Dannie Durand and Eric Nyberg. In 2008, Huttenhower moved to Princeton University where he was awarded a PhD in 2008 for research in genomics supervised by Olga Troyanskaya. His PhD thesis was titled Analysis of large genomic data collections.


Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Lynn Breazeal (born November 15, 1967 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the Robotic Life Group) at the MIT Media Laboratory. She is best known for her work in robotics where she is recognized as a pioneer of social robotics and human–robot interaction.


Daan Frenkel

By training, Frenkel is an experimental physical chemist who completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam (1977).


Dag Kavlie

Dag Kavlie (born 14 April 1939) is a Norwegian shipping engineer. He was a professor and rector (1984–1990) at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and later worked for the Research Council of Norway.


Dana H. Ballard

Dana Harry Ballard (born 1946) is a professor of computer science currently at the University of Texas at Austin and formerly with the University of Rochester. Ballard received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. He has done research in artificial intelligence and human cognition and perception with a focus on the human visual system. In 1982, with Christopher M. Brown he authored a pioneering textbook in the field of computer vision, titled Computer Vision. He also popularized the use of the generalised hough transform in computer vision in his paper "Generalizing the Hough Transform to Detect Arbitrary Shapes."  He is also known as a proponent of active vision techniques for computer vision systems  as well as approaches to understanding human vision.


Daniel A. Spielman

Daniel Alan Spielman (born March 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) has been a professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Yale University since 2006. In October 2012 he was named a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship.


Daniel G. Nocera

Daniel George Nocera (born July 3, 1957) is an American chemist, currently the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2006 he was described as a "major force in the field of inorganic photochemistry and photophysics". Time magazine included him in its 2009 list of the 100 most influential people.


Daniel Glazman

Daniel Glazman (born 1967) is a JavaScript programmer, best known for his work on Mozilla's Editor and Composer components and Nvu, a standalone version of the Mozilla Composer, created for Linspire Corporation. He lives in France. Glazman was involved in the standardization of HTML 4 and CSS 2 and remains active in W3C's CSS Working Group. He was appointed co-chairman of the CSS Working Group in April 2008. He runs his own company, Disruptive Innovations, which produces the latest iteration of his work on web editors, BlueGriffon.


Daniel M. Kane

Daniel Mertz Kane (born 1986) is an American mathematician.He is currently an assistant professor with a joint position in the Mathematics Department and the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego.


Dan Klein

Daniel Klein (born c. 1976) is an American computer scientist and associate professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at Mt. Lebanon High School and was awarded BA in mathematics, computer science, and linguistics by Cornell University, a Master of Studies (MSt) in linguistics by Oxford University and a Ph.D. by Stanford University. His honors and awards include a Marshall scholarship, the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Sloan Research Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship. He has published numerous papers.


Dan Roth

Dan Roth is a Founder Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds faculty positions also at the Statistics, Linguistics and ECE Departments and at the graduate School of Library and Information Science, and is an adjoint professor at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago.


Dan Steinberg

Dan Steinberg is an American columnist and blogger for The Washington Post. Steinberg writes the DC Sports Bog for the Washington Post. Dan provided Chess coverage from the XX Winter Olympics in Turin (Torino), Italy.


Daphne Koller

Daphne Koller (born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She is also one of the founders of Coursera, an online education platform. Her general research area is artificial intelligence and its applications in the biomedical sciences. Koller was featured in a 2004 article by MIT Technology Review titled "10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World" concerning the topic of Bayesian machine learning.


David A. Forsyth

David A. Forsyth is an American computer scientist and full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, born in Cape Town, South Africa.


David Andreoff Evans

David A. Evans (born 1948, St Louis, United States) is the president, CEO, and chief scientist of JustSystems Evans Research, Inc. (JSERI). He is a prominent figure in the field of computational linguistics, best known for research on work in indexing using natural language processing, and in ontology learning, especially in medical informatics.


David Applebaum

David Applebaum (1952–2003) was an American-born Israeli physician and rabbi. He was chief of the emergency room and trauma services of Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center. Applebaum was murdered in a Palestinian suicide bombing at Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem on September 9, 2003.


David C. Page

David C. Page, MD, is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the director of the Whitehead Institute, and is best known for his work on mapping the Y-chromosome and on its evolution in mammals and expression during development.


David Corfield

David Corfield is a philosopher specializing in mathematics and psychology. He is the author of Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics (2003), in which he argues that the philosophical implications of mathematics did not stop with Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems. He has also co-authored a book with Darian Leader about psychosomatic medicine – Why Do People Get Ill? (2007). He joined the University of Kent in September 2007. He is a member of the informal steering committee of nLab, a wiki-lab for collaborative work on mathematics, physics, and philosophy.


David Emms

David Acfield Emms OBE (16 February 1925 - 21 December 2015) was an English educationalist and former rugby union player.


David Ferrucci

David Ferrucci is the principal investigator who in 2007–2011 led a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers to the development of the Watson computer system that won a television quiz. Ferrucci graduated from Manhattan College, with a B.S. degree in biology and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1994 with a Ph.D. degree in computer science specializing in knowledge representation and reasoning.He joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson in 1995 and left in 2012 to join Bridgewater Associates.


David Goodsell

David S. Goodsell, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. He is especially known for his watercolor paintings of living cells.


David J. Spiegelhalter

Sir David John Spiegelhalter, OBE FRS (born 16 August 1953), is a British statistician and Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. Spiegelhalter is an ISI highly cited researcher.


David M. Blei

David Blei is a Professor in the Statistics and Computer Science departments at Columbia University. Prior to fall 2014 he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. His work is primarily in machine learning.


David Nualart

David Nualart (born 21 March 1951) is a Spanish mathematician working in the field of probability theory, in particular on aspects of stochastic processes and stochastic analysis. He obtained his PhD titled "Contribución al estudio de la integral estocástica" in 1975 at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Francesc d'Assís Sales Vallès.After positions at the University of Barcelona and the Polytechnique University of Barcelona he took up a professorship at Kansas University and is currently the Black-Babcock Distinguished Professor in its Mathematics Department.


David R. Karger

David Ron Karger (born May 1, 1967) is a professor of computer science and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


David S. Broomhead

David S. Broomhead (13 November 1950 – 24 July 2014) was a British mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and was professor of applied mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.


David Sontag

David Sontag is an American professional wrestler and actor.


David Talbot

David Talbot (born September 22, 1951) is an American progressive journalist, author and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and former CEO and editor-in-chief of one of the first web magazines, Salon. Talbot founded Salon in 1995, when the web was still in its infancy, and is considered one of the pioneers of online journalism. Under Talbot's leadership, the magazine gained a large following and broke several major national stories. It was described by Entertainment Weekly as one of the Net's "few genuine must-reads".


David Wishart

David Wishart (born 1952) is a Scottish author.


Dean Allemang

Dean Allemang is a computer scientist known for his work on the semantic web. He is the Principal Consultant at Working Ontologist LLC.


Deborah L. McGuinness

Deborah Louise McGuinness (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist and Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where she holds an endowed chair in the Tetherless World Research Constellation. She is working in the field of artificial intelligence, specifically in knowledge representation and reasoning, description logics, the semantic web, explanation, and trust.


Deepak Agarwal

Deepak Agarwal has worked as a big data analyst, specializing in web application relevance and machine learning, and directing scientific research on complex data problems in systems and computational advertising.


Dennis Freeman

Harold Dennis Freeman (April 23, 1940 – November 23, 2007), known as Dennis Freeman, was the mayor of Logansport, a town adjacent to the Sabine River in DeSoto Parish in northwestern Louisiana from 1984 until his death. His contributions were particularly significant considering the otherwise limited role of a small-town mayor. For some sixteen years, he worked patiently with highway officials in Louisiana and Texas to construct a new border bridge over the Sabine River, a project nearing fruition. Freeman also fought to keep the pending Interstate 69 route in western Louisiana closer to Logansport. He helped to establish the first fire and ambulance districts in DeSoto Parish.


Derek Lin

Derek Lin is a Taiwanese-American author in the Tao genre. Lin translated the Tao Te Ching and annotated it. His translation is published by Skylight Paths Publishing in 2006. Lin is also the author of four books published by the Tarcher imprint of the Penguin Group: The Tao of Daily life, The Tao of Success, The Tao of Joy Every Day and The Tao of Happiness.


Devavrat Shah

Devavrat Shah is an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. He received a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2004, where his thesis was completed under the supervision of Balaji Prabhakar.


Diana Perez

Diana Perez-Rodgers (born January 13, 1981) is an American television reporter formerly employed by ABC News as anchor of World News Now and America This Morning.


Dieter Fensel

Dieter Fensel (born 10 October 1960, in Nuremberg) is a German researcher in the field of formal languages and the semantic web. He is University Professor at the University of Innsbruck, where he directs the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck), a research center associated with the university.


Dieter Fox

Dieter Fox is a German roboticist and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is most notable for his contributions to several fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and ubiquitous computing. Together with Wolfram Burgard and Sebastian Thrun he is a co-author of the book Probabilistic Robotics.


Dimitris Bertsimas

Dimitris John Bertsimas is an applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Dimitri P. Bertsekas

Dimitri Panteli Bertsekas (Greek: Δημήτρης Παντελής Μπερτσεκάς) is an applied mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.


Donald Rubin

Donald Bruce Rubin is the John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He was hired by Harvard in 1984, and served as chair of the department from 1985-1994. He is most well known for the Rubin Causal Model, a set of methods designed for causal inference with observational data, and for his methods for dealing with missing data.


Douglas B. Lenat

Douglas Bruce Lenat (born 1950) is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (with his AM and Eurisko programs), knowledge representation, blackboard systems, and "ontological engineering" (with his Cyc program at MCC and at Cycorp). He has also worked in military simulations and published a critique of conventional random-mutation Darwinism based on his experience with Eurisko. Lenat was one of the original Fellows of the AAAI.


Dragomir R. Radev

Dragomir R. Radev is a University of Michigan computer science professor and Columbia University computer science adjunct professor working on natural language processing and information retrieval. He is currently working on the fields of open domain question answering, multi-document summarization, and the application of NLP in Bioinformatics and Political Science. Radev received his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1999. He is the secretary of ACL (2006–present) and associate editor of JAIR.


Drew Conway

Drew Conway is an American data scientist known for his venn diagram definition of data science as well as applying data science to study terrorism. He is currently the founder and CEO at technology startup Alluvium, as well as advisor at multiple technology startups.


Eörs Szathmáry

Eörs Szathmáry (born 1959) is a Hungarian theoretical evolutionary biologist at the late Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study and at the Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is the co-author with John Maynard Smith of The Major Transitions in Evolution, a seminal work which continues to contribute to ongoing issues in evolutionary biology. He is a member of the Batthyány Society of Professors.


Edmund M. Clarke

Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (born July 27, 1945) is a computer scientist and academic noted for developingmodel checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs.He is the FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Clarke, along with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, is a recipient of the 2007 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award.


Eduard H. Hovy

Eduard Hovy is a Research Professor of Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is one of the original 17 Fellows of Association for Computational Linguistics.


Edward A. Feigenbaum

Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award.


Ed Huai-hsin Chi

Ed Huai-Hsin Chi (Chinese: 紀懐新; Wade–Giles: Chi⁴ Huai²-hsin¹) (born ca. 1973) is a Taiwanese American computer scientist and research scientist at Google, known for his early work in applying the theory of information scent to predict usability of Web sites.


Emmanuel J. Candès

Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a professor of mathematics, statistics, and electrical engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics.


Eric Horvitz

Eric Joel Horvitz is an American computer scientist, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as managing director of Microsoft Research's main Redmond lab.


Eric Sun

Eric Sun is Engineering Manager of the Entity Data and Ranking team at Facebook. He built Facebook's knowledge graph and now oversees engineering for Facebook's entity graph efforts. Prior to Facebook, he received a master's degree in Statistics and bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Economics (with honors) from Stanford University. He holds six issued U.S. patents and has published numerous academic papers related to social networks and contagion theory.


Erik Bongcam-Rudloff

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff is a Chilean-born Swedish biologist and computer scientist. He received his doctorate in medical sciences from Uppsala University in 1994. He is the head of SLU-Global Bioinformatics Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. His main research deals with development of bioinformatics solutions for the Life Sciences community.


Ernesto Damiani

Ernesto Damiani is a professor of computer science at the University of Milan, where he leads the SEcure Service-oriented Architectures Research (SESAR) Lab. He is the Director of the Information Security Research Center at Khalifa University, in the UAE. He holds visiting positions at Tokyo Denki University, Université de Bourgogne, Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon. His research spans security, Big Data and knowledge processing, where he has published over 345 peer-reviewed articles and books. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist of ACM.


Ernesto Estrada

Ernesto Estrada (born May 2, 1966) is a Cuban-Spanish scientist. He is the Chair in Complexity Science, Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and a member of the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is known by his contributions in different disciplines including chemistry, and the mathematics and physics of Complex Systems.


Eugene Dynkin

Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (Russian: Евге́ний Бори́сович Ды́нкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a Soviet and American mathematician. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him.


Evgeniy Gabrilovich

Evgeniy Gabrilovich is a senior staff research scientist at Google, specializing in Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Computational Linguistics, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and an ACM Distinguished Scientist. In 2010, he received the Karen Spärck Jones Award from the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group.


Fan Chung Graham

Fan-Rong King Chung Graham (Chinese: 金芳蓉; pinyin: Jīn Fāngróng; born October 9, 1949), known professionally as Fan Chung, is a mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and random graphs, in particular in generalizing the Erdős–Rényi model for graphs with general degree distribution (including power-law graphs in the study of large information networks).


Fei-Fei Li

Fei-Fei Li (born 1976), who publishes under the name Li Fei-Fei, is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. She is the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL)  and the Stanford Vision Lab. She is an authority on computer vision, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.


Filippo Menczer

Filippo Menczer is an American and Italian professor of informatics and computer science who is the director at the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research, a research unit of the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing and a member lab of the  Web Science Trust Network. He holds courtesy appointments in Cognitive Science and Physics and is a fellow of the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy. On November 20, 2013 he was named a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM and a senior research fellow of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.


Fiona Brinkman

Fiona Brinkman (née Lawson) is a Professor in Bioinformatics and Genomics (Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry) at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, and is a leader in the area of microbial bioinformatics. She is interested in developing "more sustainable, holistic approaches for infectious disease control and conservation of microbiomes".


Florin Popescu

Florin Popescu (born August 30, 1974 in Iancu Jianu, Olt) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two Olympic medals at Sydney in 2000 with teammate Mitică Pricop (gold: C-2 1000 m, bronze: C-2 500 m). He won a total of seven world championship gold medals (and nineteen total) as well as seven European championship golds, making him the most successful Romanian paddler of modern times.


François Bourdoncle

François Bourdoncle (born 1964) is founder and Chief Strategist of the search engine company Exalead. He is currently president of FB&Cie.


François Caron

François Caron (1600–1673) was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC) for 30 years, rising from cabin boy to Director-General at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below Governor-General. He was later to become Director-General of the French East Indies Company (Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) (1667–1673).


François Pachet

François Pachet (born 10 January 1964) is a French scientist, director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris since 2014. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI Fellow in 2014.


Frank Dellaert

Frank Dellaert is a Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also affiliated with the RIM@GT center and is well known for contributions to Robotics and Computer Vision.


Frank van Harmelen

Frank van Harmelen (born 1960) is a Dutch Computer Scientist and Professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in the AI department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.


Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month. Brooks has received many awards, including the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and the Turing Award in 1999.


Frederic Friedel

Frederic Alois Friedel, born in 1945, studied Philosophy and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg and in Oxford, graduating with a thesis on speech act theory and moral language. He started a university career but switched to science journalism, producing documentaries for German TV. He also joined the American sceptical society CSICOP (now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry) and investigated/debunked several paranormal claims. From 1983 to 2004 he edited the biggest computer chess magazine in the world, Computerschach & Spiele, which recently became an online publication .


Gary L. Miller

Gary Lee Miller is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. In 2003 he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (with three others) for the Miller–Rabin primality test. He was made an ACM Fellow in 2002 and won the Knuth Prize in 2013. Miller received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975 under the direction of Manuel Blum. His Ph.D. thesis was titled Riemann's Hypothesis and Tests for Primality.


Gavin Schmidt

Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the award winning climate science blog RealClimate.


Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink (born 1959, Amsterdam) is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures, whose goals are to explore, document and feed the potential for socio-economical change of the new media field through events, publications and open dialogue. As theorist, activist and net critic, Lovink has made an effort in helping to shape the development of the web.


Geoffrey E. Hinton

Geoffrey Everest Hinton FRS (born 6 December 1947) is a British-born cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. As of 2015 he divides his time working for Google and University of Toronto. He was one of the first researchers who demonstrated the use of generalized backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural nets and is an important figure in the deep learning community.


Geoffrey R. Grimmett

Geoffrey Richard Grimmett FRS (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process. He is the Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and the Master of Downing College, Cambridge.


Geoff Webb

Geoffrey I. Webb (also known as Geoff Webb) is Professor of Computer Science at Monash University, Founder and Director of Data Mining software development and consultancy company G. I. Webb and Associates, and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Before joining Monash University he was on the faculty at Griffith University from 1986 to 1988 and then at Deakin University from 1988 to 2002.


Georg Eder

Georg Eder (6 March 1928 – 19 September 2015) was an Austrian Roman Catholic bishop. Eder was born in Mattsee and ordained a priest in 1956. He served the diocese of Salzburg throughout his career, became an archbishop in 1988, and resigned in 2002.


Gerben Moerman

Gerben Moerman is a Dutch sociologist who teaches at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His specialty is sociological methodology, and he is member of the UvA group for Dynamics of Citizenship and Culture. He is considered something of an expert on breaching, and has drawn attention for a hobby of his--the Paul is dead conspiracy theory. In 2012, he was chosen as UvA teacher of the year; he was praised for being able to interest his students in the unpopular subject of sociological methodology, and for linking theory to society and continually surprising his students.


Gerd Gigerenzer

Gerd Gigerenzer (born September 3, 1947, Wallersdorf, Germany) is a German psychologist who has studied the use of bounded rationality and heuristics in decision making. Gigerenzer is currently director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy, both in Berlin, Germany.


Gerhard Neumann

Gerhard Neumann (October 8, 1917 – November 2, 1997) was a German-American aviation engineer and executive for General Electric's aircraft engine division (which today is called GE Aviation). Born and raised in Germany, he went to China shortly before World War II and ended up being an aircraft mechanic for the United States Army Air Forces there. He became an American citizen by an Act of Congress and went on to a career in the aerospace manufacturing industry.


Gerhard Weikum

Gerhard Weikum is a Research Director (and until Aug 2007, had also been the Managing Director) at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPI) in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he is leading the databases and information systems department. His current research interests include distributed information systems, P2P computing, database performance optimization (automatic tuning) and self-organization (autonomic computing), and intelligent organization and search of semistructured information. He is also the Dean of the International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS).


Gilbert Strang

William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934), usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra. He has made many contributions to mathematics education, including publishing seven mathematics textbooks and one monograph. Strang is the MathWorks Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches Introduction to Linear Algebra and Computational Science and Engineering and his lectures are freely available through MIT OpenCourseWare. Professor Strang is well-known for his unique and somewhat offbeat presentation style that many find to be both entertaining and highly informative.


Giovanni Ciccotti

Giovanni Ciccotti (born 1943, in Rome Italy) is an Italian physicist. Ciccotti holds the position of Professor of the Structure of Matter at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He's the author of more than a hundred articles on molecular dynamics and statistical mechanics. He worked with J.P. Ryckaert on new methods for molecular dynamics on constrained systems. See also SHAKE algorithm.


Grace Wahba

Grace Wahba (born August 3, 1934) is the I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data. Best known for the development of generalized cross-validation and "Wahba's problem", she has developed methods with applications in demographic studies, machine learning, DNA microarrays, risk modeling, medical imaging, and climate prediction.


Gregory J. Chaitin

Gregory John Chaitin (/ˈtʃaɪtᵻn/ CHY-tən; born 15 November 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer-theoretic result equivalent to Gödel's incompleteness theorem. He is considered to be one of the founders of what is today known as Kolmogorov (or Kolmogorov-Chaitin) complexity together with Andrei Kolmogorov and Ray Solomonoff. Today, algorithmic information theory is a common subject in any computer science curriculum.


Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro

Gregory I. Piatetsky-Shapiro (born 7 April 1958) is a data scientist, co-founder of KDD conferences and ACM SIGKDD association for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and President of  a site providing Business Analytics, Data Mining, and Data Science. For simplicity, he usually abbreviates his name as Gregory Piatetsky.


Greg Sands

Greg Sands is the current head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders men's golf team.


Guan Yu

Guan Yu (died 220 CE), courtesy name Yunchang, was a general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty. He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the dynasty and the establishment of the state of Shu Han – founded by Liu Bei – in the Three Kingdoms period. After Liu Bei gained control of Yi Province in 214 CE, Guan Yu remained in Jing Province to govern and defend the area for about seven years. In 219 CE, while he was away fighting Cao Cao's forces at the Battle of Fancheng, Liu Bei's ally Sun Quan broke the Sun–Liu alliance and sent his general Lü Meng to invade and conquer Liu Bei's territories in Jing Province in a stealth operation.


Guillermo Sapiro

Guillermo Sapiro (born 1966) is a computer scientist, electrical engineer and professor who has made notable contributions to image processing. He worked at The University of Minnesota for 15 years before becoming a professor at Duke University. He has also worked at Hewlett Packard Labs (HP Laboratories) researching image processing and is known for being one of the people who originally developed the LOCO-I Compression Algorithm for lossless image compression (that was used in NASA's ICER image file format for various Mars rover expeditions) while he was working there. He has also made significant contributions towards the development of the rotobrush tool in Adobe After Effects, which has been included in After Effects since version CS5.


Gustavo Caetano-Anolles

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés (PhD) is Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an expert in the field of evolutionary and comparative genomics. Caetano-Anollés and his wife Gloria have two children, both of whom have been part of his research team. Gloria is a surgical nurse and worked in the thoracic surgery team of René Favaloro in Argentina and in the surgical department of the Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee.


H. Eugene Stanley

Harry Eugene Stanley (born March 28, 1941) is an American physicist and University Professor at Boston University. He has made seminal contributions to statistical physics and is one of the pioneers of interdisciplinary science. His current research focuses on understanding the anomalous behavior of liquid water, but he had made fundamental contributions to complex systems, such as quantifying correlations among the constituents of the Alzheimer brain, and quantifying fluctuations in noncoding and coding DNA sequences, interbeat intervals of the healthy and diseased heart. He is one of the founding fathers of econophysics.


H. V. Jagadish

Hosagrahar Visvesvaraya Jagadish (Jag) is a computer scientist in the field of database systems research. He is the Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a Senior Scientific Director of the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics established by the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he spent over a decade at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a research scientist where he would eventually become head of the Database division.


Hadley Wickham

Hadley Wickham is a statistician from New Zealand who is currently Chief Scientist at RStudio and an adjunct Assistant Professor of statistics at Rice University. He is best known for his development of open-source statistical analysis software packages for R (programming language) that implement logics of data visualisation and data transformation. Wickham received a Bachelors of Human Biology, and a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in statistics at the University of Auckland in 1999–2004 and his PhD at Iowa State University in 2008 under the supervision of Di Cook and Heike Hoffman. In 2006 he was awarded the John Chambers Award for Statistical Computing for his work developing tools for data reshaping and visualisation.


Halil Mete Soner

Halil Mete Soner is a Turkish mathematician born in Ankara. After graduating from the Ankara Science High School (Ankara Fen Lisesi), he started his university education at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, later transferred to Boğaziçi University, Istanbul in 1977. He received a B.Sc. in mathematics and another in electrical engineering simultaneously in 1981, both in first-rank. Soner then attended Brown University in Providence, RI, U.S. on a research fellowship, where he obtained his M.Sc. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) in applied mathematics.


Hal R. Varian

Hal Ronald Varian (born March 18, 1947, in Wooster, Ohio) is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the chief economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. He has written two bestselling textbooks: Intermediate Microeconomics, an undergraduate microeconomics text, and Microeconomic Analysis, an advanced text aimed primarily at first-year graduate students in economics. Together with Carl Shapiro, he co-authored Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and The Economics of Information Technology: An Introduction.


Hans-Peter Kriegel

Hans-Peter Kriegel (1 October 1948, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and leading the Database Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. His most important contributions are the database index structures R*-tree, X-tree and IQ-Tree, the cluster analysis algorithms DBSCAN, OPTICS and SUBCLU and the anomaly detection method Local Outlier Factor (LOF). He is the most cited German researcher in databases and data mining.


Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling (born 27 July 1948) is a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker. He is the Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system. He rose to international celebrity status after producing a Ted Talk in which he promoted the use of data to explore development issues.


Hans Uszkoreit

Hans Uszkoreit is a German computational linguist. Hans Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin. While he was studying in Austin, he also worked as a research associate in a large machine translation project at the Linguistics Research Center. After he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas, he worked as a computer scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center and was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.


Hans Wortmann

Johannes Casper (Hans) Wortmann (born 1950, Emmen) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor of Information Management at the University of Groningen, known for his contributions in the field of risk management and Industry requirements. Wortmann received his MS in 1972 in Business Administration at the Eindhoven University of Technology, where in 1981 he also received his PhD under supervision of W.M.J.


Hao Li

Hao Li (黎顥 ; born January 17, 1981 in Saarbrücken, Germany) is a computer scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur from Germany, working in the fields of Computer Graphics and Computer Vision. He is founder and CEO of Pinscreen, Inc., assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California, as well as director of the Vision and Graphics Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. He was previously a visiting professor at Weta Digital and a research lead at Industrial Light & Magic / Lucasfilm.


Harald Niederreiter

Harald G. Niederreiter (born June 7, 1944) is an Austrian mathematician known for his work in discrepancy theory, algebraic geometry, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, and cryptography.


Harry Shum

Heung-Yeung "Harry" Shum (born 1966 or 1967) is an American computer scientist. He is the Executive Vice President, Technology & Research at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics, and for the development  of web search engine Bing.


Hartmut Neven

Hartmut Neven (born 1964 in Aachen, Germany) is a scientist working in quantum computing, computer vision, robotics and computational neuroscience. He is best known for his work in face and object recognition and his contributions to quantum machine learning. He is currently Director of Engineering at Google where he is leading the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.


Heikki Mannila

Heikki Mannila (born 1960) is a Finnish computer scientist, the president of the Academy of Finland. Mannila earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from the University of Helsinki under the supervision of Esko Ukkonen and for many years he was a professor at the University of Helsinki himself. From 2004 to 2008 he was Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland. He became Vice President for Academic Affairs at Aalto University in 2009, and was appointed by the Finnish government as president of the Academy of Finland for a term lasting from 2012 to 2017.


Helen M. Berman

Helen Miriam Berman is a Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and a former director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank (one of the member organizations of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank). A structural biologist, her work includes structural analysis of protein-nucleic acid complexes, and the role of water in molecular interactions. She is also the founder and director of the Nucleic Acid Database, and leads the Protein Structure Initiative Structural Genomics Knowledgebase.


Henry A. Kautz

Henry A. Kautz (born 1956) is a computer scientist, Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation, artificial intelligence, data science and pervasive computing.


Henry Fuchs

Henry Fuchs (born 20 January 1948 in Tokaj, Hungary) is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Federico Gil Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He is also an adjunct professor in biomedical engineering. His research interests are in computer graphics, particularly rendering algorithms, hardware, virtual environments, telepresence systems, and applications in medicine. He was previously with the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).


Herbert Edelsbrunner

Herbert Edelsbrunner (born 1958) is a computer scientist working in the field of computational geometry, the Arts & Science Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Duke University, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), and the co-founder of Geomagic, Inc. He was the first of only three computer scientists to win the National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award.


Hermann A. Maurer

Hermann Maurer (born April 26, 1941) is an Austrian computer scientist, serving as Professor of Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology. He has supervised over 40 dissertations, written more than 20 books and over 600 scientific articles, and started or been involved with a number of companies.


Hillol Kargupta

Hillol Kargupta is an academic, scientist, and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and President of Agnik, a data analytics company for connected cars and Internet of Things. He also serves as the chairman of the board for KD2U, an organization for promoting research, education, and practice of data analytics in distributed and mobile environments. He was a professor of computer science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County from until July, 2014.


Hiroaki Kitano

Hiroaki Kitano (北野 宏明, born 1961 in Tokyo) is a Japanese scientist. He is the: head of the Systems Biology Institute (SBI); President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories; a Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences; and a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST). Kitano is known for developing AIBO, and the robotic world cup tournament known as Robocup.


Hiroshi Ishiguro

Hiroshi Ishiguro (石黒浩 Ishiguro Hiroshi) is director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, Japan. A notable development of the laboratory is the Actroid, a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such as facial movements.


Hod Lipson

Hod Lipson (born 1967 in Haifa, Israel) is an American robotics engineer. He is the director of Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab. Lipson's work focuses on evolutionary robotics, design automation, rapid prototyping, artificial life, and creating machines that can demonstrate some aspects of human creativity. His publications have been cited close to 10,000 times, and he has an h-index of 50, as of November 8, 2015.


Holger H. Hoos

Holger H. Hoos is a German-Canadian computer scientist and a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of British Columbia. His research interests are focused on empirical algorithmics with applications in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics and operations research.In particular, he works on automated algorithm design and on stochastic local search algorithms. Since 2005, he is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).


Ian H. Witten

Ian H. Witten is a computer scientist at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. in 1976 from the University of Essex, England (Electrical Engineering Science). Witten is a co-creator of the Sequitur algorithmand original creator of the WEKA software package for data mining.


Ian Horrocks

Ian Robert Horrocks FRS is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford in the UK and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. His research focuses on knowledge representation and reasoning, particularly ontology languages, description logic and optimised tableaux decision procedures.


Ian J. Goodfellow

Ian J. Goodfellow is a computer scientist working in machine learning, currently employed as a research scientist at OpenAI. He has made several contributions to the field of deep learning. Goodfellow obtained his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in machine learning from the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio. After graduation, Goodfellow joined Google as part of the Google Brain research team. Later he left Google to join the newly founded OpenAI institute.


Ian T. Foster

Ian T. Foster (born 1959 in Wellington, New Zealand). He is a New Zealand-American computer scientist and the Director of the Computation Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.


Ichirō Satake

Ichirō Satake (佐武 一郎 Satake Ichirō) (1927 – 10 October 2014) was a mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. Satake, who had worked both at Tōhoku University and UC Berkeley, died of respiratory failure on 10 October 2014.


Ilya Segalovich

Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich (September 13, 1964 in Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Soviet Union – July 27, 2013 in London, U.K.) was a co-founder of Russian search engine Yandex. He was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Segalovich proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another iNDEX”. Segalovich was a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs.He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geologic Prospecting University.


Ilya Sutskever

Ilya Sutskever is a Computer Scientist working in Machine Learning and currently serving as the research director of OpenAI. Sutskever obtained his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton. He has made several contributions to the field of Deep Learning. After graduation Sutskever become a postdoc with Andrew Ng at Stanford University before joining Google Research's Brain team. Later he left Google to become the director of newly founded OpenAI institute.


Israel Gohberg

Israel Gohberg (Hebrew: ישראל גוכברג; Russian: Изра́иль Цу́дикович Го́хберг; 23 August 1928 – 12 October 2009) was a Bessarabian-born Soviet and Israeli mathematician, most known for his work in operator theory and functional analysis, in particular linear operators and integral equations.


János Kertész

János Kertész is a Hungarian physicist. He is one of the pioneers of econophysics, complex networks and application of fractal geometry in physical problems. He is the director of the Institute of Physics in Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary.


Jürgen Kurths

Jürgen Kurths (born March 11, 1953 in Arendsee/Altmark) is a German physicist and mathematician. He is a chair of the research domain Transdisciplinary Concepts of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a Professor of Nonlinear Dynamics at the Institute of Physics at the Humboldt University, Berlin, and a 6th-century chair for Complex Systems Biology at the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology at Kings College of the Aberdeen University (UK). His research is mainly concerned with nonlinear physics and complex systems sciences and their applications to challenging problems in Earth system, physiology, systems biology and engineering.


Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber (born 17 January 1963 in Munich) is a German computer scientist and artist known for his work on machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), artificial neural networks, digital physics, and low-complexity art. His contributions also include generalizations of Kolmogorov complexity and the Speed Prior. From 2004 to 2009 he was professor of Cognitive Robotics at the Technische Universität München. Since 1995 he has been co-director of the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA in Lugano, since 2009 also professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Lugano. Between 2009 and 2012, the recurrent neural networks and deep feedforward neural networks developed in his research group have won eight international competitions in pattern recognition and machine learning.


J. Andrew McCammon

James Andrew McCammon (born 1947, Lafayette, Indiana, USA) is an American physical chemist known for his application of principles and methods from theoretical and computational chemistry to biological systems. A professor at the University of California, San Diego, McCammon's research focuses on the theoretical aspects of biomolecular and cellular activity. In 2011 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.


Jaime G. Carbonell

Jaime Guillermo Carbonell (born July 29, 1953) is a computer scientist who has made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies. His extensive research in machine translation has resulted in the development of several state-of-the-art language translation and artificial intelligence systems. He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from MIT in 1975 and did his Ph.D. under Dr. Roger Schank at Yale University in 1979. He joined Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor of computer science in 1979 and has lived in Pittsburgh since then.


Jaime Teevan

Jaime Teevan is an American computer scientist known for her research in human-computer interaction and information retrieval. She is particularly known for the work she has done on personalized search.


James A. Hendler

Hendler completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Brown University in 1986 with a thesis on automated planning and scheduling. He also has an MS (1981) in Cognitive Psychology from Southern Methodist University, a MSc (1983) from Brown University, and a BS (1978) from Yale University.


James D. Foley

James David Foley (born July 20, 1942) is a Professor and the Stephen Fleming Chair in Telecommunications in the School of Interactive Computing, and former Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) from 2008-2010. He is perhaps best known as the co-author of several widely used textbooks in the field of computer graphics, of which over 400,000 copies are in print and translated in ten languages. Foley presently conducts research with instructional technologies and distance education.


James Hays

James D. Hays is a professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Hays founded and led the CLIMAP project, which collected sea floor sediment data to study surface sea temperatures and paleoclimatological conditions 18,000 years ago.


James S. Voss

James Shelton Voss (born March 3, 1949) is a retired United States Army Colonel and NASA astronaut. During his time with NASA, Voss flew in space five times on board the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. He also served as deputy of Flight Operations for the Space Station Program Mission Integration and Operations Office. While participating in ISS Expedition 2, he and Susan Helms conducted an 8-hour and 56 minute spacewalk, the longest to date. He is a Scholar in Residence at the University of Colorado.


James V. Haxby

James Van Loan Haxby is an American neuroscientist. He currently holds professorships in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento. He is best known for his work on face perception and applications of machine learning in functional neuroimaging.


Jane E. Fountain

Jane E. Fountain is an American political scientist and technology theorist. She is Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, the founder and director of the National Center for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and formerly faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is known for her work on institutional change and on the use of technology in governance.


Jans Aasman

Jannes "Jans" Aasman (born 1958) is a Dutch psychologist and Cognitive Science expert. He is also the CEO of Franz Inc, an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and provider of Semantic Graph Databases and Analytics. He is a frequent speaker within the Database and Semantic Technology industries and has authored multiple research papers and bylines on the subject.


Jan Hajic

Jan Hajič is a Czech computational linguist and the former director of the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Charles University in Prague. He specializes in empirical NLP, machine translation, speech recognition and creating of treebanks.


Jan Taylor

Jan Taylor (born 1942) was Miss Australia 1964. Taylor had three brothers, Paul (b. 1939); Gerald (b. 1947) and Jim (born 1956). She was educated at St. Rita's College and in the 1960s worked as a television script assistant in Brisbane. Early Miss Australia competitions were rather conservative, and Taylor was cleared to compete only after approval from her local priest. Her prizes at Miss Australia 1964 included a £750 dress, a car, and a world tour.


Jan Wielemaker

Jan Wielemaker is a Dutch computer scientist and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is known for being the original author and one of the most extensive contributors to the SWI-Prolog implementation of the Prolog programming language, as well as the SWI-Prolog reference manual.


Jason Chang

Jason Chang (Chinese: 張虔生; born May 18, 1944) is a Taiwanese/Singaporean billionaire, currently the chairman of Taiwan-based Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE). In May 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth at $3.7 billion. In December 2013, Chang publicly apologized for water pollution caused by untreated wastewater issuing from an ASE plant in southern Taiwan, following a TW$600,000 ($20,300) fine earlier that month from Kaohsiung City government.


Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim (born 28 October 1979) is a German-American Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for being a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video on it. The video he has released was named 'Me at the zoo' and as of 2016 has reached 33 million views. Many of the core components of PayPal, including its real-time anti-internet fraud system, were also designed and implemented by Karim.


Jean-François Le Gall

Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 under the supervision of Marc Yor. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.


Jeffrey D. Ullman

Jeffrey David "Jeff" Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is a computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the Dragon Book), theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book), data structures, and databases are regarded as standards in their fields.


Jeffrey Dean

Jeffrey Adgate "Jeff" Dean (born 1968) is an American computer scientist and software engineer. He is currently a Google Senior Fellow in the Systems and Infrastructure Group.


Jeffrey Heer

Jeffrey Michael Heer (born 15 June 1979) is an American computer scientist best known for his work on information visualization and interactive data analysis. He is an associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he directs the UW Interactive Data Lab. He co-founded Trifacta with Joe Hellerstein and Sean Kandel in 2012.


Jeff Gill

Jefferson “Jeff” Gill (born December 22, 1960) is a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director of the Center for Applied Statistics. He is also President of the Society for Political Methodology, and a fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. Major areas of research and interest include: Political Methodology, American Politics, Statistical Computing, Research Methods, and Public Administration. Current research is focused on projects such as Bayesian hierarchical models, Markov chain Monte Carlo theory, bureaucratic behavior in national security agencies, and issues in political epidemiology. His best known works include Essential Mathematics for Political and Social Research, with Cambridge University Press.


Jennifer Mankoff

Jennifer Mankoff is an associate professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where she joined the faculty in 2004.


Jennifer Tour Chayes

Jennifer Tour Chayes (born September 20, 1956) is Managing Director and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she founded in 2008, and Microsoft Research New York City, which she founded in 2012. Chayes has been with Microsoft Research since 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. She received her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Princeton University. She is Affiliate Professor of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Washington, and was for many years Professor of Mathematics at UCLA.


Jerome H. Friedman

Jerome H. Friedman (born 1939) is an American statistician, consultant and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, known for his contributions in the field of statistics and data mining.


Jessica Utts

Jessica Utts (born 1952) is a parapsychologist and statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is known for her textbooks on statistics and her investigation into remote viewing.


Jiawei Han

Jiawei Han (Chinese: 韩家炜; born August 10, 1949) is a Chinese computer scientist and Abel Bliss Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been working on research into data mining, data warehousing, database systems, data mining from spatiotemporal data, Web data, and social/information network data.


Jie Tang

Jie Tang is an associate professor at Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University.He is known for the academic social network search system Arnetminer, which was launched in March 2006 and now has attracted 2,766,356 independent IP accesses from 220 countries.His research interests include social networks and data mining.


Jitendra Malik

Jitendra Malik was born in Mathura, India in 1960. He received the B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980 and the PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1985. In January 1986, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. He is also on the faculty of the department of Bioengineering, and the Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups. During 2002-2004 he served as the Chair of the Computer Science Division and during 2004-2006 as the Department Chair of EECS. He serves on the advisory board of Microsoft Research India, and on the Governing Body of IIIT Bangalore.


João Carreira

João Carreira is a Portuguese engineer, academic, technology entrepreneur and business leader who has co-founded Critical Software in Portugal and has grown it into a global group of technology companies.


Joan Bresnan

Joan Wanda Bresnan (born August 22, 1945) is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is best known as one of the architects (with Ronald Kaplan) of the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar. Bresnan served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1999.


Joel Dudley

Joel Dudley is faculty researcher in biomedical informatics, author and biotechnology entrepreneur. Originally from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he completed in PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University's School of Medicine under the supervision of Atul Butte and is now Director of Biomedical Informatics and Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he works closely with Eric Schadt. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scientific papers  with over 27,000 total citations, and co-authored the first textbook on personalized genomics. Joel is also an inventor, with patents on the clinical interpretation of an individual's genome and numerous other patents applications.


Joel Tropp

Joel Aaron Tropp (born July 1977 in Austin, Texas) is Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. He is known for work on sparse approximation, numerical linear algebra, and random matrix theory.


Johannes Runnenburg

Johannes Theodorus Runnenburg (19 February 1932 – 16 April 2008) was a Dutch mathematician and professor of probability theory and analysis at the University of Amsterdam from 1962 to 1997.