The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 2 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 18th most number of Computer Scientists behind Italy, and Denmark.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Chinese Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Liu Gang (b. 1961)
With an HPI of 48.97, Liu Gang is the most famous Chinese Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 54 different languages on wikipedia.
Liu Gang (Chinese: 刘刚; born 30 January 1961) is a Chinese-born American aerospace engineer, computer scientist, optical physicist, political activist, and writer. He founded the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation. He was a prominent student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Liu holds an M.A. in physics from Peking University and an M.A. in computer science from Columbia University. After his exile to the United States in 1996, Liu studied technology and physics at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Liu was employed at Morgan Stanley as a Wall Street IT analyst.
2. Fei-Fei Li (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 37.25, Fei-Fei Li is the 2nd most famous Chinese Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.
Fei-Fei Li (Chinese: 李飞飞; pinyin: Lǐ Fēifēi; born July 3, 1976) is a Chinese-American computer scientist known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s. She is the Sequoia Capital professor of computer science at Stanford University and former board director at Twitter. Li is a co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a co-director of the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab. She served as the director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 2013 to 2018. In 2017, she co-founded AI4ALL, a nonprofit organization working to increase diversity and inclusion in the field of artificial intelligence. Her research expertise includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and cognitive neuroscience. Li was named in the Time 100 AI Most Influential People list in 2023 and received the Intel Lifetime Achievements Innovation Award in the same year for her contributions to artificial intelligence. She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine in 2020, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. On August 3, 2023, it was announced that Li was appointed to the United Nations Scientific Advisory Board, established by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. In 2024, Li made to the Gold House’s most impactful Asian A100 list. In 2024, Fei-Fei Li, raised $230 million for a startup called World Labs, that she and three colleagues founded to develop a "spatial intelligence" AI technology that can understand how the three-dimensional physical world works reported by Reuters
3. Jenova Chen (b. 1981)
With an HPI of 33.94, Jenova Chen is the 3rd most famous Chinese Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Xinghan Chen (Chinese: 陈星汉; pinyin: Chén Xīnghàn; born October 8, 1981), known professionally as Jenova Chen, is a Chinese video game designer. He is the designer of the award-winning games Cloud, Flow, Flower, and Journey, co-founder of Thatgamecompany as well as an advisor for Annapurna Interactive. Chen is from Shanghai, where he earned a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in digital art and design. He moved to the United States, where he earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division. While there he created Cloud and Flow, and met fellow student Kellee Santiago. After a brief period at Maxis working on Spore, he founded Thatgamecompany with Santiago and became the company's creative director. The company signed a three-game deal with Sony Computer Entertainment, and has sold Flow, Flower, and Journey through the PlayStation Network. As Chen was born in a culture other than the culture he lives in, he tries to make games that appeal universally to all people. His goal with his games is to help video games mature as a medium by making games that inspire emotional responses in the player that other games are lacking. Although he and Thatgamecompany can and have made more traditional games, he does not plan on commercially developing any of them, as he does not think that it fits with their goals as an independent video game developer.
People
Pantheon has 3 people classified as Chinese computer scientists born between 1961 and 1981. Of these 3, 3 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Chinese computer scientists include Liu Gang, Fei-Fei Li, and Jenova Chen. As of April 2024, 1 new Chinese computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Fei-Fei Li.
Living Chinese Computer Scientists
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Liu Gang
1961 - Present
HPI: 48.97
Fei-Fei Li
1976 - Present
HPI: 37.25
Jenova Chen
1981 - Present
HPI: 33.94
