The Most Famous

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Kazakhstan

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This page contains a list of the greatest Kazakhstani Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Kazakhstan. This makes Kazakhstan the birth place of the 30th most number of Computer Scientists behind Ireland, and Taiwan.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kazakhstani Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Kazakhstani Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Alexandra Elbakyan (b. 1988)

With an HPI of 39.73, Alexandra Elbakyan is the most famous Kazakhstani Computer Scientist.  Her biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.

Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan (Russian: Алекса́ндра Аса́новна Элбакя́н, Armenian: Ալեքսանդրա Էլբակյան, born 6 November 1988) is a Kazakhstani computer programmer and creator of the website Sci-Hub, which provides free access to research papers without regard for copyright. According to a study published in 2018, Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature. Elbakyan has been described as "Science's Pirate Queen". In 2016, Nature included her in their list of the top ten "people who mattered" in science. Since 2011, she has been living in Russia.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Kazakhstani computer scientists born between 1988 and 1988. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Kazakhstani computer scientists include Alexandra Elbakyan.

Living Kazakhstani Computer Scientists

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