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AI Most Influential Woman in Engineering 2000-2020

Published: Monday, 23 August 2021

This AI named me the 29th most influential woman in engineering from 2000-2020! It looked up frequency of my name being mentioned alongside an engineering discipline - so I suppose “Marita” and “robotics” for me. Very cool to be on a list alongside Helen Greiner, Mae C. Jemison, Anousheh Ansari, and Australia’s own Rose Amal.

From this Engineers Australia article:

the list [was] devised by machine-learning technology developed with funding from the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The algorithm accessed open-source data from billions of continuously updated data points in sources including Wikipedia and CrossRef, which reference papers, chapters, books and citations to the work of individual researchers around the world.

According to those behind Academic Influence, the method is not simply a popularity contest. It focuses on the intersection of name mentions and discipline mentions, so individuals are credited with “hits” only when their names also intersect with mentions of their field. Combined with other data, including the reach of their institution, the algorithm calculates an influence “score” for the researchers which determines their ranking.

You can see the full list here:  https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/influential-women-engineers#marita-cheng 

About Me

Marita ChengForbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.

I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.

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