Famous Female Inventors
Female inventors listed on patents have been historically rare. For example, in the US in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman; by 2002, that percentage increased to 10.9% of all total patent listed inventors. But we’re pleased to say that the appreciation of female inventors is on the rise globally, and we’re eager to take our turn to highlight and celebrate these accomplished prolific women.
Let’s take a look at these modern-day leaders who drive innovation in their respective fields and who inspire our current and future generations of inventors across the world.
Marta Karczewicz
Marta received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
From 1996 to 2006, she was with Nokia, where she managed the visual technologies competence area, and in 2004, she became the Head of the Nokia Research Center.
In 2006, Marta joined Qualcomm, where she is currently the Vice President, Technology, in the Multimedia R&D Group.
Karczewicz‘s work contributed to the creation of the Advanced Video Coding ( AVC ) standard, which is widely used today and makes it possible to broadcast high-quality films. For her work, Marta was nominated for the European Inventor Award 2019 as one of three finalists in the Lifetime Achievement category.
Muriel Y. Ishikawa
Muriel has expertise primarily in, but not restricted to, areas of national defence, applied nuclear physics and chemistry, 3-D non-invasive high-resolution imaging, turbulence modelling and fluid dynamic simulations, global climate change, environmental monitoring from space, large-scale data mining, sensors, acoustics, propulsion, nuclear reactors, space science, and novel explosives.
She has a degree (B.A.) in Physics from Mills College and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Stanford University. She was a NASA Pre-Doctoral Fellow.
Dr. Ishikawa shares NASA awards with JPL’s Drop Dynamics experimenters for Space Shuttle experiments, including the award for the first experimental save done onboard a Space Shuttle in orbit. She and her Lawrence Livermore team received the R&D 100 Award in 1999 for the Gamma Watermark, recognizing it as one of that year’s 100 most technologically significant new products and processes.
Lisa Seacat DeLuca
She leads the engineering, design, and product management organization at Unstoppable Domains innovating the future of the decentralized web.
Previously, Lisa spent 16 years at IBM as a Distinguished Engineer and Director of Product Management. Lisa holds a MS in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, and a BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University with minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Productions.
DeLuca is an Inductee into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame, she’s one of the 115 Most Inspirational Women in Web3 and the Metaverse. The topic of her innovations includes cloud, mobile, IoT, social, security, AI, commerce, blockchain, and web3.
Jianglei Ma
Jianglei is a chief scientist of the 5G air interface at the Huawei Canada R&D Center.
Her research area is next-generation wireless access technologies. She is currently leading 5G air interface research at Huawei. Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, she was in charge of 4G air interface research in the Wireless Technology Lab at Nortel.
Jianglei Ma received Ph.D. from Southeast University.
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About The Author
Angelina Kushnarova
Angelina Kushnarova (Sverediuk) was born in Ukraine. She graduated from Ternopil Medical University with a specialization in Medicine and completed an internship in Radiology at Lviv University. She worked as a Radiologist, while also working as a web developer.