Famous Female Inventors

Andrea Mahr

Senior Director Companion Diagnostics

Andrea Mahr joined Immatics in December 2009. The aim of her department is the further development of patient screening assays into commercial assays used as companion diagnostics for Immatics’ clinical pipeline products.

Andrea has more than 15 years of experience in immunology and oncology research and has focused on the field of predictive biomarkers and companion diagnostics development for oncology drugs for more than 10 years. Her previous work at the German Cancer Research Center was dedicated to the investigation of a mechanism of peripheral immune tolerance.

Fang (Florence) Lu

Senior Solution Architect and IBM Master Inventor, IBM Research.

She has been a significant contributor to the development of state-of-the-art technologies for over 20 years at IBM. This includes developing and designing software applications ranging from enterprise social solutions to healthcare analytics. She’s also been involved with developing cloud-based artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for clients to solve real-world challenges.

Lu patented a map display that would allow users to input their destination and receive directions to their mobile device in text or voice format. It was a simple solution, but one that had an immediate impact on a significant portion of society.

Lei Wang

Technical VP, Standards, at Futurewei Technologies (a.k.a. Huawei R&D USA).

Lei’s research area is wireless communication systems; solution development and standardization; MAC and upper layers protocols/functions/features design and development; system performance analysis & optimization.

She received B.Sc. in Computer Science and Applications from Hunan University in 1984; an M.Sc. in Functional Programming Languages from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Traffic Control in High-Speed Data Networks from the University of Saskatchewan in 1997.

Rhonda Childress

Ms. Childress is the Chief Innovation Officer – Security and Resiliency Practice at Kyndryl. Prior to that, she was the Deputy BISO – CTO CISO. Ms. Childress has held many leadership roles for IBM over the course of her distinguished career, notably as Vice President and IBM Fellow – GTS Data Security and Privacy Officer, Distinguished Engineer and Senior Technical Staff Member.

She studied at Kentucky State University where she received her Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science in 1983.

Jungsun Kim

Kim received a Ph.D. degree in computer science and electrical engineering from the Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2008.

She is a senior software engineer at Apple Inc., Cupertino, California.

Her research interests include video/image processing and compression, colorimetry, and point-cloud compression. Jungsun’s expertise lies in the development of algorithms that enhance image and video quality.

She has participated in various standardization activities since 2009.

Josephine B. Chang

Josephine Chang received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA, in 2006. While at UC Berkeley, she researched organic thin film transistors.

From 2006 to 2016, she was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, working on microfabricated devices including Si finFETs, Si nanowires, carbon nanotubes, transmon qubits, piezoelectric transistors, and photonics-based methane sensors.

She is currently a Director with the Advanced Technology Lab, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Linthicum, MD, USA, where she works on novel microelectronics device concepts. She has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed journal papers, 50 conference presentations