omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Bernt Schiele. Bernt Schiele (born November 3, 1968, in Neustadt) is a German computer scientist. He is Max Planck Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and professor at Saarland University. He is known for his work in the field of computer vision and perceptual computing.

Life 
Schiele studied computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at the École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble (Ensimag). He received his diploma in computer science from Ensimag in 1993 and from the University of Karlsruhe in 1994. In 1994, he was visiting researcher at the Carnegie Mellon University. In 1997, he received his Ph.D. under the supervision of James L. Crowley from Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP). From 1999 to 2004 he was assistant professor at ETH Zurich. From 1997 to 2000, he was postdoctoral associate and visiting assistant professor in the group of Alex Pentland at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 2004 to 2010 he was professor at the department of computer science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Since 2010 Schiele has been Max Planck Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and professor at Saarland University.

Awards 

 Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR)
 Fellow of the IEEE

Publications 

 P. Dollar, C. Wojek, B. Schiele and P. Perona, "Pedestrian Detection: An Evaluation of the State of the Art," in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 743–761, April 2012. 
 Leibe, B., Leonardis, A. & Schiele, B. Int J Comput Vis (2008) 77: 259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-007-0095-3

External links 
 Website of Bernt Schiele at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni
Academic staff of Max Planck Society
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Grenoble Institute of Technology alumni
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Living people
Fellows of the IEEE
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Academic staff of Saarland University
Max Planck Institute directors
Southern exposure (terminology). Southern exposure is increased sunlight received by south-facing land, walls, windows, and other relevant entities in the Northern Hemisphere. Southern exposure is often considered "full sun".

Sunlight differentials for southern exposure are caused by the 23-degree axis tilt of the Earth, which creates an uneven distribution of sunlight based on geographical location. Southern exposure is commonly discussed in real estate discourse because it can affect a structure's capacity for solar energy options. Southern exposure is also important to landscaping and land conservation. It impacts the native plant life that will survive in a given area by affecting the optimal landscaping compositions, gardening patterns, and seasonal growth of flora.

References 

Architectural lighting design
Solar architecture
QC Ware. QC Ware is a quantum-computing-as-a-service company based in Palo Alto, California.

History
QC Ware was founded in 2014 by Matt Johnson, KJ Sham, and Randall Correll after Johnson met a group of researchers at NASA Ames interested in quantum computing.

In 2018, QC Ware was one of the first testers of Google's Cirq framework, publicly demonstrating an implementation of the QAOA algorithm on a simulator.

Services
In 2019, QC Ware launched Forge, a cloud platform that aims to allow developers to run algorithms on hardware provided by multiple vendors.  As of the launch, the platform offered access to a D-Wave quantum computer, but only simulations of Google and IBM machines.

Q2B conference
QC Ware hosts an annual practical quantum computing conference.  The first Q2B was hosted in 2017.

References

Software companies based in California
Cloud computing providers
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies of the United States
American companies established in 2014
Software companies established in 2014
2014 establishments in California
Karletta Chief. Karletta Chief is a Diné hydrologist, best known for her work to address environmental pollution on the Navajo Nation and increase the participation of Native Americans in STEM. She is a professor at the University of Arizona.

Education 
Chief earned her B.S. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University. She completed her PhD in hydrology and water resources at the University of Arizona in 2007, where she is now a faculty member.

Career 
One of Chief's research interests is addressing food, energy and water challenges in Indigenous communities with methods that include their traditional values. In particular, she has researched the impacts of the 2015 Gold King Mine spill on residents of the Navajo Nation. Her research regarding the effects of the Gold King spill have aided several communities affected by the disaster. As part of this work, Chief gives public presentations in the Navajo language, especially to farmers, ranchers, and families who are affected by pollution and mining waste. She has said that her scientific research and her identity are closely linked, telling Science Friday, “my identity is water-based [from the Bitter Water Clan]. And so that motivates me to do the work that I do.”

Chief was featured in a short film produced by Science Friday in 2018, and is one of the interviewees in the feature documentary Hacking at Leaves.

Selected awards and honors 

 Most Promising Engineer/Scientist, American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), 2011
 Distinguished Alumni Scholar, Stanford University, 2013
 Native American 40 Under 40, National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, 2015
 Professional of the Year, AISES, 2016
 Woman of the Year, Phoenix Indian Center, 2016
 Featured Speaker, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Native Americans in STEM (SACNAS), 2019
 Ambassador Award (2020)
 Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Selected publications 

 Chief, K., R. E. Emanuel, and O. Conroy-Ben (2019), Indigenous symposium on water research, education, and engagement, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO114313. Published on 24 January 2019.

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American women scientists
Hydrologists
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Living people
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Native American women scientists
Women hydrologists
Navajo women
21st-century Native American scientists
Native American women engineers
Tayfun Tezduyar. Tayfun E. Tezduyar is a mechanical engineer. He is known for his studies on the techniques of stabilizing the finite element methods.

Tezduyar obtained his master's degree and doctorate at the California Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1982, respectively. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University prior to joining the University of Houston faculty in January 1983. Tezduyar assumed an associate professorship at the University of Minnesota in 1987, and was named a full professor in 1991. In 1997, Tezduyar was appointed Distinguished McKnight University Professor. He left Minnesota for the James F. Barbour Professorship in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University in 1998. Tezduyar was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in 2016. Tezduyar chaired the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2011, and was awarded its Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2018. In 2019, he was awarded the Computational Mechanics Award by the Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics. Since 2017, in addition to his position at Rice University, he has been working as a Professor at the Science and Engineering Faculty of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.

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20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
American mechanical engineers
Living people
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Houston faculty
Rice University faculty
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Waseda University
Ejnar Fischer. Ejnar Fischer (1877 – February 8, 1930) was a Norwegian engineer and entomologist. He especially collected beetles, many from his time spent in Australia. He was one of the founders of the Norwegian Entomological Society, which was established in 1904.

Career 
Fischer passed his university entrance exam in 1895. He later attended the Norwegian Military Academy. He graduated in 1903 with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Royal College of Technology in Germany.

He was employed by the Swedish company ASEA and was involved in the installation of Tyssedal Hydroelectric Power Station and the Notodden Saltpeter Factory. From 1912 to 1925 he worked as the chief engineer at the Swedish–Australian company Gardner Waern & Co. in Melbourne, Australia.

He became interested at an early age in nature and insects. In particular, beetles (Coleoptera) caught his interest. During his stay in Australia, he caught beetles on his travels to various places on the continent and in the light of powerful arc lamps (the light trap technique). Electric light was quite new at that time, and insects are attracted to light.

This made a great impression, and newspapers often printed long articles about the phenomenon. The number of beetles Fischer captured was far lower than other groups such as butterflies and moths, which are attracted to light sources. His collection included about 3,500 species, but this was only a fraction of the total species available. He stated that "being an entomologist in Australia was like being a cow in a meadow of clover." In 1925, Fischer had to leave Australia due to health problems, and he moved back to Norway.

He still had contact with Australian entomologists and he organized his large collection of Australian beetles. His large beetle collection and specialized literature can be found in the insect collection at the Natural History Museum in Oslo today. At the time it was assembled, this collection was of a size that few other museums outside Australia had. He shared some of his experiences in an article in the Norwegian Journal of Entomology.

Fischer created many illustrations of insects in his diaries between 1900 and 1904. During his stay in Australia, Fischer suffered from Spanish flu and then pneumonia, forcing him to return to Norway. He died on February 8, 1930, after a long illness.

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Norwegian entomologists
Norwegian electrical engineers
1877 births
1930 deaths
A Brief History of Rocketry in ISRO. A Brief History of Rocketry in ISRO by P. V. Manoranjan Rao and P. Radhakrishnan — both former scientists of the Indian Space Research Organization — is a book on the history of rocketry in the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Published in 2012, the book was released by space scientist and former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

References 

Spaceflight books
Books about the Indian Space Research Organisation
Hans Peter Schmid. Hans Peter Schmid is a climatologist. He is director of the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Atmospheric Environmental Research of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/IMK-IFU) based in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. He is also Professor of Atmospheric Environmental Research at the Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Schmid studied at ETH Zurich from 1978 and graduated in 1984 with the work: "The Horizontal Wind Field in the area of the City of Zurich" as a natural scientist. He wrote his dissertation at the University of British Columbia. In 2005 he was appointed professor at Indiana University and in 2007 at KIT.

Publications
List of publications of Hans Peter Schmids at his personal site at KIT/IMK-IFU

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German climatologists
ETH Zurich alumni
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich
University of British Columbia alumni
R. Aravamudan. Ramabhadran Aravamudan (7 October 1936 – 4 August 2021) was an Indian space scientist and engineer who was associated with the Indian space programme from its initial days in 1962. Through his career he served as the director of the Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, and the ISRO Satellite centre. He was a recipient of the 2009 Aryabhata Award from the Astronautical Society of India.

Early life 
Aravamudan was born into a middle-class family in Madras in the then-undivided India. He obtained a degree in electronics engineering from the Madras Institute of Technology, where he was a first-rank holder.

Career 
Aravamudan started his career with the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) at the Trombay Reactor Control Division. He was amongst the first to join the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), then known as the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR), when he quit his job at the DAE in 1962 to move to Trivandrum to work with Vikram Sarabhai, considered the father of India's space research. During this time, he also trained at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on assembling and launching small rockets for collecting scientific data. When he was working with ISRO's rocket launching station at Thumba, some of the most historic images of the rocket launch programme were captured by the French street photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Aravamudan documented the early days of the Indian space programme in a book, ISRO: A Personal History, that he co-authored with his wife Gita Aravamudan. In the book, he writes about the conceptualisation of the programme, including selection of the launch site, the telemetry systems, and how the organisation worked with meagre resources owing to international embargoes and sanctions. 

In the early 1970s, he served as the director of Thumba Equatorial Rocket Launching Station. In the 1980s, he became the associate director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre. In 1989, he took over as the director of Satish Dhawan Space Centre and in 1994, he moved to Bangalore as the director of ISRO Satellite Centre. He retired from ISRO in 1997.

Aravamudan was a recipient of the Aryabhata Award from the Astronautical Society of India in 2009 and the award for Outstanding Achievement from the Indian Space Research Organisation in 2010.

Personal life 
Aravamudan was married to Gita Aravamudan, a journalist. The couple had two sons.

Aravamudan died on 4 August 2021, at his house in Bangalore. He was aged 84. He had been diagnosed with kidney failure a year earlier.

Books 
 ISRO: A Personal History co-authored with his wife, Gita

Awards 
 The Aryabhata Award from The Astronautical Society of India (2009)
 Outstanding Achievement Award of ISRO (2010)

References 

1936 births
2021 deaths
People from Chennai
Indian Space Research Organisation people
Pea River Power Company Hydroelectric Facility. The Pea River Power Company Hydroelectric Facility, on the Pea River in Coffee County, Alabama, United States, near Elba, was built in 1911. The listing includes one contributing building and one contributing structure.

It is significant as "one of the earliest private ventures (1911–1914) in Alabama of the use of waterpower to produce electrical power and transmit it by high voltage lines to more than one destination", in this case to Troy, Alabama,  away, and other locations not adjacent to the site.

"Along with two other hydroelectric facilities, both completed in 1930 and still in operation, the Elba facility was one of the original hydroelectric generating facilities owned by the Alabama Electric Cooperative. The A.E.C., which began operation in 1944 with aid from the Rural Electric Administration, was the driving force behind the electrification of central and south Alabama."

References

National Register of Historic Places in Coffee County, Alabama
Buildings and structures completed in 1911
Leonid Sazanov. Leonid A. Sazanov  is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA). Sazanov research explores the structure and function of large membrane protein complexes from the domain of bioenergetics. These molecular machines interconvert redox energy and proton motive force across biological membranes using a variety of mechanisms.

Education
Sazanov was educated at the Belarusian State University and Moscow State University, where he was awarded a PhD in 1990.

Career and research
Sazanov is known for the discovery of the first atomic structure of respiratory complex I, using X-ray crystallography and the bacterial enzyme as a model. It is an entry point into the electron transport chain, responsible for most of the energy production in the cell. The complex I structure revealed many unexpected and unique features of this extravagantly elaborate membrane protein assembly. Sazanov then went on to determine the first complete atomic structure of the even larger mammalian mitochondrial complex I, using new cryogenic electron microscopy methods.

Sazanov research investigates the coupling mechanism of complex I using a combination of structural and biophysical techniques. He is also interested in the structure and mechanism of other membrane-embedded molecular machines in mitochondria and bacteria. 

Previously Sazanov served as program leader at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit and research associate at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology. He has been a research fellow at Imperial College London and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham.

Award and honours
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019 and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2018.

References

Belarusian State University alumni
Fellows of the Royal Society
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Moscow State University alumni
Hon Ki Tsang. Hon Ki Tsang () is the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Wei Lun Professor of Electronic Engineering at The Chinese university of Hong Kong. His research expertise is in photonic integrated circuits and silicon photonics.

Tsang took a gap year after graduating from high school, during which he worked for GEC Plessey Telecommunications. Tsang studied at the University of Cambridge, where he completed a bachelor's degree and doctorate, both in engineering. Upon completing his studies in 1991, Tsang became a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bath. He returned to Hong Kong in 1993, for a lectureship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Three years later, Tsang was named an associate professor. Between 2002 and 2003, Tsang worked for Bookham Technology. Upon Tsang's return to academia, CUHK appointed him to a full professorship.

Tsang is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Optical Society now rebranded as Optica. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Tsang is also a FIDE Chess master.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Hong Kong expatriates in the United Kingdom
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong electrical engineers
Academic journal editors
Fellows of Optica (society)
Fellows of the IEEE
Charles Blackwell (engineer). Charles Blackwell  (4 February 1843 – 29 December 1906) was an English civil engineer, primarily known for his railway engineering work in Canada and the United States.  He came from a family of engineers; his father was Thomas Evans Blackwell and his grandfather was John Blackwell.

Early life 
Blackwell was born at Foxhangers near Devizes, Wiltshire, on 4 February 1843. He emigrated to Canada in 1857 with his family when his father, Thomas Evans Blackwell, began employment as vice president of the Grand Trunk Railroad.

Blackwell was educated at the High School of Montreal and later at McGill College.

Career 
Blackwell's first employment was with the Grand Trunk Railroad under his father. He worked for the Intercolonial Railway between 1869 and 1876, supervising the company's repair shops in Moncton, New Brunswick.  From 1876 he took a year's employment as resident engineer on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway, before taking the same role at the Quebec Central Railway until 1879. Blackwell next followed in his father and grandfather's footsteps by taking a role involving canals. He was employed by the Department of Railways and Canals where he worked with the Canadian Pacific Railway as well as the navigable inland waterways.

Blackwell later moved to Roanoke, Virginia to superintend on the Norfolk and Western and Shenandoah Valley Railroads. From 1885 he managed the Montana division of the Union Pacific Railroad and later had engineering roles with the Central of Georgia Railway and the Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad.

In 1891 he worked for the Schoenberger Steel Company in Pittsburgh, but returned to railway engineering in 1897 to work with the receivers of the failing Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Blackwell's final role began in 1903, when he was employed as special assistant to the chief engineer at the Wabash Railroad. His work here was described as "accurate, methodical and resourceful".

In 1874, Blackwell was elected an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers; both his father and grandfather had been members of the institution. In 1881 he was elected as a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1881.

Personal life 
Blackwell married Mary Emily Margaret Chandler, known as Emily, in 1878.  Chandler was the granddaughter of Edward Barron Chandler, lieutenant governor of New Brunswick. They had three sons: Thomas Edward (b. 1875), Hubert Charles (b. 1878) and John Buckland (b. 1882).

Blackwell died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 29 December 1906.

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People from Devizes
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1843 births
1906 deaths