Hackers of the 2020s

Ali Jafari

American computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Anima Anandkumar

Researcher and Professor of computing

2000 – present · India

Azer Bestavros

American computer scientist

2000 – present

Bonnie Berger

American computational biologist

2000 – present · United States

Brian Paul

American software programmer

2000 – present · United States

Bruno Courcelle

French mathematician and computer scientist

2000 – present · France

Daniel A. Keim

German computer scientist

2000 – present · Germany

David Applegate

American computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

David M. Beazley

American software engineer

2000 – present · United States

Dov Dori

Israeli-American computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Elvira Mayordomo

Spanish computer scientist

2000 – present · Spain

Eric Vanderburg

American cyber security professional

2000 – present · United States

George Lasry

2000 – present

Gul Agha (computer scientist)

American computer scientist

2000 – present

Heather Marsh

Canadian journalist

2000 – present · Canada

Hugo Krawczyk

Argentine-Israeli cryptographer

2000 – present · Israel

Ian Jackson (computer programmer)

Computer programmer

2000 – present

Ingemar Cox

2000 – present

Ingo Molnár

Linux kernel programmer

2000 – present

J. Anthony Hall

British software engineer

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Javier Loureiro

Spanish software engineer and entrepreneur

2003 – present · Spain

Jayant Haritsa

Indian computer scientist and professor

2000 – present

Jeremy Ashkenas

American computer programmer

2000 – present · United States

John Bridges (software developer)

American computer programmer

2000 – present

John Domingue

British academic (born c. 1961)

2000 – present · United States

Jon Callas

American computer security expert

2000 – present · United States

Josh Fisher

American and Spanish computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Julian Seward

British programmer

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Juliana Freire

Brazilian computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Karen Banks

British computer networking pioneer

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Katie Moussouris

American computer security expert

2000 – present

Kay Sievers

Computer programmer

2000 – present · Germany

Lawrence Landweber

American writer and academic

2000 – present · United States

Mark Bolzern

Founder of early Linux communities

2000 – present

Mark Gillett

British business executive and technologist

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Matthew Garrett

Irish computer programmer

2000 – present · Ireland

Matthew K. Franklin

American computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Michael Butler (computer scientist)

Irish computer scientist

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Michael R. Lyu

Hong Kong software engineer

2000 – present

Michael Tiemann

American executive, software developer, and open source proponent

2000 – present · United States

Mike Cowlishaw

British computer scientist

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Moses Charikar

Indian-American computer scientist

2000 – present · India

Murat Arcak

Turkish-American electrical engineer

2000 – present · Türkiye

Nancy Arana-Daniel

Mexican computer scientist

2000 – present · Mexico

Nando de Freitas

Zimbabwean computer scientist

2000 – present

Nicola Pellow

British information scientist who worked on the early World Wide Web

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Pei-Yuan Wei

Computer programmer

2000 – 2023 · United States

Piotr Indyk

Polish computer scientist

2000 – present · Poland

Rémy Card

French software developer

2000 – present · France

Sarah Allen (software developer)

American software developer

2000 – present · United States

Sarma Bala Vrudhula

American computer engineer

2000 – present

Steve Schneider (computer scientist)

English computer scientist

2000 – present · United Kingdom

Steven M. Bellovin

American computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Suelette Dreyfus

Australian researcher and journalist

2000 – present · Australia

Susan Estrada

2000 – present · United States

Syed Jafar

2000 – present

Thomas Sterling (computing)

American computer scientist

2000 – present · United States

Valeria De Antonellis

Italian professor of computer science and engineering

2000 – present

Vikram Adve

Indian academic

2000 – present

William Cheswick

American engineer

2000 – present · United States

Wojciech Szpankowski

Polish computer scientist

2000 – present

Xiuzhen Cheng

2000 – present