# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-ling
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:54:15.955Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-ling"
name: "Helen Ling"
slug: "helen-ling"
description: "Helen Ling is a former software engineer who worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). She made considerable efforts to make JPL more diverse."
tagline: "Software engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Helen_Ling_1980_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-10-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.59
  momentum:             19.12371134020619
  historical:           4.804932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ling"
    title: "Helen Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ling"
    title: "Helen Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ling"
    title: "Helen Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ling"
    title: "Helen Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Ling"
    title: "Helen Ling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55138579"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump