Top 100 Scientists in Engineering

Top 2% Scientists List

The Top 2% Scientists List 2024, compiled by Stanford University, recognizes the world’s most influential researchers based on citations, h-index, and other bibliometric indicators. This prestigious list highlights scientists who have made significant contributions to their respective fields and have had a substantial impact on global research. You can read this article to learn more about this list. The TopResearchersList Website provides a searchable Database for the Top 2% of Scientists

Engineering

Scientists study the world as it is; engineers create the world that has never been

In the engineering field, the list showcases a diverse range of specializations, including electrical, mechanical, civil, and chemical engineering. These top-ranked engineers have demonstrated exceptional innovation, problem-solving skills, and contributions to technological advancements that shape our modern world. The following table showcases the top 100 researchers in the Engineering Field. You can click on their names to check the TopResearchersList Profiles for more details.

Rank	Name	Institute	Country	Subfield 1	Subfield 2
1	Awual, Md Rabiul	WA School of Mines: Minerals, Energy and Chemical Engineering	Australia	Chemical Engineering	Environmental Sciences
2	Ivanov, Dmitry	Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin	Germany	Operations Research	Industrial Engineering & Automation
3	Blaabjerg, Frede	Aalborg University	Denmark	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Energy
4	Sheikholeslami, M.	Babol Noshirvani University of Technology	Iran	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Chemical Physics
5	Govindan, Kannan	Shanghai Maritime University	China	Operations Research	Environmental Sciences
6	Chamkha, Ali J.	Kuwait College of Science & Technology	Kuwait	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Energy
7	Pradhan, Biswajeet	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Geochemistry & Geophysics
8	Chua, L. O.	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Fluids & Plasmas
9	Reddy, J. N.	Texas A&M University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Mathematics
10	Saaty, Thomas L.	University of Pittsburgh	United States	Operations Research	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
11	Elimelech, Menachem	Yale University	United States	Environmental Sciences	Chemical Engineering
12	Choi, Tsan Ming	University of Liverpool Management School	United Kingdom	Operations Research	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
13	Menter, Florian	ANSYS, Inc.	Germany	Aerospace & Aeronautics	Fluids & Plasmas
14	Gunasekaran, Angappa	Penn State Harrisburg	United States	Operations Research	Business & Management
15	Bažant, Zdenek P.	Northwestern University	United States	Civil Engineering	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
16	Mahmoodi, Niyaz Mohammad	Institute for Color Science and Technology	Iran	Chemical Engineering	Polymers
17	Rice, James R.	Harvard University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Geochemistry & Geophysics
18	Ren, Wei	University of California, Riverside	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
19	Huete, Alfredo	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
20	Hill, Rodney	Gonville and Caius College	United Kingdom	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	General Mathematics
21	van Genuchten, Martinus Theodorus	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	Environmental Engineering	Agronomy & Agriculture
22	Thrun, Sebastian	Stanford University	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
23	Sitti, Metin	Koç Üniversitesi	Turkey	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
24	Laporte, Gilbert	HEC Montréal	Canada	Operations Research	Logistics & Transportation
25	Guerrero, Josep M.	Aalborg University	Denmark	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Energy
26	Lewis, Frank L.	The University of Texas at Arlington	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
27	Gitelson, Anatoly	School of Natural Resources	United States	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
28	Tucker, Compton J.	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	United States	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
29	Boyd, Stephen	Stanford University	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Operations Research
30	Turkyilmazoglu, Mustafa	Hacettepe Üniversitesi	Turkey	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Mathematics
31	von Gunten, Urs	Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology	Switzerland	Environmental Engineering	Environmental Sciences
32	Venkata Rao, Ravipudi	S. V. National Institute of Technology	India	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Industrial Engineering & Automation
33	Van der Bruggen, Bart	KU Leuven	Belgium	Chemical Engineering	Environmental Sciences
34	Bejan, Adrian	Duke University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Energy
35	Zadpoor, Amir A.	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	Biomedical Engineering	Materials
36	Singh, Vijay P.	Texas A&M University	United States	Environmental Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
37	Vymazal, Jan	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague	Czech Republic	Environmental Engineering	Environmental Sciences
38	Kaveh, Ali	Daneshgahe Elm va Sanat e Iran	Iran	Civil Engineering	Applied Mathematics
39	Adeli, Hojjat	The Ohio State University	United States	Civil Engineering	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
40	Hoekstra, Arjen Y.	Universiteit Twente	Netherlands	Environmental Engineering	Environmental Sciences
41	Kisi, Ozgur	Ilia State University (ISU)	Georgia	Environmental Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
42	Silling, Stewart A.	Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Mathematics
43	Xie, Heping	Shenzhen University	China	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Energy
44	McKay, Gordon	Hamad Bin Khalifa University	Qatar	Chemical Engineering	Environmental Sciences
45	Han, Linhai	Guangxi University	China	Civil Engineering	Building & Construction
46	Hutchinson, John W.	Harvard University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Materials
47	Lei, Yaguo	Xi’an Jiaotong University	China	Acoustics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
48	Tone, Kaoru	National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies	Japan	Operations Research	Economics
49	Beven, K. J.	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	Environmental Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
50	Fossen, Thor I.	Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet	Norway	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Chemical Engineering
51	Hashin, Z.	Tel Aviv University	Israel	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Materials
52	Hutmacher, Dietmar W.	Queensland University of Technology	Australia	Biomedical Engineering	Polymers
53	Rus, Daniela	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
54	Zhang, Liangpei	Wuhan University	China	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
55	Carrera, E.	Politecnico di Torino	Italy	Materials	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
56	Eringen, A. Cemal	Princeton University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Physics
57	Gibson, Lorna J.	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	United Kingdom	Materials	Biomedical Engineering
58	Wang, Lihui	The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)	Sweden	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Operations Research
59	Zenkour, Ashraf M.	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Materials
60	Shen, Hui Shen	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Materials
61	Ding, Feng	Jiangnan University	China	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Networking & Telecommunications
62	Foody, Giles M.	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Ecology
63	Choi, Stephen U.S.	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Physics
64	Gong, Peng	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
65	Kruth, Jean Pierre	Flanders Make	Belgium	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Materials
66	Majumdar, Arun	Stanford University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Physics
67	Han, Qing Long	Swinburne University of Technology	Australia	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
68	Dragicevic, Tomislav	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Energy
69	Tang, Christopher S.	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Operations Research	Business & Management
70	Chen, Guanrong	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Fluids & Plasmas	Industrial Engineering & Automation
71	Badylak, Stephen F.	University of Pittsburgh	United States	Biomedical Engineering	Surgery
72	Lee, Saro	Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources	South Korea	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Environmental Engineering
73	Krishna, Rajamani	Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences	Netherlands	Chemical Engineering	Organic Chemistry
74	Sontag, Eduardo D.	Northeastern University	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Bioinformatics
75	Krstic, Miroslav	University of California, San Diego	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Energy
76	He, Manchao	China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing	China	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Energy
77	Mourtzis, Dimitris	University of Patras	Greece	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Operations Research
78	Erdemir, Ali	Texas A&M University	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Applied Physics
79	Gardner, Leroy	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Civil Engineering	Materials
80	Ma, Peter X.	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	United States	Biomedical Engineering	Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
81	Kandlikar, Satish G.	Rochester Institute of Technology	United States	Mechanical Engineering & Transports	Energy
82	Xu, Xun	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Operations Research
83	Flemming, Hans Curt	Universität Duisburg-Essen	Germany	Environmental Engineering	Microbiology
84	Levant, Arie	Tel Aviv University	Israel	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Aerospace & Aeronautics
85	Yaseen, Zaher Mundher	King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	Saudi Arabia	Environmental Engineering	Energy
86	Khatib, Oussama	Stanford University	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
87	Olfati-Saber, Reza	Sanofi S.A.	France	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Bioinformatics
88	Scaramuzza, Davide	Universität Zürich	Switzerland	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
89	Peng, Fang Zheng	Florida State University	United States	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Energy
90	Kolar, Johann W.	ETH Zürich	Switzerland	Electrical & Electronic Engineering	Networking & Telecommunications
91	Weng, Qihao	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Environmental Sciences
92	Jiang, Zhong Ping	New York University	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
93	Blaschke, Thomas	Universität Salzburg	Austria	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Ecology
94	Kazimieras Zavadskas, Edmundas	Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas	Lithuania	Civil Engineering	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
95	Chang, Chein I.	College of Engineering and Information Technology	United States	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Optoelectronics & Photonics
96	Gao, Zhiqiang	Cleveland State University	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Electrical & Electronic Engineering
97	Kusiak, Andrew	University of Iowa	United States	Operations Research	Energy
98	Yang, Shengqi	China University of Mining and Technology	China	Geological & Geomatics Engineering	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
99	Tabuada, Paulo	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
100	Xie, Lihua	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Networking & Telecommunications