Top 100 Scientists in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

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In collaboration with Elsevier, Stanford University releases an annual ranking of the world’s most-cited scientists across various disciplines. These rankings are determined based on multiple metrics that reflect each scientist’s contributions and influence. Each scientist on this list is recognized for prolific research output and lasting impact on the global scientific community. These metrics provide a holistic view of their influence and ensure that well-established and up-and-coming scholars are credited for their contributions to the field.

Information & Communication Technologies

The table below showcases the Top 100 Scientists in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) fields from Stanford/Elsevier’s 2024 List, highlighting the global leaders whose research has profoundly impacted Information & Communication Technologies (ICT).

Rank	Name	Institute	Country	Subfield 1	Subfield 2
1	Mirjalili, Seyedali	Torrens University Australia	Australia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
2	BENGIO, YOSHUA	University of Montreal	Canada	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
3	Girshick, Ross	FAIR	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
4	Hinton, Geoffrey	University of Toronto	Canada	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
5	Zadeh, Lotfi A.	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
6	Schmidhuber, Jürgen	IDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence	Switzerland	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
7	Venkatesh, Viswanath	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	Information Systems	Business & Management
8	Yang, Xin She	Middlesex University	United Kingdom	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
9	Yager, Ronald R.	Machine Intelligence Institute	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
10	LeCun, Yann	New York University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
11	Xu, Zeshui	Sichuan University	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Operations Research
12	He, Kaiming	FAIR	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
13	Deb, Kalyanmoy	Michigan State University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Operations Research
14	Zhou, Zhi Hua	Nanjing University	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Software Engineering
15	Donoho, David	Stanford University	United States	Networking & Telecommunications	Statistics & Probability
16	Hochreiter, Sepp	Johannes Kepler University Linz	Austria	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Bioinformatics
17	Jordan, Michael I.	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
18	Shannon, Claude E.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Networking & Telecommunications	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
19	Davis, Fred	Texas Tech University	United States	Information Systems	Social Psychology
20	Stamatakis, Alexandros	Karlsruher Institut für Technologie	Germany	Bioinformatics	Evolutionary Biology
21	Jain, Anil K.	Michigan State University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
22	Garg, Harish	Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology	India	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Applied Mathematics
23	Blei, David	Columbia University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
24	Le, Quoc V.	DeepMind Technologies Limited	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
25	van der Maaten, Laurens	Meta	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
26	Wang, Fei Yue	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
27	Dwork, Cynthia	Harvard University	United States	Computation Theory & Mathematics	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
28	Manning, Christopher D.	Stanford University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
29	van der Aalst, Wil M.P.	Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen	Germany	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Business & Management
30	Gandomi, Amir	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Civil Engineering
31	Liu, Bing	University of Illinois at Chicago	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Information Systems
32	Yao, Yiyu	University of Regina	Canada	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Software Engineering
33	Silver, David	DeepMind Technologies Limited	United Kingdom	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
34	Kock, Ned	Texas A and M International University	United States	Information Systems	Business & Management
35	Schapire, Robert E.	Microsoft Research	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Computation Theory & Mathematics
36	Eysenbach, Gunther	JMIR Publications	Canada	Medical Informatics	General & Internal Medicine
37	Slater, Mel	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	Software Engineering	Experimental Psychology
38	Herrera, Francisco	Universidad de Granada	Spain	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Operations Research
39	Jin, Yaochu	Westlake University	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
40	Pearl, Judea	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Statistics & Probability
41	Cambria, Erik	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Information & Library Sciences
42	Kleinberg, Jon	Cornell University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Computation Theory & Mathematics
43	Leskovec, Jure	Stanford University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
44	Schölkopf, Bernhard	Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems	Germany	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
45	Lowe, David G.	Google LLC	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
46	Shor, Peter	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Computation Theory & Mathematics	General Physics
47	Abualigah, Laith	Middle East University, Jordan	Jordan	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Applied Mathematics
48	Shin, Donghee	Texas Tech University	United States	Information Systems	Communication & Media Studies
49	Wang, Xiaogang	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
50	Bottou, Léon	New York University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
51	Pedrycz, Witold	University of Alberta	Canada	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
52	Mallat, Stéphane	Collège de France	France	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
53	Salakhutdinov, Ruslan	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
54	Torralba, Antonio	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
55	Poor, H. Vincent	Princeton University	United States	Networking & Telecommunications	Industrial Engineering & Automation
56	Atanassov, Krassimir	Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences	Bulgaria	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	General Mathematics
57	Zhang, Zhengyou	Tencent	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
58	Hamari, Juho	Tampere University	Finland	Information Systems	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
59	Wang, Zhou	University of Waterloo	Canada	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
60	Pavlou, Paul A.	University of Houston	United States	Information Systems	Marketing
61	Coello Coello, Carlos A.	Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional	Mexico	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Operations Research
62	Sarker, Iqbal H.	Edith Cowan University	Australia	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
63	Rudin, Cynthia	Duke University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Statistics & Probability
64	Cui, Tie Jun	Southeast University	China	Networking & Telecommunications	Applied Physics
65	Wei, Guiwu	Sichuan Normal University	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
66	Welling, Max	Universiteit van Amsterdam	Netherlands	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
67	Fosso Wamba, Samuel	TBS Business School	France	Information Systems	Operations Research
68	Kshetri, Nir	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	United States	Information Systems	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
69	Lv, Zhihan	Uppsala Universitet	Sweden	Networking & Telecommunications	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
70	Zhang, Rui	National University of Singapore	Singapore	Networking & Telecommunications	Acoustics
71	Huang, Guang Bin	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
72	Ng, Andrew	Stanford University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
73	Caruana, Rich	Microsoft Research	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
74	Liu, Peide	Shandong University of Finance and Economics	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Civil Engineering
75	Vapnik, Vladimir	Columbia University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
76	Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond	The University of Texas at San Antonio	United States	Networking & Telecommunications	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
77	Ding, Zhiguo	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	Networking & Telecommunications	Strategic, Defence & Security Studies
78	Shamir, Adi	Weizmann Institute of Science Israel	Israel	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Computation Theory & Mathematics
79	Dwivedi, Yogesh K.	Swansea University	United Kingdom	Information Systems	Marketing
80	Sun, Jian	Beijing MEGVII Technology Co., Ltd.	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Software Engineering
81	Chen, C. L.Philip	South China University of Technology	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
82	Orlikowski, Wanda J.	MIT Sloan School of Management	United States	Information Systems	Business & Management
83	Graves, Alex	NNAISENSE	Switzerland	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
84	Bovik, Alan C.	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
85	Boneh, Dan	Stanford University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
86	Tong, Shaocheng	Liaoning University of Technology	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
87	Levine, Sergey	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
88	Onan, Aytug	Izmir Kâtip Çelebi Üniversitesi	Turkey	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Networking & Telecommunications
89	Hamilton, William	Université McGill	Canada	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
90	Wainwright, Martin J.	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	Networking & Telecommunications	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
91	Fei-Fei, Li	Stanford University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
92	Tang, Xiaoou	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Acoustics
93	Schuller, Björn W.	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
94	Yao, Xin	Southern University of Science and Technology	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Software Engineering
95	Dietterich, Thomas G.	Oregon State University	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Design Practice & Management
96	Acharya, U. R.	University of Southern Queensland	Australia	Biomedical Engineering	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
97	Goodfellow, Ian	DeepMind Technologies Limited	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Experimental Psychology
98	Deng, Yong	University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	China	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Industrial Engineering & Automation
99	Barron, Jonathan T.	Google LLC	United States	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Software Engineering
100	Hyvärinen, Aapo	Helsingin Yliopisto	Finland	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing	Neurology & Neurosurgery