Analysis Top 100 Researchers by Field

Top 100 Scientists in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT)

Top 100 Scientists in Information & Communication Technologies

Top 2% Scientists List

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).

RankNameInstituteCountrySubfield 1Subfield 2
1Mirjalili, SeyedaliTorrens University AustraliaAustraliaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
2BENGIO, YOSHUAUniversity of MontrealCanadaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
3Girshick, RossFAIRUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
4Hinton, GeoffreyUniversity of TorontoCanadaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
5Zadeh, Lotfi A.University of California, BerkeleyUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
6Schmidhuber, JürgenIDSIA Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSwitzerlandArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
7Venkatesh, ViswanathVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityUnited StatesInformation SystemsBusiness & Management
8Yang, Xin SheMiddlesex UniversityUnited KingdomArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
9Yager, Ronald R.Machine Intelligence InstituteUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
10LeCun, YannNew York UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
11Xu, ZeshuiSichuan UniversityChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingOperations Research
12He, KaimingFAIRUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
13Deb, KalyanmoyMichigan State UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingOperations Research
14Zhou, Zhi HuaNanjing UniversityChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingSoftware Engineering
15Donoho, DavidStanford UniversityUnited StatesNetworking & TelecommunicationsStatistics & Probability
16Hochreiter, SeppJohannes Kepler University LinzAustriaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingBioinformatics
17Jordan, Michael I.University of California, BerkeleyUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
18Shannon, Claude E.Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesNetworking & TelecommunicationsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
19Davis, FredTexas Tech UniversityUnited StatesInformation SystemsSocial Psychology
20Stamatakis, AlexandrosKarlsruher Institut für TechnologieGermanyBioinformaticsEvolutionary Biology
21Jain, Anil K.Michigan State UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingStrategic, Defence & Security Studies
22Garg, HarishThapar Institute of Engineering & TechnologyIndiaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingApplied Mathematics
23Blei, DavidColumbia UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
24Le, Quoc V.DeepMind Technologies LimitedUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
25van der Maaten, LaurensMetaUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
26Wang, Fei YueChinese Academy of SciencesChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
27Dwork, CynthiaHarvard UniversityUnited StatesComputation Theory & MathematicsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
28Manning, Christopher D.Stanford UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
29van der Aalst, Wil M.P.Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule AachenGermanyArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingBusiness & Management
30Gandomi, AmirUniversity of Technology SydneyAustraliaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingCivil Engineering
31Liu, BingUniversity of Illinois at ChicagoUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingInformation Systems
32Yao, YiyuUniversity of ReginaCanadaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingSoftware Engineering
33Silver, DavidDeepMind Technologies LimitedUnited KingdomArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
34Kock, NedTexas A and M International UniversityUnited StatesInformation SystemsBusiness & Management
35Schapire, Robert E.Microsoft ResearchUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingComputation Theory & Mathematics
36Eysenbach, GuntherJMIR PublicationsCanadaMedical InformaticsGeneral & Internal Medicine
37Slater, MelUniversitat de BarcelonaSpainSoftware EngineeringExperimental Psychology
38Herrera, FranciscoUniversidad de GranadaSpainArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingOperations Research
39Jin, YaochuWestlake UniversityChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
40Pearl, JudeaUniversity of California, Los AngelesUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingStatistics & Probability
41Cambria, ErikNanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingInformation & Library Sciences
42Kleinberg, JonCornell UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingComputation Theory & Mathematics
43Leskovec, JureStanford UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
44Schölkopf, BernhardMax Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsGermanyArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
45Lowe, David G.Google LLCUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
46Shor, PeterMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesComputation Theory & MathematicsGeneral Physics
47Abualigah, LaithMiddle East University, JordanJordanArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingApplied Mathematics
48Shin, DongheeTexas Tech UniversityUnited StatesInformation SystemsCommunication & Media Studies
49Wang, XiaogangChinese University of Hong KongHong KongArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
50Bottou, LéonNew York UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
51Pedrycz, WitoldUniversity of AlbertaCanadaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
52Mallat, StéphaneCollège de FranceFranceArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
53Salakhutdinov, RuslanCarnegie Mellon UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
54Torralba, AntonioMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
55Poor, H. VincentPrinceton UniversityUnited StatesNetworking & TelecommunicationsIndustrial Engineering & Automation
56Atanassov, KrassimirInstitute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgariaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingGeneral Mathematics
57Zhang, ZhengyouTencentChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
58Hamari, JuhoTampere UniversityFinlandInformation SystemsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
59Wang, ZhouUniversity of WaterlooCanadaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
60Pavlou, Paul A.University of HoustonUnited StatesInformation SystemsMarketing
61Coello Coello, Carlos A.Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico NacionalMexicoArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingOperations Research
62Sarker, Iqbal H.Edith Cowan UniversityAustraliaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
63Rudin, CynthiaDuke UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingStatistics & Probability
64Cui, Tie JunSoutheast UniversityChinaNetworking & TelecommunicationsApplied Physics
65Wei, GuiwuSichuan Normal UniversityChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
66Welling, MaxUniversiteit van AmsterdamNetherlandsArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
67Fosso Wamba, SamuelTBS Business SchoolFranceInformation SystemsOperations Research
68Kshetri, NirThe University of North Carolina at GreensboroUnited StatesInformation SystemsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
69Lv, ZhihanUppsala UniversitetSwedenNetworking & TelecommunicationsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
70Zhang, RuiNational University of SingaporeSingaporeNetworking & TelecommunicationsAcoustics
71Huang, Guang BinNanyang Technological UniversitySingaporeArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
72Ng, AndrewStanford UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
73Caruana, RichMicrosoft ResearchUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
74Liu, PeideShandong University of Finance and EconomicsChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingCivil Engineering
75Vapnik, VladimirColumbia UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
76Choo, Kim Kwang RaymondThe University of Texas at San AntonioUnited StatesNetworking & TelecommunicationsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
77Ding, ZhiguoKhalifa University of Science and TechnologyUnited Arab EmiratesNetworking & TelecommunicationsStrategic, Defence & Security Studies
78Shamir, AdiWeizmann Institute of Science IsraelIsraelArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingComputation Theory & Mathematics
79Dwivedi, Yogesh K.Swansea UniversityUnited KingdomInformation SystemsMarketing
80Sun, JianBeijing MEGVII Technology Co., Ltd.ChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingSoftware Engineering
81Chen, C. L.PhilipSouth China University of TechnologyChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
82Orlikowski, Wanda J.MIT Sloan School of ManagementUnited StatesInformation SystemsBusiness & Management
83Graves, AlexNNAISENSESwitzerlandArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
84Bovik, Alan C.The University of Texas at AustinUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
85Boneh, DanStanford UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
86Tong, ShaochengLiaoning University of TechnologyChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
87Levine, SergeyUniversity of California, BerkeleyUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
88Onan, AytugIzmir Kâtip Çelebi ÜniversitesiTurkeyArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNetworking & Telecommunications
89Hamilton, WilliamUniversité McGillCanadaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
90Wainwright, Martin J.Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesNetworking & TelecommunicationsArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
91Fei-Fei, LiStanford UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
92Tang, XiaoouChinese University of Hong KongHong KongArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingAcoustics
93Schuller, Björn W.Imperial College LondonUnited KingdomArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingSpeech-Language Pathology & Audiology
94Yao, XinSouthern University of Science and TechnologyChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingSoftware Engineering
95Dietterich, Thomas G.Oregon State UniversityUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingDesign Practice & Management
96Acharya, U. R.University of Southern QueenslandAustraliaBiomedical EngineeringArtificial Intelligence & Image Processing
97Goodfellow, IanDeepMind Technologies LimitedUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingExperimental Psychology
98Deng, YongUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChinaArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingIndustrial Engineering & Automation
99Barron, Jonathan T.Google LLCUnited StatesArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingSoftware Engineering
100Hyvärinen, AapoHelsingin YliopistoFinlandArtificial Intelligence & Image ProcessingNeurology & Neurosurgery

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