Top 100 Scientists in Mathematics & Statistics

Top 2% Scientists List

In the ever-evolving landscape of academic research, recognition is more than just accolades—it’s a testament to groundbreaking contributions that push the boundaries of human knowledge. This prestigious 2024 Stanford/Elsevier List of Top 2% Scientists isn’t just a list; it’s a celebration of intellectual excellence. You can read this article to learn more about this list. The TopResearchersList Website provides a searchable Database for the Top 2% of Scientists.

Mathematics & Statistics

Mathematics and statistics are the invisible architects of our modern world, silently driving innovation and understanding across virtually every field of human endeavor. In recognition of exceptional contributions to mathematics and statistics, we present below an authoritative compilation based on rankings from Stanford/Elsevier’s 2024 List of Top 2% Scientists. The List of Top 100 Scientists in Mathematics & Statistics offers a compelling snapshot of the brilliant minds driving scientific innovation.

Mathematics is not just about equations—it’s about understanding the fundamental patterns that shape our universe.

The following table showcases the top 100 researchers in Mathematics & Statistics, ranked based on their citation impact and scientific influence. You can click on their names to check the TopResearchersList Profiles for more details.

Rank	Name	Institute	Country	Subfield 1	Subfield 2
1	Breiman, Leo	University of California, Berkeley	United States	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
2	Rubin, Donald B.	Tsinghua University	China	Statistics & Probability	Social Sciences Methods
3	Friedman, Jerome H.	Stanford University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Nuclear & Particle Physics
4	Tibshirani, Robert	Stanford University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Oncology & Carcinogenesis
5	Gelman, Andrew	Columbia University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Political Science & Public Administration
6	Candès, Emmanuel J.	Stanford University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Networking & Telecommunications
7	Wood, Simon N.	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	Statistics & Probability	Ecology
8	Winkler, Michael	Paderborn University	Germany	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
9	Hastie, Trevor	Stanford University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
10	Akaike, Hirotogu	The Institute of Statistical Mathematics	Japan	Statistics & Probability	Industrial Engineering & Automation
11	Karniadakis, George Em	Brown University	United States	Applied Mathematics	Fluids & Plasmas
12	Atangana, Abdon	University of the Free State	South Africa	Applied Mathematics	Mathematical Physics
13	Efron, Bradley	Stanford University	United States	Statistics & Probability	General & Internal Medicine
14	White, Ian R.	University College London	United Kingdom	Statistics & Probability	General & Internal Medicine
15	Robins, James M.	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	United States	Statistics & Probability	Epidemiology
16	Rousseeuw, Peter J.	KU Leuven	Belgium	Statistics & Probability	Analytical Chemistry
17	Rosenbaum, Paul R.	University of Pennsylvania	United States	Statistics & Probability	Health Policy & Services
18	Hornik, Kurt	WU Vienna University of Economics and Business	Austria	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
19	Baleanu, Dumitru	Lebanese American University	Lebanon	Applied Mathematics	Nuclear & Particle Physics
20	Lions, Pierre Louis	Collège de France	France	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
21	Little, Roderick J.	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	United States	Statistics & Probability	Neurology & Neurosurgery
22	Hughes, Thomas J.R.	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
23	Royston, Patrick	University College London	United Kingdom	Statistics & Probability	General & Internal Medicine
24	Shu, Chi Wang	Brown University	United States	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
25	Zou, Hui	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	Statistics & Probability	Networking & Telecommunications
26	Weinan, E.	Peking University	China	Applied Mathematics	General Mathematics
27	Abdeljawad, Thabet	Prince Sultan University	Saudi Arabia	Applied Mathematics	General Mathematics
28	Srivastava, Hari Mohan	Kyung Hee University	South Korea	General Mathematics	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
29	Fan, Jianqing	Princeton University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Econometrics
30	Mao, Xuerong	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom	Industrial Engineering & Automation	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
31	Bourgain, Jean	Institute for Advanced Study	United States	General Mathematics	Mathematical Physics
32	Tao, Terence	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	General Mathematics	Computation Theory & Mathematics
33	Koenker, Roger	University College London	United Kingdom	Statistics & Probability	Econometrics
34	Liu, Guirong	University of Cincinnati	United States	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
35	Hyndman, Rob J.	Monash University	Australia	Statistics & Probability	Econometrics
36	Bühlmann, Peter	ETH Zürich	Switzerland	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
37	Zeileis, Achim	Universität Innsbruck	Austria	Statistics & Probability	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
38	Gutman, Ivan	University of Kragujevac	Serbia	General Mathematics	Chemical Physics
39	Simo, J. C.	Stanford Engineering	United States	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
40	Bellman, Richard	RAND Corporation	United States	General Mathematics	Bioinformatics
41	Mainardi, Francesco	Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna	Italy	General Mathematics	Fluids & Plasmas
42	Belytschko, T.	Northwestern University	United States	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
43	Arqub, Omar Abu	Al-Balqa Applied University	Jordan	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
44	Caffarelli, Luis A.	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
45	Constantin, A.	Universität Wien Institut für Mathematik	Austria	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
46	Gneiting, Tilmann	Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS GmbH)	Germany	Statistics & Probability	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
47	Rockafellar, R. Tyrrell	University of Washington	United States	General Mathematics	Operations Research
48	Wickham, Hadley	RStudio	United States	Statistics & Probability	Software Engineering
49	Shen, Jie	Eastern Institute of Technology	China	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
50	Bowden, Jack	University of Exeter	United Kingdom	Statistics & Probability	Epidemiology
51	Babuška, Ivo	The University of Texas at Austin	United States	Applied Mathematics	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
52	Miehe, C.	Universität Stuttgart	Germany	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
53	Raissi, Maziar	University of California, Riverside	United States	Applied Mathematics	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
54	Raftery, Adrian E.	University of Washington	United States	Statistics & Probability	Demography
55	Osher, Stanley	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	Applied Mathematics	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
56	van den Driessche, P.	University of Victoria	Canada	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Bioinformatics
57	Diethelm, Kai	Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt	Germany	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	General Mathematics
58	Zhou, Yong	Xiangtan University	China	Applied Mathematics	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
59	Rabczuk, Timon	Bauhaus-Universität Weimar	Germany	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
60	Dehghan, Mehdi	Amirkabir University of Technology	Iran	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
61	Erdos, P.	Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics	Hungary	General Mathematics	Computation Theory & Mathematics
62	Lin, Dan Yu	UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health	United States	Statistics & Probability	Genetics & Heredity
63	Meinshausen, Nicolai F.	ETH Zürich	Switzerland	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
64	Balakrishnan, Narayanaswamy	McMaster University	Canada	Statistics & Probability	Operations Research
65	Wriggers, Peter	Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover	Germany	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
66	Vershynin, Roman	University of California, Irvine	United States	General Mathematics	Networking & Telecommunications
67	Gurtin, Morton E.	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
68	Hand, David J.	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
69	Ishwaran, Hemant	University of Miami	United States	Statistics & Probability	Cardiovascular System & Hematology
70	Peng, Shige	Shandong University	China	Statistics & Probability	General Mathematics
71	Chu, Yu Ming	Huzhou University	China	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
72	Box, George E.P.	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	Statistics & Probability	Pharmacology & Pharmacy
73	Sobol, Ilya M.	Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences	Russia	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	General Mathematics
74	Yau, Shing Tung	Tsinghua University	China	General Mathematics	Nuclear & Particle Physics
75	Peskin, Charles S.	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	United States	Applied Mathematics	Bioinformatics
76	Mingione, Giuseppe	Università di Parma	Italy	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
77	Hothorn, Torsten	Universität Zürich	Switzerland	Statistics & Probability	Ecology
78	Sethian, James	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	United States	Applied Mathematics	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
79	Shmueli, Galit	National Tsing Hua University	Taiwan	Statistics & Probability	Information Systems
80	Ruan, Shigui	University of Miami	United States	General Mathematics	Bioinformatics
81	Agarwal, R. P.	Texas A and M University-Kingsville	United States	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
82	Cleveland, William S.	Purdue University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Software Engineering
83	Higham, Nicholas J.	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
84	Oseledets, Ivan	Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology	Russia	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
85	Chen, Bang Yen	Michigan State University	United States	General Mathematics	Mathematical Physics
86	Chambolle, Antonin	Université Paris-Dauphine	France	General Mathematics	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
87	Xu, Hong Kun	Hangzhou Dianzi University	China	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
88	Tukey, John W.	Princeton University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Social Sciences Methods
89	Momani, Shaher	Ajman University	United Arab Emirates	Numerical & Computational Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
90	Toro, Eleuterio F.	Università di Trento	Italy	Applied Mathematics	Numerical & Computational Mathematics
91	Ahmad, Bashir	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia	Applied Mathematics	General Mathematics
92	de Borst, René	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
93	Cook, R. Dennis	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	Statistics & Probability	Evolutionary Biology
94	Wasserman, Larry	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	Statistics & Probability	Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing
95	Cressie, Noel	University of Wollongong	Australia	Statistics & Probability	Geochemistry & Geophysics
96	Loh, Wei Yin	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	Statistics & Probability	Substance Abuse
97	Luchko, Yuri	SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences	Germany	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
98	Wang, Bixiang	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology	United States	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics
99	Zienkiewicz, O. C.	Swansea University	United Kingdom	Applied Mathematics	Mechanical Engineering & Transports
100	Brezis, Haïm	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	General Mathematics	Applied Mathematics

The mathematics and statistics scientists recognized here are not just number crunchers—they are problem solvers, innovators, and intellectual pioneers who transform complex data into meaningful insights. From advanced machine learning algorithms to complex statistical models predicting global trends, these 100 scientists demonstrate how mathematics is the fundamental language of scientific understanding. Their work touches every aspect of our modern world—from predicting climate change to developing breakthrough medical treatments, from optimizing global supply chains to advancing quantum computing.

The beauty of mathematics lies not just in its precision, but in its universal language—a tool that transcends cultural, linguistic, and disciplinary boundaries, connecting human knowledge in ways no other discipline can.