Top 50 AI researchers by citations

See which researchers are most cited in AI across subfields. Updated monthly based on Google Scholar.

Updated October 1


01	Yoshua Bengio Université de Montréal, LawZero, Mila	Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence	1,164,407	1,149,112	+15,295(+1.3%)Citations Sep 11,149,112Change since Sep 1+15,295 (+1.3%)	+1.3%	—
02	Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto	Machine Learning · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Science · Computer Science	1,092,086	1,080,894	+11,192(+1.0%)Citations Sep 11,080,894Change since Sep 1+11,192 (+1.0%)	+1.0%	—
03	Kaiming He MIT, Google DeepMind	Computer Vision · Machine Learning	879,889	868,680	+11,209(+1.3%)Citations Sep 1868,680Change since Sep 1+11,209 (+1.3%)	+1.3%	—
04	Ilya Sutskever Safe Superintelligence Inc.	Machine Learning · Neural Networks · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning	857,363	845,148	+12,215(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1845,148Change since Sep 1+12,215 (+1.4%)	+1.4%	—
05	Jian Sun —	Computer Vision · Deep Learning · Computer Graphics	793,800	784,562	+9,238(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1784,562Change since Sep 1+9,238 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—
06	Ross Girshick Anthropic	Computer Vision · Machine Learning	737,041	726,613	+10,428(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1726,613Change since Sep 1+10,428 (+1.4%)	+1.4%	—
07	Andrew Zisserman University of Oxford	Computer Vision · Machine Learning	534,902	530,578	+4,324(+0.8%)Citations Sep 1530,578Change since Sep 1+4,324 (+0.8%)	+0.8%	—
08	Shaoqing Ren University of Science and Technology of China, NIO	Computer Vision · Deep Learning · Autonomous Driving · Artificial Intelligence	533,578	527,390	+6,188(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1527,390Change since Sep 1+6,188 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—
09	Yann LeCun AMI Labs, New York University	AI · Machine Learning · Computer Vision · Robotics · Image Compression	499,649	493,575	+6,074(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1493,575Change since Sep 1+6,074 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—
10	Quoc V. Le Discovery Loop	Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning	484,137	474,890	+9,247(+1.9%)Citations Sep 1474,890Change since Sep 1+9,247 (+1.9%)	+1.9%	—
11	Xiangyu Zhang StepFun AI	Neural Network Architectures · Efficient Deep Learning · Computer Vision · Large Language Models	476,861	471,132	+5,729(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1471,132Change since Sep 1+5,729 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—
12	Oriol Vinyals Discovery Loop	Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Vision · Natural Language Processing	468,804	461,008	+7,796(+1.7%)Citations Sep 1461,008Change since Sep 1+7,796 (+1.7%)	+1.7%	—
13	Jakob Uszkoreit Inceptive, Project Prometheus	—	445,337	436,107	+9,230(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1436,107Change since Sep 1+9,230 (+2.1%)	+2.1%	—
14	Ian Goodfellow Stealth Startup	Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence	438,252	432,583	+5,669(+1.3%)Citations Sep 1432,583Change since Sep 1+5,669 (+1.3%)	+1.3%	—
15	Jeff Dean Discovery Loop	Distributed Systems · Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Compilers · Computer Architecture	437,418	431,536	+5,882(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1431,536Change since Sep 1+5,882 (+1.4%)	+1.4%	—
16	Lukasz Kaiser OpenAI	Machine Learning & Logic In Computer Science	428,639	419,957	+8,682(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1419,957Change since Sep 1+8,682 (+2.1%)	+2.1%	—
17	Alec Radford —	Deep Learning · Machine Learning	411,513	401,640	+9,873(+2.5%)Citations Sep 1401,640Change since Sep 1+9,873 (+2.5%)	+2.5%	—
18	Noam Shazeer OpenAI	Deep Learning	400,513	392,203	+8,310(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1392,203Change since Sep 1+8,310 (+2.1%)	+2.1%	—
19	Durk Kingma Anthropic	Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Neural Networks · Generative Models · Artificial Intelligence	389,965	385,448	+4,517(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1385,448Change since Sep 1+4,517 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—
20	Piotr Dollár Thinking Machines Lab	Computer Vision · Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence	384,188	376,939	+7,249(+1.9%)Citations Sep 1376,939Change since Sep 1+7,249 (+1.9%)	+1.9%	+1
21	Michael I. Jordan Inria, ENS Paris, MBZUAI	Machine Learning · Computer Science · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Optimization	382,238	378,365	+3,873(+1.0%)Citations Sep 1378,365Change since Sep 1+3,873 (+1.0%)	+1.0%	−1
22	Aaron Courville Université de Montréal, Mila, IVADO	Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence	376,138	370,734	+5,404(+1.5%)Citations Sep 1370,734Change since Sep 1+5,404 (+1.5%)	+1.5%	+1
23	Fei-Fei Li World Labs, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI	Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Computer Vision · Neuroscience	376,062	371,472	+4,590(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1371,472Change since Sep 1+4,590 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	−1
24	Jitendra Malik UC Berkeley, Amazon	Computer Vision · Machine Learning · Robotics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Graphics	370,463	360,285	+10,178(+2.8%)Citations Sep 1360,285Change since Sep 1+10,178 (+2.8%)	+2.8%	—
25	Koray Kavukcuoglu Google DeepMind, Google	Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Computer Vision	357,411	351,867	+5,544(+1.6%)Citations Sep 1351,867Change since Sep 1+5,544 (+1.6%)	+1.6%	—
26	Trevor Darrell UC Berkeley	Computer Vision · Artificial Intelligence · AI · Machine Learning · Deep Learning	349,097	345,366	+3,731(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1345,366Change since Sep 1+3,731 (+1.1%)	+1.1%	+1
27	Alex Krizhevsky —	Machine Learning	348,804	345,897	+2,907(+0.8%)Citations Sep 1345,897Change since Sep 1+2,907 (+0.8%)	+0.8%	−1
28	Christian Szegedy Math Inc.	Deep Learning · Formal Reasoning	348,156	345,054	+3,102(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1345,054Change since Sep 1+3,102 (+0.9%)	+0.9%	—
29	Christopher D. Manning Moonlake AI, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI	Natural Language Processing · Computational Linguistics · Deep Learning	343,408	339,543	+3,865(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1339,543Change since Sep 1+3,865 (+1.1%)	+1.1%	—
30	Jürgen Schmidhuber KAUST, IDSIA, Sakana AI	Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning · Neural Networks · Physics	342,911	338,138	+4,773(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1338,138Change since Sep 1+4,773 (+1.4%)	+1.4%	—
31	Jimmy Ba University of Toronto, Vector Institute, CIFAR	Neural Networks · Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Deep Learning	339,879	336,136	+3,743(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1336,136Change since Sep 1+3,743 (+1.1%)	+1.1%	—
32	Ashish Vaswani NVIDIA	Deep Learning	328,973	322,556	+6,417(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1322,556Change since Sep 1+6,417 (+2.0%)	+2.0%	—
33	David Silver Ineffable Intelligence, UCL	Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Planning · Computer Games	324,115	319,146	+4,969(+1.6%)Citations Sep 1319,146Change since Sep 1+4,969 (+1.6%)	+1.6%	+1
34	Andrew Ng AI Fund, DeepLearning.AI, Coursera	Machine Learning · Deep Learning · AI	322,438	319,603	+2,835(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1319,603Change since Sep 1+2,835 (+0.9%)	+0.9%	−1
35	Llion Jones Sakana AI	—	321,669	315,358	+6,311(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1315,358Change since Sep 1+6,311 (+2.0%)	+2.0%	—
36	Niki Parmar Anthropic	Machine Learning · Deep Learning	320,248	314,115	+6,133(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1314,115Change since Sep 1+6,133 (+2.0%)	+2.0%	+1
37	Karén Simonyan Microsoft AI	Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning	317,925	315,009	+2,916(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1315,009Change since Sep 1+2,916 (+0.9%)	+0.9%	−1
38	Demis Hassabis Google DeepMind, Alphabet, Isomorphic Labs	Neuroscience · Artificial Intelligence	315,729	308,778	+6,951(+2.3%)Citations Sep 1308,778Change since Sep 1+6,951 (+2.3%)	+2.3%	—
39	Illia Polosukhin NEAR, NEAR AI	Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Program Synthesis	311,214	304,832	+6,382(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1304,832Change since Sep 1+6,382 (+2.1%)	+2.1%	—
40	Aidan Gomez Cohere	Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning	310,484	304,351	+6,133(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1304,351Change since Sep 1+6,133 (+2.0%)	+2.0%	—
41	Luc Van Gool INSAIT, ETH Zürich, KU Leuven	Computer Vision · Machine Learning · AI · Autonomous Cars · Cultural Heritage	307,328	303,942	+3,386(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1303,942Change since Sep 1+3,386 (+1.1%)	+1.1%	—
42	Bernhard Schölkopf Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ELLIS	Machine Learning · Causal Inference · Artificial Intelligence · Computational Photography · Statistics	296,865	293,695	+3,170(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1293,695Change since Sep 1+3,170 (+1.1%)	+1.1%	—
43	Olaf Ronneberger Google DeepMind, University of Freiburg	Image Analysis · Computer Vision · Pattern Recognition · Biomedical Applications	289,186	283,410	+5,776(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1283,410Change since Sep 1+5,776 (+2.0%)	+2.0%	—
44	Pieter Abbeel Amazon, UC Berkeley	Robotics · Machine Learning · AI	288,984	283,056	+5,928(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1283,056Change since Sep 1+5,928 (+2.1%)	+2.1%	—
45	Sergey Levine Physical Intelligence, UC Berkeley	Machine Learning · Robotics · Reinforcement Learning	283,314	275,507	+7,807(+2.8%)Citations Sep 1275,507Change since Sep 1+7,807 (+2.8%)	+2.8%	—
46	Ruslan Salakhutdinov Sooth Labs, Carnegie Mellon University	Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning	277,897	274,828	+3,069(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1274,828Change since Sep 1+3,069 (+1.1%)	+1.1%	—
47	Mehdi Mirza Google DeepMind	Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence	269,968	266,194	+3,774(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1266,194Change since Sep 1+3,774 (+1.4%)	+1.4%	—
48	Richard Socher You.com, Recursive	Natural Language Processing · Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Computer	257,979	255,636	+2,343(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1255,636Change since Sep 1+2,343 (+0.9%)	+0.9%	—
49	Serge Belongie Pioneer Centre for AI, University of Copenhagen, ELLIS	Computer Vision · Machine Learning	248,947	245,962	+2,985(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1245,962Change since Sep 1+2,985 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—
50	Thomas Brox University of Freiburg	Computer Vision · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Robotics	246,883	243,929	+2,954(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1243,929Change since Sep 1+2,954 (+1.2%)	+1.2%	—

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