Top 50 AI researchers by citations

Updated October 1

| Rank | Researcher | Fields | October 1 | September 1 | Gain | Growth % | Rank Change | | ---- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------- | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ----------- | | 01 | Yoshua Bengio[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DhtAFkwAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x04W%5FmMAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALVSZAYAAAAJ&hl=en)— | 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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W8VIEZgAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UZ5wscMAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AUhj438AAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WLN3QrAAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vfT6-XIAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yuB-cfoAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mOG0bwsAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iYN86KEAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sdcsQb4AAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JWmiQR0AAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dOad5HoAAAAJ)— | 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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wsGvgA8AAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yyIoQu4AAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a8Y2OJMAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yxUduqMAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=km6CP8cAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rDfyQnIAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aOklxsQAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=sGFyDIUAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bh-uRFMAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xegzhJcAAAAJ&hl=en)— | 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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bnQMuzgAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1zmDOdwAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gLnCTgIAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ymzxRhAAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oR9sCGYAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-8DNE4UAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mG4imMEAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=%5F3%5FP5VwAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q2YXPSgAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L7lMQkQAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dYpPMQEAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3SyxFIAAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2oq9614AAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TwMib%5FQAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DZ-fHPgAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7jrO1NwAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vtwH6GkAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8R35rCwAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ITZ1e7MAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c646VbAAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FaOcyfMAAAAJ&hl=en)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=chD5XxkAAAAJ)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[](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0VAe-TQAAAAJ)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% | — |