{"slug": "top-50-ai-researchers-by-citations", "title": "Top 50 AI researchers by citations", "summary": "Yoshua Bengio leads a monthly citation ranking of AI researchers with 1,149,112 citations as of September 1, a gain of 15,295 (+1.3%), according to the list compiled from Google Scholar. Geoffrey Hinton ranks second with 1,080,894 citations (+11,192, +1.0%) and Kaiming He third with 868,680 (+11,209, +1.3%). The top 50 list, updated monthly, also places Ilya Sutskever fourth at 845,148 citations and Jian Sun fifth at 784,562.", "body_md": "# Top 50 AI researchers by citations\n\nSee which researchers are most cited in AI across subfields. Updated monthly based on Google Scholar.\n\n| 01 | [Yoshua Bengio](https://www.turingtree.com/people/yoshua-bengio)[Université de Montréal, LawZero, Mila](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence | 1,164,407 | 1,149,112 | +15,295(+1.3%)Citations Sep 1 **1,149,112** Change since Sep 1**+15,295 (+1.3%)** | +1.3% | — | \n| 02 | [Geoffrey Hinton](https://www.turingtree.com/people/geoffrey-hinton)[University of Toronto](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Science · Computer Science | 1,092,086 | 1,080,894 | +11,192(+1.0%)Citations Sep 1 **1,080,894** Change since Sep 1**+11,192 (+1.0%)** | +1.0% | — | \n| 03 | [Kaiming He](https://www.turingtree.com/people/kaiming-he)[MIT, Google DeepMind](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DhtAFkwAAAAJ&hl=en) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning | 879,889 | 868,680 | +11,209(+1.3%)Citations Sep 1 **868,680** Change since Sep 1**+11,209 (+1.3%)** | +1.3% | — | \n| 04 | [Ilya Sutskever](https://www.turingtree.com/people/ilya-sutskever)[Safe Superintelligence Inc.](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x04W_mMAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Neural Networks · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning | 857,363 | 845,148 | +12,215(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1 **845,148** Change since Sep 1**+12,215 (+1.4%)** | +1.4% | — | \n| 05 | [Jian Sun](https://www.turingtree.com/people/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 1 **784,562** Change since Sep 1**+9,238 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — | \n| 06 | [Ross Girshick](https://www.turingtree.com/people/ross-girshick)[Anthropic](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W8VIEZgAAAAJ) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning | 737,041 | 726,613 | +10,428(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1 **726,613** Change since Sep 1**+10,428 (+1.4%)** | +1.4% | — | \n| 07 | [Andrew Zisserman](https://www.turingtree.com/people/andrew-zisserman)[University of Oxford](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UZ5wscMAAAAJ&hl=en) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning | 534,902 | 530,578 | +4,324(+0.8%)Citations Sep 1 **530,578** Change since Sep 1**+4,324 (+0.8%)** | +0.8% | — | \n| 08 | [Shaoqing Ren](https://www.turingtree.com/people/shaoqing-ren)[University of Science and Technology of China, NIO](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AUhj438AAAAJ&hl=en) | Computer Vision · Deep Learning · Autonomous Driving · Artificial Intelligence | 533,578 | 527,390 | +6,188(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **527,390** Change since Sep 1**+6,188 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — | \n| 09 | [Yann LeCun](https://www.turingtree.com/people/yann-lecun)[AMI Labs, New York University](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WLN3QrAAAAAJ&hl=en) | AI · Machine Learning · Computer Vision · Robotics · Image Compression | 499,649 | 493,575 | +6,074(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **493,575** Change since Sep 1**+6,074 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — | \n| 10 | [Quoc V. Le](https://www.turingtree.com/people/quoc-v-le)[Discovery Loop](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vfT6-XIAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning | 484,137 | 474,890 | +9,247(+1.9%)Citations Sep 1 **474,890** Change since Sep 1**+9,247 (+1.9%)** | +1.9% | — | \n| 11 | [Xiangyu Zhang](https://www.turingtree.com/people/xiangyu-zhang)[StepFun AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yuB-cfoAAAAJ&hl=en) | Neural Network Architectures · Efficient Deep Learning · Computer Vision · Large Language Models | 476,861 | 471,132 | +5,729(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **471,132** Change since Sep 1**+5,729 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — | \n| 12 | [Oriol Vinyals](https://www.turingtree.com/people/oriol-vinyals)[Discovery Loop](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NkzyCvUAAAAJ&hl=en) | Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Vision · Natural Language Processing | 468,804 | 461,008 | +7,796(+1.7%)Citations Sep 1 **461,008** Change since Sep 1**+7,796 (+1.7%)** | +1.7% | — | \n| 13 | [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://www.turingtree.com/people/jakob-uszkoreit)[Inceptive, Project Prometheus](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mOG0bwsAAAAJ&hl=en) | — | 445,337 | 436,107 | +9,230(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1 **436,107** Change since Sep 1**+9,230 (+2.1%)** | +2.1% | — | \n| 14 | [Ian Goodfellow](https://www.turingtree.com/people/ian-goodfellow)[Stealth Startup](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iYN86KEAAAAJ&hl=en) | Deep Learning · Artificial Intelligence | 438,252 | 432,583 | +5,669(+1.3%)Citations Sep 1 **432,583** Change since Sep 1**+5,669 (+1.3%)** | +1.3% | — | \n| 15 | [Jeff Dean](https://www.turingtree.com/people/jeff-dean)[Discovery Loop](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sdcsQb4AAAAJ) | Distributed Systems · Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Compilers · Computer Architecture | 437,418 | 431,536 | +5,882(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1 **431,536** Change since Sep 1**+5,882 (+1.4%)** | +1.4% | — | \n| 16 | [Lukasz Kaiser](https://www.turingtree.com/people/lukasz-kaiser)[OpenAI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JWmiQR0AAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning & Logic In Computer Science | 428,639 | 419,957 | +8,682(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1 **419,957** Change since Sep 1**+8,682 (+2.1%)** | +2.1% | — | \n| 17 | [Alec Radford](https://www.turingtree.com/people/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 1 **401,640** Change since Sep 1**+9,873 (+2.5%)** | +2.5% | — | \n| 18 | [Noam Shazeer](https://www.turingtree.com/people/noam-shazeer)[OpenAI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wsGvgA8AAAAJ) | Deep Learning | 400,513 | 392,203 | +8,310(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1 **392,203** Change since Sep 1**+8,310 (+2.1%)** | +2.1% | — | \n| 19 | [Durk Kingma](https://www.turingtree.com/people/durk-kingma)[Anthropic](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yyIoQu4AAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Neural Networks · Generative Models · Artificial Intelligence | 389,965 | 385,448 | +4,517(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **385,448** Change since Sep 1**+4,517 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — | \n| 20 | [Piotr Dollár](https://www.turingtree.com/people/piotr-dollar)[Thinking Machines Lab](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=a8Y2OJMAAAAJ) | Computer Vision · Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence | 384,188 | 376,939 | +7,249(+1.9%)Citations Sep 1 **376,939** Change since Sep 1**+7,249 (+1.9%)** | +1.9% | +1 | \n| 21 | [Michael I. Jordan](https://www.turingtree.com/people/michael-i-jordan)[Inria, ENS Paris, MBZUAI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yxUduqMAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Computer Science · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Optimization | 382,238 | 378,365 | +3,873(+1.0%)Citations Sep 1 **378,365** Change since Sep 1**+3,873 (+1.0%)** | +1.0% | −1 | \n| 22 | [Aaron Courville](https://www.turingtree.com/people/aaron-courville)[Université de Montréal, Mila, IVADO](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=km6CP8cAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence | 376,138 | 370,734 | +5,404(+1.5%)Citations Sep 1 **370,734** Change since Sep 1**+5,404 (+1.5%)** | +1.5% | +1 | \n| 23 | [Fei-Fei Li](https://www.turingtree.com/people/fei-fei-li)[World Labs, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rDfyQnIAAAAJ&hl=en) | Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Computer Vision · Neuroscience | 376,062 | 371,472 | +4,590(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **371,472** Change since Sep 1**+4,590 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | −1 | \n| 24 | [Jitendra Malik](https://www.turingtree.com/people/jitendra-malik)[UC Berkeley, Amazon](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aOklxsQAAAAJ&hl=en) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning · Robotics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Graphics | 370,463 | 360,285 | +10,178(+2.8%)Citations Sep 1 **360,285** Change since Sep 1**+10,178 (+2.8%)** | +2.8% | — | \n| 25 | [Koray Kavukcuoglu](https://www.turingtree.com/people/koray-kavukcuoglu)[Google DeepMind, Google](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=sGFyDIUAAAAJ) | Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Computer Vision | 357,411 | 351,867 | +5,544(+1.6%)Citations Sep 1 **351,867** Change since Sep 1**+5,544 (+1.6%)** | +1.6% | — | \n| 26 | [Trevor Darrell](https://www.turingtree.com/people/trevor-darrell)[UC Berkeley](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bh-uRFMAAAAJ&hl=en) | Computer Vision · Artificial Intelligence · AI · Machine Learning · Deep Learning | 349,097 | 345,366 | +3,731(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1 **345,366** Change since Sep 1**+3,731 (+1.1%)** | +1.1% | +1 | \n| 27 | [Alex Krizhevsky](https://www.turingtree.com/people/alex-krizhevsky)[—](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xegzhJcAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning | 348,804 | 345,897 | +2,907(+0.8%)Citations Sep 1 **345,897** Change since Sep 1**+2,907 (+0.8%)** | +0.8% | −1 | \n| 28 | [Christian Szegedy](https://www.turingtree.com/people/christian-szegedy)[Math Inc.](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bnQMuzgAAAAJ) | Deep Learning · Formal Reasoning | 348,156 | 345,054 | +3,102(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1 **345,054** Change since Sep 1**+3,102 (+0.9%)** | +0.9% | — | \n| 29 | [Christopher D. Manning](https://www.turingtree.com/people/christopher-d-manning)[Moonlake AI, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=1zmDOdwAAAAJ) | Natural Language Processing · Computational Linguistics · Deep Learning | 343,408 | 339,543 | +3,865(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1 **339,543** Change since Sep 1**+3,865 (+1.1%)** | +1.1% | — | \n| 30 | [Jürgen Schmidhuber](https://www.turingtree.com/people/jurgen-schmidhuber)[KAUST, IDSIA, Sakana AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gLnCTgIAAAAJ) | Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence · Reinforcement Learning · Neural Networks · Physics | 342,911 | 338,138 | +4,773(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1 **338,138** Change since Sep 1**+4,773 (+1.4%)** | +1.4% | — | \n| 31 | [Jimmy Ba](https://www.turingtree.com/people/jimmy-ba)[University of Toronto, Vector Institute, CIFAR](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ymzxRhAAAAAJ) | Neural Networks · Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Deep Learning | 339,879 | 336,136 | +3,743(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1 **336,136** Change since Sep 1**+3,743 (+1.1%)** | +1.1% | — | \n| 32 | [Ashish Vaswani](https://www.turingtree.com/people/ashish-vaswani)[NVIDIA](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oR9sCGYAAAAJ&hl=en) | Deep Learning | 328,973 | 322,556 | +6,417(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1 **322,556** Change since Sep 1**+6,417 (+2.0%)** | +2.0% | — | \n| 33 | [David Silver](https://www.turingtree.com/people/david-silver)[Ineffable Intelligence, UCL](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-8DNE4UAAAAJ&hl=en) | Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Reinforcement Learning · Planning · Computer Games | 324,115 | 319,146 | +4,969(+1.6%)Citations Sep 1 **319,146** Change since Sep 1**+4,969 (+1.6%)** | +1.6% | +1 | \n| 34 | [Andrew Ng](https://www.turingtree.com/people/andrew-ng)[AI Fund, DeepLearning.AI, Coursera](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mG4imMEAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Deep Learning · AI | 322,438 | 319,603 | +2,835(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1 **319,603** Change since Sep 1**+2,835 (+0.9%)** | +0.9% | −1 | \n| 35 | [Llion Jones](https://www.turingtree.com/people/llion-jones)[Sakana AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_3_P5VwAAAAJ&hl=en) | — | 321,669 | 315,358 | +6,311(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1 **315,358** Change since Sep 1**+6,311 (+2.0%)** | +2.0% | — | \n| 36 | [Niki Parmar](https://www.turingtree.com/people/niki-parmar)[Anthropic](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q2YXPSgAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Deep Learning | 320,248 | 314,115 | +6,133(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1 **314,115** Change since Sep 1**+6,133 (+2.0%)** | +2.0% | +1 | \n| 37 | [Karén Simonyan](https://www.turingtree.com/people/karen-simonyan)[Microsoft AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=L7lMQkQAAAAJ) | Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning | 317,925 | 315,009 | +2,916(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1 **315,009** Change since Sep 1**+2,916 (+0.9%)** | +0.9% | −1 | \n| 38 | [Demis Hassabis](https://www.turingtree.com/people/demis-hassabis)[Google DeepMind, Alphabet, Isomorphic Labs](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dYpPMQEAAAAJ&hl=en) | Neuroscience · Artificial Intelligence | 315,729 | 308,778 | +6,951(+2.3%)Citations Sep 1 **308,778** Change since Sep 1**+6,951 (+2.3%)** | +2.3% | — | \n| 39 | [Illia Polosukhin](https://www.turingtree.com/people/illia-polosukhin)[NEAR, NEAR AI](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3SyxFIAAAAAJ&hl=en) | Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Program Synthesis | 311,214 | 304,832 | +6,382(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1 **304,832** Change since Sep 1**+6,382 (+2.1%)** | +2.1% | — | \n| 40 | [Aidan Gomez](https://www.turingtree.com/people/aidan-gomez)[Cohere](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2oq9614AAAAJ&hl=en) | Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning | 310,484 | 304,351 | +6,133(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1 **304,351** Change since Sep 1**+6,133 (+2.0%)** | +2.0% | — | \n| 41 | [Luc Van Gool](https://www.turingtree.com/people/luc-van-gool)[INSAIT, ETH Zürich, KU Leuven](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TwMib_QAAAAJ) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning · AI · Autonomous Cars · Cultural Heritage | 307,328 | 303,942 | +3,386(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1 **303,942** Change since Sep 1**+3,386 (+1.1%)** | +1.1% | — | \n| 42 | [Bernhard Schölkopf](https://www.turingtree.com/people/bernhard-scholkopf)[Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, ELLIS](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DZ-fHPgAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Causal Inference · Artificial Intelligence · Computational Photography · Statistics | 296,865 | 293,695 | +3,170(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1 **293,695** Change since Sep 1**+3,170 (+1.1%)** | +1.1% | — | \n| 43 | [Olaf Ronneberger](https://www.turingtree.com/people/olaf-ronneberger)[Google DeepMind, University of Freiburg](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7jrO1NwAAAAJ) | Image Analysis · Computer Vision · Pattern Recognition · Biomedical Applications | 289,186 | 283,410 | +5,776(+2.0%)Citations Sep 1 **283,410** Change since Sep 1**+5,776 (+2.0%)** | +2.0% | — | \n| 44 | [Pieter Abbeel](https://www.turingtree.com/people/pieter-abbeel)[Amazon, UC Berkeley](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vtwH6GkAAAAJ) | Robotics · Machine Learning · AI | 288,984 | 283,056 | +5,928(+2.1%)Citations Sep 1 **283,056** Change since Sep 1**+5,928 (+2.1%)** | +2.1% | — | \n| 45 | [Sergey Levine](https://www.turingtree.com/people/sergey-levine)[Physical Intelligence, UC Berkeley](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8R35rCwAAAAJ) | Machine Learning · Robotics · Reinforcement Learning | 283,314 | 275,507 | +7,807(+2.8%)Citations Sep 1 **275,507** Change since Sep 1**+7,807 (+2.8%)** | +2.8% | — | \n| 46 | [Ruslan Salakhutdinov](https://www.turingtree.com/people/ruslan-salakhutdinov)[Sooth Labs, Carnegie Mellon University](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ITZ1e7MAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning | 277,897 | 274,828 | +3,069(+1.1%)Citations Sep 1 **274,828** Change since Sep 1**+3,069 (+1.1%)** | +1.1% | — | \n| 47 | [Mehdi Mirza](https://www.turingtree.com/people/mehdi-mirza)[Google DeepMind](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c646VbAAAAAJ&hl=en) | Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence | 269,968 | 266,194 | +3,774(+1.4%)Citations Sep 1 **266,194** Change since Sep 1**+3,774 (+1.4%)** | +1.4% | — | \n| 48 | [Richard Socher](https://www.turingtree.com/people/richard-socher)[You.com, Recursive](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FaOcyfMAAAAJ&hl=en) | Natural Language Processing · Deep Learning · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Computer | 257,979 | 255,636 | +2,343(+0.9%)Citations Sep 1 **255,636** Change since Sep 1**+2,343 (+0.9%)** | +0.9% | — | \n| 49 | [Serge Belongie](https://www.turingtree.com/people/serge-belongie)[Pioneer Centre for AI, University of Copenhagen, ELLIS](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=chD5XxkAAAAJ) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning | 248,947 | 245,962 | +2,985(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **245,962** Change since Sep 1**+2,985 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — | \n| 50 | [Thomas Brox](https://www.turingtree.com/people/thomas-brox)[University of Freiburg](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0VAe-TQAAAAJ) | Computer Vision · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Robotics | 246,883 | 243,929 | +2,954(+1.2%)Citations Sep 1 **243,929** Change since Sep 1**+2,954 (+1.2%)** | +1.2% | — |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/top-50-ai-researchers-by-citations", "canonical_source": "https://www.turingtree.com/top-50", "published_at": "2026-10-04 17:49:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-04 18:12:21.103006+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Yoshua Bengio", "Geoffrey Hinton", "Kaiming He", "Ilya Sutskever", "Jian Sun", "Google Scholar", "Université de Montréal", "University of Toronto"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": 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