Top 50 AI researchers by citations

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.

Top 50 AI researchers by citations See which researchers are most cited in AI across subfields. Updated monthly based on Google Scholar. | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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 | | 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 | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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 | | 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 | | 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% | — | | 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 | | 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 | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — | | 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% | — |