2023 AI 2000 Scholar

The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List aims to name 2,000 of the world's top research scholars from the domains of artificial intelligence over this decade (2020–2029). The list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact.

Top 10 scholars in AAAI/IJCAI

#1 Christian Szegedy｜Google

#1 Sergey Ioffe｜Google

#1 Vincent Vanhoucke｜Google

#4 Maosong Sun｜Tsinghua University

#5 Hado Philip Van Hasselt｜Google

#6 David Silver｜University College London

#7 Zhiyuan Liu｜Tsinghua University

#8 Arthur Guez｜Google

#9 Feiping Nie｜Northwest Polytechnic University

#10 Joëlle Pineau｜McGill University

Top 10 scholars in Theory

#1 Amit Sahai｜University of California, Los Angeles

#2 Brent R. Waters｜University of Texas at Austin

#3 Yin Tat Lee｜Microsoft

#4 Aaron Sidford｜Stanford University

#5 Sanjam Garg｜NTT

#6 Craig Gentry｜TripleBlind

#7 David P. Woodruff｜Carnegie Mellon University

#8 Arthur Jacot｜New York University

#8 Franck Gabriel｜Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

#8 Clément Hongler｜Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Top 10 scholars in Security and Privacy

#1 Nicholas Carlini｜Google

#2 David A. Wagner｜University of California, Berkeley

#3 Thomas Ristenpart｜Cornell University

#4 Somesh Jha｜University of Wisconsin-Madison

#5 Hugh Brendan McMahan｜Google

#6 Dawn Song｜University of California, Berkeley

#7 Elaine Runting Shi｜Carnegie Mellon University

#8 Yuval Yarom｜University of Adelaide

#9 Ari Juels｜Cornell Tech

#10 Zakir Durumeric｜Stanford University

Top 10 scholars in HCI

#1 Munmun De Choudhury｜Georgia Institute of Technology

#2 Michael S. Bernstein｜Stanford University

#3 Meredith Ringel Morris｜Google

#4 Eric E. Gilbert｜University of Michigan

#5 Sean A. Munson｜University of Washington

#6 Julie A. Kientz｜University of Washington

#7 Lorrie Faith Cranor｜Carnegie Mellon University

#8 Robert E. Kraut｜Carnegie Mellon University

#9 Peter C. Wright｜Newcastle University

#9 Jeffrey Philip Bigham｜Carnegie Mellon University

Top 10 scholars in Visualization

#1 Hanspeter Pfister｜Harvard University

#2 Huamin Qu｜The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

#3 Shixia Liu｜Tsinghua University

#4 Hendrik Strobelt｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#5 Yingcai Wu｜Zhejiang University

#6 Jeffrey Michael Heer｜University of Washington

#7 Daniel A. Keim｜Universitat Konstanz

#8 Michael Sedlmair｜Universitat Stuttgart

#9 Alexander Lex｜University of Utah

#10 Nils Gehlenborg｜Harvard University

Top 10 scholars in Machine Learning

#1 Karen Simonyan｜Google

#2 Andrew Zisserman｜University of Oxford

#3 Tomáš Mikolov｜Czech Technical University

#4 Ilya Sutskever｜OpenAI

#5 Jeffrey Dean｜Google

#6 Jakob Uszkoreit｜Inceptive

#7 Quoc Viet Le｜Google

#8 Greg S. Corrado｜Google

#9 Kai Chen｜Google

#10 Lukasz Kaiser｜OpenAI

Top 10 scholars in IR and Recommendation

#1 Xiangnan He｜University of Science and Technology of China

#2 Tat Seng Chua｜National University of Singapore

#3 Jure Leskovec｜Stanford University

#4 Julian John McAuley｜University of California, San Diego

#5 Qiaozhu Mei｜University of Michigan

#6 Liqiang Nie｜Shandong University

#7 Hanwang Zhang｜Nanyang Technological University

#8 Xia Hu｜Rice University

#9 Meng Qu｜University of Montreal

#10 Ming Zhang｜Peking University

Top 10 scholars in Computer Vision

#1 Kaiming He｜Meta

#2 Jian Sun｜Megvii Technology

#3 Xiangyu Zhang｜Megvii Technology

#4 Shaoqing Ren｜NIO

#5 Ross B. Girshick｜Meta

#6 Piotr Dollár｜Meta

#7 Christian Szegedy｜Google

#8 Dumitru Erhan｜Google

#9 Dragomir Anguelov｜Waymo

#10 Wei Liu｜Nuro

Top 10 scholars in Data Mining

#1 Carlos Guestrin｜Stanford University; OctoML

#2 Tianqi Chen｜Carnegie Mellon University

#3 Jure Leskovec｜Stanford University

#4 Aditya Grover｜University of California, Los Angeles

#5 Bryan Perozzi｜Google

#6 Steven Skiena｜Stony Brook University

#7 Rami Al Rfou｜Waymo

#8 Peng Cui｜Tsinghua University

#9 Wenwu Zhu｜Tsinghua University

#10 Yuxiao Dong｜Tsinghua University

Top 10 scholars in Knowledge Engineering

#1 Heiko Paulheim｜University of Mannheim

#2 Jens Lehmann｜Amazon;Technische Universität Dresden

#3 Axel Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo｜Universitat Paderborn

#4 Ernesto Jiménez Ruiz｜University of Oslo;University of London;Elsevier;The Alan Turing Institute

#5 Christian Bizer｜University of Mannheim

#6 Sören Auer｜Technische Informationsbibliothek Universitätsbibliothek Hannover;Leibniz Universität Hannover;L3S Research Center;eccenca Gmbh

#7 Aidan Hogan｜University de Chile

#8 Evgeny Kharlamov｜University of Oslo;Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

#9 Pascal Hitzler｜Kansas State University

#10 Ian Horrocks｜University of Oxford

Top 10 scholars in Computer Graphics

#1 Christian Theobalt｜Saarland University

#2 Daniel Cohen Or｜Tel Aviv University

#3 Michael Zollhoefer｜Meta

#4 Frédo Durand｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#5 Matthias Nießner｜Technische Universitat Munchen

#6 Shahram Izadi｜Google

#7 Michael Julian Black｜Max Planck Institute

#8 Gerard Pons Moll｜University of Tubingen

#9 Leonidas J. Guibas｜Stanford University

#10 Xin Tong｜Microsoft

Top 10 scholars in Speech Recognition

#1 Geoffrey E. Hinton｜University of Toronto

#2 Abdelrahman Mohamed｜Meta

#3 Alex Graves｜University of Toronto

#4 Daniel Povey｜Xiaomi

#5 Sanjeev Khudanpur｜Johns Hopkins University

#6 Tara N. Sainath｜Google

#7 Dong Yu｜Tencent

#8 Ron J. Weiss｜Meta

#9 Navdeep Jaitly｜Apple

#10 Guoguo Chen｜Vobil Inc;SEASALT.AI

Top 10 scholars in NLP

#1 Christopher David Manning｜Stanford University

#2 Kenton C. T. Lee｜Google

#3 Mingwei Chang｜Google

#4 Jacob Devlin｜Google

#5 Kristina N. Toutanova｜University of Washington

#6 Richard Socher｜You.com

#7 Kyunghyun Cho｜New York University

#8 Yoshua Bengio｜University of Montreal

#9 Jeffrey Pennington｜Google

#10 Dzmitry Bahdanau｜ServiceNow Research

Top 10 scholars in Robotics

#1 Pieter Abbeel｜University of California, Berkeley

#2 Sergey Levine｜University of California, Berkeley

#3 Roland Yves Siegwart｜Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

#4 Daniela L. Rus｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#5 Davide Scaramuzza｜University of Zurich

#6 Wolfram Burgard｜University of Technology Nuremberg

#7 Sebastian Scherer｜Carnegie Mellon University

#8 Daniel Cremers｜Technische Universitat Munchen

#9 Vijay Kumar｜University of Pennsylvania

#10 Wojciech Zaremba｜OpenAI

Top 10 scholars in Database

#1 Michael J. Franklin｜University of Chicago

#2 Tim Kraska｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#3 Samuel Ross Madden｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#4 Matei A. Zaharia｜Stanford University

#5 Jignesh M. Patel｜University of Wisconsin-Madison

#6 Ali Ghodsi｜University of California, Berkeley

#7 Xiaokui Xiao｜National University of Singapore

#8 Divesh Srivastava｜AT&T Labs

#9 Xu Yu｜The Chinese University of Hong Kong

#10 Reynold Shi Xin｜Databricks

Top 10 scholars in Multimedia

#1 Ross B. Girshick｜Meta

#2 Yangqing Jia｜Alibaba

#2 Evan Shelhamer｜DeepMind

#2 Jeffrey Donahue｜DeepMind

#2 Sergey Karayev｜University of California, Berkeley

#2 Jonathan Long｜Symbio Robotics

#2 Sergio Guadarrama｜Google

#2 Trevor Darrell｜University of California, Berkeley

#9 Björn W. Schuller｜Imperial College London

#10 Andrea Vedaldi｜University of Oxford

Top 10 scholars in Computer Systems

#1 Yuan Yu｜Microsoft

#2 Jeffrey Dean｜Google

#3 Martín Abadi｜University of California, Santa Cruz

#3 Paul Ronald Barham｜Google

#3 Michael Isard｜Microsoft

#3 Derek Gordon Murray｜Lacework

#7 Jianmin Chen｜Microsoft

#7 Zhifeng Chen｜Google

#7 Andy Davis｜Stord

#7 Matthieu Devin｜Google

#7 Sanjay Ghemawat｜Google

#7 Geoffrey Irving｜DeepMind

#7 Manjunath Kudlur｜Useful Sensors Inc.

#7 Josh Levenberg｜Google

#7 Rajat Monga｜SiMa.ai

#7 Sherry Moore｜Google

#7 Benoit Steiner｜Meta

#7 Paul A. Tucker｜Google

#7 Vijay Vasudevan｜Google

#7 Pete Warden｜Google

#7 Martin Wicke｜Google

#7 Xiaoqiang Zhang｜Google

Top 10 scholars in Internet of Things

#1 Rui Zhang｜National University of Singapore

#2 Robert W. Heath｜North Carolina State University;MIMO Wireless Inc.

#3 Mérouane Debbah｜Technology Innovation Institute

#4 Harold Vincent Poor｜Princeton University

#5 Walid Saad｜Virginia Tech

#6 Andrea Zanella｜University of Padova

#7 Jeffrey G. Andrews｜University of Texas at Austin

#8 Lorenzo Vangelista｜University of Padua

#9 Nicola Bui｜Bastille Networks

#9 Angelo Paolo Castellani｜Datalogic

Top 10 scholars in Chip Technology

#1 Jingsheng Cong｜University of California, Los Angeles

#2 Yu Wang｜Tsinghua University

#3 Huazhong Yang｜Tsinghua University

#4 Peng Li｜University of California, Santa Barbara

#5 Jörg Henkel｜Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

#6 Chen Zhang｜Alibaba

#7 Muhammad Shafique｜National University of Science and Technology

#8 Meng-Fan Chang｜National Tsing Hua University

#9 Guangyu Sun｜Peking University

#10 Bingjun Xiao｜Google

Top 10 scholars in Computer Networking

#1 Sachin Rajsekhar Katti｜Stanford University

#2 Amin M. Vahdat｜Google

#3 Vyas Sekar｜Carnegie Mellon University

#4 Dina Katabi｜Emerald Innovations

#5 Mohammad Alizadeh｜Massachusetts Institute of Technology

#6 Dinesh Bharadia｜University of California, San Diego

#7 Nick Mckeown｜Stanford University

#8 Ming Zhang｜Databricks

#9 Srikanth Kandula｜Microsoft

#10 Ratul Mahajan｜Amazon

We will continue to improve the designs and implementations of Rankings. If you have any questions, corrections, or suggestions, please contact [email protected]