Universities make up 84% of 5,718 organization-linked fellowships, society memberships and awards; the company share was 18% in 1990–1994 and 27% in 2020–2024

Our major-prizes analysis covers the major career prizes; this analysis leaves out 286 timeline events for those prizes (247 people). Beyond those headline career prizes, the 59,629 timeline events across 7,547 researchers record 6,867 fellowships, society and academy memberships, and other awards across 4,445 people (59% of all tracked researchers). We examine how these 6,867 honors divide across categories, five-year periods from 1990–1994 to 2020–2024, employing organization types and countries in the year each honor was received.

Across all 6,867 honor events, awards other than the major prizes lead with 4,301 events (63%, across 3,298 people). Grouping society fellowships (1,645 events across 1,454 people, 24%) with competitive research and career fellowships (481 events across 455 people, 7%) gives 2,126 fellowship events (31%) across 1,845 people, and academy and society memberships make up 440 events (6%) across 412 people. Of the 6,845 dated honors (99.7% of the total), 5,718 (84%, across 3,692 people) overlap an active employing organization in the year of the honor: universities make up 4,825 (84%), and the company share was 18% (30 of 171) in 1990–1994 and 27% (492 of 1,828) in 2020–2024.

Key findings

• Awards outside the major career prizes make up 63% of all 6,867 honor events, and fellowships make up 31%: We count 4,301 non-major award events across 3,298 people (including 1,037 conference paper awards, 385 test-of-time and classic-paper awards, 341 early-career awards and 2,538 other technical, dissertation and service awards), 1,645 society fellowships across 1,454 people, 481 competitive research and career fellowships across 455 people, and 440 academy and society memberships across 412 people.
• Five-year honor volume totaled 206 in 1990–1994 and 2,265 in 2020–2024 (11.0 times the 1990–1994 count); awards were 28% in 1990–1994 and 69% in 2020–2024 and fellowships were 69% in 1990–1994 and 26% in 2020–2024: Dated honors totaled 206 in 1990–1994 and 2,265 in 2020–2024 (with another 982 recorded in 2025–2026 to date), peaking in a single complete calendar year in 2025 at 611 events. In 1990–1994, fellowships made up 69% (143 of 206, including 132 society fellowships at 64% and 11 research fellowships at 5%) and awards made up 28% (57); in 2020–2024, awards made up 69% (1,564 of 2,265) and all fellowships made up 26% (581).
• Universities employed the recipient in 84% of organization-linked honors; the company share was 18% in 1990–1994 and 27% in 2020–2024: Across the 5,718 dated honors linked to an active work span in the event year, 4,825 (84%) involved a university, 1,257 (22%) involved an institute or lab, and 1,211 (21%) involved a company. 577 of the 1,211 company-linked honors (48%) went to researchers who simultaneously held a university span in the same year, leaving 634 (11% of organization-linked honors) without a concurrent university span.
• Company participation is highest in awards other than the major prizes (24%) and lowest in competitive research and career fellowships (15%): Company spans appear in 24% of organization-linked non-major awards (834 of 3,431), 15% of research and career fellowships (58 of 375), 17% of society fellowships (256 of 1,514) and 16% of academy and society memberships (63 of 398).
• Google leads all organizations in the honor year with 245 honors: Across employing organizations in the year of the honor, Google leads overall with 245 honors (194 people), Google leads companies with 245 (194 people), Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads universities with 196 (143 people) and Chinese Academy of Sciences leads institutes and labs with 103 (66 people).
• The share of country-linked honors in the United States was 70% in 1990–1994 and 51% in 2020–2024: Across 5,645 dated honors linked to an employing organization with a country (71 countries), the United States (2,937 honors, 52%, across 1,948 people) is followed by the United Kingdom (591, 10%) and China (476, 8%), with China posting the largest five-year share gain between 1990–1994 (1%) and 2020–2024 (11%).

Fellowships, society memberships and awards over time

Of the 6,867 timeline honor events, 6,845 (99.7%) carry a calendar year between 1957 and 2026 across 4,432 researchers, and 22 mention an honor without a specific year. Before 1990, timelines record 108 dated honors (65 awards, 16 society fellowships, 13 research fellowships and 14 academy or society memberships). Across the seven complete five-year periods from 1990–1994 to 2020–2024, dated honors totaled 206 (203 people) in 1990–1994 and 2,265 (1,957 people) in 2020–2024. In the partial period 2025–2026, timelines already record 982 honors (611 in 2025, the single-year peak across all complete years, and 371 in 2026 through 22 October 2026).

Stacked column chart of 5,755 dated honor events across seven five-year periods from 1990–1994 (206 events) to 2020–2024 (2,265 events).

People of Superintelligence timelines (22 October 2026), excluding major career prizes covered in the prizes analysis

Data table

Period	All honors	Awards (ex. major)	Society fellowships	Research fellowships	All fellowships	Academy & society memberships
Before 1990	108	65 (60%)	16 (15%)	13 (12%)	29 (27%)	14 (13%)
1990–1994	206	57 (28%)	132 (64%)	11 (5%)	143 (69%)	6 (3%)
1995–1999	190	94 (49%)	74 (39%)	7 (4%)	81 (43%)	15 (8%)
2000–2004	330	169 (51%)	116 (35%)	20 (6%)	136 (41%)	25 (8%)
2005–2009	493	292 (59%)	116 (24%)	39 (8%)	155 (31%)	46 (9%)
2010–2014	889	509 (57%)	263 (30%)	73 (8%)	336 (38%)	44 (5%)
2015–2019	1,382	882 (64%)	304 (22%)	109 (8%)	413 (30%)	87 (6%)
2020–2024	2,265	1,564 (69%)	440 (19%)	141 (6%)	581 (26%)	120 (5%)
2025–2026 (to date)	982	664 (68%)	174 (18%)	65 (7%)	239 (24%)	79 (8%)

In 1990–1994, society fellowships made up 64% of dated honors (132 of 206) and research fellowships made up 5% (11), so all fellowships combined represented 69% (143), compared with 28% (57) for awards other than the major prizes and 3% (6) for academy and society memberships. Across the seven periods, the award share was 28% in 1990–1994 and 69% (1,564 of 2,265) in 2020–2024, the combined fellowship share was 69% in 1990–1994 and 26% (581, split between 440 society fellowships at 19% and 141 research fellowships at 6%) in 2020–2024, and academy and society memberships were 3% in 1990–1994 and 5% (120) in 2020–2024.

Within the 4,301 non-major award events, conference best, outstanding, distinguished and student paper awards make up 1,037 events (24%), retrospective test-of-time and classic-paper prizes make up 385 (9%), early-career and young-investigator awards make up 341 (8%), and other technical, dissertation, service and civic awards make up 2,538 (59%). Across all 6,867 non-major honor events, Bahram Javidi and Parvin Mousavi have the most recorded timeline honor entries at 6.

Leading societies, academies and fellowship programs

Among the 1,645 society fellowship events (1,454 people), IEEE leads with 435 (26%, across 428 people). Across the top 8 professional societies, IEEE has 435 (428 people, 19% with a company span in the election year), IAPR has 302 (301 people, 12% with a company span in the election year), AAAI has 279 (279 people, 14% with a company span in the election year), ACM has 244 (241 people, 25% with a company span in the election year), EurAI / ECCAI has 101 (101 people, 2% with a company span in the election year), ISCA has 98 (95 people, 25% with a company span in the election year), ACL has 74 (74 people, 20% with a company span in the election year) and ELLIS has 66 (66 people, 14% with a company span in the election year).

Among the 440 academy and senior society membership events (412 people), the National Academy of Engineering leads with 73 (17%, across 73 people), followed among the top 6 by the Royal Society (72 across 71 people), the National Academy of Sciences (44 across 44 people), the Royal Academy of Engineering (36 across 34 people), the Royal Society of Canada (31 across 30 people) and Academia Europaea (26 across 26 people). Among the 481 competitive research, faculty and doctoral fellowship events (455 people), Canada CIFAR AI Chairs and Canada Research Chairs lead with 60 (12%, across 57 people), alongside corporate PhD and faculty fellowships (51 across 51 people), Packard, Guggenheim and AI2050 fellowships (47 across 47 people), Sloan Research Fellowships (25 across 25 people), Humboldt fellowships and professorships (16 across 16 people) and Fulbright, Rhodes, Gates Cambridge and Marshall scholarships (13 across 13 people).

Honors by organization type

Across the 5,718 dated honors that overlap an active non-education career span in the honor year (84% of 6,845 dated honors, across 3,692 people), universities appear in 4,825 (84%, across 3,067 people), institutes and labs appear in 1,257 (22%, across 942 people), and companies appear in 1,211 (21%, across 940 people).

Line chart of sector shares across seven five-year periods from 1990–1994 to 2020–2024: universities 78% to 82%, companies 18% to 27%, and institutes and labs 17% to 23%.

People of Superintelligence timelines and dated career spans (22 October 2026)

Data table

Period	Org-linked honors	Universities	Companies	Institutes and labs	Dual university-company
1990–1994	171	133 (78%)	30 (18%)	29 (17%)	5 (3%)
1995–1999	153	129 (84%)	18 (12%)	28 (18%)	6 (4%)
2000–2004	281	248 (88%)	40 (14%)	53 (19%)	18 (6%)
2005–2009	428	372 (87%)	54 (13%)	104 (24%)	17 (4%)
2010–2014	768	658 (86%)	114 (15%)	160 (21%)	40 (5%)
2015–2019	1,188	1,023 (86%)	258 (22%)	235 (20%)	143 (12%)
2020–2024	1,828	1,504 (82%)	492 (27%)	422 (23%)	239 (13%)

Across the seven five-year periods, the share of organization-linked honors involving a company was 18% (30 of 171) in 1990–1994 and 27% (492 of 1,828) in 2020–2024, the institute and lab share was 17% (29) in 1990–1994 and 23% (422) in 2020–2024, and the university share was 78% (133) in 1990–1994 and 82% (1,504) in 2020–2024. Honors received by researchers holding both a university span and a company span in the same year were 3% of organization-linked honors (5 of 171) in 1990–1994 and 13% (239 of 1,828) in 2020–2024. Across all years, 577 of the 1,211 company-linked honors (48%) involved a concurrent university span, 634 (11% of all organization-linked honors) went to researchers with a company span and no university span in that year, and 3,404 (60%) went to researchers with a university span alone.

By honor category, company spans appear in 24% of organization-linked non-major awards (834 of 3,431) and 15% of research and career fellowships (58 of 375), compared with 17% of society fellowships (256 of 1,514) and 16% of academy and society memberships (63 of 398). University spans appear in 91% of academy and society memberships (362), 87% of research fellowships (328), 88% of society fellowships (1,337) and 82% of non-major awards (2,798).

In the year of the honor, the top 6 universities are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (196 honors across 143 people), Carnegie Mellon University (154 honors across 113 people), Stanford University (146 honors across 120 people), University of California, Berkeley (123 honors across 96 people), University of Washington (105 honors across 68 people) and University of Oxford (88 honors across 65 people). Among companies, the top 6 are Google (245 honors across 194 people), Microsoft (181 honors across 126 people), Meta (75 honors across 62 people), IBM (55 honors across 44 people), NVIDIA (50 honors across 42 people) and Amazon (35 honors across 31 people). Among institutes and labs, the top 6 are Chinese Academy of Sciences (103 honors across 66 people), CNRS (96 honors across 67 people), Max Planck Society (76 honors across 56 people), Inria (65 honors across 45 people), Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) (49 honors across 40 people) and Vector Institute (41 honors across 31 people).

Honors by country

Assigning each dated honor to the country of the recipient's active employing organization(s) in that year links 5,645 honors across 71 countries. The United States leads with 2,937 honors (52% of country-linked honors, across 1,948 people), including 1,822 awards (54% of country-linked awards), 761 society fellowships (51%), 186 research fellowships (50%) and 168 academy and society memberships (42%). The United Kingdom ranks second with 591 (10%, across 416 people), followed by China with 476 (8%, across 318 people).

Horizontal stacked bar chart of the top 10 countries across 5,645 country-linked dated honor events, led by the United States with 2,937 (52%).

People of Superintelligence timelines, career spans and organization countries (22 October 2026)

Data table

Country	All honors	Share	People	Awards (ex. major)	Society fellowships	Research fellowships	Academy & society memberships	1990–1994 share	2020–2024 share
United States	2,937	52%	1,948	1,822	761	186	168	70% (115)	51% (918)
United Kingdom	591	10%	416	325	112	59	95	9% (14)	11% (199)
China	476	8%	318	271	151	15	39	1% (1)	11% (193)
Germany	354	6%	252	239	79	15	21	4% (6)	7% (127)
Canada	341	6%	229	182	53	68	38	4% (6)	7% (121)
France	194	3%	139	124	54	8	8	2% (4)	3% (47)
Switzerland	184	3%	126	134	29	12	9	0% (0)	4% (81)
Japan	171	3%	125	105	62	3	1	4% (7)	2% (36)
Italy	168	3%	110	87	71	5	5	1% (1)	3% (46)
Australia	158	3%	102	70	40	26	22	1% (2)	3% (53)

Across the seven complete five-year periods, the share of country-linked honors held by researchers at organizations in the United States was 70% (115 of 164) in 1990–1994 and 51% (918 of 1,804) in 2020–2024. Over the same span, the United Kingdom was 9% (14) in 1990–1994 and 11% (199) in 2020–2024, China was 1% (1) in 1990–1994 and 11% (193) in 2020–2024, Germany was 4% (6) in 1990–1994 and 7% (127) in 2020–2024, Canada was 4% (6) in 1990–1994 and 7% (121) in 2020–2024 and France was 2% (4) in 1990–1994 and 3% (47) in 2020–2024. Among the top five countries, society fellowships make up 26% of honors in the United States (761 of 2,937), 19% of honors in the United Kingdom (112 of 591), 32% of honors in China (151 of 476), 22% of honors in Germany (79 of 354) and 16% of honors in Canada (53 of 341), and academy and society memberships make up 6% in the United States (168), 16% in the United Kingdom (95), 8% in China (39), 6% in Germany (21) and 11% in Canada (38).