h-index: the top 100

Yoshua Bengio has the highest h-index among the people shaping AI, with 187. The h-index is the largest number h such that h of a person’s papers have at least h citations each.

Rank	Person	h-index	Badges
1	Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal	187	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
2	Edward Wittenindependent group	186	Laureate Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal
3	Michael TomaselloDuke University	182	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
4	Daron AcemogluMassachusetts Institute of Technology	176	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
5	Andrew ZissermanUniversity of Oxford	174	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
6	Anil K. JainMichigan State University	173	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
7	David HausslerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz	171	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=7	Francisco HerreraAndalusian Interuniversity Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence	171	Centurion Loyal
9	Philip S. YuUniversity of Illinois Chicago	168	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
10	Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France	166	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
11	Herbert A. Simon	163	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
12	Dacheng TaoNanyang Technological University	159	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=12	Michael I. JordanInria	159	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
14	Terrence SejnowskiSalk Institute for Biological Studies	151	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
15	Dinggang ShenShanghaiTech University	150	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
=15	J. I. CiracMax Planck Society	150	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
17	Jitendra MalikUniversity of California, Berkeley	149	Centurion Bridge Loyal
18	Jiawei HanUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	146	Centurion Loyal
19	Geoffrey HintonUniversity of Toronto	145	Laureate Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=19	Trevor DarrellUniversity of California, Berkeley	145	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
21	Takeo Kanade	144	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
22	Thomas Huang	141	Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
23	Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Society	140	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=23	Cordelia SchmidInria	140	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=23	Jure LeskovecStanford University	140	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
=23	Wang XiaogangSenseTime	140	Centurion Rising Founder Wayfarer Loyal
27	Christopher D. ManningStanford University	139	Laureate Centurion Loyal
=27	Markus ReichsteinMax Planck Society	139	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=27	Shuicheng YanNational University of Singapore	139	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
30	Sebastian ThrunStanford University	138	Centurion Loyal
31	Bernt SchieleEuropean Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems	136	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
32	Franco NoriUniversity of Michigan	135	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
33	Fei-Fei LiStanford University	134	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
=33	Witold PedryczUniversity of Alberta	134	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
35	Alan L. YuilleJohns Hopkins University	133	Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer
36	Anton ZeilingerUniversity of Vienna	132	Laureate Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=36	Christos FaloutsosCarnegie Mellon University	132	Centurion Bridge Loyal
=36	Ion StoicaUniversity of California, Berkeley	132	Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
39	C. L. Philip ChenSouth China University of Technology	130	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
=39	Tomaso PoggioMassachusetts Institute of Technology	130	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
41	Daniela RusMassachusetts Institute of Technology	128	Centurion Loyal
=41	Leonidas GuibasStanford University	128	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=41	Ling ShaoTerminus Group	128	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
44	Antonio TorralbaMassachusetts Institute of Technology	127	Centurion Loyal
=44	Chunhua ShenZhejiang University	127	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=44	Nicolas GisinUniversity of Geneva	127	Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Loyal
47	Qiang YangHong Kong University of Science and Technology	126	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
48	Leon ChuaUniversity of California, Berkeley	125	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=48	Yann LeCunNew York University	125	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
50	Daphne Kollerinsitro, inc.	124	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
51	Roland SiegwartETH Zurich	123	Centurion Founder Bridge Loyal
=51	Ronald R. YagerIona University	123	Laureate Centurion Loyal
53	Alex PentlandMassachusetts Institute of Technology	122	Centurion Boomerang Loyal
=53	Andrew NgLandingAI	122	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=53	Sebastien OurselinKing's College London	122	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
=53	Stanley OsherUniversity of California, Los Angeles	122	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
57	Dan BonehStanford University	121	Laureate Centurion Loyal
=57	Jon KleinbergCornell University	121	Laureate Centurion Loyal
59	Mérouane DebbahTechnology Innovation Institute	120	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=59	Xuelong LiChina Telecom	120	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
61	Chen Change LoyNanyang Technological University	119	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=61	Didier DuboisInstitute for Research in Computer Science of Toulouse	119	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=61	Kalyanmoy DebUniversity of Alabama	119	Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=61	Pierre F. BaldiUniversity of California, Irvine	119	Centurion Loyal
=61	Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanQatar University	119	Centurion Loyal
=61	Rama ChellappaJohns Hopkins University	119	Centurion Loyal
=61	Yaochu JinWestlake University	119	Laureate Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
68	Jocelyn ChanussotInstitut polytechnique de Grenoble	118	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=68	Quoc Le	118	Centurion Rising Bridge
70	Erik CambriaNanyang Technological University	117	Centurion Rising Founder Wayfarer
=70	Stephen GrossbergBoston University	117	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
=70	Xin YaoLingnan University	117	Laureate Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
73	Dawn SongUniversity of California, Berkeley	116	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Loyal
=73	John M. MartinisUniversity of California, Santa Barbara	116	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=73	Peter DayanMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems	116	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=73	Wolfram BurgardUniversity of Technology Nuremberg	116	Centurion Loyal
77	Michel DevoretGoogle	115	Laureate Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=77	Mubarak ShahUniversity of Central Florida	115	Centurion Loyal
=77	Xiaoou Tang	115	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
80	Davide ScaramuzzaUniversity of Zurich	114	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge
=80	William T. FreemanMassachusetts Institute of Technology	114	Laureate Centurion Bridge Loyal
82	Alan Conrad BovikUniversity of Colorado Boulder	113	Centurion Loyal
=82	David DonohoStanford University	113	Centurion Loyal
=82	John R. AndersonCarnegie Mellon University	113	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=82	Jun WangCity University of Hong Kong	113	Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=82	Tat-Seng ChuaNational University of Singapore	113	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
87	Ben ShneidermanUniversity of Maryland	112	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
=87	Bram van GinnekenRadboud University Nijmegen	112	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge
=87	Henri PradeCNRS	112	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=87	Max A. ViergeverUtrecht University	112	Centurion Founder Loyal Pioneer
=87	Robert Endre TarjanPrinceton University	112	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
92	Joshua B. TenenbaumMassachusetts Institute of Technology	111	Centurion Bridge Loyal
=92	Klaus-Robert MüllerTechnische Universität Berlin	111	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=92	Luciano FloridiYale University	111	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
=92	Marc PollefeysETH Zurich	111	Centurion Bridge Loyal
96	Christoph BockResearch Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences	110	Centurion Wayfarer
97	D. Louis CollinsMcGill University	109	Centurion Loyal
=97	Jiaya JiaSmartMore	109	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=97	Max TegmarkMassachusetts Institute of Technology	109	Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal
=97	Nicholas R. JenningsLoughborough University	109	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=97	Tingwen HuangShenzhen University of Advanced Technology	109	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal

Ranked among 2,210 people with OpenAlex figures. People whose OpenAlex record may be incomplete or mix in other authors are left out, and so are the per-paper numbers of people whose OpenAlex works list does not agree with their OpenAlex totals. A person with split OpenAlex records counts with the records we merged. Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 17 October 2026.