Last-author papers: the top 100

Philip S. Yu has the most last-author papers among the people shaping AI, with 1,386. Cited papers with two or more authors where the person is listed last. In machine learning the last author usually leads the group. In theory and in economics the authors are often listed in alphabetical order.

Rank	Person	Last-author papers	Badges
1	Philip S. YuUniversity of Illinois Chicago	1,386	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
2	Dacheng TaoNanyang Technological University	1,154	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
3	Witold PedryczUniversity of Alberta	1,104	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
4	C.-C. Jay KuoUniversity of Southern California	1,099	Wayfarer Loyal
5	Dinggang ShenShanghaiTech University	1,058	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
6	Xuelong LiChina Telecom	1,050	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
7	Thomas Huang	971	Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
8	Guang‐Can GuoUniversity of Science and Technology of China	906	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
9	Guang-Zhong YangShanghai Jiao Tong University	844	Rising Wayfarer Loyal
10	Shrikanth NarayananUniversity of Southern California	828	Founder Bridge Loyal
11	Haizhou LiChinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	808	Wayfarer
12	Franco NoriUniversity of Michigan	781	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
13	Dinesh ManochaUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	772	Founder Wayfarer Loyal
14	Ajith AbrahamSai University	766	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
15	Rama ChellappaJohns Hopkins University	764	Centurion Loyal
16	Henri PradeCNRS	746	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
17	Francisco HerreraAndalusian Interuniversity Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence	744	Centurion Loyal
18	Björn SchulleraudEERING	720	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
19	Xin YaoLingnan University	715	Laureate Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
20	Hermann NeyRWTH Aachen University	714	Bridge Loyal
21	C. L. Philip ChenSouth China University of Technology	702	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
22	Roland SiegwartETH Zurich	695	Centurion Founder Bridge Loyal
23	Mérouane DebbahTechnology Innovation Institute	691	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
24	Aggelos K KatsaggelosNorthwestern University	690	Bridge Loyal
25	Daniela RusMassachusetts Institute of Technology	675	Centurion Loyal
26	Jose C. PrincipeUniversity of Florida	671	Loyal
27	Tat-Seng ChuaNational University of Singapore	668	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
28	Edwin Hancock	665	Wayfarer Loyal
29	Tingwen HuangShenzhen University of Advanced Technology	663	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
30	Maarten de RijkeUniversity of Amsterdam	647	Boomerang Loyal
31	Andrew ZissermanUniversity of Oxford	604	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
32	Mihaela van der SchaarUniversity of Cambridge	599	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=32	Yiannis KompatsiarisInfalia	599	Founder Bridge Loyal
34	Jiawei HanUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	597	Centurion Loyal
35	Anil K. JainMichigan State University	594	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
36	Abdulmotaleb El SaddikUniversity of Ottawa	583	Loyal
37	Alan Conrad BovikUniversity of Colorado Boulder	578	Centurion Loyal
38	Hui XiongHKUST (Guangzhou)	571	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
39	Hiroshi IshiguroOsaka University	568	Wayfarer Loyal
40	Edward J. DelpPurdue University	565	Loyal
41	Michael TomaselloDuke University	561	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
=41	Takeo Kanade	561	Centurion Loyal Pioneer
43	Satoshi NakamuraChinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen	559	Wayfarer Loyal
44	Pushpak Bhattacharyya	549	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
45	Leon ChuaUniversity of California, Berkeley	543	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
46	Josef KittlerUniversity of Surrey	542	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
47	Byoungho Lee	530	Bridge Loyal
48	Alex PentlandMassachusetts Institute of Technology	526	Centurion Boomerang Loyal
49	Alex WaibelKarlsruhe Institute of Technology	521	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
50	Michael A. UnserEPFL	517	Centurion Loyal
51	Nicholas R. JenningsLoughborough University	516	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
52	Michael I. JordanInria	510	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
53	Oscar CastilloHAFSA	509	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
54	John HansenUniversity of Texas at Dallas	507	Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
55	Svetha VenkateshDeakin University	501	Loyal
56	Mubarak ShahUniversity of Central Florida	496	Centurion Loyal
57	Terrence SejnowskiSalk Institute for Biological Studies	494	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
58	Jiebo LuoUniversity of Rochester	490	Centurion Rising Bridge Loyal
59	Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal	486	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
60	Pheng‐Ann HengChinese University of Hong Kong	485	Centurion Rising Boomerang Loyal
61	Ling ShaoTerminus Group	482	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=61	Tieniu TanNanjing University	482	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
63	Moshe Y. VardiRice University	477	Laureate Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
64	Elisa BertinoPurdue University	466	Wayfarer Loyal
65	Iryna GurevychTU Darmstadt	463	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
66	Katia P. SycaraCarnegie Mellon University	451	Loyal
67	Peter H. StoneUniversity of Texas at Austin	450	Founder Bridge Loyal
68	Qiang YangHong Kong University of Science and Technology	449	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
69	Lorenzo BruzzoneUniversity of Trento	445	Centurion Loyal
70	Bernd GirodStanford University	442	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=70	Changsheng XuChinese Academy of Sciences	442	Boomerang Wayfarer
72	Richard G. BaraniukRice University	441	Centurion Loyal
73	Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Society	439	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
74	Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos	435	Loyal Pioneer
75	Horst BischofGraz University of Technology	432	Loyal
76	Katsushi IkeuchiMicrosoft Research	431	Bridge Loyal
77	C. Lee GilesPennsylvania State University	428	Bridge Loyal
78	Vijay KumarUniversity of Pennsylvania	427	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
79	Dan RothUniversity of Pennsylvania	426	Bridge Loyal
80	Daniel CremersTechnical University of Munich	425	Centurion Wayfarer
81	Wolfram BurgardUniversity of Technology Nuremberg	423	Centurion Loyal
82	Yun Raymond FuNortheastern University	420	Rising Founder
83	Alan L. YuilleJohns Hopkins University	419	Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer
=83	Ching Y. SuenConcordia University	419	Founder Loyal Pioneer
85	Pascal FrossardEPFL	415	Bridge Loyal
86	Claire TomlinUniversity of California, Berkeley	413	Loyal
87	Jie ZhouTsinghua University	409	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
88	Stan Z. LiWestlake University	408	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
89	Shuicheng YanNational University of Singapore	404	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
90	Anant MadabhushiEmory University	403	Rising Wayfarer
91	Gaurav S. SukhatmeUniversity of Southern California	402	Bridge Loyal
92	Shih-Fu ChangColumbia University	401	Centurion Loyal
=92	Yao ZhaoBeijing Jiaotong University	401	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
94	Mohan Manubhai TrivediUniversity of California, San Diego	399	Loyal Pioneer
95	Dimitris MetaxasRutgers University	395	Loyal
96	Maosong SunTsinghua University	393	Rising Wayfarer Loyal
97	Chin-Hui LeeGeorgia Institute of Technology	390	Bridge Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
98	Andreas DengelOsaka Metropolitan University	389	Rising Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=98	Rüdiger DillmannFZI Research Center for Information Technology	389	Loyal
100	Azriel Rosenfeld	388	Loyal Pioneer

Ranked among 1,900 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.