Citations since 2021: the top 100

Kaiming He has the most citations since 2021 among the people shaping AI, with 446,915. Citations received from 2021 on, to papers of any year.

Rank	Person	Citations since 2021	Badges
1	Kaiming HeMassachusetts Institute of Technology	446,915	Rising Bridge
2	Ross Girshick	309,172	Rising Bridge
3	Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal	299,208	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
4	Geoffrey HintonUniversity of Toronto	264,484	Laureate Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
5	Shaoqing RenNIO	262,862	Rising Founder Bridge
6	Xiangyu ZhangStepFun	249,862	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
7	Piotr DollárThinking Machines Lab	173,837	Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
8	Olaf RonnebergerUniversity of Freiburg	163,270	Rising Bridge Loyal
9	Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind	156,289	Laureate Rising Founder Bridge
10	Quoc Le	140,139	Centurion Rising Bridge
11	Andrew ZissermanUniversity of Oxford	137,885	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
12	Fei-Fei LiStanford University	133,026	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
13	Koray KavukcuogluGoogle DeepMind	130,139	Rising Bridge
14	David SilverIneffable Intelligence	130,043	Rising Bridge Boomerang
15	Oriol Vinyals	128,289	Rising Bridge
16	Trevor DarrellUniversity of California, Berkeley	122,921	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
17	Christian SzegedyMorph Labs	118,170	Rising Founder Bridge
18	Yann LeCunNew York University	115,322	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
19	Jürgen SchmidhuberKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology	114,521	Rising Founder Bridge Loyal
20	Thomas BroxUniversity of Freiburg	111,929	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
21	Tsung-Yi LinNVIDIA	110,554	Rising Bridge
22	David HausslerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz	105,695	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
23	Pushmeet KohliGoogle DeepMind	104,450	Centurion Rising Bridge
24	Sepp HochreiterJohannes Kepler University of Linz	94,401	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
25	Serge BelongiePioneer Centre for AI	92,912	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
26	Richard SocherYou.com	92,527	Rising Founder Bridge
27	Karen SimonyanMicrosoft	91,866	Founder Bridge
28	Dacheng TaoNanyang Technological University	85,510	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
29	Eric WieserGoogle DeepMind	85,379	Rising Bridge
30	John JumperGoogle DeepMind	84,355	Laureate Rising Bridge
31	Alexander Pritzel	83,227	Rising Bridge
32	Dragomir AnguelovWaymo	81,609	Rising Bridge
33	Stig Petersen	79,795	Rising
34	Alexei A. EfrosUniversity of California, Berkeley	79,556	Centurion Rising
35	Carlos GuestrinStanford University	78,883	Laureate Rising Founder Bridge
36	Michael I. JordanInria	78,742	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
37	Ian Goodfellow	78,408	Rising Bridge
38	Ali FarhadiMicrosoft	78,403	Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
39	Vincent VanhouckeWaymo	76,737	Founder
40	Jure LeskovecStanford University	76,316	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
41	Daron AcemogluMassachusetts Institute of Technology	74,611	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
42	Alan Conrad BovikUniversity of Colorado Boulder	74,336	Centurion Loyal
43	Wang XiaogangSenseTime	73,070	Centurion Rising Founder Wayfarer Loyal
44	Christopher D. ManningStanford University	72,807	Laureate Centurion Loyal
45	Ruslan SalakhutdinovCarnegie Mellon University	71,620	Founder Bridge Wayfarer
46	Francisco HerreraAndalusian Interuniversity Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence	71,035	Centurion Loyal
47	Laurens van der MaatenAnthropic	71,000	Rising Bridge
48	Andrew W. SeniorGoogle DeepMind	70,992	Rising Bridge
49	Michael FigurnovGoogle DeepMind	70,844	Rising Bridge
50	Jitendra MalikUniversity of California, Berkeley	70,357	Centurion Bridge Loyal
51	Qiang YangHong Kong University of Science and Technology	67,840	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
52	Philip S. YuUniversity of Illinois Chicago	67,574	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
53	Chen Change LoyNanyang Technological University	67,515	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
54	Phillip IsolaMIT CSAIL	66,362	Rising
55	Aaron C. CourvilleUniversité de Montréal	65,066	Rising Founder Wayfarer Loyal
56	Kalyanmoy DebUniversity of Alabama	64,595	Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
57	Joseph RedmonAllen Institute for AI (Ai2)	63,622	Rising
58	Luke ZettlemoyerUniversity of Washington	63,079	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
59	Kilian WeinbergerCornell University	61,923	Rising Bridge
60	Alan L. YuilleJohns Hopkins University	60,748	Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer
61	Alex Graves	60,513	Bridge
62	Li-Jia LiLiveX AI	59,440	Rising Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer
63	C. Lawrence ZitnickMicrosoft Research	58,924	Rising Bridge Loyal
64	Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Society	58,578	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
65	Vladimir Vapnik	58,205	Bridge Pioneer
66	Markus ReichsteinMax Planck Society	58,199	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
67	Jiaya JiaSmartMore	58,002	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
68	Pietro PeronaCalifornia Institute of Technology	57,461	Bridge Loyal
69	Ling ShaoTerminus Group	56,965	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
70	Hartwig AdamGoogle DeepMind	56,729	Rising Bridge Loyal
71	Dinggang ShenShanghaiTech University	56,520	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
72	Gao HuangTsinghua University	56,510	Rising Wayfarer
73	Bernardino Romera-ParedesHiverge	55,595	Rising Founder Bridge
74	Vladlen KoltunApple	55,303	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
75	Max WellingUniversity of Amsterdam	55,085	Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
76	Sergey IoffeScaled Foundations	55,067	Bridge
77	Deva RamananCarnegie Mellon University	54,945	Rising
78	Antonio TorralbaMassachusetts Institute of Technology	54,679	Centurion Loyal
79	Saining XieNew York University	54,583	Rising Bridge
80	Sebastien OurselinKing's College London	54,431	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
81	Bertrand ThirionInria	54,315	Rising Loyal
82	Chunhua ShenZhejiang University	53,998	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
83	Scott Reed	53,769	Rising Founder Bridge
84	Zhuang LiuPrinceton University	52,720	Rising Bridge
85	Timothy LillicrapGoogle DeepMind	52,692	Rising Bridge
86	Zhou WangUniversity of Waterloo	52,124	Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
87	Xiaoou Tang	52,122	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
88	Clemens MeyerGoogle DeepMind	51,972	Rising Bridge
89	Wangmeng ZuoHarbin Institute of Technology	51,870	Centurion Rising Loyal
90	Stephen LinMicrosoft Research	51,183	Rising Bridge Loyal
91	Devi ParikhYutori	49,987	Laureate Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
92	Jiashi Feng	49,481	Centurion Rising Bridge
93	Andreas GeigerUniversity of Tübingen	48,993	Rising Founder Wayfarer
94	Ioannis AntonoglouReflection AI	48,687	Rising Founder Bridge
95	Eero SimoncelliNew York University	48,451	Loyal
96	Daan WierstraGoogle DeepMind	47,970	Rising Bridge
97	James HaysGeorgia Institute of Technology	47,102	Rising Bridge Boomerang
98	C. L. Philip ChenSouth China University of Technology	47,080	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
99	Franco NoriUniversity of Michigan	46,927	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
100	Wei DongJiangsu University	46,878	Rising Founder Bridge

Ranked among 1,966 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.