h-index since 2021: the top 100

Yoshua Bengio has the highest h-index since 2021 among the people shaping AI, with 143. The h-index counted with only the citations that each paper received from 2021 on, as Google Scholar shows it. Older papers count when they are still cited.

Rank	Person	h-index since 2021	Badges
1	Yoshua BengioUniversité de Montréal	143	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
2	Dacheng TaoNanyang Technological University	131	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
3	Daron AcemogluMassachusetts Institute of Technology	122	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
4	David HausslerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz	118	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
5	Jure LeskovecStanford University	116	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
6	Francisco HerreraAndalusian Interuniversity Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence	115	Centurion Loyal
7	Dinggang ShenShanghaiTech University	111	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
=7	Philip S. YuUniversity of Illinois Chicago	111	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
9	Chunhua ShenZhejiang University	109	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=9	Ling ShaoTerminus Group	109	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=9	Quoc Le	109	Centurion Rising Bridge
=9	Trevor DarrellUniversity of California, Berkeley	109	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
13	Markus ReichsteinMax Planck Society	108	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
14	Chen Change LoyNanyang Technological University	107	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
15	C. L. Philip ChenSouth China University of Technology	105	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
16	Andrew ZissermanUniversity of Oxford	104	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=16	Wang XiaogangSenseTime	104	Centurion Rising Founder Wayfarer Loyal
18	Davide ScaramuzzaUniversity of Zurich	100	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge
=18	Jocelyn ChanussotInstitut polytechnique de Grenoble	100	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
20	Franco NoriUniversity of Michigan	99	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=20	Pheng‐Ann HengChinese University of Hong Kong	99	Centurion Rising Boomerang Loyal
=20	Yu QiaoShanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	99	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
23	Edward Wittenindependent group	98	Laureate Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal
24	Erik CambriaNanyang Technological University	97	Centurion Rising Founder Wayfarer
=24	Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France	97	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=24	Xuelong LiChina Telecom	97	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
27	Geoffrey HintonUniversity of Toronto	96	Laureate Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=27	Jitendra MalikUniversity of California, Berkeley	96	Centurion Bridge Loyal
=27	Michael I. JordanInria	96	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=27	Michael TomaselloDuke University	96	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
=27	Yaochu JinWestlake University	96	Laureate Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
32	Alan L. YuilleJohns Hopkins University	95	Centurion Boomerang Wayfarer
=32	Bernhard SchölkopfMax Planck Society	95	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=32	Jiashi Feng	95	Centurion Rising Bridge
35	Antonio TorralbaMassachusetts Institute of Technology	94	Centurion Loyal
=35	Mérouane DebbahTechnology Innovation Institute	94	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=35	Ming‐Ming ChengNankai University	94	Rising Bridge
=35	Sebastien OurselinKing's College London	94	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
39	Fei-Fei LiStanford University	93	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
=39	Radu TimofteELLIS Unit Franconia	93	Rising Wayfarer
41	Bernt SchieleEuropean Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems	92	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer
42	Fahad Shahbaz KhanLinköping University	91	Rising Wayfarer
=42	J. I. CiracMax Planck Society	91	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=42	Joshua B. TenenbaumMassachusetts Institute of Technology	91	Centurion Bridge Loyal
=42	Luciano FloridiYale University	91	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
46	Christoph BockResearch Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences	90	Centurion Wayfarer
=46	Christopher D. ManningStanford University	90	Laureate Centurion Loyal
48	Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam SuganthanQatar University	89	Centurion Loyal
=48	Tat-Seng ChuaNational University of Singapore	89	Centurion Rising Wayfarer Loyal
=48	Yann LeCunNew York University	89	Laureate Centurion Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
51	Roland SiegwartETH Zurich	88	Centurion Founder Bridge Loyal
=51	Shuicheng YanNational University of Singapore	88	Centurion Bridge Wayfarer
53	Klaus-Robert MüllerTechnische Universität Berlin	87	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
=53	Laith AbualigahAl-Ahliyya Amman University	87	Rising Wayfarer
55	Jiaya JiaSmartMore	85	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=55	Terrence SejnowskiSalk Institute for Biological Studies	85	Laureate Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=55	Wanli OuyangShanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	85	Rising Bridge
=55	Witold PedryczUniversity of Alberta	85	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
59	Daniela RusMassachusetts Institute of Technology	84	Centurion Loyal
=59	Jiayi MaWuhan University	84	Rising
=59	Philip H. S. TorrUniversity of Oxford	84	Bridge Loyal
=59	William T. FreemanMassachusetts Institute of Technology	84	Laureate Centurion Bridge Loyal
=59	Xiang BaiHuazhong University of Science and Technology	84	Rising Loyal
64	Anil K. JainMichigan State University	83	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=64	Björn SchulleraudEERING	83	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=64	Feiping NieNorthwestern Polytechnical University	83	Centurion Rising Wayfarer
=64	Junwei HanNorthwestern Polytechnical University	83	Centurion Rising Loyal
=64	Wangmeng ZuoHarbin Institute of Technology	83	Centurion Rising Loyal
69	Ping LuoUniversity of Hong Kong	82	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=69	Vladlen KoltunApple	82	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
71	Bram van GinnekenRadboud University Nijmegen	81	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge
=71	Christian TheobaltMax Planck Institute for Informatics	81	Centurion Rising Loyal
=71	Guang-Zhong YangShanghai Jiao Tong University	81	Rising Wayfarer Loyal
=71	Marc PollefeysETH Zurich	81	Centurion Bridge Loyal
=71	Qiang YangHong Kong University of Science and Technology	81	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=71	Silvio SavareseSalesforce	81	Centurion Rising Bridge Wayfarer
77	Anton ZeilingerUniversity of Vienna	80	Laureate Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
=77	Dawn SongUniversity of California, Berkeley	80	Laureate Centurion Founder Bridge Loyal
=77	Demis HassabisGoogle DeepMind	80	Laureate Rising Founder Bridge
=77	Luke ZettlemoyerUniversity of Washington	80	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=77	Oriol Vinyals	80	Rising Bridge
=77	Ruslan SalakhutdinovCarnegie Mellon University	80	Founder Bridge Wayfarer
83	Andrea VedaldiUniversity of Oxford	79	Bridge
=83	Andreas GeigerUniversity of Tübingen	79	Rising Founder Wayfarer
=83	Michel DevoretGoogle	79	Laureate Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=83	Peter DayanMax Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems	79	Centurion Wayfarer Loyal
87	James ZouStanford University	78	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=87	Liang WangChinese Academy of Sciences	78	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=87	Thomas Huang	78	Centurion Founder Wayfarer Loyal Pioneer
90	Jiebo LuoUniversity of Rochester	77	Centurion Rising Bridge Loyal
=90	Marco HutterETH Zurich	77	Rising Founder Bridge
=90	Tingwen HuangShenzhen University of Advanced Technology	77	Centurion Rising Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
93	Dragan GaševićUniversity of Hong Kong	76	Rising Founder Wayfarer
=93	Raquel UrtasunUniversity of Toronto	76	Centurion Rising Founder Bridge Wayfarer
=93	Rongrong JiXiamen University	76	Rising
96	Herbert A. Simon	75	Laureate Centurion Loyal Pioneer
=96	Jiawei HanUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	75	Centurion Loyal
=96	Maosong SunTsinghua University	75	Rising Wayfarer Loyal
=96	Xing XieMicrosoft Research	75	Bridge Boomerang Loyal
100	Kalyanmoy DebUniversity of Alabama	74	Centurion Bridge Boomerang Wayfarer Loyal
=100	Liang LinJD Explore Academy	74	Rising Bridge Wayfarer
=100	Nicu SebeUniversity of Trento	74
=100	Pierre F. BaldiUniversity of California, Irvine	74	Centurion Loyal
=100	Qi TianHuawei	74	Rising Bridge Wayfarer Loyal
=100	Ross Girshick	74	Rising Bridge
=100	Xiaoou Tang	74	Centurion Founder Bridge Wayfarer Loyal

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.