Top institutions in the United States for Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing?

2,531 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 3.4% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 103 countries in the subfield. 1,249 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Google LLC has the most (122), followed by Carnegie Mellon University (74) and NVIDIA (66). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

2,531

3.4% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

1,249

49.3% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 103 countries in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing

Highest-ranked

Girshick, Ross B.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	Google LLC	122	55	#2	Lowe, David G. #764
2	Carnegie Mellon University	74	52	#4	Salakhutdinov, Russ #892
3	NVIDIA	66	34	#7	Lin, Tsungyi #2,206
4	Meta	63	31	#6	van der Maaten, Laurens #300
5	Stanford University	61	36	#8	Leskovec, Jure #401
6	Microsoft Research	60	34	#9	Schapire, Robert E. #622
7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	47	22	#17	He, Kaiming #108
8	University of California, Berkeley	45	29	#19	Zadeh, Lotfi A. #36
9	Google DeepMind	40	19	#1	Goodfellow, Ian J. #1,453
10	University of Washington	38	24	#26	Szeliski, Richard #9,233
11	Meta Ai	36	19	#28	Lecun, Yann Le #80
12	College of Engineering	33	15	#31	Liu, Bing #1,019
13	New York University	33	20	#32	Xie, Saining #5,884
14	Amazon.com, Inc.	31	13	#34	Seeger, Matthias W. #13,496
15	Adobe Inc.	29	10	#37	Zhang, Richard #853
16	Department of Computer Science	28	19	#43	Deb, Kalyanmoy #113
17	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	28	15	#46	Han, Jiawei #3,640
18	Apple Inc.	27	12	#50	Koltun, Vladlen #3,558
19	University of California, San Diego	26	16	#51	McAuley, Julian J. #2,423
20	Stanford Engineering	25	16	#53	Manning, Christopher D. #558
21	The University of Texas at Austin	22	9	#64	Bovik, Alan Conrad #1,197
22	Princeton University	21	16	#71	Dao, Tri #4,862
23	Georgia Institute of Technology	21	5	#74	Hays, James H. #25,311
24	University of Pennsylvania	20	8	#76	Watts, Duncan J. #685
25	School of Computer Science	20	12	#55	Yang, Yiming #10,503
26	Microsoft Corporation.	20	9	#80	Baltrušaitis, Tadas #31,388
27	University of Southern California	19	10	#82	Itti, Laurent #8,457
28	School of Engineering and Applied Science	18	12	#87	Deng, Jia #1,576
29	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	18	9	#89	Peikert, Chris #4,989
30	University of Maryland, College Park	18	11	#91	Huang, Jiabin #11,712
31	Columbia University	17	7	#97	Vapnik, Vladimir N. #787
32	Pennsylvania State University	17	6	#101	Wang, Suhang #36,989
33	Johns Hopkins University	16	9	#104	Koehn, Philipp #6,075
34	Yale University	16	6	#106	Angluin, Dana #17,534
35	University of California, Los Angeles	16	9	#108	Grover, Aditya #21,700
36	Cornell University	14	11	#123	Kleinberg, Jon M. #649
37	OpenAI, Inc.	14	11	#125	Sutskever, Ilya #3,280
38	Boston University	14	8	#126	Canetti, Ran #3,297
39	Harvard University	14	9	#130	Lazer, David M.J. #5,563
40	Purdue University	12	5	#159	Schiff, Daniel S. #9,232
41	Microsoft Corporation	12	6	#143	Post, Matt #13,276
42	The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence	12	10	#161	Redmon, Joseph #19,311
43	Snap Inc.	12	1	#164	Kokkinos, Iasonas #38,509
44	Northeastern University	12	4	#103	Tulyakov, Sergey #48,472
45	MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	11	7	#168	Torralba, A. B. #656
46	University of California, Irvine	11	4	#171	Baldi, Pierre F. #4,012
47	University of Massachusetts Amherst	11	4	#182	McCallum, Andrew Kachites #12,885
48	The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	11	8	#192	Liu, Xiaoming #27,446
49	IBM Research	10	5	#200	Ho, Tin Kam #4,496
50	University of Wisconsin-Madison	10	4	#215	Liu, Haotian #34,622
51	Reality Labs	10	6	#216	Zollhöfer, Michael #35,148
52	Anthropic	9	7	#223	Carlini, Nicholas #1,803
53	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	9	6	#227	Lyu, Siwei #7,135
54	Whiting School of Engineering	9	3	#229	Patel, Vishal M. #7,679
55	Texas A&M University	9	2	#236	Roy, Arunabha M. #13,591
56	Khoury College of Computer Sciences	9	3	#241	Wallace, Byron C. #20,653
57	Brown University	9	5	#246	Pavlick, Ellie #28,818
58	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	8	7	#253	Pearl, Judea #363
59	University of California, Santa Barbara	8	6	#256	Wang, William Yang #2,178
60	Waymo LLC	8	3	#261	Qi, Charles Ruizhongtai #5,813
61	Stony Brook University	8	3	#263	Ling, Haibin #9,208
62	The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science	8	4	#265	Lipson, Hod #11,542
63	Qualcomm AI Research	8	3	#266	Porikli, Fatih Murat #14,260
64	The University of Chicago	8	4	#273	Evans, James A. #20,930
65	University of Pittsburgh	8	4	#276	Alavi, Amir H. #24,988
66	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences	8	2	#281	Bruna, Joan #39,319
67	Apple Computer	8	1	#282	Srivastava, Nitish #40,791
68	Northwestern University	8	4	#283	Agrawal, Ankit #41,447
69	Michigan State University	7	4	#289	Jain, Anil K. #188
70	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	7	5	#291	Ferrara, Emilio #631
71	Michigan Engineering	7	4	#296	Mihalcea, Rada F. #7,800
72	University of Virginia	7	2	#299	Li, Jundong #12,372
73	Salesforce, Inc.	7	3	#303	Savarese, Silvio #16,364
74	School of Engineering	7	4	#305	Nie, Liqiang #19,536
75	Indiana University Bloomington	7	3	#316	Menczer, Filippo #30,770
76	The Ohio State University	7	1	#324	Neil Robertson, Neil Martin #37,285
77	California Institute of Technology	6	4	#351	Perona, Pietro #5,749
78	University of Colorado Boulder	6	3	#353	D’Mello, Sidney K. #6,226
79	Arizona State University	6	3	#354	McNamara, Danielle S. #6,258
80	Emory University	6	5	#359	Shu, Kai #13,349
81	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	6	2	#362	Zaki, Mohammed Javeed J. #19,144
82	College of Science and Engineering	6	2	#366	Kumar, Vipin P. #21,730
83	Duke University	6	5	#370	Carin, Lawrence E. #24,082
84	National Library of Medicine (NLM)	6	3	#384	Demner-Fushman, Dina #44,154
85	University of California, Santa Cruz	6	2	#390	Xie, Cihang #54,617
86	The University of Texas at Dallas	6	3	#394	Tian, Yapeng #61,412
87	IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center	5	3	#412	Aggarwal, Charu C. #575
88	MIT Media Lab	5	2	#414	Breazeal, Cynthia L. #2,039
89	Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science	5	3	#417	Joachims, Thorsten #4,378
90	Weill Cornell Medicine	5	2	#418	Wang, Fei #4,425
91	Vanderbilt University	5	2	#419	Crossley, Scott Andrew #4,659
92	College of Engineering and Computer Science	5	3	#420	Azevedo, Roger #5,396
93	Cornell Tech	5	4	#424	Nissenbaum, Helen #5,968
94	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	5	4	#352	Freund, Yoav #6,012
95	FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science	5	2	#425	Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M. #6,317
96	UW College of Engineering	5	4	#426	Domingos, Pedro O. #6,355
97	Harvard Medical School	5	2	#427	Žitnik, Marinka #6,429
98	Rice University	5	4	#435	Vardi, Moshe Y. #11,272
99	Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago	5	3	#442	Blum, Avrim L. #18,898
100	MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	5	2	#447	Barzilay, Regina #21,865
101	Vanderbilt University School of Engineering	5	1	#448	Li, Bo #22,299
102	Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences	5	4	#454	Barto, Andrew G. #26,094
103	The Robotics Institute	5	4	#458	Kanade, Takeo #27,894
104	Intel Labs	5	1	#465	Ranftl, René #34,901
105	Temple University	5	1	#480	Airoldi, Edoardo M. #54,381
106	J.B. Speed School of Engineering	5	2	#487	Yampolskiy, Roman V. #73,455
107	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	5	2	#490	Jia, Ruoxi #76,774
108	NEC Laboratories America, Inc.	5	1	#498	Lawrence, Steve #94,978
109	UNC School of Medicine	5	1	#501	Yap, Pew Thian #99,847
110	Simons Foundation	4	3	#511	Blei, David M. #318
111	NC State University	4	3	#513	Xu, Xiaojie #1,659
112	School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence	4	1	#515	Liu, Huan #2,377
113	University of Memphis	4	2	#517	Graesser, Arthur C. #3,511
114	Binghamton University State University of New York	4	1	#520	Fridrich, Jessica J. #4,109
115	University of California, Riverside	4	2	#525	Keogh, Eamonn J. #6,095
116	University of Illinois at Chicago	4	1	#526	Yu, Philip S. #6,398
117	OpenAI	4	3	#429	Wei, Jason #7,894
118	University of Rochester	4	3	#546	Luo, Jiebo Luo #18,572
119	College of Computing	4	2	#550	Riedl, Mark Owen #21,270
120	UIUC	4	3	#562	Forsyth, David Alexander #25,806
121	Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago	4	2	#563	Grossman, Robert Lee #26,037
122	Electrical and Computer Engineering Department	4	1	#565	Vasconcelos, Nuno M. #27,659
123	College of Engineering and Computing	4	2	#570	Ateniese, Giuseppe #31,523
124	George Mason University	4	2	#579	Warfield, John N. #42,068
125	USC Institute for Creative Technologies	4	2	#586	Rizzo, Albert Skip #46,430
126	Information Sciences Institute	4	2	#597	Pazzani, Michael J. #58,663
127	Stanford University School of Medicine	4	2	#612	Luo, Xiangde #75,344
128	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences	4	1	#614	Bajcsy, Ružena K. #77,435
129	Drexel University	4	2	#617	Yang, Christopher C. #80,145
130	Snowflake Inc.	4	1	#622	Yao, Zhewei #90,193
131	Washington University in St. Louis	4	0	#628	Zhang, Weixiong #104,648
132	UConn College of Engineering	4	0	#636	Krawec, Walter Oliver #130,109
133	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	4	0	#638	Dhar, Vasant #137,679
134	Oregon State University	3	1	#648	Dietterich, Thomas G. #1,457
135	Amazon FAR	3	2	#649	Abbeel, Pieter #1,664
136	NTT Research, Inc.	3	2	#651	Waters, Brent R. #2,298
137	University of Notre Dame	3	2	#655	Chawla, Nitesh Vinay #3,496
138	X.AI LLC	3	1	#658	Ioffe, Sergey #5,148
139	Genentech, Inc	3	1	#659	Cho, Kyunghyun #6,006
140	Santa Fe Institute	3	3	#662	Clauset, Aaron J. #7,057
141	Dartmouth College	3	3	#671	Cybenko, George V. #12,575
142	Periodic Labs	3	2	#674	Çubuk, Ekin Doǧuş #13,796
143	FAIR	3	2	#680	Batra, Dhruv #17,022
144	The University of Utah	3	1	#681	Su, Hao #17,231
145	Siebel School of Computing and Data Science	3	1	#688	Zhai, Chengxiang #19,842
146	AWS AI Labs	3	1	#551	Qi, Yanjun #21,755
147	Illinois Institute of Technology	3	1	#709	Omar, Marwan #30,157
148	Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering	3	1	#712	Sheng, Victor S. #30,739
149	Hugging Face	3	1	#470	Mitchell, Margaret #39,561
150	Amazon Technologies, Inc.	3	3	#730	Cai, Zhaowei #40,724
151	University of Florida	3	1	#739	Príncipe, Jose C. #47,613
152	College of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	1	#743	You, Chenyu #50,374
153	Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	2	#746	Du, Yilun #54,587
154	Toyota Research Institute	3	1	#747	Gaidon, Adrien #54,830
155	Yale School of Medicine	3	2	#748	Liu, Xiaofeng #54,889
156	Los Alamos National Laboratory	3	2	#753	Wohlberg, Brendt #57,793
157	University of California, Davis	3	2	#765	Chen, Muhao #62,920
158	Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering	3	1	#766	Ramesh, Aditya #63,649
159	College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences	3	2	#771	Hoover, Adam W. #66,806
160	University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science	3	1	#774	Zhang, Aidong #68,166
161	The George Washington University	3	2	#775	Anwar, Syed Muhammad #68,376
162	School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences	3	2	#784	Reps, Thomas W. #71,943
163	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory	3	2	#796	Aha, David W. #81,824
164	Boston College	3	1	#802	Mohler, George O. #87,304
165	University of Miami	3	1	#807	Kubát, Miroslav #93,351
166	Physical Intelligence	3	1	#809	Ichter, Brian #96,056
167	PBC	3	0	#813	Lin, Zeming #101,237
168	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville	3	0	#815	Qi, Hairong #108,418
169	Oakland University	3	0	#818	Masood, Momina #112,786
170	School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	0	#819	Chandola, Varun #113,527
171	New Jersey Institute of Technology	3	0	#826	Chakareski, Jacob #118,825
172	Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science	3	0	#830	Elkefi, Safa #119,965
173	University of Missouri	3	0	#850	Turabieh, Hamza #150,388
174	Runway	3	0	#854	Alaluf, Yuval #156,610
175	Cleveland State University	3	0	#860	Singh, Aditi #162,956

The top 100 in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing in the United States, in order

1
Girshick, Ross B.
Vercept
2
Zadeh, Lotfi A.
University of California, Berkeley
3
Lecun, Yann Le
Meta Ai
4
He, Kaiming
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Deb, Kalyanmoy
Department of Computer Science
6
Jordan, Michael I.
University of California, Berkeley
7
Jain, Anil K.
Michigan State University
8
Yager, Ronald R.
Iona College
9
van der Maaten, Laurens
Meta
10
Blei, David M.
Simons Foundation
11
Pearl, Judea
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
12
Kshetri, Nir
Bryan School of Business and Economics
13
Leskovec, Jure
Stanford University
14
Rudin, Cynthia D.
Department of Computer Science
15
Manning, Christopher D.
Stanford Engineering
16
Zhang, Zhengyou
Tencent America LLC
17
Aggarwal, Charu C.
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
18
Bottou, Léon
FAIR at Meta
19
Schapire, Robert E.
Microsoft Research
20
Ferrara, Emilio
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
21
Kleinberg, Jon M.
Cornell University
22
Torralba, A. B.
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
23
Watts, Duncan J.
University of Pennsylvania
24
Lowe, David G.
Google LLC
25
Vapnik, Vladimir N.
Columbia University
26
Shneiderman, Ben
Department of Computer Science
27
Zhang, Richard
Adobe Inc.
28
Salakhutdinov, Russ
Carnegie Mellon University
29
Boneh, Dan
Stanford Engineering
30
Levine, Sergey
University of California, Berkeley
31
Liu, Bing
College of Engineering
32
Feichtenhofer, Christoph
Meta
33
Caruana, Rich A.
Inc
34
Ng, Andrew Y.
Stanford University
35
Gentry, Craig
NYC
36
Fei-Fei, Li
Stanford University
37
Bovik, Alan Conrad
The University of Texas at Austin
38
Bailenson, Jeremy N.
Stanford University
39
Lipton, Zachary Chase
Abridge AI
40
Goodfellow, Ian J.
Google DeepMind
41
Dietterich, Thomas G.
Oregon State University
42
Deng, Jia
School of Engineering and Applied Science
43
Recht, Benjamin
University of California, Berkeley
44
Szegedy, Christian
Morph Labs
45
Xu, Xiaojie
NC State University
46
Abbeel, Pieter
Amazon FAR
47
Carlini, Nicholas
Anthropic
48
Breazeal, Cynthia L.
MIT Media Lab
49
Yuille, Alan L.
JHU
50
Sohn, Kihyuk
Google LLC
51
Yang, Ming-Hsuan
UC Merced
52
McMahan, H. Brendan
Google LLC
53
Wang, William Yang
University of California, Santa Barbara
54
Mendel, Jerry M.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
55
Lin, Tsungyi
NVIDIA
56
Waters, Brent R.
NTT Research, Inc.
57
Liu, Huan
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence
58
Zhou, Bolei
MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
59
McAuley, Julian J.
University of California, San Diego
60
Kennedy, James
Bureau of Labor Statistics
61
Dean, Jeffrey
Google LLC
62
He, Haibo
University of Rhode Island’s College of Engineering
63
Song, Dawn Xiaodong
University of California, Berkeley
64
Guibas, Leo J.
Stanford University
65
Vaswani, Ashish
Stealth
66
Kohavi, Ron
Kohavi
67
Dosovitskiy, Alexey
Inceptive
68
Sutskever, Ilya
OpenAI, Inc.
69
Canetti, Ran
Boston University
70
Borji, Ali
Quintic AI
71
Rendle, Steffen
Google LLC
72
Smarandache, Florentin
The University of New Mexico - Gallup
73
Pentland, Alex Sandy
Stanford University
74
Liang, Percy
Stanford University
75
Chawla, Nitesh Vinay
University of Notre Dame
76
Graesser, Arthur C.
University of Memphis
77
Malik, Jitendra
Meta Ai
78
Koltun, Vladlen
Apple Inc.
79
Han, Jiawei
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
80
Hendrycks, Dan
Center for AI Safety
81
Simoncelli, Eero P.
Simons Foundation
82
Picard, Rosalind W.
MIT Media Lab
83
Hassabis, Demis
Google DeepMindNobel laureate
84
Baldi, Pierre F.
University of California, Irvine
85
Fridrich, Jessica J.
Binghamton University State University of New York
86
Xu, Lida
Old Dominion University
87
Lamport, Leslie
Microsoft Research
88
Littman, Michael L.
Department of Computer Science
89
Wing, Jeannette M.
Columbia University
90
Finn, Chelsea
Stanford University
91
Joachims, Thorsten
Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
92
Wang, Fei
Weill Cornell Medicine
93
Zhu, Junyan
Carnegie Mellon University
94
Ho, Tin Kam
IBM Research
95
Liu, Tieyan
Microsoft Research
96
Smola, Alex Johannes
Boson AI
97
Crossley, Scott Andrew
Vanderbilt University
98
Choi, Yejin
Stanford University
99
Fawcett, Tom E.
Valley Data Sciences
100
Dollár, Piotr
Meta

2,531 listed scientists in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing in the United States

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