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Top institutions in the United States for Computation Theory & Mathematics

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Computation Theory & Mathematics?

215 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Computation Theory & Mathematics are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.3% of all listed authors in the United States, and 1st of 43 countries in the subfield. 100 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). Massachusetts Institute of Technology has the most (17), followed by University of California, Berkeley (11) and Stanford University (9). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
215
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
100
46.5% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 43 countries in Computation Theory & Mathematics
Highest-ranked
#288
Dwork, Cynthia
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology1711#1Shor, Peter W. #301
2University of California, Berkeley115#3Goldwasser, Shafi #23,380
3Stanford University95#5Charikar, Moses S. #9,112
4Columbia University83#6Papadimitriou, Christos H. #4,510
5Department of Computer Science74#7Aaronson, Scott #4,042
6University of California, San Diego73#9Impagliazzo, Russell #20,689
7Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences65#11Dwork, Cynthia #288
8Cornell University53#13Kozen, Dexter C. #26,771
9Carnegie Mellon University54#14Woodruff, David P. #28,028
10New York University42#17Kempe, Julia #36,502
11Stanford Engineering42#19Reingold, Omer #52,698
12University of Michigan, Ann Arbor41#21Bansal, Nikhil #77,523
13Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences32#22Regev, Oded #3,041
14School of Engineering and Applied Science33#23Tarjan, Robert Endre #6,951
15IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center32#25Watrous, John #13,644
16State University of New York Albany32#26Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon #15,749
17University of California, Irvine32#27Eppstein, David #30,061
18Georgia Institute of Technology31#30Vempal̀a, Santosh Srinivas #44,460
19Google LLC31#34Cohen-Addad, Vincent #74,203
20University of Wisconsin-Madison32#35Diakonikolas, Ilias #82,962
21Rutgers University31#36Szegedy, Márió #93,609
22University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign30#37Har-Peled, Sariel #105,105
23University of Washington30#39Lee, James R. #154,242
24Boston University30#41Toffoli, Tom #244,575

The top 100 in Computation Theory & Mathematics in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Dwork, Cynthia
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  2. 2
    Shor, Peter W.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  3. 3
    Regev, Oded
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  4. 4
    Aaronson, Scott
    Department of Computer Science
  5. 5
    Papadimitriou, Christos H.
    Columbia University
  6. 6
    Tarjan, Robert Endre
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  7. 7
    Charikar, Moses S.
    Stanford University
  8. 8
    Stanley, Richard P.
    College of Arts and Sciences
  9. 9
    Valiant, Leslie G.
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  10. 10
  11. 11
  12. 12
    Watrous, John
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  13. 13
    Knuth, Donald E.
    Stanford University
  14. 14
    Indyk, Piotr
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  15. 15
    Nikiforov, Vladimir
    College of Arts & Sciences
  16. 16
    Roughgarden, Tim
    Columbia University
  17. 17
    Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
    State University of New York Albany
  18. 18
    Spielman, Daniel Alan
    Yale University
  19. 19
    Babai, László
    The University of Chicago
  20. 20
    Karp, Richard M.
    UC Berkeley’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department
  21. 21
    Herlihy, Maurice P.
    Brown University
  22. 22
    Johnson, David Stifler
    Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  23. 23
    Impagliazzo, Russell
    University of California, San Diego
  24. 24
    Luby, Michael G.
    BitRipple Inc.
  25. 25
    Goldwasser, Shafi
    University of California, Berkeley
  26. 26
    Vadhan, Salil P.
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  27. 27
    Yannakakis, Mihalis
    Columbia University
  28. 28
    Chazelle, Bernard M.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  29. 29
    Talwar, Kunal
    Apple Inc.
  30. 30
    Kozen, Dexter C.
    Cornell University
  31. 31
    Woodruff, David P.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  32. 32
    Guruswami, Venkatesan
    University of California, Berkeley
  33. 33
    Graham, Ronald L.
    University of California, San Diego
  34. 34
    Eppstein, David
    University of California, Irvine
  35. 35
    Ghaffari, Mohsen
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  36. 36
    Rabin, Michael O.
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  37. 37
    Chan, Timothy M.Y.
    Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
  38. 38
    Kleinberg, Robert D.
    Cornell University
  39. 39
    Odonnell, Ryan
    Carnegie Mellon University
  40. 40
    Tardos, Eva
    Cornell University
  41. 41
    Mémoli, Facundo
    The Ohio State University
  42. 42
    Kempe, Julia
    New York University
  43. 43
    Williams, R. Ryan
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  44. 44
    Moore, Cristopher
    Santa Fe Institute
  45. 45
    Wigderson, Avi
    Institute for Advanced Study
  46. 46
    Fishburn, Peter C.
    AT&T Laboratories Florham Park
  47. 47
    Williams, Virginia Vassilevska
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  48. 48
    Adleman, Leonard M.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  49. 49
    Reíf, John H.
    Department of Computer Science
  50. 50
    Vempal̀a, Santosh Srinivas
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  51. 51
    Sudan, Madhu
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  52. 52
    Lipton, Richard J.
    College of Computing
  53. 53
    Kilian, Joe
    Department of Computer Science
  54. 54
    Vitter, Jeffrey Scott
    Tulane University School of Science and Engineering
  55. 55
    Barak, Boaz
    OpenAI, Inc.
  56. 56
    Fagin, Ronald
    IBM Research - Almaden
  57. 57
    Daskalakis, Constantinos
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  58. 58
    Reingold, Omer
    Stanford Engineering
  59. 59
    Vazirani, Umesh V.
    University of California, Berkeley
  60. 60
    Khot, Subhash A.
    New York University
  61. 61
    Goldberg, Andrew V.
    Amazon.com, Inc.
  62. 62
    Frieze, Alan M.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  63. 63
    Ullman, Jeffrey David
    Stanford University
  64. 64
    Chung, Fan
    University of California, San Diego
  65. 65
  66. 66
    Gabow, Harold N.
    College of Engineering and Applied Science
  67. 67
    Megiddo, Nimrod
    IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  68. 68
    Gupta, Anupam
    NYU CS Department
  69. 69
    Coppersmith, Don
    Center for Communications Research
  70. 70
    Mossel, Elchanan
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  71. 71
    Blum, Manuel
    Carnegie Mellon University
  72. 72
    Stockmeyer, Larry J.
    IBM Research - Almaden
  73. 73
    Demaine, Erik D.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  74. 74
    Borgs, Christian
    University of California, Berkeley
  75. 75
    Vondràk, Jan
    Stanford University
  76. 76
    Moitra, Ankur
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  77. 77
    Gamarnik, David
    MIT Sloan School of Management
  78. 78
    Yekhanin, Sergey M.
    Microsoft Research
  79. 79
  80. 80
    Kannan, Ravi
    University of California, Berkeley
  81. 81
    Valiant, Gregory
    Stanford Engineering
  82. 82
    Bansal, Nikhil
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  83. 83
    Floyd, Robert W.
    Stanford University
  84. 84
    Abraham, Ittai
    a16z crypto
  85. 85
    Spencer, Joel H.
    Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  86. 86
    Agarwal, Pankaj Kumar
    Department of Computer Science
  87. 87
    Rödl, Vojtěch
    Emory University
  88. 88
    Williamson, David P.
    Cornell University College of Engineering
  89. 89
    Diakonikolas, Ilias
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  90. 90
    Goemans, Michel X.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  91. 91
    Reichardt, Ben W.
    Microsoft Corporation.
  92. 92
    Nissim, Kobbi
    Georgetown University
  93. 93
    Mitchell, Joseph S.B.
    Stony Brook University
  94. 94
    Christiano, Paul F.
    Alignment Research Center
  95. 95
    Fischer, Michael J.
    Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
  96. 96
    Terwilliger, Paul M.
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
  97. 97
    Luna-Reyes, Luis Felipe
    State University of New York Albany
  98. 98
    Raz, Ran
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  99. 99
    Szegedy, Márió
    Rutgers University
  100. 100
    Vazirani, Vijay V.
    University of California, Irvine

215 listed scientists in Computation Theory & Mathematics in the United States

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Data: Ioannidis, John P.A. (2026), ‘August 2026 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators”’, Mendeley Data, v9, doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9. 2026 list, ranked by composite citation score (c) excluding self-citations.

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