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Top institutions in the United States for Industrial Engineering & Automation

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Industrial Engineering & Automation?

544 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Industrial Engineering & Automation are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 0.7% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 63 countries in the subfield. 260 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (39), followed by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (15) and Michigan Engineering (14). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
544
0.7% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
260
47.8% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#2
of 63 countries in Industrial Engineering & Automation
Highest-ranked
#829
Lewis, Frank Leroy T.
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1College of Engineering3914#2Vamvoudakis, Kyriakos G. #6,212
2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor154#22Zuo, Lei #18,412
3Michigan Engineering148#24Bernstein, Dennis S. #8,712
4MIT School of Engineering138#27Slotine, Jean Jacques E. #13,208
5Massachusetts Institute of Technology95#44Hogan, Neville #3,843
6University of California, Berkeley96#45Tomizuka, Masayoshi #7,198
7Stanford University98#46Okamura, Allison M. #8,015
8Carnegie Mellon University85#60Kaess, Michael #20,596
9Georgia Institute of Technology84#62Chen, Yongxin #43,610
10The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering76#64Teel, Andrew R. #8,451
11Stanford Engineering66#76Thrun, Sebastian B. #843
12NYU Tandon School of Engineering63#78Jiang, Zhongping #2,342
13School of Engineering and Applied Science64#86Lee, Taeyoung #13,382
14USC Viterbi School of Engineering63#89Mataríc, Maja J. #16,411
15NVIDIA62#91Song, Shuran #20,263
16Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences63#94Sastry, Shankar S. #30,785
17Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering54#103Krstic, Miroslav #1,181
18Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences55#106Wood, Robert J. #2,559
19Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering53#107Nedić, Angelia #2,862
20The Robotics Institute51#110Choset, Howie M. #9,471
21MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science54#111Tsitsiklis, John N. #9,708
22Purdue University54#114Varaiya, Pravin P. #18,784
23George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering53#120Chen, Yehwa #49,398
24UW College of Engineering54#122Mesbahi, Mehran #56,952
25UCLA Samueli School of Engineering41#134Tabuada, Paulo #2,354
26University of Washington42#135Todorov, Emanuel V. #2,387
27Northeastern University41#39Sontag, Eduardo D. #2,775
28University of Maryland, College Park42#139Lee, Jay K. #3,734
29University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign43#141Ba̧sar, Tamer #7,506
30Texas A&M University43#145Murphy, Robin Roberson #18,411
31Whiting School of Engineering42#147Spall, James C. #20,906
32University of Southern California42#151Khoshnevis, Professor Behrokh #30,517
33Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering44#153Dixon, Warren E. #34,416
34Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science42#155Truby, Ryan L. #36,540
35Case School of Engineering43#156Lin, Wei #37,181
36University of California, San Diego43#162Tolley, Michael Thomas #49,053
37Vanderbilt University School of Engineering41#171Webster, Robert James #71,050
38Brown University42#177Kushner, Harold J. #81,584
39Princeton University40#188Ramadge, P. J. #135,861
40Department of Mechanical Engineering40#189Kazerooni, Homayoon #141,242
41MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory32#194Rus, Daniela L. #1,337
42California Institute of Technology32#203Doyle, John C. #11,989
43Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science31#207Spong, Mark William #17,376
44College of Computing32#210Dellaert, Frank #19,370
45College of Engineering and Computer Science33#211Grieves, Michael W. #19,388
46University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science32#214Tao, Gang #21,180
47Boston University College of Engineering32#216Cassandras, Christos G. #23,850
48Northwestern University31#218Cao, Jian #25,754
49Cornell University33#219Hoffman, Guy #26,627
50Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science33#220Dollar, Aaron M. #26,649
51University of Pennsylvania32#223Pappas, George J. #35,122
52Tickle College of Engineering32#226Schmitz, Tony L. #37,725
53College of Engineering and Applied Science31#243Shi, Jing #66,946
54College of Engineering and Computing31#245Leu, Mingchan #71,145
55Samueli School of Engineering31#254Kia, Solmaz S. #87,017
56Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories31#257Di Cairano, Stefano #89,874
57Meta30#270Forster, Christian #131,631
58School of Engineering30#271Demetriou, Michael A. #133,643
59Penn State College of Engineering30#279Dey, Satadru #176,098

The top 100 in Industrial Engineering & Automation in the United States, in order

  1. 1
    Lewis, Frank Leroy T.
    The University of Texas at Arlington
  2. 2
    Thrun, Sebastian B.
    Stanford Engineering
  3. 3
    Ren, Wei
    Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering
  4. 4
    Boyd, Stephen P.
    Stanford Engineering
  5. 5
    Krstic, Miroslav
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  6. 6
    Rus, Daniela L.
    MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  7. 7
    Khatib, Oussama
    Stanford Engineering
  8. 8
    Jiang, Zhongping
    NYU Tandon School of Engineering
  9. 9
    Tabuada, Paulo
    UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
  10. 10
    Todorov, Emanuel V.
    University of Washington
  11. 11
    Wood, Robert J.
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  12. 12
    Fox, Dieter
    University of Washington
  13. 13
    Mezić, Igor
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  14. 14
    Sontag, Eduardo D.
    Northeastern University
  15. 15
    Nedić, Angelia
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  16. 16
    Ames, Aaron D.
    California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
  17. 17
    Olfati-Saber, Reza
    Wisdom Agent Inc.
  18. 18
    Lee, Jay K.
    University of Maryland, College Park
  19. 19
    Hogan, Neville
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  20. 20
    Bertsekas, Dimitri P.
    Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
  21. 21
    Corteś, Jorge
    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  22. 22
    Jin, Xu
    Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering
  23. 23
    Vamvoudakis, Kyriakos G.
    College of Engineering
  24. 24
    Tomizuka, Masayoshi
    University of California, Berkeley
  25. 25
    Ba̧sar, Tamer
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  26. 26
    Simon, Dan J.
    Cleveland State University
  27. 27
    Okamura, Allison M.
    Stanford University
  28. 28
    Hespanha, João Pedro
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  29. 29
    Murray, Richard M.
    Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
  30. 30
    Teel, Andrew R.
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  31. 31
    Bernstein, Dennis S.
    Michigan Engineering
  32. 32
    Utkin, Vadim I.
    College of Engineering
  33. 33
    Choset, Howie M.
    The Robotics Institute
  34. 34
    Tsitsiklis, John N.
    MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  35. 35
    Walsh, Conor James
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  36. 36
    Schaal, Stefan
    Google Intrinsic
  37. 37
    Doyle, John C.
    California Institute of Technology
  38. 38
  39. 39
    Bullo, Francesco
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  40. 40
    Slotine, Jean Jacques E.
    MIT School of Engineering
  41. 41
    Gao, Robert X.
    Case Western Reserve University
  42. 42
    Lee, Taeyoung
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  43. 43
    Liberzon, Daniel
    The Grainger College of Engineering
  44. 44
    Goldberg, Ken Y.
    University of California, Berkeley
  45. 45
    Rusu, Radu Bogdan
    Open Perception, Inc.
  46. 46
    Rawlings, James B.
    The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering
  47. 47
    Mesbah, Ali
    University of California, Berkeley
  48. 48
    Carlone, Luca
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  49. 49
    Mataríc, Maja J.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  50. 50
    Kumar, Vijay R.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  51. 51
    Huang, Guoquan P.
    University of Delaware
  52. 52
    Koren, Yoram
    Michigan Engineering
  53. 53
    Cutkosky, Mark R.
    Stanford University
  54. 54
    Spong, Mark William
    Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
  55. 55
    Murphy, Robin Roberson
    Texas A&M University
  56. 56
    Zuo, Lei
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  57. 57
    Olson, Edwin B.
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  58. 58
    Varaiya, Pravin P.
    Purdue University
  59. 59
    Scassellati, Brian
    Yale University
  60. 60
    Dellaert, Frank
    College of Computing
  61. 61
    Grieves, Michael W.
    College of Engineering and Computer Science
  62. 62
  63. 63
    Pavone, Marco
    Stanford University
  64. 64
    Kaess, Michael
    Carnegie Mellon University
  65. 65
    How, Jonathan P.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  66. 66
  67. 67
    Spall, James C.
    Whiting School of Engineering
  68. 68
    Egerstedt, Magnus B.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  69. 69
    Tao, Gang
    University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
  70. 70
    Qian, Chunjiang
    Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design
  71. 71
    Wang, Yongqiang
    Clemson University
  72. 72
    Özel, Tuğrul
    Rutgers University–New Brunswick
  73. 73
    Taylor, Russell H.
    Whiting School of Engineering
  74. 74
    Cassandras, Christos G.
    Boston University College of Engineering
  75. 75
    Haddad, Wassim M.
    College of Engineering
  76. 76
    Lin, Zongli
    University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
  77. 77
    Cao, Jian
    Northwestern University
  78. 78
    Modares, Hamidreza
    Michigan State University
  79. 79
    Kavraki, Lydia E.
    Rice University
  80. 80
    Wu, Dazhong
    College of Engineering and Computer Science
  81. 81
    Hoffman, Guy
    Cornell University
  82. 82
    Dollar, Aaron M.
    Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
  83. 83
    Luenberger, David G.
    Stanford Engineering
  84. 84
    Jovanović, Mihailo R.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  85. 85
    Annaswamy, Anuradha M.
    MIT School of Engineering
  86. 86
    Zhou, Xunyu
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  87. 87
    Shtessel, Yuri B.
    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
  88. 88
    Kahn, Peter H.H.
    College of the Environment
  89. 89
    Khoshnevis, Professor Behrokh
    University of Southern California
  90. 90
    Sastry, Shankar S.
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
  91. 91
    Stentz, Anthony Tony
    Carnegie Mellon University
  92. 92
    Tsiotras, Panagiotis
    College of Engineering
  93. 93
    Bi, Zhuming
    Purdue University Fort Wayne
  94. 94
    Cao, Yongcan
    Margie and Bill Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design
  95. 95
    Jawahir, I. S.
    University of Kentucky
  96. 96
    Morse, A. Stephen
    Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
  97. 97
    Lozano-Pérez, Tomás
    MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  98. 98
    Parrilo, Pablo A.
    MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  99. 99
    Dixon, Warren E.
    Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
  100. 100
    Kim, Sangbae
    MIT School of Engineering

544 listed scientists in Industrial Engineering & Automation 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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