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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Networking & Telecommunications?

889 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Networking & Telecommunications are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list: 1.2% of all listed authors in the United States, and 2nd of 81 countries in the subfield. 245 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). College of Engineering has the most (49), followed by Google LLC (17) and Nokia Bell Labs (16). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors

889

1.2% of all in the United States

In the global top 100,000

245

27.6% of them

Country rank in the subfield

of 81 countries in Networking & Telecommunications

Highest-ranked

#98

Shannon, Claude E.

#	Institution	Listed authors	Top 100k	Rank worldwide	Highest-ranked author
1	College of Engineering	49	10	#5	Ho, K. C. #13,231
2	Google LLC	17	3	#29	Jacobson, Van L. #46,744
3	Nokia Bell Labs	16	2	#31	Slepian, David V. #37,197
4	Stanford University	14	7	#37	Donoho, David L. #217
5	Electrical and Computer Engineering Department	13	5	#43	Rebeiz, Gabriel M. #8,370
6	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	13	8	#47	Forney, G. David #15,743
7	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	13	3	#51	Varshney, Lav R. #62,361
8	Purdue University	12	3	#55	Wolfe, Patrick J. #9,001
9	Carnegie Mellon University	12	3	#58	Chi, Yuejie #25,537
10	University of California, San Diego	11	3	#63	Heath Jr., Robert W. #4,830
11	Northeastern University	10	3	#75	Stojanovic, Milica #14,838
12	Virginia Tech College of Engineering	9	3	#84	Saad, Walid M. #3,451
13	NYU Tandon School of Engineering	9	3	#85	Rappaport, Theodore S. #4,241
14	The University of Texas at Austin	9	2	#89	Humphreys, Todd E. #24,678
15	University of California, Los Angeles	9	1	#97	Needell, Deanna #41,171
16	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	9	4	#99	Sarabandi, Kamal #50,815
17	Georgia Institute of Technology	9	1	#104	Lee, Wenke #94,581
18	Stanford Engineering	8	3	#109	Gray, Robert Molten #16,415
19	University of California, Berkeley	8	3	#111	Paxson, Vern E. #20,313
20	The Ohio State University	8	3	#112	Kassas, Zaher M. #22,220
21	The Grainger College of Engineering	8	1	#114	Jin, Jianming #31,863
22	School of Engineering and Applied Science	7	4	#128	Vincent Poor, H. Vincent #636
23	National Institute of Standards and Technology	7	1	#130	Holloway, Christopher L. #22,258
24	School of Electrical and Computer Engineering	7	3	#136	Bloch, Matthieu R. #42,905
25	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	7	0	#151	Lou, Wenjing #136,843
26	MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	6	2	#153	Shannon, Claude E. #98
27	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering	6	3	#155	Rabiner, Lawrence R. #6,417
28	University of Southern California	6	2	#156	Molisch, Andreas F. #9,603
29	NVIDIA	6	2	#157	Lin, Xingqin #11,597
30	Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering	6	3	#160	Alkhateeb, Ahmed #14,404
31	UW-Madison College of Engineering	6	3	#166	Nowak, Robert D. #33,704
32	College of Engineering and Computer Science	6	2	#175	Varshney, Pramod Kumar #72,454
33	University of Washington	6	1	#176	Anderson, Thomas E. #75,571
34	University of California, Irvine	5	2	#198	Swindlehurst, A. Lee #9,038
35	NC State University	5	2	#202	Combettes, Patrick L. #12,719
36	Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering	5	2	#207	Pozar, David M. #17,510
37	Pratt School of Engineering	5	1	#210	Calderbank, Robert Robert #21,003
38	USC Viterbi School of Engineering	5	2	#213	Reed, Irving S. #39,384
39	University of California, Santa Barbara	5	1	#215	Zhou, Yong #49,951
40	U.S. Army Research Laboratory	5	1	#218	Swami, Ananthram #51,992
41	University of Wisconsin-Madison	5	1	#219	McDaniel, Patrick D. #62,418
42	MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory	5	1	#222	Balakrishnan, Hari Ram #84,481
43	Microsoft Corporation.	5	0	#236	Kim, Taesoo #153,335
44	California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science	4	3	#244	Tropp, Joel A. #1,893
45	A. James Clark School of Engineering	4	2	#245	Marzetta, Thomas L. #2,488
46	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	4	2	#247	Hong, Mingyi #13,432
47	School of Computer Science	4	2	#203	Satyanarayanan, Mahadev #14,010
48	Princeton University	4	1	#253	Verdù, Sergio #16,961
49	UCLA Samueli School of Engineering	4	1	#254	Rahmat-Samii, Yahya #17,065
50	University of Maryland, College Park	4	2	#257	Song, Houbing Herbert #22,728
51	Yale University	4	2	#263	Tassiulas, Leandros #28,466
52	University of Virginia	4	1	#266	Stankovic, John A. #29,360
53	Department of Computer Science	4	1	#268	Liu, Junyu #31,473
54	Kennesaw State University	4	1	#272	Parizi, Reza Meimandi #36,393
55	University of California, Davis	4	2	#277	Gunasekaran, M. #49,588
56	McKelvey School of Engineering	4	2	#279	Jain, Raj K. #54,742
57	University of California, Riverside	4	1	#281	Li, Jun #56,218
58	George Mason University	4	2	#283	Zeng, Kai #59,324
59	Jet Propulsion Laboratory	4	1	#293	Simon, Marvin Kenneth #82,233
60	P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science	4	1	#296	Blum, Rick S. #91,336
61	Qualcomm Incorporated	4	0	#302	Richardson, Tom J. #101,785
62	The University of Chicago	4	0	#303	Feamster, Nick #102,488
63	Microsoft Research	4	0	#304	Herley, Cormac #103,969
64	LLC	4	0	#305	Viterbi, Andrew J. #104,472
65	Cullen College of Engineering	4	0	#308	Jackson, David R. #113,605
66	University of Massachusetts Amherst	4	0	#313	Houmansadr, Amir #125,299
67	FIU College of Engineering and Computing	4	0	#318	Akkaya, Kemal #150,522
68	Penn State College of Engineering	4	0	#321	Swaminathan, Madhavan #157,538
69	School of Engineering and Applied Sciences	4	0	#324	Xu, Wenyao #178,233
70	Microsoft Corporation	4	0	#329	Kotaru, Manikanta #203,701
71	UNT College of Engineering	4	0	#332	Aledhari, Mohammed #212,771
72	Duke University	3	2	#339	Daubechies, Ingrid C. #3,050
73	Rice University	3	2	#341	Baraniuk, Richard G. #3,564
74	California Institute of Technology	3	1	#343	Low, Stephen H. #5,229
75	University of Kentucky	3	1	#345	Zeadally, Sherali #7,557
76	Harvard University	3	2	#346	Mitzenmacher, Michael D. #9,184
77	University of Delaware College of Engineering	3	2	#347	Xia, Xianggen #9,878
78	New York University	3	1	#348	Rangan, Sundeep #10,068
79	The University of Arizona	3	1	#350	Ziolkowski, Richard W. #11,631
80	Cockrell School of Engineering	3	1	#351	Andrews, Jeffrey G. #12,023
81	Pennsylvania State University	3	1	#358	Werner, Douglas H. #20,799
82	IEEE	3	1	#363	Wyner, Aaron D. #23,278
83	New Jersey Institute of Technology	3	1	#368	Ansari, Nirwan #27,812
84	NC State College of Engineering	3	1	#371	Güvenç, İsmail #31,247
85	Cornell University College of Engineering	3	2	#375	Monticone, Francesco #37,884
86	College of Engineering and Applied Sciences	3	1	#383	Djuríc, Petar M. M. #47,526
87	Samuel Ginn College of Engineering	3	1	#385	Mao, Shiwen J.T. #51,687
88	College of Engineering and Applied Science	3	1	#387	Popovic, Zoya Basta #54,806
89	MITRE Corporation	3	1	#390	Clancy, T. Charles #59,551
90	OpenAI, Inc.	3	1	#394	Handley, Mark James #62,938
91	Ericsson Inc.	3	2	#398	Mozaffari, Mohammad #67,781
92	Columbia University	3	2	#402	Jana, Suman #72,700
93	Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science	3	2	#410	Yao, Yudong #77,112
94	Northwestern University	3	1	#412	Taflove, Allen #79,991
95	UW College of Engineering	3	0	#422	Roesner, Franziska #101,542
96	Meharry Medical College	3	0	#429	Ghosh, Uttam #122,849
97	Amazon.com, Inc.	3	0	#432	Khan, Usman A. #128,668
98	University at Buffalo, The State University of New York	3	0	#437	Qiao, Chunming #135,533
99	Arizona State University	3	0	#438	Xue, Guotliang #141,894
100	Texas A&M University	3	0	#454	Gu, Guofei #183,877
101	Colorado School of Mines	3	0	#455	Yang, Dejun #189,485
102	University of Florida	3	0	#458	Thai, My T. #196,404

The top 100 in Networking & Telecommunications in the United States, in order

1
Shannon, Claude E.
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2
Donoho, David L.
Stanford University
3
Vincent Poor, H. Vincent
School of Engineering and Applied Science
4
Alù, Andrea
The City University of New York
5
Wainwright., Martin J.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
6
Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond
The University of Texas at San Antonio
7
Cover, Thomas M.
Stanford University
8
Tropp, Joel A.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
9
Engheta, Nader S.
University of Pennsylvania
10
Marzetta, Thomas L.
A. James Clark School of Engineering
11
Goldsmith, Andréa J.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
12
Daubechies, Ingrid C.
Duke University
13
Akyìldìz, Ian Fuat
Truva Inc
14
Saad, Walid M.
Virginia Tech College of Engineering
15
Baraniuk, Richard G.
Rice University
16
Rappaport, Theodore S.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
17
Heath Jr., Robert W.
University of California, San Diego
18
Low, Stephen H.
California Institute of Technology
19
Stoica, Ion
Arena Intelligence Inc
20
Han, Zhu
University of Houston
21
Rabiner, Lawrence R.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
22
Zeadally, Sherali
University of Kentucky
23
Rebeiz, Gabriel M.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
24
Montanari, Andrea
Stanford University
25
Li, Jian N.
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
26
Wolfe, Patrick J.
Purdue University
27
Swindlehurst, A. Lee
University of California, Irvine
28
Mitzenmacher, Michael D.
Harvard University
29
Yates, Roy D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
30
Molisch, Andreas F.
University of Southern California
31
Xia, Xianggen
University of Delaware College of Engineering
32
Selesnick, Ivan W.
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
33
Rangan, Sundeep
New York University
34
Vaidyanathan, Palghat P.
California Institute of Technology Division of Engineering and Applied Science
35
Lin, Xingqin
NVIDIA
36
Ziolkowski, Richard W.
The University of Arizona
37
Hossain, Eklas
Boise State University
38
Andrews, Jeffrey G.
Cockrell School of Engineering
39
Combettes, Patrick L.
NC State University
40
Ho, K. C.
College of Engineering
41
Hong, Mingyi
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
42
Rawat, Danda B.
Howard University
43
Satyanarayanan, Mahadev
School of Computer Science
44
Alkhateeb, Ahmed
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
45
Stojanovic, Milica
Northeastern University
46
Amin, Moeness G.
Villanova University
47
Shi, Weisong
Wayne State University
48
Forney, G. David
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
49
Mingzhe, Chen
University of Miami
50
Kailath, Thomas
Stanford University
51
Gray, Robert Molten
Stanford Engineering
52
Verdù, Sergio
Princeton University
53
Rahmat-Samii, Yahya
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
54
Nguyen, Dinh C.
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
55
Pozar, David M.
Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
56
Welch, Peter D.
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
57
Polyanskiy, Yury
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
58
Haupt, Randy Larry
Haupt Associates
59
Haenggi, Martin
College of Engineering
60
Gallager, Robert G.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
61
Paxson, Vern E.
University of California, Berkeley
62
Jornet, Josep Miquel
College of Engineering
63
Werner, Douglas H.
Pennsylvania State University
64
Calderbank, Robert Robert
Pratt School of Engineering
65
Kassas, Zaher M.
The Ohio State University
66
Holloway, Christopher L.
National Institute of Standards and Technology
67
Song, Houbing Herbert
University of Maryland, College Park
68
Wyner, Aaron D.
IEEE
69
Sidiropoulos, Nicholas D.
University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science
70
Schafer, Ronald W.
Stanford University
71
Friedlander, Benjamin
Baskin School of Engineering
72
Humphreys, Todd E.
The University of Texas at Austin
73
McKeown, Nick W.
Stanford Engineering
74
Chi, Yuejie
Carnegie Mellon University
75
Giannakis, Georgios B.
College of Science and Engineering
76
Tse, David N.C.
Byzantine Research
77
Chew, W. C.
Purdue University
78
Ansari, Nirwan
New Jersey Institute of Technology
79
Munk, Benedikt A.
The Ohio State University
80
Tassiulas, Leandros
Yale University
81
Barron, Andrew R.
Yale University
82
Stankovic, John A.
University of Virginia
83
Siegel, Peter H.
Cover
84
Nehorai, Arye
Washington University in St. Louis
85
Kung, H. T.
Harvard University
86
Güvenç, İsmail
NC State College of Engineering
87
Liu, Junyu
Department of Computer Science
88
Jin, Jianming
The Grainger College of Engineering
89
Xiong, Naixue Naixue
Sul Ross State University
90
Nowak, Robert D.
UW-Madison College of Engineering
91
Li, Changzhi
Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering
92
Bardin, Joseph C.
Daniel J. Riccio Jr. College of Engineering
93
Parizi, Reza Meimandi
Kennesaw State University
94
Hoydis, Jakob
NVIDIA
95
Cai, Zhipeng
Georgia State University
96
Slepian, David V.
Nokia Bell Labs
97
Ribeiro, Alejandro R.
School of Engineering and Applied Science
98
Monticone, Francesco
Cornell University College of Engineering
99
Wang, Shiqiang
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
100
Reed, Irving S.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering

889 listed scientists in Networking & Telecommunications in the United States

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