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Top institutions in the United States for Software Engineering

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Which institutions in the United States have the most top-cited scientists in Software Engineering?

188 researchers in the United States whose main subfield is Software Engineering 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 31 countries in the subfield. 74 of them rank in the global top 100,000 by composite citation score (c, excluding self-citations). NVIDIA has the most (13), followed by Adobe Inc. (7) and Microsoft Research (7). A row opens its scientists in the table of all authors.

Listed authors
188
0.3% of all in the United States
In the global top 100,000
74
39.4% of them
Country rank in the subfield
#1
of 31 countries in Software Engineering
Highest-ranked
#1,558
Karras, Tero
#InstitutionListed authorsTop 100kRank worldwideHighest-ranked author
1NVIDIA139#1Karras, Tero #1,558
2Adobe Inc.73#3Levoy, Marc #8,566
3Microsoft Research74#4Godefroid, Patrice #25,149
4Carnegie Mellon University74#5Ozkaya, Ipek #56,345
5Meta51#9Lipman, Yaron #15,349
6Massachusetts Institute of Technology52#12Solomon, Justin M. #38,741
7Stanford University53#13Fedkiw, Ronald P. #48,616
8University of California, Davis51#14Devanbu, Prem Thomas #86,821
9University of Washington43#15Heer, Jeffrey M. #5,269
10University of Maryland, College Park42#16Manocha, Dinesh #29,209
11Georgia Institute of Technology42#18Staško, John T.Ga #37,920
12Northeastern University40#20Tory, Melanie K. #122,774
13University of California, San Diego32#24Guo, Philip J. #18,476
14University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign31#25Zhang, Lingming #21,228
15Department of Computer Science31#34Zomorodian, Afra #61,602
16Purdue University32#36Tan, Lin #67,525
17The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill31#37Brooks, Frederick P. #78,480
18The University of Utah31#40Yuksel, Cem #90,512
19New York University30#42Zorin, Denis N. #136,166
20Northern Arizona University30#48Groce, Alex D. #212,894

The top 100 in Software Engineering in the United States, in order

  1. 1
  2. 2
    Heer, Jeffrey M.
    University of Washington
  3. 3
    Levoy, Marc
    Adobe Inc.
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7
    Guo, Philip J.
    University of California, San Diego
  8. 8
    Ramamoorthi, Ravi
    University of California, San Diego
  9. 9
    Durand, Frědo
    MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
  10. 10
    Boehm, Barry W.
    USC Viterbi School of Engineering
  11. 11
    Debevec, Paul E.
    Eyeline Studios
  12. 12
    Zhang, Lingming
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  13. 13
    Zimmermann, Thomas
    University of California, Irvine
  14. 14
    Rusinkiewicz, Szymon M.
    School of Engineering and Applied Science
  15. 15
    Sen, Koushik
    University of California, Berkeley
  16. 16
    Gulwani, Sumit
    Microsoft Corporation.
  17. 17
  18. 18
    Godefroid, Patrice
    Microsoft Research
  19. 19
    Azuma, Ronald T.
    HRL Laboratories
  20. 20
    Manocha, Dinesh
    University of Maryland, College Park
  21. 21
    Gleicher, Michael L.
    School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences
  22. 22
    Wang, Wenping
    Texas A&M University
  23. 23
    Pfister, Hanspeter
    Harvard University
  24. 24
    Williams, Laurie A.
    NC State College of Engineering
  25. 25
    Crane, Keenan
    Roblox Corporation
  26. 26
    Staško, John T.Ga
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  27. 27
    Solomon, Justin M.
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  28. 28
  29. 29
    Matusik, Wojciech
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  30. 30
  31. 31
    Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard
    University of California, Berkeley
  32. 32
  33. 33
    Menzies, Tim J.
    NC State University
  34. 34
    Ware, Colin R.
    University of New Hampshire Durham
  35. 35
    Fedkiw, Ronald P.
    Stanford University
  36. 36
    Agrawala, Maneesh
    Stanford University
  37. 37
    Ozkaya, Ipek
    Carnegie Mellon University
  38. 38
  39. 39
    Bowman, Doug Andre
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  40. 40
    Kajiya, James T.
    Microsoft Research
  41. 41
    Zwicker, Matthias
    University of Maryland, College Park
  42. 42
    Zomorodian, Afra
    Department of Computer Science
  43. 43
    Bird, Christian A.
    Microsoft Research
  44. 44
    Guo, Baining
    Microsoft Research
  45. 45
    Feiner, Steven K.
    The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
  46. 46
    Jiang, Chenfanfu
    University of California, Los Angeles
  47. 47
    Tan, Lin
    Purdue University
  48. 48
    Just, René
    University of Washington
  49. 49
    Paris, Sylvain
    Adobe Inc.
  50. 50
    Schmidt, Douglas C.
    William & Mary
  51. 51
    Zhang, Xiangyu
    Purdue University
  52. 52
    Herbsleb, James D.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  53. 53
    Hanrahan, Pat M.
    Stanford Engineering
  54. 54
    Lindstrom, Peter G.
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  55. 55
    Mockus, Audris
    The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  56. 56
    Turk, Greg
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  57. 57
  58. 58
  59. 59
    Brooks, Frederick P.
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  60. 60
    Ray, Baishakhi
    Columbia University
  61. 61
    Reynolds, John C.
    Carnegie Mellon University
  62. 62
    Hodgins, Jessica K.
    RAI Institute
  63. 63
    Liu, Carl Karen
    Stanford University
  64. 64
    Farouki, Rida T.
    College of Engineering
  65. 65
    Devanbu, Prem Thomas
    University of California, Davis
  66. 66
    Seaman, Carolyn Budinger
    University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
  67. 67
    Ernst, Michael D.
    University of Washington
  68. 68
    Yuksel, Cem
    The University of Utah
  69. 69
    Weiser, Mark D.
    Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
  70. 70
    Wong, Weichen Eric
    Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
  71. 71
  72. 72
    Le Goues, Claire
    Carnegie Mellon University
  73. 73
    Cai, Haipeng
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
  74. 74
    Cleland-Huang, Jane Huang
    University of Notre Dame
  75. 75
    Nguyen, Tien Nhut
    The University of Texas at Dallas
  76. 76
    Rahman, Akond Ashfaque Ur
    Auburn University
  77. 77
  78. 78
  79. 79
    Garland, Michael
    Hugging Face
  80. 80
    Appel, Andrew W.
    Princeton University
  81. 81
    Vasilescu, Bogdan
    Carnegie Mellon University
  82. 82
    Szafir, Danielle Albers
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  83. 83
    Ju, Tao
    Washington University in St. Louis
  84. 84
    Holden, Daniel
    Epic Games, Inc.
  85. 85
    Ma, Kkwan Liu
    University of California, Davis
  86. 86
    Poshyvanyk, Denys
    William & Mary
  87. 87
  88. 88
    Goldman, Daniel B.
    University of Washington
  89. 89
    Tory, Melanie K.
    Northeastern University
  90. 90
    Xiao, Xusheng
    Arizona State University
  91. 91
    Kazhdan, Michael M.
    Johns Hopkins University
  92. 92
    Kalantari, Nima Khademi
    Texas A&M University
  93. 93
    Parnin, Chris
    Microsoft Corporation
  94. 94
    Kim, Miryung
    University of California, Los Angeles
  95. 95
    Owens, John D.
    University of California, Davis
  96. 96
    Brun, Yuriy
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  97. 97
    Zorin, Denis N.
    New York University
  98. 98
    Schell, Jesse
    Schell Games LLC
  99. 99
    Kosara, Robert
    Observable
  100. 100
    LaViola, Joseph J.
    College of Engineering and Computer Science

188 listed scientists in Software Engineering 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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