Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Engineering & Technology / Computer Science Highly Cited Researchers 327 Scientists Citation Rankings - 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) list highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
causality
artificial intelligence
structural equations
counterfactuals
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
151,378
51,525
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110,905
97,751
0.881
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Internet architecture
network protocol design
system security.
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,190
9,552
0.121
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Medical Image Analysis
Computer-Aided Design
Artificial Intelligence
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,009
11,452
0.151
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Cryptography
Theoretical Computer Science
Computational Complexity
Secure Computation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,339
21,559
0.340
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Bioinformatics
Genetics
Computer Science
Computational Biology
Computational Genetics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,243
22,000
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Computational Biology
Genetics
Statistics
Applied Mathematics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,827
13,230
0.283
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Machine Learning
Optimization
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,819
30,427
0.679
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Theoretical Computer Science
Cryptography
Computer Security
Complexity Theory
Distributed Algorithms
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,298
13,352
0.308
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
customized computing
FPGA
electronic design automation
quantum computing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,835
12,435
0.312
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
Vision
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,358
16,511
0.430
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
machine learning
ML for healthcare
compression and streaming
multi-user networking
game-theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,500
21,345
0.585
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Bioinformatics
Genetics
Computer Science
Computational Medicine
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,335
10,516
0.336
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Wireless networking
mobile systems
cloud computing
network security
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,033
3,170
0.106
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Information Networks
Knowledge Graphs
Graph Neural Networks
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,537
15,034
0.639
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Statistical Machine Learning
Nonconvex Optimization
Deep Learning Theory
Reinforcement Learning
AI for Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,560
16,933
0.751
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
artificial intelligence
knowledge representation and reasoning
machine learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,385
6,170
0.336
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Database management
performance evaluation
data mining
storage
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,040
1,284
0.071
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Machine learning in heliospheric physics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,385
9,093
0.523
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Databases
Data Mining
Web Information Systems
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,467
3,216
0.208
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Database
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,566
1,745
0.120
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Heuristic Search
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,227
2,186
0.154
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Computational Imaging
Biomedical Imaging
Compressed Sensing
Inverse Problems
Machine Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,335
10,805
0.810
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Genomics
EHR
Wearable Devices
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,854
10,362
0.874
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Natural Language Processing
Controllable Generation
Multimodal Foundation Models
Evaluation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,183
10,265
0.918
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,438
632
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Judea Pearl
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
151,378
51,525
0.340
causality
artificial intelligence
structural equations
counterfactuals
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
2,637
1,245
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Liang Chieh Jay Chen|Liang-Chieh Chen
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
110,905
97,751
0.881
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,903
2,330
43
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Lixia Zhang
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,190
9,552
0.121
Internet architecture
network protocol design
system security.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
5,233
2,466
46
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Demetri Terzopoulos
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
76,009
11,452
0.151
Computer Graphics
Computer Vision
Medical Image Analysis
Computer-Aided Design
Artificial Intelligence
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,053
3,340
70
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Amit Sahai
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,339
21,559
0.340
Cryptography
Theoretical Computer Science
Computational Complexity
Secure Computation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,614
4,568
98
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Eleazar Eskin
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,243
22,000
0.421
Bioinformatics
Genetics
Computer Science
Computational Biology
Computational Genetics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,381
5,386
118
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Kenneth Lange
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,827
13,230
0.283
Computational Biology
Genetics
Statistics
Applied Mathematics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,227
5,790
128
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Cho Jui Hsieh
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,819
30,427
0.679
Machine Learning
Optimization
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
12,945
6,129
134
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Rafail Ostrovsky
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
43,298
13,352
0.308
Theoretical Computer Science
Cryptography
Computer Security
Complexity Theory
Distributed Algorithms
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
14,816
6,981
150
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Jingsheng Jason Cong
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
39,835
12,435
0.312
customized computing
FPGA
electronic design automation
quantum computing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
15,719
7,389
161
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Stefano Soatto
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
38,358
16,511
0.430
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Robotics
Vision
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
16,977
7,960
175
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Mihaela Van Der Schaar
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
36,500
21,345
0.585
machine learning
ML for healthcare
compression and streaming
multi-user networking
game-theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
21,543
9,946
211
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Eran Halperin
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
31,335
10,516
0.336
Bioinformatics
Genetics
Computer Science
Computational Medicine
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
23,050
10,625
222
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Songwu Lu
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
30,033
3,170
0.106
Wireless networking
mobile systems
cloud computing
network security
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
33,092
14,881
304
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Yizhou Sun
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
23,537
15,034
0.639
Information Networks
Knowledge Graphs
Graph Neural Networks
Data Mining
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
35,077
15,733
317
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Quanquan Gu
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
22,560
16,933
0.751
Statistical Machine Learning
Nonconvex Optimization
Deep Learning Theory
Reinforcement Learning
AI for Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
46,660
20,301
399
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Adnan Darwiche
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,385
6,170
0.336
artificial intelligence
knowledge representation and reasoning
machine learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
47,884
20,789
406
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Richard R Muntz
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
18,040
1,284
0.071
Database management
performance evaluation
data mining
storage
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
50,337
21,764
419
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Jacob Bortnik
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,385
9,093
0.523
Machine learning in heliospheric physics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
58,824
25,011
466
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Carlo Zaniolo
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
15,467
3,216
0.208
Databases
Data Mining
Web Information Systems
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
63,607
26,805
502
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Junghoo Cho
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,566
1,745
0.120
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
65,668
27,588
518
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Richard E Korf
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,227
2,186
0.154
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
71,368
29,650
556
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Yair Rivenson
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,335
10,805
0.810
Computational Imaging
Biomedical Imaging
Compressed Sensing
Inverse Problems
Machine Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
82,460
33,651
622
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Brunilda Balliu
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,854
10,362
0.874
Genomics
EHR
Wearable Devices
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
88,452
35,804
652
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Nanyun (Violet) Peng
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
11,183
10,265
0.918
Natural Language Processing
Controllable Generation
Multimodal Foundation Models
Evaluation