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AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars

The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List will name 2,000 of the world’s top-cited research scholars from the fields of artificial intelligence over the next ten years (2020–2029). The list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact. Inclusion is determined solely based on the Tsinghua AMiner academic data, which indexes more than 133 million expert profiles and 270 million publications. The AMiner academic search system has been in operation on the Internet since 2006 and has been visited by more than 10 million independent IP accesses from over 220 countries and regions.

The AI 2000 Annual List covers 20 sub-fields, including AAAI/IJCAI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Knowledge Engineering, Speech Recognition, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Recommendation, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Visualization, Security and Privacy, Computer Networking, Computer Systems, Theory of Computation, Chip Technology and Internet of Things. Each year, the top 10 most-cited scholars from the top venues of their respective subject fields over the past 10 years will be named as “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars” and the top 11–100 scholars will be awarded as “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention”.

Our annual lists are automatically generated and determined by computer algorithms deployed in the AMiner system that tracks and ranks scholars based on citation counts collected by top-venue publications. The previous lists are officially recognized by world-renowned universities and organizations, including the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Duke University, National University of Singapore, and others.

The 2020 AI 2000 Annual List recognizes 200 Most Influential Scholar Award winners and 1800 nominees, 1126 of which are from the United States, 174 from China, and 307 from the European Union. Among the list, many of the scholars have made outstanding contributions to several fields, such as Yoshua Bengio and Alex J. Smola—each recognized for contributions to four distinct fields. The detailed statistics of the 2020 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar List are provided below, including distributions of multi-field winners, countries, institutes, and gender.

Women in AI

Among the 2020 AI 2000 scholars, 179 of them are females, corresponding to a 9.7% percentage. The detail of AI 2000 female scholars can be found at the 2020 Women in AI List (https://www.aminer.cn/women-in-ai).

In terms of country distribution, the ratio of female AI 2000 scholars in the US reaches 10.3%, which is a little higher than the global average. The UK, Canada, and France have 13-17% of scholars being females, way above the 9.7% average. However, the percentages of female scholars in China and German are only 6.9% and 3.8%, respectively, which are far lower than the global average.

At the institution level, both Google and Microsoft have 10 female scholars named as AI 2000 scholars, but the ratio of females in Google is only 6.2%, much below 9.7% (the overall average) and much lower than Microsoft's 12.3%. Both the ratios of MIT and UW are above 18%, close to two times of the average. When it comes to Tsinghua--the only Chinese organization among top 10, this ratio is 12.5%, higher than Stanford's 10.5% and UC Berkeley's and CMU's 7%.

Finally, the fields with the most female scholars are Human-Computer Interaction (26%) and Visualization (17%), and the third most fields include Natural Language Processing, Computer Networking, and Theory, all of which have 10% of scholars being females. All other fields have lower female ratios than the overall average and the field that has the largest gender gap is Machine Learning, in which only 2% of scholars are females.

AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars in Multiple Fields

Four Appearances

Yoshua Bengio
h-index: 149|#Paper: 816|#Citation: 195748
Professor
- #3in Machine Learning
- #4in Natural Language Processing
- #22in AAAI/IJCAI
- #34in Speech Recognition
Alex J. Smola
h-index: 113|#Paper: 364|#Citation: 111797
distinguished scientist / VP
- #40in Data Mining
- #46in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #80in Machine Learning
- #86in Computer Systems

Three Appearances

Trevor Darrell
h-index: 119|#Paper: 552|#Citation: 102039
- #1in Multimedia
- #6in Computer Vision
- #45in Machine Learning
Ross B. Girshick
h-index: 63|#Paper: 103|#Citation: 98299
- #2in Multimedia
- #5in Computer Vision
- #23in Machine Learning
Christian Szegedy
h-index: 17|#Paper: 35|#Citation: 59568
- #2in AAAI/IJCAI
- #7in Computer Vision
- #13in Machine Learning
Vincent Vanhoucke
h-index: 32|#Paper: 71|#Citation: 37894
- #2in AAAI/IJCAI
- #16in Computer Vision
- #82in Speech Recognition
Sergey Ioffe
h-index: 26|#Paper: 62|#Citation: 26795
- #2in AAAI/IJCAI
- #25in Machine Learning
- #88in Computer Vision
Jeff Donahue
h-index: 46|#Paper: 59|#Citation: 140498
- #2in Multimedia
- #26in Computer Vision
- #75in Machine Learning
Carlos Guestrin
h-index: 70|#Paper: 186|#Citation: 30970
- #2in Data Mining
- #26in Computer Systems
- #77in Natural Language Processing
Richard Socher
h-index: 50|#Paper: 133|#Citation: 52591
- #2in Natural Language Processing
- #30in Computer Vision
- #51in Machine Learning
Jiawei Han
h-index: 176|#Paper: 1271|#Citation: 185954
- #3in Data Mining
- #42in Database
- #54in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Ion Stoica
h-index: 129|#Paper: 515|#Citation: 134318
- #5in Computer Networking
- #15in Database
- #17in Computer Systems
Andrew Y. Ng
h-index: 121|#Paper: 351|#Citation: 148515
- #6in Natural Language Processing
- #17in Machine Learning
- #83in Robotics
Tomas Mikolov
h-index: 36|#Paper: 73|#Citation: 46743
- #8in Machine Learning
- #47in Speech Recognition
- #63in Natural Language Processing
Yu Zheng
h-index: 66|#Paper: 183|#Citation: 22030
- #10in Data Mining
- #16in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #52in AAAI/IJCAI
Shuicheng Yan
h-index: 103|#Paper: 788|#Citation: 47220
- #12in Multimedia
- #44in Computer Vision
- #51in AAAI/IJCAI
Huan Liu
h-index: 98|#Paper: 770|#Citation: 49810
- #20in Data Mining
- #30in AAAI/IJCAI
- #97in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Scott Shenker
h-index: 170|#Paper: 538|#Citation: 169585
- #28in Computer Networking
- #51in Computer Systems
- #94in Database
Irwin King
h-index: 60|#Paper: 367|#Citation: 15180
- #34in AAAI/IJCAI
- #44in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #56in Data Mining
Liqiang Nie
h-index: 38|#Paper: 194|#Citation: 5867
- #34in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #75in Multimedia
- #100in AAAI/IJCAI
Michael R. Lyu
h-index: 86|#Paper: 680|#Citation: 31912
- #36in AAAI/IJCAI
- #49in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #56in Data Mining
Xia Ben Hu
h-index: 34|#Paper: 164|#Citation: 5398
- #36in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #69in AAAI/IJCAI
- #97in Data Mining

Two Appearances

Geoffrey E. Hinton
h-index: 163|#Paper: 487|#Citation: 422619
- #1in Speech Recognition
- #2in Machine Learning
Jure Leskovec
h-index: 98|#Paper: 300|#Citation: 63747
- #1in Data Mining
- #5in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Kaiming He
h-index: 54|#Paper: 88|#Citation: 109143
- #1in Computer Vision
- #20in Machine Learning
Jeffrey Heer
h-index: 61|#Paper: 159|#Citation: 19640
- #1in Visualization
- #21in Human-Computer Interaction
Qiang Yang
h-index: 106|#Paper: 634|#Citation: 53637
- #1in AAAI/IJCAI
- #43in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Michael J. Franklin
h-index: 100|#Paper: 342|#Citation: 54426
- #1in Database
- #75in Computer Systems
Christopher D. Manning
h-index: 118|#Paper: 475|#Citation: 122938
- #1in Natural Language Processing
- #85in Machine Learning
Jeffrey Dean
h-index: 85|#Paper: 223|#Citation: 146763
- #2in Computer Systems
- #10in Machine Learning
Yangqing Jia
h-index: 32|#Paper: 67|#Citation: 102671
- #2in Multimedia
- #19in Computer Vision
Jian Sun
h-index: 75|#Paper: 189|#Citation: 103609
- #2in Computer Vision
- #21in Machine Learning
Evan Shelhamer
h-index: 17|#Paper: 25|#Citation: 129252
- #2in Multimedia
- #37in Computer Vision
Jonathan Long
h-index: 7|#Paper: 9|#Citation: 41399
- #2in Multimedia
- #38in Computer Vision
Brent Waters
h-index: 79|#Paper: 246|#Citation: 52803
- #2in Theory
- #86in Security and Privacy
Shaoqing Ren
h-index: 14|#Paper: 22|#Citation: 70489
- #3in Computer Vision
- #31in Machine Learning
Alex Graves
h-index: 55|#Paper: 86|#Citation: 30325
- #3in Speech Recognition
- #40in Machine Learning
Jens Lehmann
h-index: 45|#Paper: 229|#Citation: 14254
- #3in Knowledge Engineering
- #96in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Hanspeter Pfister
h-index: 73|#Paper: 425|#Citation: 24805
- #4in Visualization
- #63in Computer Graphics
Pieter Abbeel
h-index: 85|#Paper: 348|#Citation: 30970
- #5in Robotics
- #33in Machine Learning
Jon M. Kleinberg
h-index: 118|#Paper: 421|#Citation: 90867
- #6in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #19in Data Mining
Maosong Sun
h-index: 49|#Paper: 403|#Citation: 12519
- #6in AAAI/IJCAI
- #58in Natural Language Processing
Kyunghyun Cho
h-index: 46|#Paper: 186|#Citation: 34601
- #7in Natural Language Processing
- #18in Machine Learning
Patrick Drew McDaniel
h-index: 72|#Paper: 303|#Citation: 30558
- #7in Security and Privacy
- #19in Computer Systems
Ian Goodfellow
h-index: 44|#Paper: 94|#Citation: 43527
- #7in Machine Learning
- #66in Security and Privacy
Matthieu Devin
h-index: 16|#Paper: 29|#Citation: 32118
- #7in Computer Systems
- #82in Machine Learning
Rajat Monga
h-index: 13|#Paper: 22|#Citation: 18630
- #7in Computer Systems
- #82in Machine Learning
Zhiyuan Liu
h-index: 33|#Paper: 201|#Citation: 6585
- #8in AAAI/IJCAI
- #81in Natural Language Processing
Andrea Vedaldi
h-index: 66|#Paper: 192|#Citation: 36310
- #9in Multimedia
- #47in Computer Vision
Lorrie Faith Cranor
h-index: 88|#Paper: 358|#Citation: 25360
- #9in Human-Computer Interaction
- #72in Security and Privacy
Reynold Xin
h-index: 24|#Paper: 49|#Citation: 9826
- #9in Database
- #80in Computer Systems
Tat-Seng Chua
h-index: 80|#Paper: 637|#Citation: 24444
- #10in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #15in Multimedia
Xiaoou Tang
h-index: 116|#Paper: 624|#Citation: 68708
- #10in Computer Vision
- #88in Multimedia
Björn Schuller
h-index: 83|#Paper: 771|#Citation: 26171
- #11in Multimedia
- #13in Speech Recognition
Vladlen Koltun
h-index: 55|#Paper: 184|#Citation: 13580
- #11in Computer Graphics
- #63in Machine Learning
Dumitru Erhan
h-index: 26|#Paper: 58|#Citation: 55903
- #11in Computer Vision
- #74in Machine Learning
Quoc V. Le
h-index: 70|#Paper: 175|#Citation: 40787
- #12in Machine Learning
- #31in Speech Recognition
Dzmitry Bahdanau
h-index: 13|#Paper: 22|#Citation: 21188
- #12in Natural Language Processing
- #35in Machine Learning
Qiaozhu Mei
h-index: 45|#Paper: 152|#Citation: 10263
- #12in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #78in Data Mining
Xing Xie
h-index: 75|#Paper: 385|#Citation: 23744
- #13in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #16in Data Mining
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
h-index: 65|#Paper: 445|#Citation: 16569
- #13in Security and Privacy
- #37in Chip Technology
David Silver
h-index: 56|#Paper: 126|#Citation: 33914
- #13in AAAI/IJCAI
- #43in Machine Learning
Duncan J. Watts
h-index: 59|#Paper: 141|#Citation: 93782
- #13in Data Mining
- #72in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Lars Backstrom
h-index: 25|#Paper: 33|#Citation: 13007
- #14in Data Mining
- #37in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
John A. Stankovic
h-index: 100|#Paper: 482|#Citation: 39908
- #14in Chip Technology
- #62in Internet of Things
Florian Eyben
h-index: 47|#Paper: 157|#Citation: 10088
- #14in Multimedia
- #67in Speech Recognition
Oriol Vinyals
h-index: 59|#Paper: 154|#Citation: 40457
- #15in Machine Learning
- #16in Speech Recognition
Carlos Castillo
h-index: 57|#Paper: 204|#Citation: 14629
- #15in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #42in Data Mining
Winter Mason
h-index: 17|#Paper: 33|#Citation: 5467
- #15in Data Mining
- #85in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Kurt Konolige
h-index: 69|#Paper: 194|#Citation: 24826
- #15in Robotics
- #86in Computer Vision
Yoon Kim
h-index: 12|#Paper: 31|#Citation: 8191
- #16in Natural Language Processing
- #56in AAAI/IJCAI
Srikanth Kandula
h-index: 50|#Paper: 119|#Citation: 16342
- #17in Computer Networking
- #83in Computer Systems
Bongshin Lee
h-index: 46|#Paper: 206|#Citation: 7633
- #18in Visualization
- #36in Human-Computer Interaction
William Enck
h-index: 32|#Paper: 97|#Citation: 14358
- #19in Computer Systems
- #30in Security and Privacy
Matei Zaharia
h-index: 41|#Paper: 121|#Citation: 61129
- #20in Database
- #48in Computer Systems
Pierre Sermanet
h-index: 18|#Paper: 32|#Citation: 39054
- #20in Computer Vision
- #93in Machine Learning
Yi Yang
h-index: 69|#Paper: 488|#Citation: 16388
- #21in Multimedia
- #27in AAAI/IJCAI
Kun Zhou
h-index: 49|#Paper: 204|#Citation: 9348
- #22in Computer Graphics
- #22in Visualization
Eran Tromer
h-index: 40|#Paper: 91|#Citation: 10966
- #23in Security and Privacy
- #49in Theory
Frank Wolter
h-index: 66|#Paper: 263|#Citation: 14201
- #23in Knowledge Engineering
- #60in AAAI/IJCAI
Shimin Hu
h-index: 56|#Paper: 338|#Citation: 18810
- #23in Computer Graphics
- #79in Visualization
Chengxiang Zhai
h-index: 87|#Paper: 458|#Citation: 32765
- #23in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #80in Data Mining
Marc Pollefeys
h-index: 89|#Paper: 526|#Citation: 31160
- #24in Robotics
- #94in Computer Vision
Yann LeCun
h-index: 121|#Paper: 382|#Citation: 113550
- #24in Machine Learning
- #95in Computer Vision
Cameron Marlow
h-index: 31|#Paper: 70|#Citation: 11980
- #25in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #30in Human-Computer Interaction
David G. Andersen
h-index: 54|#Paper: 159|#Citation: 18250
- #25in Computer Systems
- #79in Computer Networking
Susan Dumais
h-index: 105|#Paper: 348|#Citation: 68130
- #26in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #60in Data Mining
Geoffrey Zweig
h-index: 44|#Paper: 169|#Citation: 12400
- #27in Speech Recognition
- #47in Natural Language Processing
Shahram Izadi
h-index: 71|#Paper: 297|#Citation: 20362
- #27in Computer Graphics
- #82in Human-Computer Interaction
Sergey Levine
h-index: 61|#Paper: 224|#Citation: 13076
- #28in Robotics
- #53in Machine Learning
Rob Fergus
h-index: 46|#Paper: 74|#Citation: 45489
- #28in Machine Learning
- #55in Computer Vision
Tieyan Liu
h-index: 53|#Paper: 311|#Citation: 13325
- #28in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #91in AAAI/IJCAI
Joseph E. Gonzalez
h-index: 25|#Paper: 76|#Citation: 7547
- #28in Computer Systems
- #96in Database
Krishna P. Gummadi
h-index: 52|#Paper: 186|#Citation: 32831
- #29in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #55in Computer Networking
Jun Zhao
h-index: 49|#Paper: 295|#Citation: 10284
- #29in AAAI/IJCAI
- #79in Natural Language Processing
Yehuda Koren
h-index: 54|#Paper: 126|#Citation: 23642
- #30in Data Mining
- #41in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Martin Ester
h-index: 62|#Paper: 216|#Citation: 35806
- #30in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #58in Data Mining
Carsten Lutz
h-index: 59|#Paper: 210|#Citation: 11424
- #30in Knowledge Engineering
- #94in AAAI/IJCAI
Hari Balakrishnan
h-index: 118|#Paper: 398|#Citation: 139610
- #32in Computer Networking
- #58in Computer Systems
Dinesh Manocha
h-index: 114|#Paper: 830|#Citation: 45755
- #32in Visualization
- #63in Robotics
Kang Liu
h-index: 31|#Paper: 125|#Citation: 4852
- #32in AAAI/IJCAI
- #95in Natural Language Processing
Sameer Singh
h-index: 23|#Paper: 92|#Citation: 6194
- #34in Data Mining
- #57in Natural Language Processing
Lei Zhang
h-index: 132|#Paper: 766|#Citation: 64044
- #35in Computer Vision
- #47in Multimedia
Marco Túlio Ribeiro
h-index: 7|#Paper: 22|#Citation: 2562
- #35in Data Mining
- #77in Natural Language Processing
Xiaodong He
h-index: 52|#Paper: 219|#Citation: 17364
- #36in Natural Language Processing
- #65in Speech Recognition
Hao Ma
h-index: 31|#Paper: 140|#Citation: 7643
- #37in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #49in Data Mining
Jason Weston
h-index: 80|#Paper: 194|#Citation: 52288
- #37in AAAI/IJCAI
- #79in Machine Learning
Jake M. Hofman
h-index: 25|#Paper: 40|#Citation: 6571
- #39in Data Mining
- #77in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Michael I. Jordan
h-index: 157|#Paper: 841|#Citation: 193938
- #39in Machine Learning
- #85in Computer Systems
Andrew Zisserman
h-index: 149|#Paper: 645|#Citation: 202126
- #41in Computer Vision
- #49in Machine Learning
Eytan Bakshy
h-index: 16|#Paper: 32|#Citation: 6331
- #41in Data Mining
- #59in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Alexander M. Rush
h-index: 26|#Paper: 75|#Citation: 6175
- #42in Natural Language Processing
- #56in AAAI/IJCAI
Jiliang Tang
h-index: 46|#Paper: 179|#Citation: 7582
- #43in Data Mining
- #49in AAAI/IJCAI
Antonio Torralba
h-index: 95|#Paper: 290|#Citation: 48965
- #43in Computer Vision
- #61in Machine Learning
Marc' Aurelio Ranzato
h-index: 47|#Paper: 98|#Citation: 21502
- #44in Machine Learning
- #88in Speech Recognition
Kunal Talwar
h-index: 48|#Paper: 161|#Citation: 11532
- #45in Theory
- #71in Computer Systems
Jaime Teevan
h-index: 53|#Paper: 175|#Citation: 11982
- #47in Human-Computer Interaction
- #61in Data Mining
Sylvia Ratnasamy
h-index: 65|#Paper: 137|#Citation: 36723
- #49in Computer Systems
- #78in Computer Networking
Felix Weninger
h-index: 35|#Paper: 116|#Citation: 4503
- #49in Multimedia
- #79in Speech Recognition
Ming C. Lin
h-index: 92|#Paper: 429|#Citation: 33370
- #50in Visualization
- #74in Computer Graphics
Zheng Chen
h-index: 56|#Paper: 194|#Citation: 13383
- #51in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #55in AAAI/IJCAI
Alan Mislove
h-index: 44|#Paper: 112|#Citation: 12851
- #52in Computer Networking
- #91in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Evgeniy Gabrilovich
h-index: 47|#Paper: 142|#Citation: 21106
- #52in Data Mining
- #93in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Jonathon Shlens
h-index: 29|#Paper: 71|#Citation: 19886
- #54in Machine Learning
- #63in Computer Vision
Hanwang Zhang
h-index: 30|#Paper: 160|#Citation: 4408
- #55in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #72in Multimedia
David M. Blei
h-index: 81|#Paper: 283|#Citation: 100182
- #57in Machine Learning
- #59in Data Mining
Mubarak Shah
h-index: 113|#Paper: 623|#Citation: 57105
- #57in Computer Vision
- #95in Multimedia
Barbara Poblete
h-index: 17|#Paper: 63|#Citation: 3617
- #58in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #82in Data Mining
Lars Schmidt-Thieme
h-index: 39|#Paper: 270|#Citation: 9952
- #60in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #69in Data Mining
Shwetak N. Patel
h-index: 49|#Paper: 191|#Citation: 10713
- #60in Human-Computer Interaction
- #90in Security and Privacy
Marcelo Mendoza
h-index: 16|#Paper: 68|#Citation: 4270
- #62in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #82in Data Mining
Antoine Bordes
h-index: 34|#Paper: 75|#Citation: 14281
- #62in Machine Learning
- #88in Natural Language Processing
Liangjie Hong
h-index: 19|#Paper: 50|#Citation: 3236
- #64in Data Mining
- #79in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Mausam
h-index: 35|#Paper: 104|#Citation: 6348
- #65in AAAI/IJCAI
- #71in Natural Language Processing
Steffen Rendle
h-index: 24|#Paper: 74|#Citation: 6346
- #65in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #71in Data Mining
Kilian Q. Weinberger
h-index: 52|#Paper: 159|#Citation: 20973
- #65in Machine Learning
- #74in Computer Vision
Erik G. Larsson
h-index: 64|#Paper: 655|#Citation: 27800
- #68in Internet of Things
- #74in Speech Recognition
Mohsen Jamali
h-index: 19|#Paper: 45|#Citation: 3131
- #70in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #100in Data Mining
Martial H. Hebert
h-index: 101|#Paper: 465|#Citation: 38492
- #72in Robotics
- #91in Computer Vision
Gerhard Weikum
h-index: 93|#Paper: 897|#Citation: 48443
- #73in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
- #97in AAAI/IJCAI
Daniel S. Weld
h-index: 98|#Paper: 327|#Citation: 41217
- #80in AAAI/IJCAI
- #85in Natural Language Processing
Amr Ahmed
h-index: 33|#Paper: 94|#Citation: 6005
- #84in Data Mining
- #86in Computer Systems
Jiashi Feng
h-index: 43|#Paper: 297|#Citation: 7371
- #90in AAAI/IJCAI
- #92in Multimedia

Country distribution of AI 2000 most influential scholars

Institute distribution of AI 2000 most influential scholars

Gender distribution of AI 2000 most influential scholars

AAAI/IJCAI
Male93%
Female7%
Machine Learning
Male98%
Female2%
Computer Vision
Male92%
Female8%
Natural Language Processing
Male88%
Female12%
Robotics
Male95%
Female5%
Knowledge Engineering
Male88%
Female12%
Speech Recognition
Male96%
Female4%
Data Mining
Male90%
Female10%
Information Retrieval and Recommendation
Male92%
Female8%
Database
Male96%
Female4%
Human-Computer Interaction
Male74%
Female26%
Computer Graphics
Male95%
Female5%
Multimedia
Male91%
Female9%
Visualization
Male83%
Female17%
Security and Privacy
Male88%
Female12%
Computer Networking
Male90%
Female10%
Computer Systems
Male92%
Female8%
Theory
Male90%
Female10%
Chip Technology
Male92%
Female8%
Internet of Things
Male91%
Female9%

Selection Rules:

1. Ranking Rules

Inclusion in the AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Annual List is determined as follows. For each of the 20 covered academic sub-fields, we collect all publications that have appeared in the top venues of this field over the past 10 years. We rank the authors of these publications based on their cumulative citation counts. The top 10 most-cited scholars are named as “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars” and the top 11–100 scholars are recognized as “AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Honorable Mention”. For example, the 2020 edition of AI 2000 in the field of Machine Learning selects the top 10 most cited scholars between the years 2009 and 2019 based on publications in ICML, NeurIPS, and ICLR, which are collectively identified as the top venues of this field.

The AI 2000 Annual List is automatically generated and determined by computer algorithms deployed in the AMiner system that tracks and ranks scholars based on citation counts collected by top-venue publications, Updated as of December 24, 2019.

2. About the Fields

To determine the AI 2000’s associated fields, a comprehensive reference is made to authoritative classification systems in computer science, including the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), China Computer Federation (CCF), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The final determination also incorporates the suggestions from global experts and scholars. Altogether, AI 2000 covers AAAI/IJCAI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Robotics, Knowledge Engineering, Speech Recognition, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Recommendation, Databases, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Visualization, Security and Privacy, Computer Networking, Computer Systems, Theory of Computation, Chip Technology and Internet of Things.

3. About the Top Venues

This year, the top journals and conferences recommended by the China Computer Federation (CCF) are used as the candidate venues, from which the Technical Committee formed by leading experts select the top venues for each field. The table below lists the top venues (dark ones) used in the 2020 edition of AI 2000 Annual List. For future versions, we sincerely invite all scholars to nominate the top venues of each field by using the “like” and “dislike” buttons in the table.

AAAI/IJCAI
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)90
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)30
International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)10
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)00
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)10
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)20
Artificial Intelligence (AI Journal)10
Machine Learning
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)30
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)40
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)50
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)10
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)00
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)00
Machine Learning (ML Journal)00
Computer Vision
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)50
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)20
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)20
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)11
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)10
Natural Language Processing
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)60
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)41
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)40
Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory (COLT)01
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)20
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)10
Robotics
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)30
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)20
The International Journal of Robotics Research 00
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 00
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 00
Knowledge Engineering
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)20
International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)20
Knowledge-Based Systems 00
Expert Systems with Applications 00
Semantic Web 00
Speech Recognition
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)30
Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 10
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing 00
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing 00
Data Mining
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)60
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)20
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)00
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)00
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)00
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)10
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD)00
Information Retrieval and Recommendation
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)20
ACM Recommender Systems (RecSys)21
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)20
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)00
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)20
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)00
Database
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)20
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)20
International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)00
The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ)00
Human-Computer Interaction
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)20
ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW)20
ACM Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)00
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)00
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)00
International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS)00
Computer Graphics
ACM SIGGRAPH Conference (SIGGRAPH)20
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)10
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG)00
IEEE Virtual Reality (VR)00
Computer Graphics Forum 00
Multimedia
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM)10
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)00
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)00
Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization & Computer Graphics (TVCG)10
IEEE Visualization Conference (IEEE VIS)10
Eurographics Conference on Visualization 00
IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 00
Security and Privacy
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)10
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)10
USENIX Security Symposium (USS)10
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)20
International Cryptology Conference (CRYPTO)20
European Cryptology Conference (EUROCRYPT)10
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)00
Computer Networking
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)10
ACM SIGCOMM Conference (SIGCOMM)30
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)00
IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)00
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)10
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)00
IEEE Communications Magazine 00
Computer Systems
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP)10
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)10
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)00
Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI)00
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC)00
Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST)00
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)00
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)00
Theory
ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC)20
IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS)20
ACM SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)10
Journal of the ACM (JACM)00
SIAM Journal on Computing (SICOMP)00
Chip Technology
IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)10
Design Automation Conference (DAC)20
Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)20
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems 00
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 00
IEEE International Conference Solid-State Circuits 00
IEEE Transactions On Computer-Aided Design Of Integrated Circuits And System (TCAD)00
Internet of Things
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J)20
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)10
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)10
IEEE Wireless Communications 00
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys)10

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