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Computer Science research in Switzerland

ETH Zurich ranks first in Switzerland for Computer Science research in 2022-now (#4 worldwide), followed by École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Zurich.

Switzerland's world rank
#5
of 128 countries, 2022-now
Works, 2022-now
8.7k
Top-10% rate
13.3%
Ranked institutions
21

Research strength only: this says nothing about teaching, admissions or cost.

What is the best university for Computer Science in Switzerland?

Institutions in Switzerland above the floor of 40 fractional works in Computer Science, ordered by their worldwide rank on research quality, 2022-now.

Who are the top Computer Science researchers in Switzerland?

Luc Van Gool, Marc Pollefeys and Gabriele Bavota rank highest among researchers based in Switzerland, on their papers in Computer Science that reached the world top 10%, beyond the 10% expected.

  1. 1Luc Van Gool#11,566 worldwide overall310.9 of 886 papers here in the top 10%
  2. 2Marc Pollefeys#5,799 worldwide overall138.0 of 356 papers here in the top 10%
  3. 3Gabriele Bavota#3,850 worldwide overall112.6 of 210 papers here in the top 10%
  4. 4Radu Timofte#5,527 worldwide overall112.2 of 308 papers here in the top 10%
  5. 5Gustavo Alonso#30,745 worldwide overall103.8 of 278 papers here in the top 10%
  6. 6Torsten Hoefler#43,181 worldwide overall108.1 of 342 papers here in the top 10%
  7. 7Pascal Fua#17,263 worldwide overall103.2 of 298 papers here in the top 10%
  8. 8Nicolas Gisin#9,561 worldwide overall93.2 of 207 papers here in the top 10%
  9. 9Markus H. Groß#20,019 worldwide overall102.4 of 312 papers here in the top 10%
  10. 10Roland Siegwart#40,127 worldwide overall108.0 of 386 papers here in the top 10%
  11. 11Jean‐Pierre Hubaux#16,467 worldwide overall92.7 of 243 papers here in the top 10%
  12. 12Lothar Thiele#113,567 worldwide overall103.2 of 421 papers here in the top 10%
  13. 13Babak Falsafi#23,453 worldwide overall80.7 of 208 papers here in the top 10%
  14. 14Martin Vetterli#128,301 worldwide overall97.5 of 380 papers here in the top 10%
  15. 15Jürgen Schmidhuber#54,672 worldwide overall85.0 of 265 papers here in the top 10%

Ranked among researchers based in Switzerland on their work in Computer Science alone: how many more of their papers here reached the world top 10% for their subfield and year than the 10% expected.

How Switzerland compares with other countries in Computer Science