Question 1

What is Polytechnique Montréal known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, Polytechnique Montréal stands highest in Physical Sciences (#717 of 10,670 worldwide), Engineering (#485 of 5,901 worldwide) and Computer Science (#723 of 4,417 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Software, Computational Mechanics and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (Software is 11.8× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does Polytechnique Montréal rank in research?

Accepted Answer

Polytechnique Montréal ranks #1,199 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#1,249 all time), and #34 of 305 in Canada.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at Polytechnique Montréal?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, F. Dallaire, Julien Cohen‐Adad and Manuele D. Margni lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Polytechnique Montréal.

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from Polytechnique Montréal?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from Polytechnique Montréal is "Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation" (Kyunghyun Cho, Bart van Merriënboer, Çağlar Gülçehre et al., 2014), with 25,290 citations. Next come "Empirical Evaluation of Gated Recurrent Neural Networks on Sequence Modeling" (10,801) and "Convolutional networks for images, speech, and time series" (4,363).

Question 5

Which research topics does Polytechnique Montréal publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Photonic and Optical Devices, Microwave Engineering and Waveguides, Urban Transport and Accessibility and Software Engineering Research.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at Polytechnique Montréal?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Energy Efficiency, Optimization, Integrated Circuits, Biosensors, Artificial Neural Networks and Neural Networks.

Question 7

Which fields of science does Polytechnique Montréal work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 82% of research at Polytechnique Montréal is in Physical Sciences, 8% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (46%), Computer Science (17%), Materials Science (5%). It does 2.1× the world's share of Physical Sciences.

Question 8

Is Polytechnique Montréal's research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021.