Top Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Researchers
Li Fei-Fei ranks first, out of 4,301 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 Li Fei-Fei United States · #9 worldwide 17k citations · 188 works
- 2 Jitendra Malik United States · #39 worldwide 12k citations · 179 works
- 3 Stanley Osher United States · #48 worldwide 8k citations · 207 works
- 4 Chen Change Loy Singapore · #75 worldwide 7.7k citations · 173 works
- 5 Alex Pentland United States · #100 worldwide 6k citations · 219 works
- 6 Jiaya Jia Hong Kong · #135 worldwide 7.5k citations · 135 works
- 7 Takeo Kanade United States · #140 worldwide 4.8k citations · 188 works
- 8 Leonidas Guibas United States · #165 worldwide 6.3k citations · 229 works
- 9 Robert E. Tarjan United States · #193 worldwide 3.9k citations · 141 works
- 10 Pietro Perona United States · #223 worldwide 11k citations · 109 works
- 11 Alan Yuille United States · #243 worldwide 8.4k citations · 313 works
- 12 Wei Liu China · #275 worldwide 9.7k citations · 371 works
- 13 Steven J. Miller United States · #283 worldwide 3.8k citations · 110 works
- 14 Andrea Vedaldi United Kingdom · #469 worldwide 4.9k citations · 122 works
- 15 Antonio Torralba United States · #498 worldwide 4.2k citations · 135 works
- 16 Thomas J.R. Hughes United States · #636 worldwide 3.7k citations · 163 works
- 17 William T. Freeman United States · #682 worldwide 4.1k citations · 110 works
- 18 Michael J. Black Germany · #699 worldwide 3.4k citations · 129 works
- 19 Ming–Hsuan Yang United States · #714 worldwide 7.4k citations · 304 works
- 20 Xiaoou Tang Hong Kong · #759 worldwide 8k citations · 95 works
- 21 Tinne Tuytelaars Belgium · #772 worldwide 4.3k citations · 160 works
- 22 Deva Ramanan United States · #848 worldwide 11k citations · 91 works
- 23 Mubarak Shah United States · #856 worldwide 4.9k citations · 184 works
- 24 Thomas Wiegand Germany · #923 worldwide 2.5k citations · 120 works
- 25 J. Andrew McCammon United States · #959 worldwide 3.4k citations · 160 works
- 26 Thomas Brox Germany · #1,178 worldwide 3.3k citations · 106 works
- 27 Mel Slater United Kingdom · #1,307 worldwide 2.4k citations · 100 works
- 28 H. S. M. Coxeter Canada · #1,398 worldwide 1.3k citations · 115 works
- 29 Jean Ponce France · #1,400 worldwide 3.4k citations · 92 works
- 30 Trevor Darrell United States · #1,404 worldwide 6.7k citations · 262 works
- 31 Jan Kautz United Kingdom · #1,558 worldwide 3.2k citations · 138 works
- 32 Thomas S. Huang United States · #1,582 worldwide 7.4k citations · 369 works
- 33 Alexei A. Efros United States · #1,657 worldwide 3.6k citations · 90 works
- 34 Jonathan D. Cohen United States · #1,868 worldwide 2.4k citations · 97 works
- 35 Vladlen Koltun United States · #1,966 worldwide 3.3k citations · 81 works
- 36 Michael Stark Germany · #2,573 worldwide 1.3k citations · 79 works
- 37 Daniel Cremers Germany · #2,713 worldwide 4.1k citations · 231 works
- 38 Ming‐Ming Cheng China · #2,788 worldwide 2.1k citations · 110 works
- 39 Jan J. Koenderink Netherlands · #2,893 worldwide 1.7k citations · 109 works
- 40 Andreas Geiger Germany · #3,036 worldwide 1.9k citations · 91 works
- 41 Zhuowen Tu United States · #3,045 worldwide 2.1k citations · 89 works
- 42 Hervé Delingette France · #3,047 worldwide 1.6k citations · 120 works
- 43 Mark V. Pauly United States · #3,094 worldwide 1.4k citations · 124 works
- 44 Subhransu Maji United States · #3,477 worldwide 2.7k citations · 71 works
- 45 Fernando Pereira Portugal · #3,554 worldwide 2.6k citations · 144 works
- 46 Richard Szeliski United States · #3,813 worldwide 2.9k citations · 65 works
- 47 A.Y.C. Nee Singapore · #3,925 worldwide 1.8k citations · 137 works
- 48 Henry P. Wynn United Kingdom · #4,153 worldwide 2k citations · 67 works
- 49 Zhengyou Zhang United States · #4,156 worldwide 2.1k citations · 132 works
- 50 Carsten Rother Germany · #4,197 worldwide 1.8k citations · 73 works
- 51 Pat Hanrahan United States · #4,409 worldwide 1.5k citations · 67 works
- 52 Luc Van Gool Switzerland · #4,439 worldwide 8.5k citations · 527 works
- 53 Ron Kikinis United States · #4,516 worldwide 874 citations · 88 works
- 54 Shree K. Nayar United States · #4,636 worldwide 1.4k citations · 79 works
- 55 Edward H. Adelson United States · #4,786 worldwide 1.4k citations · 69 works
- 56 Frédo Durand United States · #4,905 worldwide 1.8k citations · 104 works
- 57 Huchuan Lu China · #4,974 worldwide 3.2k citations · 183 works
- 58 Christos H. Papadimitriou United States · #5,045 worldwide 1.3k citations · 83 works
- 59 Kostas Daniilidis United States · #5,092 worldwide 1.5k citations · 115 works
- 60 Peter Schröder United States · #5,387 worldwide 867 citations · 90 works
- 61 Antonio Criminisi United Kingdom · #5,542 worldwide 1.9k citations · 60 works
- 62 John Canny United States · #5,621 worldwide 1.7k citations · 98 works
- 63 Yufei Tao Hong Kong · #5,724 worldwide 1.2k citations · 83 works
- 64 John E. Hopcroft United States · #5,923 worldwide 1.2k citations · 79 works
- 65 Steven L. Salzberg United States · #5,995 worldwide 2.2k citations · 59 works
- 66 Michael Garland United States · #6,001 worldwide 876 citations · 64 works
- 67 Mihalis Yannakakis United States · #6,077 worldwide 1.3k citations · 69 works
- 68 Vittorio Ferrari United Kingdom · #6,187 worldwide 2.1k citations · 71 works
- 69 Jan‐Michael Frahm United States · #6,194 worldwide 2.1k citations · 59 works
- 70 Steven M. LaValle United States · #6,234 worldwide 1.3k citations · 63 works
- 71 Hao Su United States · #6,244 worldwide 9.2k citations · 54 works
- 72 Gábor T. Herman United States · #6,270 worldwide 1.3k citations · 131 works
- 73 Demetri Terzopoulos Canada · #6,344 worldwide 1.5k citations · 101 works
- 74 Luca Carlone United States · #6,424 worldwide 1.5k citations · 83 works
- 75 Peter Shirley United States · #6,477 worldwide 1.3k citations · 58 works
- 76 Lars Engebretsen Norway · #6,680 worldwide 949 citations · 104 works
- 77 Gerard Pons‐Moll Germany · #7,063 worldwide 1.5k citations · 58 works
- 78 Hongsheng Li Hong Kong · #7,124 worldwide 3.1k citations · 211 works
- 79 Zhe Lin United States · #7,277 worldwide 1.9k citations · 103 works
- 80 Irfan Essa United States · #7,319 worldwide 1.3k citations · 86 works
- 81 Michael F. Cohen United States · #7,438 worldwide 1.3k citations · 58 works
- 82 Thomas Funkhouser United States · #7,450 worldwide 1.6k citations · 56 works
- 83 Chi‐Wing Fu Hong Kong · #7,494 worldwide 1.2k citations · 93 works
- 84 Jeffrey Heer United States · #7,607 worldwide 1.2k citations · 61 works
- 85 Yingli Tian United States · #7,616 worldwide 1.8k citations · 84 works
- 86 Dani Lischinski Israel · #7,990 worldwide 1k citations · 67 works
- 87 Neil Robertson United Kingdom · #8,022 worldwide 1.1k citations · 81 works
- 88 Yuri Bazilevs United States · #8,204 worldwide 830 citations · 61 works
- 89 Sanja Fidler Canada · #8,212 worldwide 1.8k citations · 111 works
- 90 László Lovász Hungary · #8,402 worldwide 1.2k citations · 114 works
- 91 Fan Chung United States · #8,554 worldwide 1.1k citations · 82 works
- 92 Barry Mazur United States · #8,590 worldwide 671 citations · 70 works
- 93 Michael Gleicher United States · #8,831 worldwide 1k citations · 76 works
- 94 Dahua Lin Hong Kong · #8,861 worldwide 2.5k citations · 188 works
- 95 Bernard Chazelle United States · #8,891 worldwide 1.1k citations · 77 works
- 96 Alexander Schrijver Netherlands · #9,360 worldwide 1.2k citations · 80 works
- 97 Donald P. Greenberg United States · #9,396 worldwide 1.1k citations · 57 works
- 98 Pierre Soille Italy · #9,428 worldwide 1.4k citations · 57 works
- 99 Herbert Edelsbrunner United States · #9,591 worldwide 1k citations · 107 works
- 100 Yinyu Ye United States · #9,657 worldwide 1.8k citations · 117 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.