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Top Signal Processing Researchers

Andrew Zisserman ranks first, out of 5,541 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. 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom · #3 worldwide 25k citations · 241 works
  2. 2 Yoshua Bengio Canada · #4 worldwide 17k citations · 298 works
  3. 3 Li Fei-Fei United States · #9 worldwide 17k citations · 188 works
  4. 4 Deborah Estrin United States · #60 worldwide 5.9k citations · 183 works
  5. 5 Chen Change Loy Singapore · #75 worldwide 7.7k citations · 173 works
  6. 6 Serge Belongie United States · #143 worldwide 14k citations · 117 works
  7. 7 Leonidas Guibas United States · #165 worldwide 6.3k citations · 229 works
  8. 8 Anil K. Jain United States · #178 worldwide 6.3k citations · 275 works
  9. 9 Li Deng United States · #211 worldwide 4.3k citations · 131 works
  10. 10 Yann LeCun United States · #219 worldwide 5.4k citations · 123 works
  11. 11 Wei Liu China · #275 worldwide 9.7k citations · 371 works
  12. 12 Dawn Song United States · #303 worldwide 3.8k citations · 150 works
  13. 13 Jerry M. Mendel United States · #306 worldwide 4k citations · 162 works
  14. 14 Robert M. Gray United States · #327 worldwide 3.5k citations · 117 works
  15. 15 Marimuthu Palaniswami Australia · #339 worldwide 3.8k citations · 179 works
  16. 16 Hans‐Peter Kriegel Germany · #630 worldwide 5.7k citations · 99 works
  17. 17 Adrian Perrig United States · #689 worldwide 3.2k citations · 146 works
  18. 18 Xiaoou Tang Hong Kong · #759 worldwide 8k citations · 95 works
  19. 19 Vipin Kumar United States · #864 worldwide 3.9k citations · 115 works
  20. 20 Thomas Wiegand Germany · #923 worldwide 2.5k citations · 120 works
  21. 21 R.W. Brodersen United States · #927 worldwide 2.6k citations · 103 works
  22. 22 James C. Bezdek United States · #949 worldwide 3.7k citations · 129 works
  23. 23 Dong Yu United States · #1,049 worldwide 4.1k citations · 190 works
  24. 24 S. Haykin Canada · #1,076 worldwide 3.5k citations · 94 works
  25. 25 John Platt United States · #1,085 worldwide 2.7k citations · 108 works
  26. 26 Robert W. Heath United States · #1,109 worldwide 7.1k citations · 352 works
  27. 27 Tara N. Sainath United States · #1,150 worldwide 3.5k citations · 93 works
  28. 28 Richard G. Baraniuk United States · #1,264 worldwide 4.4k citations · 213 works
  29. 29 Petre Stoica Sweden · #1,382 worldwide 3.8k citations · 215 works
  30. 30 Trevor Darrell United States · #1,404 worldwide 6.7k citations · 262 works
  31. 31 Pascal Frossard Switzerland · #1,457 worldwide 3.8k citations · 208 works
  32. 32 Geoffrey E. Hinton Canada · #1,487 worldwide 22k citations · 79 works
  33. 33 Andreas F. Molisch United States · #1,505 worldwide 4.3k citations · 262 works
  34. 34 Thomas S. Huang United States · #1,582 worldwide 7.4k citations · 369 works
  35. 35 Héctor García-Molina United States · #1,612 worldwide 3.1k citations · 156 works
  36. 36 Vern Paxson United States · #1,655 worldwide 3.5k citations · 85 works
  37. 37 Daniel P. W. Ellis United States · #1,765 worldwide 1.7k citations · 93 works
  38. 38 Joseph M. Hellerstein United States · #1,844 worldwide 2.1k citations · 98 works
  39. 39 Samuel Madden United States · #1,949 worldwide 2k citations · 110 works
  40. 40 Yonghui Wu United States · #2,016 worldwide 2.8k citations · 78 works
  41. 41 Alon Halevy United States · #2,060 worldwide 2k citations · 80 works
  42. 42 Christos Faloutsos United States · #2,094 worldwide 4.5k citations · 253 works
  43. 43 Johannes Gehrke United States · #2,109 worldwide 2.1k citations · 103 works
  44. 44 L. R. Rabiner United States · #2,131 worldwide 2.7k citations · 76 works
  45. 45 Tie‐Yan Liu China · #2,227 worldwide 3k citations · 148 works
  46. 46 Yu Zheng China · #2,339 worldwide 2.5k citations · 78 works
  47. 47 J.-F. Cardoso France · #2,499 worldwide 2.8k citations · 85 works
  48. 48 Enrique Herrera‐Viedma Spain · #2,571 worldwide 3.3k citations · 225 works
  49. 49 Lieven De Lathauwer Belgium · #2,579 worldwide 1.9k citations · 113 works
  50. 50 Ronald R. Coifman United States · #2,605 worldwide 2k citations · 74 works
  51. 51 Patrick McDaniel United States · #2,620 worldwide 1.8k citations · 127 works
  52. 52 Pierre Vandergheynst Switzerland · #2,658 worldwide 3.1k citations · 129 works
  53. 53 Jyh‐Shing Roger Jang Taiwan · #2,659 worldwide 4.5k citations · 69 works
  54. 54 Brian Kingsbury United States · #2,729 worldwide 2.6k citations · 70 works
  55. 55 Teuvo Kohonen Finland · #2,737 worldwide 1.9k citations · 72 works
  56. 56 Martin Ester Canada · #2,746 worldwide 4.6k citations · 68 works
  57. 57 Christopher Kruegel United States · #2,771 worldwide 1.7k citations · 89 works
  58. 58 Abdenour Hadid Finland · #2,808 worldwide 1.9k citations · 78 works
  59. 59 Xing Xie China · #2,863 worldwide 2.5k citations · 188 works
  60. 60 Bernard Widrow United States · #2,953 worldwide 2k citations · 69 works
  61. 61 Ian Horrocks United Kingdom · #2,971 worldwide 1.7k citations · 128 works
  62. 62 Jiawei Han United States · #2,980 worldwide 5.2k citations · 316 works
  63. 63 Giovanni Vigna United States · #3,168 worldwide 1.5k citations · 90 works
  64. 64 Jeffrey D. Ullman United States · #3,285 worldwide 1.8k citations · 97 works
  65. 65 Wei Chen China · #3,368 worldwide 3.5k citations · 231 works
  66. 66 Kristen Grauman United States · #3,491 worldwide 2.2k citations · 118 works
  67. 67 Louis‐Philippe Morency United States · #3,522 worldwide 2.4k citations · 135 works
  68. 68 Fernando Pereira Portugal · #3,554 worldwide 2.6k citations · 144 works
  69. 69 J.G. Proakis United States · #3,574 worldwide 1.8k citations · 67 works
  70. 70 Lorrie Faith Cranor United States · #3,616 worldwide 1.8k citations · 115 works
  71. 71 Xiaogang Wang Russia · #3,681 worldwide 13k citations · 770 works
  72. 72 Samy Bengio Switzerland · #3,799 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
  73. 73 Inderjit S. Dhillon United States · #3,853 worldwide 1.9k citations · 107 works
  74. 74 Michael Elad Israel · #3,915 worldwide 2.3k citations · 113 works
  75. 75 Roman Słowiński Poland · #4,032 worldwide 2.3k citations · 133 works
  76. 76 Michael J. Franklin United States · #4,089 worldwide 1.4k citations · 67 works
  77. 77 Michel Dojat France · #4,107 worldwide 1.3k citations · 77 works
  78. 78 Zhengyou Zhang United States · #4,156 worldwide 2.1k citations · 132 works
  79. 79 Jiřı́ Matas Czechia · #4,192 worldwide 2.2k citations · 133 works
  80. 80 Mark Harman United Kingdom · #4,293 worldwide 2.3k citations · 177 works
  81. 81 Babak Hassibi United States · #4,426 worldwide 3k citations · 180 works
  82. 82 Luc Van Gool Switzerland · #4,439 worldwide 8.5k citations · 527 works
  83. 83 W. Bruce Croft United States · #4,481 worldwide 2.4k citations · 127 works
  84. 84 Sanjeev Khudanpur United States · #4,521 worldwide 1.5k citations · 112 works
  85. 85 Alexander M. Haimovich United States · #4,543 worldwide 1.4k citations · 66 works
  86. 86 Jerzy W. Grzymala‐Busse United States · #4,581 worldwide 1.3k citations · 75 works
  87. 87 Jennifer Widom United States · #4,762 worldwide 1.5k citations · 65 works
  88. 88 Tzyy‐Ping Jung United States · #4,776 worldwide 1.5k citations · 109 works
  89. 89 Engin Kirda France · #4,803 worldwide 1.2k citations · 76 works
  90. 90 David J. DeWitt United States · #4,818 worldwide 1.4k citations · 64 works
  91. 91 Xiaodong He United States · #4,822 worldwide 1.4k citations · 93 works
  92. 92 Шун-ичи Амари Japan · #4,828 worldwide 1.6k citations · 113 works
  93. 93 Charles Sutton United Kingdom · #4,880 worldwide 1.6k citations · 63 works
  94. 94 Salvatore J. Stolfo United States · #4,972 worldwide 1.1k citations · 78 works
  95. 95 Audun Jøsang Norway · #4,998 worldwide 1.3k citations · 90 works
  96. 96 Helmut Bölcskei Switzerland · #5,101 worldwide 1.8k citations · 68 works
  97. 97 B. Friedlander United States · #5,130 worldwide 1.8k citations · 142 works
  98. 98 Jeffrey F. Naughton United States · #5,184 worldwide 1.2k citations · 69 works
  99. 99 Wing‐Kin Ma Hong Kong · #5,231 worldwide 1.7k citations · 90 works
  100. 100 Michael F. Goodchild United States · #5,349 worldwide 1.4k citations · 98 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Signal Processing, 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.

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