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