Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the Stanford/Elsevier 2026 list
The Stanford/Elsevier list covers the top 2% most-cited scientists in each subfield. These are the people from this institution on at least one of its two rankings: career-long and single-year (citations from 2025).
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researchers on the list
416
rank in United States
1,248
rank worldwide, of 38,384
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chua, Leon O. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1 / 133,072 | 2 / 133,072 |
| Yablonovitch, Eli | Applied Physics | 25 / 323,282 | 82 / 323,282 |
| Wainwright., Martin J. | Networking & Telecommunications | 22 / 228,312 | 14 / 228,312 |
| Hu, Chenming Calvin | Applied Physics | 121 / 323,282 | 341 / 323,282 |
| Sastry, Shankar S. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 87 / 131,085 | 352 / 131,085 |
| Lieberman, Michael A. | Applied Physics | 307 / 323,282 | 826 / 323,282 |
| Rabaey, Jan M. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 65 / 133,072 | 671 / 133,072 |
| Fearing, Ronald S. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 227 / 131,085 | 1,179 / 131,085 |
| Arcak, Murat M. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 276 / 131,085 | 660 / 131,085 |
| Bajcsy, Ružena K. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 747 / 517,648 | 3,674 / 517,648 |
| Wu, Mingchiang | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 92 / 140,272 | 106 / 140,272 |
| Niknejad, Ali M. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 102 / 133,072 | 983 / 133,072 |
| Tomlin, Claire Jennifer | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 574 / 131,085 | 573 / 131,085 |
| Brayton, Robert King | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 37 / 21,014 | 88 / 21,014 |
| Necula, George C. | Software Engineering | 94 / 24,083 | 355 / 24,083 |
| Arias, Ana Claudia | Applied Physics | 1,474 / 323,282 | 1,613 / 323,282 |
| Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert Carl Nikolai | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 344 / 133,072 | 210 / 133,072 |
| Zakhor, Avideh | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,326 / 517,648 | — |
| Liu, Chunlei | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 585 / 129,561 | 244 / 129,561 |
| Lustig, Michael S. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 1,359 / 129,561 | 284 / 129,561 |
| Sanders, Seth R. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 191 / 133,072 | 717 / 133,072 |
| Birdsall, Charles K. | Fluids & Plasmas | 693 / 58,297 | 782 / 58,297 |
| Waller, Laura | Optics | 698 / 83,504 | 295 / 83,504 |
| Messerschmitt, David G. | Networking & Telecommunications | 663 / 228,312 | — |
| Anantharam, Venkat | Networking & Telecommunications | 680 / 228,312 | — |
| Brodersen, Robert W. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 279 / 133,072 | — |
| Walrand, Jean C. | Networking & Telecommunications | 877 / 228,312 | 4,553 / 228,312 |
| Lichtenberg, Allan J. | Fluids & Plasmas | 1,058 / 58,297 | — |
| Kubiatowicz, John D. | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,140 / 228,312 | — |
| Loianno, Giuseppe | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 1,417 / 131,085 |
| Sahai, Anant | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,161 / 228,312 | — |
| Muller, Richard S. | Applied Physics | 3,511 / 323,282 | — |
| Zhou, Tinghui | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,079 / 517,648 |
| Lau, Kam–Yin | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 487 / 140,272 | — |
| Polak, Elijah | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,133 / 131,085 | — |
| Gray, Paul R. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 506 / 133,072 | — |
| Gallant, Jack L. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 6,369 / 379,830 |
| Cheung, Nathan W. | Applied Physics | 4,348 / 323,282 | — |
| Bayen, Alexandre M. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,905 / 131,085 | 1,804 / 131,085 |
| Lee, Chuenchien | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,294 / 517,648 | — |
| Ng, Ren | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,651 / 517,648 |
| Angelopoulos, Anastasios Nikolas | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,212 / 517,648 |
| Kanté, Boubacar | Optics | 1,730 / 83,504 | 943 / 83,504 |
| Mishchenko, Alan | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 272 / 21,014 | 152 / 21,014 |
| Courtade, Thomas A. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,370 / 228,312 | — |
| Neureuther, Andrew R. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 1,440 / 140,272 | — |
| Muller, Rikky | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 1,568 / 133,072 |
| Alon, Elad | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,276 / 133,072 | — |
| Puri, Anuj | Networking & Telecommunications | 5,039 / 228,312 | — |
| Nuzzo, Pierluigi | Computer Hardware & Architecture | — | 371 / 21,014 |
Source: Ioannidis JPA, Elsevier (2026). August 2026 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators". Mendeley Data, version 9. Licence CC BY-NC 3.0. doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.9
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