Microsoft Research 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).
126
researchers on the list
196
rank in United States
543
rank worldwide, of 38,384
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schapire, Robert E. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 45 / 517,648 | 46 / 517,648 |
| Lamport, Leslie | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 55 / 517,648 | 238 / 517,648 |
| Liu, Tieyan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 369 / 517,648 | 273 / 517,648 |
| Gao, Jianfeng | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,563 / 517,648 | 390 / 517,648 |
| Burges, Christopher J.C. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 183 / 517,648 | 866 / 517,648 |
| Lundberg, Scott M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,374 / 517,648 | 478 / 517,648 |
| Chaudhuri, Surajit | Information Systems | 26 / 19,463 | 148 / 19,463 |
| Heckerman, David E. | Virology | 92 / 79,508 | 53 / 79,508 |
| Godefroid, Patrice | Software Engineering | 12 / 24,083 | 31 / 24,083 |
| Poulin, David | General Physics | 470 / 87,024 | 133 / 87,024 |
| Chouldechova, Alexandra | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,169 / 517,648 | 973 / 517,648 |
| Wallach, Hanna M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,416 / 517,648 | 1,077 / 517,648 |
| Webb, Andrew G. | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | 115 / 129,561 | 77 / 129,561 |
| Li, Chunyuan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,238 / 517,648 | 1,174 / 517,648 |
| Bernstein, Philip A. | Information Systems | 48 / 19,463 | — |
| Gray, Jim N. | Information Systems | 49 / 19,463 | 328 / 19,463 |
| Want, Roy | Networking & Telecommunications | 213 / 228,312 | 1,564 / 228,312 |
| Zamir, Syed Waqas | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,200 / 517,648 | 1,308 / 517,648 |
| Wei, Furu | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,875 / 517,648 | 1,321 / 517,648 |
| Troyer, Matthias | General Physics | 198 / 87,024 | 189 / 87,024 |
| White, Ryen W. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 683 / 517,648 | 1,821 / 517,648 |
| Wilson, Andrew D. | Human Factors | 51 / 16,381 | 176 / 16,381 |
| Slivkins, Alex | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,881 / 517,648 | 1,674 / 517,648 |
| Chase, Melissa | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,897 / 517,648 | 1,729 / 517,648 |
| Chickering, David Maxwell | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,790 / 517,648 | 1,782 / 517,648 |
| Dong, Li | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,461 / 517,648 | 1,869 / 517,648 |
| Fu, Jianlong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,542 / 517,648 | 1,893 / 517,648 |
| Viola, Paul A. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,005 / 517,648 | 4,002 / 517,648 |
| Langford, John C. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,017 / 517,648 | 2,321 / 517,648 |
| Yang, Jianwei | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 2,175 / 517,648 |
| Kossmann, Donald | Information Systems | 121 / 19,463 | — |
| Dai, Xiyang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 2,571 / 517,648 |
| Baym, Nancy K. | Communication & Media Studies | 156 / 16,468 | 268 / 16,468 |
| Amershi, Saleema | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,559 / 517,648 | 2,661 / 517,648 |
| Chen, Wei | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,129 / 517,648 | 2,942 / 517,648 |
| Kajiya, James T. | Software Engineering | 249 / 24,083 | 114 / 24,083 |
| Guo, Baining | Software Engineering | — | 120 / 24,083 |
| Wortman Vaughan, Jennifer | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,446 / 517,648 | 3,187 / 517,648 |
| He, Pengcheng | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 3,223 / 517,648 |
| Bird, Christian A. | Software Engineering | 183 / 24,083 | 124 / 24,083 |
| Barocas, Solon | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 8,101 / 517,648 | 3,324 / 517,648 |
| Hinckley, Ken P. | Human Factors | 126 / 16,381 | — |
| Dudík, Miroslav | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,482 / 517,648 | 3,427 / 517,648 |
| Setty, Srinath T.V. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 9,229 / 517,648 | 3,449 / 517,648 |
| Douceur, John R. | Networking & Telecommunications | 646 / 228,312 | 1,610 / 228,312 |
| Björner, Nikolaj S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,557 / 517,648 | 3,724 / 517,648 |
| Yekhanin, Sergey M. | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 365 / 20,721 | 146 / 20,721 |
| Herley, Cormac | Networking & Telecommunications | 749 / 228,312 | 1,413 / 228,312 |
| Poon, Hoifung | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 3,523 / 517,648 | 4,043 / 517,648 |
| Yang, Jiaolong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,075 / 517,648 |
| Smolensky, Paul | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,099 / 517,648 | 4,261 / 517,648 |
| Montgomery, Peter L. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,169 / 517,648 | 5,112 / 517,648 |
| Momennejad, Ida | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,677 / 517,648 |
| Richardson, Matthew | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,308 / 517,648 | 8,523 / 517,648 |
| Nath, Suman Kumar | Networking & Telecommunications | 968 / 228,312 | — |
| Huang, Shaohan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 4,907 / 517,648 |
| Baker, Simon | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,408 / 517,648 | 6,552 / 517,648 |
| Wang, Wenhui | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,083 / 517,648 |
| Chen, Dong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 11,018 / 517,648 | 5,290 / 517,648 |
| Wang, Lijuan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,335 / 517,648 |
| Nieto, Juan I. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 2,459 / 131,085 | 1,340 / 131,085 |
| Williams, Jason D. | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology | 132 / 13,500 | — |
| Lee, Yin Tat | Computation Theory & Mathematics | — | 196 / 20,721 |
| Goodman, Joshua T. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,743 / 517,648 | — |
| Ehlert, Sebastian | Chemical Physics | — | 1,420 / 121,889 |
| Inkpen, Kori M. | Human Factors | 210 / 16,381 | — |
| Gamon, Michael | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,839 / 517,648 | — |
| Zügner, Daniel | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,774 / 517,648 |
| Buxton, William A.S. | Human Factors | 220 / 16,381 | — |
| Wu, Zhirong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,096 / 517,648 |
| Cohn, Henry | General Mathematics | 1,110 / 76,268 | 728 / 76,268 |
| Huang, Yichen | General Physics | 1,679 / 87,024 | 843 / 87,024 |
| Wei, Fangyun | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,457 / 517,648 |
| Wang, Kuansan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,628 / 517,648 | 6,468 / 517,648 |
| Bian, Jiang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,561 / 517,648 |
| Buxton, Bill | Human Factors | 272 / 16,381 | — |
| Zhang, Chaoyun | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 6,870 / 517,648 |
| Robertson, George G. | Human Factors | 287 / 16,381 | — |
| Agrawal, Shipra | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,332 / 517,648 |
| Mackey, Lester W. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,431 / 517,648 | 7,558 / 517,648 |
| Burger, Doug C. | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 160 / 21,014 | 348 / 21,014 |
| Czerwinski, Mary P. | Human Factors | 319 / 16,381 | — |
| Winn, John M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,285 / 517,648 | 7,902 / 517,648 |
| Minka, Thomas P. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,283 / 517,648 | — |
| Papailiopoulos, Dimitris S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 11,686 / 517,648 | 8,275 / 517,648 |
| Sengupta, Sudipta | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,903 / 228,312 | — |
| Liu, Xiaodong | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,521 / 517,648 |
| Padmanabhan, Venkata N. | Networking & Telecommunications | 1,939 / 228,312 | — |
| Wang, Yun | Software Engineering | — | 370 / 24,083 |
| Oktay, Ozan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,743 / 517,648 |
| Hermann, Jan | Chemical Physics | — | 2,206 / 121,889 |
| Bao, Hangbo | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,839 / 517,648 |
| Zhang, Lintao | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,759 / 517,648 | — |
| Meek, Christopher A. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 4,778 / 517,648 | — |
| Bansal, Gagan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,446 / 517,648 |
| Hensman, James J. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 9,469 / 517,648 |
| Ford, Denae | Software Engineering | — | 410 / 24,083 |
| Tashev, Ivan J. | Acoustics | 594 / 38,987 | 488 / 38,987 |
| Shokouhi, Milad | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,178 / 517,648 | — |
| Cucerzan, Silviu Petru | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,327 / 517,648 | — |
| Bachman, Philip | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,149 / 517,648 | 10,156 / 517,648 |
| Varma, Manik | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,498 / 517,648 | — |
| Hofman, Jake M. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 10,214 / 517,648 |
| Benaloh, Josh Cohen | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 5,701 / 517,648 | 11,337 / 517,648 |
| Hausknecht, Matthew J. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 10,573 / 517,648 |
| Ranganathan, Vaishnavi T. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 824 / 133,072 | 2,636 / 133,072 |
| Chakraborty, Saikat | Software Engineering | — | 477 / 24,083 |
| Foster, Dylan J. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 11,048 / 517,648 |
| Gonthier, Georges | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,135 / 517,648 | — |
| Ma, Hao | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 6,296 / 517,648 | — |
| Jiménez-Luna, José | Medicinal & Biomolecular Chemistry | — | 1,302 / 120,621 |
| Kirovski, Darko | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,874 / 228,312 | — |
| Braun, Sebastian | Acoustics | — | 646 / 38,987 |
| Gamper, Hannes A. | Acoustics | — | 676 / 38,987 |
| Veanes, Margus | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 7,394 / 517,648 | — |
| Karagiannis, Thomas | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,211 / 228,312 | — |
| Hsieh, Kevin | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 4,372 / 228,312 |
| Jojić, Nebojša | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,158 / 517,648 | — |
| Bell, Gordon C. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,248 / 517,648 | — |
| Chintalapudi, Krishna Kant | Networking & Telecommunications | 4,498 / 228,312 | — |
| Hansen, Michael Schacht | Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | — | 2,696 / 129,561 |
| Saroiu, Stefan | Networking & Telecommunications | 5,131 / 228,312 | — |
| Birrell, Andrew D. | Networking & Telecommunications | 5,192 / 228,312 | — |
| Siew, Shawn Yohanes | Optoelectronics & Photonics | — | 1,973 / 140,272 |
| Strauss, K. | Computer Hardware & Architecture | — | 483 / 21,014 |
| Dathathri, Roshan | Distributed Computing | — | 205 / 9,369 |
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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