MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 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).
39
researchers on the list
500
rank in United States
1,525
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fischl, Bruce R. | Neurology & Neurosurgery | 45 / 379,830 | 9 / 379,830 |
| Torralba, A. B. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 51 / 517,648 | 48 / 517,648 |
| Rus, Daniela L. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 27 / 131,085 | 11 / 131,085 |
| Zhou, Bolei | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,125 / 517,648 | 151 / 517,648 |
| Rivest, Ronald L. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 123 / 517,648 | 462 / 517,648 |
| Horn, Bernard K.P. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 173 / 517,648 | 554 / 517,648 |
| Kellis, Manolis | Developmental Biology | 1,173 / 167,121 | 333 / 167,121 |
| Brooks, Rodney Allen | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 317 / 517,648 | 2,690 / 517,648 |
| Iglesias, Juan Eugenio | Neurology & Neurosurgery | — | 760 / 379,830 |
| Lozano-Pérez, Tomás | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 148 / 131,085 | 390 / 131,085 |
| Jaakkola, Tommi S. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,941 / 517,648 | 1,074 / 517,648 |
| Durand, Frědo | Software Engineering | 30 / 24,083 | 19 / 24,083 |
| Balakrishnan, Hari Ram | Networking & Telecommunications | 228 / 228,312 | 1,096 / 228,312 |
| Vaikuntanathan, Vinod | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,620 / 517,648 | 1,475 / 517,648 |
| Lynch, Nancy Ann | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 125 / 20,721 | 416 / 20,721 |
| Edelman, Alan | Numerical & Computational Mathematics | 90 / 17,431 | 92 / 17,431 |
| Clark, David D. | Networking & Telecommunications | 526 / 228,312 | 3,694 / 228,312 |
| Hofmann, Thomas | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,713 / 517,648 | — |
| Agarwal, Anant | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 66 / 21,014 | — |
| Lampson, Butler W. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,752 / 517,648 | — |
| Lieberman, Henry | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,035 / 517,648 | — |
| Gong, Yuan | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 5,184 / 517,648 |
| Seneff, Stephanie | Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology | 134 / 13,500 | — |
| Teller, Seth J. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 992 / 131,085 | — |
| P̌atraşcu, Mihai | Computation Theory & Mathematics | 323 / 20,721 | 306 / 20,721 |
| Miller, Robert C. | Human Factors | 221 / 16,381 | — |
| Sanchez, Daniel J. | Computer Hardware & Architecture | 398 / 21,014 | 89 / 21,014 |
| Zhao, Hang | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 7,065 / 517,648 |
| Khosla, Aditya | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 12,254 / 517,648 | 7,178 / 517,648 |
| Delimitrou, Christina | Computer Hardware & Architecture | — | 106 / 21,014 |
| Mao, Hongzi | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 2,172 / 228,312 |
| Roy, Nicholas | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 1,420 / 131,085 | 2,126 / 131,085 |
| Ragan-Kelley, Jonathan | Software Engineering | — | 354 / 24,083 |
| Licklider, J. C.R. | Acoustics | 561 / 38,987 | 467 / 38,987 |
| Li, Chenning | Networking & Telecommunications | — | 3,318 / 228,312 |
| Corso, Gabriele | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 11,488 / 517,648 |
| Zeldovich, Nickolai | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,301 / 228,312 | 3,684 / 228,312 |
| Gupta, Amar | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,341 / 517,648 | — |
| Weitzner, Daniel J. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 11,127 / 517,648 | — |
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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