MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 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
Ranks by number of people on the list; we calculate them from the same data.
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| Name | Subfield | Career | Single-year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon, Claude E. | Networking & Telecommunications | 2 / 228,312 | 1 / 228,312 |
| Dresselhaus, Mildred Spiewak | Applied Physics | 14 / 323,282 | 48 / 323,282 |
| Coley, Connor W. | Organic Chemistry | 1,204 / 188,664 | 39 / 188,664 |
| Haus, Hermanna A. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 8 / 140,272 | 36 / 140,272 |
| Tsitsiklis, John N. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 40 / 131,085 | 118 / 131,085 |
| Shapiro, Jeffrey H. | Optics | 41 / 83,504 | 32 / 83,504 |
| Englund, Dirk R. | Optoelectronics & Photonics | 236 / 140,272 | 35 / 140,272 |
| Barzilay, Regina | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,428 / 517,648 | 1,190 / 517,648 |
| Parrilo, Pablo A. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 226 / 131,085 | 396 / 131,085 |
| Kong, Jinau | Networking & Telecommunications | 251 / 228,312 | 2,243 / 228,312 |
| Rinard, Martin C. | Software Engineering | 60 / 24,083 | 330 / 24,083 |
| Athans, Michael P. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 353 / 131,085 | 1,127 / 131,085 |
| Liu, Luqiao | Applied Physics | 7,217 / 323,282 | 807 / 323,282 |
| Lu, Mingyu | Immunology | — | 797 / 176,292 |
| Oppenheim, Alan V. | Networking & Telecommunications | 396 / 228,312 | 2,259 / 228,312 |
| Smith, Henry I. | Applied Physics | 1,210 / 323,282 | — |
| Oliver, William D. | General Physics | 838 / 87,024 | 311 / 87,024 |
| Berggren, Karl K. | Optics | 361 / 83,504 | 196 / 83,504 |
| Szolovits, Peter | Medical Informatics | 73 / 22,436 | 78 / 22,436 |
| Katabi, Dina | Networking & Telecommunications | 562 / 228,312 | 624 / 228,312 |
| Tavakoli, Mohammad Mahdi | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 1,600 / 177,859 | 2,143 / 177,859 |
| Dalca, Adrian Vasile | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 10,643 / 517,648 | 2,896 / 517,648 |
| Tedrake, Russ | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 806 / 131,085 | 793 / 131,085 |
| Chan, Vincent W.S. | Networking & Telecommunications | 618 / 228,312 | 1,299 / 228,312 |
| Bulovíc, Vladimir | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | 913 / 177,859 | 2,776 / 177,859 |
| Davis, Randall | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 1,642 / 517,648 | — |
| Verghese, George C. | Industrial Engineering & Automation | 706 / 131,085 | — |
| Lu, Angyu | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | — | 4,218 / 177,859 |
| Guttag, John V. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | 2,773 / 517,648 | 10,537 / 517,648 |
| Adler, David | Applied Physics | 3,421 / 323,282 | — |
| Zhou, Hengyun | General Physics | — | 776 / 87,024 |
| Hu, Qing | Applied Physics | 3,592 / 323,282 | — |
| Chen, Yufeng | Industrial Engineering & Automation | — | 1,588 / 131,085 |
| Han, Ruonan | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,549 / 133,072 | 709 / 133,072 |
| Lee, Haeseung | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 558 / 133,072 | — |
| White, Jacob K. | Design Practice & Management | 117 / 11,980 | — |
| Smidt, Tess E. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 8,285 / 517,648 |
| Melcher, James Russell | Applied Physics | 6,094 / 323,282 | — |
| Leeb, Steven B. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 787 / 133,072 | — |
| Chen, Irene Y. | Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing | — | 10,439 / 517,648 |
| Bresler, Guy | Networking & Telecommunications | 2,715 / 228,312 | 3,045 / 228,312 |
| Orlando, Terry P. | Applied Physics | — | 5,328 / 323,282 |
| Shulaker, Max Marcel | Applied Physics | — | 5,358 / 323,282 |
| Zhu, Jiadi | Applied Physics | — | 6,743 / 323,282 |
| Wyatt, John L. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,330 / 133,072 | — |
| Bahai, Ahmad R.S. | Networking & Telecommunications | 3,992 / 228,312 | — |
| Lang, Jeffrey H. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 1,428 / 133,072 | — |
| Ha, Unsoo | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 2,741 / 133,072 |
| Reiskarimian, Negar | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | — | 2,826 / 133,072 |
| Umans, Stephen D. | Electrical & Electronic Engineering | 2,666 / 133,072 | — |
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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