1. Quoc V. Le │ Research Scientist
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Speech Recognition
2. Kenton Lee │ Research Scientist
Google Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in NLP
3. Kristina Toutanova │ Assistant professor
Google Research Seattle;Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in NLP
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Natural Language Processing
4. Liang-Chieh (Jay) Chen │ Research Scientist
ByteDance
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
5.Kaiming He │ Research Scientist
Facebook AI Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Vision
6. Ross B. Girshick │ Research Scientist
Facebook AI Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Multimedia
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Vision
7. Alec Radford │ Head of Research
OpenAI; Indico Data Solutions
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
8. Neil Houlsby │ Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google Brain
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
9. Xiaohua Zhai │ Staff Researcher
Google Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
10. Lucas Beyer │ Senior Research Engineer
Google Brain
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
11. Alexander Kolesnikov │Senior Research Software Engineer
Google DeepMind
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
12. Jakob Uszkoreit │Senior Research Software Engineer
Inceptive
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Machine Learning
13. Pieter Abbeel │Professor
OpenAI; Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley;Covariant.ai
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Robotics
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics
14. Thomas Unterthiner │ Researcher
Institute of Bioinformatics, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Johannes Kepler University Linz; Google
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
15. Mark Sandler │ Research Scientist
Google Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
16. Tero Karras │ Distinguished Research Scientist
NVIDIA Research
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
17. Georg Heigold │ Engineer
Apple
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
18. Timo Aila
Senior Distinguished Research Scientist
NVIDIA
19. Prafulla Dhariwal │ Research Scientist
OpenAI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
20. Matthias Minderer │ Research Scientist
Google Brain
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
21. Samuli Laine │ Distinguished Research Scientist
NVIDIA
22. Jure Leskovec │ Professor
Department of Computer Science Stanford University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Data Mining
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in IR and Recommendation
23. Luke Zettlemoyer │ Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington;Facebook AI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Natural Language Processing
24. Yi Yang │ Professor
College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Multimedia
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
25. Omer Levy │ Research Lead
Character.AI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Natural Language Processing
26. Jan Kautz │ Vice President
NVIDIA; University College London
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
27. Barret Zoph │ Head of Post-Training
OpenAI; Barret Zoph
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
28. Mark Chen │ Head of Frontiers Research
OpenAI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
29. Jeff Wu │ Member of Technical Staff
OpenAI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Machine Learning
30. Luc Van Gool │ Professor
Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
31. Han Hu │ Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research Asia
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
32. Trevor Darrell │Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Multimedia
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Robotics
33. Qi Tian │Professor
Huawei
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Multimedia
34. Chunhua Shen │ University Chair Professor
Zhejiang University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
35. Menglong Zhu │ Director of Machine Learning
DJI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
36. Samuel R. Bowman │ Associate professor
AI School, New York University; Anthropic; Giving What We Can
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Natural Language Processing
37. Yejin Choi │ Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington;Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI
38. Steve Seitz │ Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington;Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington;Google Corporation
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics
39. Yue Cao │ Researcher
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)
40. Yukun Zhu │ Tech Lead
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
41. Yiming Yang │ Professor
Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University; Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in IR and Recommendation
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
42. Philip H. S. Torr │ Professor
Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University; Aistetic; FiveAI; OxSight
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
43. Jiashi Feng │Research Lead
TikTok; ByteDance
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in AAAI/IJCAI
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
44. Saining Xie │Assistant professor
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
45. Jiaya Jia │ Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
46. Junhui Deng │ Professor
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Specializes in applying algorithms from computer graphics, computational geometry, and parallel architecture to scientific computing visualization.
Enhancing volume rendering realism through advanced substance classification techniques.
Developing a robust cluster-based parallel rendering system that supports multiple operating systems.
Creating an innovative GPU-accelerated real-time collision detection algorithm using 3D model partitioning, significantly improving efficiency and accuracy in scientific simulations.
47. Jianping Shi │ Senior Research Scientist
SenseTime Group Limited
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
48. Chen Change Loy │ Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
49. Xiangyu Zhang │Principal Researcher
Megvii Technology Limited
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Vision
50. Jaakko Lehtinen │ Associate professor
NVIDIA Research; Department of Computer Science, Aalto University; Maki.vc
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Graphics
51. Jianfeng Gao │ Distinguished Scientist
Microsoft Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Natural Language Processing
52. Jensen Huang │ Professor
Founder & CEO, NVIDIA
Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
Oregon State University (Bachelor's) & Stanford University (Master's in EE)
Chip Engineer at AMD & LSI Logic
Founded NVIDIA in 1993. Invented the GPU in 1999, revolutionizing computer graphics & parallel computing
Launched CUDA in 2006, harnessing GPUs for efficient computing across fields & driving AI advancements
53. Pan Yi │ Professor
School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology;
Expert in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology;
Member, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE);
Member,European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA);
Foreign Member, Ukrainian National Academy of Engineering Sciences;
Member,Royal Society for Public Health (UK)
Distinguished Achievements: Recognized globally for his seminal contributions to the interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics and computational biology. Has held leadership positions in multiple academic institutions, including serving as Professor and Chair at the School of Computer Science and Control Engineering, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology.
Research Focus: Long-term focus on interdisciplinary research combining computer science and bioinformatics.
54. Daqing Zhang│ Professor
Institute of Software, Peking University
Pervasive Computing, Wireless Sensing
Recognized internationally for pioneering models in Context-Aware Computing and Wireless Sensing, with numerous citations and accolades, including AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mentions.
IEEE Fellow, active in academic committees.
55. Shuo-Yen Robert Li (Bob Li) │Distinguished University Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong，Professor Emeritus
IEEE Life Fellow
Distinguished University Professor
& Director, Li Institute of Mathematical Technology
University of Electronic S&T of China
Bachelor's in Mathematics, Taiwan University, 1970
Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1974
MIT University of Illinois at Chicago
Bell Labs Chinese University of Hong Kong
Network Coding Research since 2014
56. Laurence T. Yang │ Professor & Academic Vice President
School of Computer and AI, Zhengzhou University;
Member, Canadian Academy of Engineering & Canadian Institute of Engineering;
Foreign Member, European Academy of Humanities and Natural Sciences
Bachelor's Degree, Tsinghua University; Ph.D., University of Victoria
High-Performance Computing, Embedded Systems, Pervasive Computing, AI
57. Chin-Chen Chang│ Professor
Department of (relevant discipline), Fengjia University;
Honorary Professor, National Chung Cheng University;
Co-Appointed Professor, Tsinghua University
PhD in Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (1982)
Associate Professor, Chiao Tung and National Chung Hsing Universities; Professor, Tsinghua University; Professor and Director, National Chung Cheng University
Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, Japan
Recipient of Academic Positions and Recognitions
58. Jie Zhu │ Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University;
Signal and Systems Institute, SJTU
Ph.D. in Information Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Visiting Researcher at Bell Labs; Visiting Professor in Germany, Korea, and Japan
Recipient of Over Ten Awards, Including Shanghai Distinguished Young Teacher Award
Vice-Director, Signal and Systems Institute, SJTU
Speech Signal Processing, AI, Deep Learning, Multimedia, Telecommunications
Leadership of Over 50 Projects; Supervision of Over 30 Ph.D. Students; Publication of Over 200 Papers and 15 Patents
59. Ning Zhong │ Professor
Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) Founder & Chairman
Ph.D., University of Tokyo
Key Figure in Web Intelligence (WI) since 2000
Web Intelligence, Brain Informatics, Data Mining, Granular Computing, Intelligent Agent Technology
IEEE-CS Intelligent Informatics Technical Committee Chair (2006-2009)
Advisory Member, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2003)
Board Member, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (2000-2010)
Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ)
60. Yixin Zhong │ Academician & Professor
Intelligence Theory and Technology
Academician, Institute of Engineering and Technology for Developing Countries
Academician, New York Academy of Sciences
Dean, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Jinan University
Professor, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Graduate, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (1962)
Vice President, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Visiting Scholar, Imperial College London
He became an academician in 2017 and Dean at Jinan University in 2019.
61. Jinde Cao│ Renowned Expert & IEEE Fellow
Complex Networks and Systems, Neurodynamics and Optimization
Member of Academia Europaea（Academy of Europe）
Member, African Academy of Sciences
Member, Russian Academy of Sciences
Chief Professor & Doctoral Supervisor, Southeast University
Director, Department of Science, Southeast University (Past Role)
Applied Mathematics
Postdoctoral Research: Chinese University of Hong Kong
IEEE Fellow Appointment: 2015
Numerous Academic Leadership Roles Held
62. Jiangxing Wu │ Academician & Director
Communication and Information Systems
Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering
Father of China's Large-Capacity Program-Controlled Digital Switch
Director, National Digital Switching System Engineering Technology Research Center (NDSC)
Director, Songshan Laboratory
Information Technology, Network Security
63. Nickolai Zeldovich │Professor
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Systems
2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
64. Ion Stoica │Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley;Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley;
Sky Computing Lab, University of California, Berkeley;
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Networking
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Computer Systems
65. Phillip Isola│Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Visualization
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Vision
66. Arvind Krishnamurthy │Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
67. Joseph E. Gonzalez │Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley; RunLLM
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
68. Michael Franklin │Distinguished Service Professor
Department of Computer Science University of Chicago;Data Science Institute, University of Chicago; Databricks ;Alluxio, Inc. ;Ocient;Zengines; Sympatic Inc; AtScale
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Database
69. Matei Zaharia│Associate Professor
Databricks;Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Database
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
70. Luis Ceze│Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington;
Octo ML, Inc.
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
71. Prof. Fan Pingyi
Professor of the Department of Electronics, Tsinghua University
Graduate Tutor at Tsinghua University
Director of Open-Source Data Recognition Innovation Center, EE, Tsinghua University
Deputy Director of Information Theory Society, CIE, China
Co-Chair of China's 6G-ANA TG4
Fellow of IET
72. Carlos Guestrin │Professor
Computer Science Department, Stanford University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in NLP
73. Scott Shenker │Professor Emeritus
International Computer Science Institute, University of California, Berkeley;
Division of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Networking
74. Rüdiger Kapitza │Professor
Department Informatik, Technische Fakultät, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg;Dfinity
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
75. Ana Klimovic │Assistant Professor
Efficient Architectures and Systems Lab Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
76. Wyatt Lloyd │Distributed Systems Professor
Department of Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
77.Zhijian Wang│Professor
Zhejiang University Specially-Appointed Researcher
Foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Distinguished researcher at the Zhejiang University Robotics Institute.
Expert selected for the national major talent program, concurrently serving as the president of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Robotics Research Institute.
78. Bryan Parno│Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University;
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Security and Privacy
79. Adam Belay │Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Schwarzman College of Computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
80. Trevor Darrell│Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award in Multimedia
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Robotics
81. Jay Lorch
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington;
Microsoft Research
2024 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Computer Systems
82. David M. Blei│Professor
Columbia University;Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
2023 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Information Retrieval and Recommendation
2021 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention in Data Mining
83. Yuansheng Guo │ Professor
Engineering Research Center for Electronic Components Industry Development, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
Vice Chairman, China Sensor and Internet of Things Industry Alliance
Deputy Director, Sensitive Technology Branch, Chinese Institute of Electronics
Deputy Director, Strategy Committee of Sensor and Intelligent Technology Innovation Center, Beijing Institute of Technology
Special Appointed Professor, Shandong University
Adjunct Professor, Wuhan University, East China University of Science and Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Long-term research on sensitive components and sensor technologies
Technological innovation and industrialization in fields such as elderly care and health management, Internet of Things (IoT)
84. Junping Wang │Researcher
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)
Expert in artificial intelligence and automation.
Contributed significantly to intelligent systems research.
Experienced researcher at CASIA.
Recognized for outstanding contributions in AI and automation.
Focuses on machine learning, computer vision, and intelligent control.