Berkeley CS faculty are among the most influential in their fields
U.C. Berkeley has the top ten most AMiner Most Influential Scholar Award winners across all fields of computer science in 2016<fn>Includes data for Thomas Griffiths in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (#92 in Machine Learning), CS alumnus Wei Hong (#38 in System and #65 in Database), CS alumnus Vaduvur Bharghavan (#39 in Computer Networking), CS grad student Evan Shelhamer (#12 in Mulitmedia) and CS grad student Jeff Donahue(#13 in Multimedia)</fn> and the top five most award winners in the fields of Computer Vision, Database,<fn>Includes data for alumni Wei Hong (CS Ph.D. 1992) from material published while at Berkeley</fn> Machine Learning<fn>Includes data for Thomas Griffiths,</fn> Multimedia,<fn>Includes data for CS graduate students Evan Shelhamer and Jeff Donahue</fn> Security, Computer Networking,<fn>Includes data for alumni Vaduvur Bharghavan (CS Ph.D. 1995) from material published while at Berkeley</fn> and System<fn>Includes data for alumni Wei Hong (CS Ph.D. 1992) from material published while at Berkeley</fn>. The influence that our Computer Science faculty have had over their various fields last year is impressive in both magnitude and scope. The 28 CS faculty members included in the rankings were among the 100 most-cited authors in 12 of the 15 research areas evaluated.
Spheres of Influence
Out of the 700,000 researchers indexed, only 16 appeared on three or more area top 100 lists. Two of our faculty were among the 100 most-cited authors in 3 different areas:
| Scott Shenker | #1 Computer Networking | #51 in System | #99 in Theory |
| Trevor Darrell | #8 in Multimedia | #18 in Computer Vision | #100 in Machine Learning |
Of the 113 scholars who appeared in 2 areas lists, 10 were Berkeley CS faculty:
| Jitendra Malik | #1 Computer Vision | #23 in Computer Graphics |
| Ion Stoica | #2 in Computer Networking | #24 in System |
| Michael Franklin<fn>Statistics from material published while at Berkeley</fn> | #10 in Database | #37 in System |
| Joseph Hellerstein | #11 in Database | #30 in System |
| Richard Karp | #12 in Computer Networking | #24 in Theory |
| Vern Paxson | #15 in Computer Networking | #20 in Security |
| Marti Hearst | #17 in Human-Computer Interaction | #41 Natural Language Processing |
| Stuart Russell | #18 in Artificial Intelligence | #43 in Machine Learning |
| Randy Katz | #42 in Computer Networking | #50 in Database |
| Dave Patterson | #57 in System | #67 in Database |
An additional 15 faculty ranked in single area lists.
Maximum Impact
3 CS faculty (Dawn Song, Jitendra Malik, and Scott Shenker ) were the most cited authors in their fields and 8 others were among the top 10.
Rankings by Area
Computer Networking |
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| 6 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Scott Shenker | 1 |
| Ion Stoica | 2 |
| Sylvia Ratnasamy | 8 |
| Richard Karp | 12 |
| Vern Paxson | 15 |
| Randy Katz | 42 |
Computer Vision |
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| 3 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Jitendra Malik | 1 |
| Alexei Efros | 17 |
| Trevor Darrell | 18 |
Security |
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| 4 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Dawn Song | 1 |
| David Wagner | 8 |
| Vern Paxson | 20 |
| Doug Tygar | 72 |
Database |
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| 5 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Michael Franklin<fn>Statistics from material published while at Berkeley</fn> | 10 |
| Joseph Hellerstein | 11 |
| Michael Stonebraker | 13 |
| Randy Katz | 50 |
| David Patterson | 67 |
Machine Learning |
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| 4 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Michael Jordan | 2 |
| Stuart Russell | 43 |
| Peter Bartlett | 94 |
| Trevor Darrell | 100 |
System |
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| 8 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Ion Stoica | 24 |
| Joseph Hellerstein | 30 |
| Michael Franklin<fn>Statistics from material published while at Berkeley</fn> | 37 |
| Scott Schenker | 51 |
| Eric Brewer | 54 |
| David Patterson | 57 |
| Armando Fox | 67 |
| Anthony Joseph | 100 |
Natural Language Processing |
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| 2 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Daniel Klein | 8 |
| Marti Hearst | 41 |
Multimedia |
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| 1 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Trevor Darrell | 8 |
| CS graduate students Evan Shelhamer and Jeff Donahue ranked 12 and 13, respectively |
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Theory |
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| 4 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Christos Papadimitriou | 10 |
| Umesh Vazirani | 20 |
| Richard Karp | 24 |
| Scott Shenker | 99 |
Human-Computer Interaction |
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| 1 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Marti Hearst | 17 |
Artificial Intelligence |
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| 1 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Stuart Russell | 18 |
Computer Graphics |
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| 3 Berkeley faculty | rank |
| Jitendra Malik | 23 |
| James O’brien | 73 |
| Carlo Sequin | 78 |
The AMiner Most Influential Scholar Annual List names the world’s top-cited research scholars from the fields of science and engineering. The list is conferred in recognition of outstanding technical achievements with lasting contribution and impact to the research community. The 2016 winners are among the most-cited scholars from the top venues of their respective subject fields as of 2016. Recipients are automatically determined by a computer algorithm deployed in the AMiner system that tracks and ranks scholars based on citation counts collected by top-venue publications.