2018 Global Top 1000 Computer Scientists by H-Index Released, Hongjiang Zhang Ranks First in Mainland China

源码资本·June 27, 2018·1·17

Top Scientists in Computer Science and Electronics 2018

Guide2Research recently released its 2018 ranking of the top 1,000 scientists in computer science and electronics by H-index. Professor Anil K. Jain of Michigan State University surpassed Nobel laureate Herbert Simon to claim the top spot. Source Code Capital investment partner Hongjiang Zhang ranked first among all scientists from mainland China.

Guide2Research's latest ranking of top scientists in computer science and electronics for 2018 is based on H-index metrics from Google Scholar and DBLP. H-index — the number of papers with citation counts greater than or equal to h — measures both a scientist's productivity and research impact, quantifying not just citations but volume of published work.

Among the top 1,000 computer science and electronics scholars globally, 11 scientists from mainland China made the list. Hongjiang Zhang, investment partner at Source Code Capital, ranked 29th worldwide and first in mainland China. Weiying Ma, director of ByteDance's AI Lab and a member of the Source Code Capital portfolio, ranked second.

The scientists from mainland China who made the list are:

Hongjiang Zhang, Source Code Capital (29)
Weiying Ma, ByteDance (86)
Huijun Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology (94)
Zhihua Zhou, Nanjing University (202)
Wen Gao, Peking University (228)
Tieniu Tan, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (260)
Ya-Qin Zhang, Baidu (353)
Licheng Jiao, Xidian University (497)
Fei-Yue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences (556)
Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University (750)

Dr. Zhang joined Kingsoft in late 2011 as executive director and CEO. He also served as a director of Cheetah Mobile (NYSE: CMCM), Xunlei (NASDAQ: XNET), and VNET Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNET).

Dr. Zhang retired from Kingsoft in December 2016 and subsequently joined Source Code Capital as an investment partner. Prior to Kingsoft, he was chief technology officer of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D Group (ARD), president of Microsoft Asia Engineering Institute (ATC), and a Microsoft Distinguished Scientist (DS). In these roles, Dr. Zhang led Microsoft's day-to-day R&D operations in China, including strategy, planning, development, and technology incubation for products, services, and solutions. He was also a member of the Microsoft Greater China Strategic Executive Council, which defined and drove Microsoft's strategy and business development across the region.

Dr. Zhang previously served as vice president and founding member of Microsoft Research Asia. His outstanding leadership and contributions — felt across academia and Microsoft's product lines — helped establish Microsoft Research Asia as a world-class computer science research center and a technology priority for Microsoft, earning him recognition as one of Microsoft's ten "Distinguished Scientists."

Dr. Zhang is a specially appointed expert under the Chinese government's "Thousand Talents Program" and a fellow of both IEEE and ACM. He is renowned in the research community for his pioneering contributions to multimedia computing, particularly in video and image content analysis. He received the 2010 IEEE Technical Achievement Award and the 2012 ACM Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in Multimedia, and was named a 2008 Asian American Engineer of the Year. Dr. Zhang holds nearly 200 U.S. and international patents, has published four academic monographs and over 400 research papers, and is among the most highly cited scientists in computer science (h-index = 112). Many of his research findings have become classic references in their respective fields.

Dr. Zhang earned his Ph.D. in electronic engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and his B.S. from Zhengzhou University in China. Before joining Microsoft, he was a research manager at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, and also worked at the National University of Singapore's Institute of Systems Science.

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