Reported by Lieyun.com in Beijing on January 28
Recently, the AI2000 list of the world's most influential scholars in artificial intelligence in 2022 was released. There are 232 Chinese *** on the list. Accounting for 11.6, second in the world. Among the top 20 institutions with the most AI2000 scholars in the world, two from China are on the list, namely Tsinghua University and Alibaba. Among them, Alibaba has rapidly risen from 40 last year to 20 this year. Alibaba Vice President Jia Yangqing is the most influential in the multimedia field.
The AI2000 list is jointly released by the AMiner team of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, Zhipu AI, and the Tsinghua-China Engineering Science and Technology Knowledge Center Knowledge Intelligence Joint Research Center***. The 2022 list is based on the 2012-2021 ten-year period. A total of 185,241 papers and academic data from 258,268 authors were included in 46 top journals and conferences in the field of artificial intelligence during the year. The list covers 20 core fields of artificial intelligence and one emerging field. It is the first choice The world's most influential AI scholar with 2,000 visits. However, due to the phenomenon that the same scholars were selected in different fields, after de-duplication, the actual number of scholars was 1,896.
The organizer said that this year’s AI2000 list is different from previous years in that it is more inclined to explore young scholars who have made outstanding achievements in the past 10 years. Therefore, many young people appear in the list of the most influential scholars in 21 sub-fields, such as He Kaiming in the field of computer vision. His papers have been cited more than 240,000 times, especially DeepResidualLearningForImageRecognition published in 2016, which has a citation count of 8.9 million times, becoming the most influential AI paper in the past 10 years. Jia Yangqing, Vice President of Alibaba Group, has become the most influential AI scholar in the field of multimedia, with his papers cited more than 150,000 times. The number of AI2000 scholars selected in 2022. AI2000 scholars from the top 10 countries in the world are distributed in 43 countries or regions around the world. The United States has the largest number of selected scholars, with 1,146 people. The number of selected scholars has dropped by 1.5 compared with last year, still accounting for 57.3 of the global total; followed by From China, ***232 people were selected, an increase of 4.5% from last year, and this year’s global share is 11.6%. Therefore, the report believes that the world's top artificial intelligence talents are one super strong and the other strong is beginning to emerge. The first super is the United States and the other is China. Distribution of AI2000 Scholar Institutions Judging from the institutions to which AI2000 scholars belong, this year Google once again ranked first with 181 people selected. Among the top 20 institutions with the most AI2000 scholars in the world, 16 are in the United States and 2 are in China. Tsinghua University ranks 13th in the world with 20 scholars, and Alibaba ranks 20th in the world with 14 scholars.
The report concluded that the talent attraction capabilities of the world's top artificial intelligence companies, led by Google, have significantly increased. The five institutions that have risen in the rankings this year are all companies, namely Meta, Apple, Amazon, IBM and Alibaba. The report points out that China's Alibaba has performed well, with its global ranking rising from 40th last year to 20th this year. The number of candidates has increased from 10 to 14, and many young top AI scholars have emerged.