Ranking

  • Erdős number = 3:

      • Carson K. Leung - Heikki Mannila - Béla Bollobás - Paul Erdős (Pál Erdős, 1913–1996)

  • Dijkstra number = 4:

      • Carson K. Leung - Heikki Mannila - Ralph-Johan Back - Alain J. Martin - Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002)

  • Pólya number = 4:

      • Carson K. Leung - Heikki Mannila - Kurt Mehlhorn - Robert E. Tarjan - George Pólya (György Pólya, 1887–1985)

      • Carson K. Leung - Raymond T. Ng - S. Muthukrishnan - Robert E. Tarjan - George Pólya

  • Turing number = 5:

      • Carson K. Leung - Raymond T. Ng - Anil Nerode - K. Jon Barwise - Robin O. Gandy - Alan M. Turing (1912-1954)

  • von Neumann number = 5:

      • Carson K. Leung - Wenzhu Tong - Heng Ji - Ralph Grishman - Herman H. Goldstine - John von Neumann (1903–1957)

  • Academic ancestors include mathematicians Fourier, Laplace, and Poisson

  • Most prolific dblp authors (page 11, listed dblp authors with 50+ publications)

    • 288 publications

  • Top scientists affiliated with Canada by H-index (Guide2Research, listed scientists with h-index of 40+):

    • Avg Cdn h-index: ~55.71

    • Avg Cdn DBLP publications: ~213.18

  • Top computer scientists affiliated with Canada by H-index (Research.com, listed scientists with h-index of 40+, a threshold based on the recommendation by J. E. Hirsch, PhD, in his “An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output” paper where he pointed out that an h-index of 40 characterizes outstanding researchers). As of May 16, 2021:

    • H-index: 43

    • Citations: 7,170

    • Publications: 247

    • World ranking: 5072

    • National (Canada) ranking: 226

  • World top 2% most-cited scientists (i.e., top 100,000 top-scientists)

    • Version 1 - Jul 06 2019:

      • Among 106,368 top scientists worldwide in 2017: Ranked 92,290th; Top ranked in subfields (1) AI & image processing and (2) info systems within the scientific field of ICT, with 88 publications (ref: Table-S2-singleyr-2017.xlsx)

    • Version 2 - Oct 08 2020:

      • World's top 1% most-cited scientists in the subfield of AI & image processing within the scientific field of ICT:

        • Among 159,683 top scientists worldwide in their career (1960-2019): Ranked 149,511st; Top ranked in subfields (1) AI & image processing (ranked 2454th of 215,114 researchers = top 1%) and (2) computation theory & mathematics within the scientific field of ICT, with 215 publications (1998-2020) (ref: Table-S6-career-2019.xlsx)

        • Among 161,441 top scientists worldwide in 2019: Ranked 95,517th; Top ranked in subfields (1) AI & image processing (ranked 2313rd of 215,114 researchers = top 1%) and (2) computation theory & mathematics within the scientific field of ICT, with 215 publications (1998-2020) (ref: Table-S7-singleyr-2019.xlsx)

    • Version 3 - Oct 19 2021:

      • Ranked the world's top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University. The list was released by Stanford University based on the lifetime (1960-2020) citation impact and the 2020 citation impact. It is divided into 22 fields and 176 sub-discipline fields, and identifies the top 2% from nearly 7 million scientists in their own areas of specialty.

      • World's top 1% most-cited scientists in the subfield of AI & image processing within the scientific field of ICT:

        • Among 186,177 top scientists worldwide in their career (1960-2020): Ranked 121,518th; Top ranked in subfields (1) AI & image processing (ranked 1966th of 253,359 researchers = top 0.8%) and (2) computation theory & mathematics within the scientific field of ICT, with 239 publications (1998-2021) (ref: Table_1_Authors_career_2020_wopp_extracted_202108.xlsx)

        • Among 190,063 top scientists worldwide in 2020: Ranked 46,919th (i.e., top 25%); Top ranked in subfields (1) AI & image processing (ranked 1091st of 253,359 researchers = top 0.4%) and (2) computation theory & mathematics within the scientific field of ICT, with 215 publications (1998-2021) (ref: Table_1_Authors_singleyr_2020_wopp_extracted_202108.xlsx)