◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter Cao Xiuying
On January 25, the 2022 list of the world's most influential scholars in artificial intelligence - AI 2000 was released.
The List of the World's Most Influential Scholars in Artificial Intelligence (AI 2000) is jointly released by the AMiner team of the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, the Wisdom Spectrum AI, and the Tsinghua-China Engineering Science and Technology Knowledge Center Joint Research Center, which aims to select the most influential and dynamic top scholars in the field of artificial intelligence in the past decade through AMiner academic data.
Since the release of the first AI 2000 in 2020, it has been highly recognized by all walks of life and has become one of the important weather vanes in the field of AI.
The 2022 annual list is based on a total of 185241 papers and academic data from 258268 authors included in 46 top journal conferences in the field of artificial intelligence in the 2012-2021 decade, covering 20 core areas of artificial intelligence (classical artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, knowledge engineering, speech recognition, data mining, information retrieval and recommendation, databases, human-computer interaction, computer graphics, multimedia, visualization, security and privacy, 20 core areas of computer networking, operating systems, computing theory, chip technology and the Internet of Things) and an emerging field – virtual reality.
The list shows that overall, the top talents in the 21 sub-fields of the AI 2000 list are mainly concentrated in the United States, as well as China, Singapore, Canada, Germany and other countries.
Among the selected AI 2000 scholars in the world, there are 1146 in the United States and 232 in China, ranking first and second in distribution. Compared with the previous session, there was no major data fluctuation. The United States still occupies a strong leading position in artificial intelligence talents, including the top scholars in 13 fields. It can be seen that the United States still has an absolute advantage in the overall talent resources and high-level scientific research results of artificial intelligence, which has laid a solid talent foundation for the development of artificial intelligence in the United States.
Top scholars in each field and their countries
China's income is two top scholars, namely information retrieval and recommendation and multimedia; Germany's income is two tops, which are robotics and visualization; Italy has topped the Internet of Things; and Japan has top spot in the field of computer graphics.
It is worth noting that compared with last year, when American talents occupied the top of the list of 16 artificial intelligence subfields, more countries appeared this year, which indirectly indicates that other countries are gradually strengthening their own areas of strength and strengthening their technical strength.
In addition, the data shows that several major technology giants have contributed greatly in the field of artificial intelligence, breaking down the barriers between theory and practice in other professions. This allows the development of technologies to be advanced according to actual needs, thus forming a virtuous circle of complementarity, which can promote the rapid development of artificial intelligence.
Specifically, from the number of ai 2000 most influential scholars selected, Google, Meta (formerly Facebook) and Microsoft three major technology companies occupy a dominant position, the number of top AI scholars the company has, whether it is the top 10 or top 100 number, are far more than universities. Among them, Google, which ranks first, has a total of 181 people on the list, and it is also the only institution with more than 100 scholars.
A1 2000 Distribution of Academics and Nominated Scholars Institutions
From the perspective of the distribution of the countries where the institutions are located, Tsinghua University regrets to leave the top ten positions compared with last year. Alibaba ranks twentieth, up from last year.
It is undeniable that China is still the country with the highest research on the development of artificial intelligence. At the same time, in the upward flow of talents, China has shown a gratifying positive inflow. This means that China's great sincerity in releasing sincere recruitment of talents has been feedback, and I believe that there will be more outstanding talents joining China's team in the future.
In terms of the gender distribution of scholars, the AI 2000 list of scholars as a whole shows the characteristics of more men and less women. Specifically, male scholars account for the majority in all fields of artificial intelligence, and female scholars account for a minority, but the number of female scholars has also shown an upward trend year by year, and for the first time, female scholars have won two lists. In the field of human-computer interaction, the proportion of female scholars is as high as 37.4%, and the top scholars are also women scholars, and in the two fields of knowledge engineering and visualization, female scholars account for more than 15%, while other remaining fields account for less than 10%.
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Editor: Wang Yu
Review: Yue Liang
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