IE PhD Alumnus Kaiming He ranked the fifth most highly cited scientist globally from the AD Scientific Index in 2025

2025-08-29

Dr. Kaiming He, an alumnus of the IE PhD program in 2011, is an Associate Professor with tenure at MIT. His research areas include computer vision and deep learning. Dr. He was supervised by Prof. Sean Tang during his PhD study in Information Engineering at CUHK. Dr. He is best known for his work on Deep Residual Networks (ResNets), which is the most-cited paper of the twenty-first century, according to a Nature article. Currently, his total citation count is as high as 730,000, and the high citation count in the past five years is 610,000 in total. He Kaiming's most well - known research is ResNets, whose influence is not limited to the field of computer vision, and its design concept is widely applied in modern deep learning models.