The "Top 2% Scientists" ranking is compiled annually by Stanford University* and the publisher Elsevier.

Those included in the ranking are:

Manuel Mazzara — Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Engineering Sciences; he teaches "Requirements Engineering," "Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science," and "Software System Modeling."

Paolo Ciancarini — Professor at the Institute of Data Analysis and AI.

Igor Kotenko — Deputy Director of the Institute of Information Security.

Ajith Abraham — Professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence.

Muhammad Ahmad — Research Fellow at the Laboratory of Machine Learning and Data Representation.

Previously, the Rector of Innopolis University, Alexander Gasnikov, was also included in the list. In total, 42 researchers from Russia were featured in the field of information and communication technologies.

*designated as an undesirable organization