Kaiming He
Scholar

Kaiming He

Google Scholar ID: DhtAFkwAAAAJ
Associate Professor, EECS, MIT
Computer VisionMachine Learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
629,857
 
H-index
69
 
i10-index
83
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
108
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • ICCV Helmholtz Prize (Test of Time Award), 2025
  • PAMI Young Researcher Award, 2018
  • Best Paper Awards: ICCV 2017, CVPR 2016, CVPR 2009
  • Best Student Paper Award, ICCV 2017
  • Best Paper Honorable Mentions: CVPR 2021, ECCV 2018
  • Everingham Prize, ICCV 2021
  • Seminal contributions: ResNets, Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, MoCo, MAE
  • Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, etc., including Oral presentations
Background
  • Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of EECS at MIT
  • Distinguished Scientist (part-time) at Google DeepMind
  • Research areas: computer vision and deep learning
  • Best known for Deep Residual Networks (ResNets), the most-cited paper of the 21st century
  • Residual connections are foundational in modern deep learning models, including Transformers (e.g., ChatGPT), AlphaGo Zero, AlphaFold, and generative AI
  • Also known for visual perception (e.g., Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN) and self-supervised learning (e.g., MoCo, MAE)
  • Over 700,000 citations as of May 2025