Actions

Discover

Who is the best professor in the world?

Nominate and vote for the best professor in the world based on teaching excellence, student impact, and academic contributions.

Judge Entries

User

#1 Ranked Submission

Who is the best professor in the world?

Geoffrey Hinton

Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence

University of Toronto (Emeritus) / Vector Institute

Professor Emeritus Hinton is a 2018 Turing Award Laureate and 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, celebrated for his foundational work on deep learning and artificial neural networks, including the backpropagation algorithm. He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and Chief Scientific Advisor at the Vector Institute. His …

User

#2 Ranked Submission

Who is the best professor in the world?

Saul Perlmutter

Physics / Astrophysics

University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Professor Perlmutter is a 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae. This finding led to the concept of dark energy. He is a Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley, a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, …

User

#3 Ranked Submission

Who is the best professor in the world?

Jennifer Doudna

Chemistry / Biochemistry

University of California, Berkeley

Professor Doudna is a 2020 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry for co-developing CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary genome editing technology. This breakthrough allows scientists to rewrite DNA with unprecedented precision, opening vast possibilities in biology, agriculture, and medicine, including treating genetic diseases. She is a professor in the Departments of Molecular & Cell …

User

#4 Ranked Submission

Who is the best professor in the world?

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Professor Tao is a 2006 Fields Medalist, recognized for his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory. A child prodigy, he became UCLA's youngest-ever full professor at 24. His work spans numerous areas of mathematics, and he is known for his prolific output and ability …

User

#5 Ranked Submission

Who is the best professor in the world?

Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence

Mila - Quebec AI Institute / Université de Montréal

Professor Bengio is a 2018 Turing Award Laureate, recognized (with Hinton and LeCun) for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal and the Founder and Scientific Advisor of Mila. His research focuses on …

Trending Contests