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Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yaolei Qi
Southeast University
2
Qiuyan Shang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
3
Jordan DeKraker
Western University
4
Adrien Bouhon
Stockholm University
5
Melina Theoni Gyparaki
University of Pennsylvania
6
LI Wen-yao
Chongqing Medical University
7
Haoran Xue
Chinese University of Hong Kong
8
Shisheng Zheng
Xiamen University
9
Luigi Caputi
Czech Academy of Sciences
10
Federica Baccini
Sapienza University of Rome

Rising Stars Papers

1
Active phase discovery in heterogeneous catalysis via topology-guided sampling and machine learning
Nature Communications|2025
32 cit.
2
Observation of scale-free localized states induced by non-Hermitian defects
Physical review. B./Physical review. B|2024
22 cit.
3
Topology-based machine learning for predicting curvature effects in metal-nitrogen-carbon single-atom catalysts
Journal of Energy Chemistry|2025
20 cit.
4
Non-Hermitian Dirac cones with valley-dependent lifetimes
Nature Communications|2025
19 cit.
5
Free-form acoustic topological waveguides enabled by topological lattice defects
Physical review. B./Physical review. B|2024
8 cit.
6
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization
Nature Methods|2025
8 cit.
7
Three-dimensional valley-contrasting sound
Science Advances|2024
5 cit.
8
Multipath cohomology of directed graphs
Algebraic & Geometric Topology|2024
4 cit.
9
Localization for coarse homology theories
Annals of K-Theory|2024
3 cit.
10
Second Euler number in four-dimensional matter
Physical review. B./Physical review. B|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Kelin Xia
Nanyang Technological University
2
Jennifer E. Phillips‐Cremins
Bioengineering Center
3
Giovanni Petri
Eastern University
4
Yuri A. Katz
Yeshiva University
5
Sean Skwerer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6
Rann Bar-On
Duke University
7
Apoorv Tiwari
University of Copenhagen
8
Michael A. Michaux
Sorbonne Université
9
Bivin Sadler
Unknown
10
Manuel Soriano-Trigueros
Universidad de Sevilla

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Non-invertible higher-categorical symmetries
SciPost Physics|2023
217 cit.
2
Cohesin-mediated loop anchors confine the locations of human replication origins
Nature|2022
127 cit.
3
Persistent-homology-based machine learning: a survey and a comparative study
Artificial Intelligence Review|2022
108 cit.
4
Non-invertible symmetry webs
SciPost Physics|2023
90 cit.
5
Multiphysical graph neural network (MP-GNN) for COVID-19 drug design
Briefings in Bioinformatics|2022
64 cit.
6
Higher categorical symmetries and gauging in two-dimensional spin systems
SciPost Physics|2024
61 cit.
7
A Survey of Vectorization Methods in Topological Data Analysis
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2023
59 cit.
8
Kolmogorov–Arnold graph neural networks for molecular property prediction
Nature Machine Intelligence|2025
47 cit.
9
Persistent spectral based ensemble learning (PerSpect-EL) for protein–protein binding affinity prediction
Briefings in Bioinformatics|2022
46 cit.
10
Dowker complex based machine learning (DCML) models for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction
PLoS Computational Biology|2022
36 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Michelle Girvan
Santa Fe Institute
2
Mathieu Jacomy
Télécom Paris
3
Gunnar Carlsson
nLIGHT (United States)
4
John Harer
Duke University
5
Steven W. Zucker
Yale University
6
Herbert Edelsbrunner
Institute of Science and Technology Austria
7
Valerio Pascucci
University of Utah
8
Guo‐Wei Wei
Michigan State University
9
Marián Boguñá
Universitat de Barcelona
10
A. Vania Apkarian
Northwestern University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Finding and evaluating community structure in networks
Physical Review E|2004
14.1k cit.
2
Gephi: An Open Source Software for Exploring and Manipulating Networks
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media|2009
11.3k cit.
3
ForceAtlas2, a Continuous Graph Layout Algorithm for Handy Network Visualization Designed for the Gephi Software
PLoS ONE|2014
3k cit.
4
Three-dimensional alpha shapes
ACM Transactions on Graphics|1994
2.4k cit.
5
Topology and data
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society|2009
2.3k cit.
6
On the shape of a set of points in the plane
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory|1983
1.8k cit.
7
Geometric diffusions as a tool for harmonic analysis and structure definition of data: Diffusion maps
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2005
1.8k cit.
8
Computing Persistent Homology
Discrete & Computational Geometry|2004
1.6k cit.
9
The Structure and Dynamics of Networks
Journal of Statistical Physics|2007
1.5k cit.
10
Scale-Free Brain Functional Networks
Physical Review Letters|2005
1.5k cit.

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