Yes, I think this is the most (only?) meaningful use case for such rankings. People who may not learn these things from their standard environment. FWIW, I probably learned about my undergrad (Cornell) similarly.
@thegautamkamath
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Academic Rankings in AI Research: Beyond Simple Metrics
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I actually don't mind if rankings are there as an option. Like if you want to find out who's "best" by # of ICML papers + 0.5 * # of NeurIPS papers normalized by author, or whatever weird formula, go wild. But that shouldn't be the main point.
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CSRankings Gaps and ArXiv Collaboration Visualization Tools
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Yes! CSRankings falls short of this goal, since some areas are wholly unrepresented (a student wanted to know who works on learning theory… but COLT isn't there). @RoyRinberg showed me this nice tool he built to visualize arXiv collabs
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Why Do We Need AI Rankings Anyway?
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I see a lot of people in the replies saying, but it's the best ranking we've got!! Remind me again… why do we need a ranking?
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University Researchers Need Industry Cross-Appointments
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Sure. I had a specific use case that only needed university researchers. But it was still missing some with industry cross appointments.
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Scraping DBLP: Data Challenges and Academic Database Mining
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One could hypothetically scrape all of dblp. Might be some challenges with stale data or affiliations with multiple names etc.
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Data Collection Challenges and Licensing Issues in AI Projects
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I think collecting the data is the major challenge. Ironically, despite the data being crowdsourced, and initially taken from someone else's repo, I believe it is against the license terms to fork that data (I am not a lawyer, so what do I know)
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Meta Research Building Open Source AI Alternative
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Maybe someone at Meta Research could be tasked with building an open source alternative? It would surely give Meta Research more prominence, containing many strong researchers and thus being near the top of the list.
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CSRankings Limitations and Need for Better Academic AI Alternatives
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Yes. I have significant issues with various design choices of CSRankings. I wish there was a better and more customizable alternative (toggle people with industry on/off if you like?). It's, for better or worse, the best we got right now, and I get some utility from it.
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David Ash Supports Waterloo Math Program as Putnam Fellow
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Very cool support of @WaterlooMath from David Ash. David is a Waterloo alum, and three-time Putnam Fellow. Only 31 people have ever been a Putnam Fellow >= 3 times.