2026 Benjamin Kuipers: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	69	1954	1892	991	953	263	22504

Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Benjamin Kuipers is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the intersection of social sciences and neuroscience with a focus on ethical, cognitive, and behavioral aspects related to artificial intelligence and human cooperation.

Their main fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Neuroscience

Notable subfields contributing to their research are:

Safety Research
Cognitive Neuroscience
Sociology and Political Science
Information Systems
Health Informatics

The core topics addressed in their work involve:

Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems

Among their recent publications are:

"Trust and Cooperation," 2022, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
"Perspectives on Ethics of AI," 2020, Oxford University Press eBooks
"Ethics, Safety, and Autonomous Vehicles," 2021, Computer
"AI and Society: Ethics, Trust, and Cooperation," 2023, Communications of the ACM
"Sample-efficient multi-modal grasp learning from demonstration," 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

Philip Koopman
William H. Widen
Marilyn Wolf
Maciej Przybylski
Jan Klimaszewski

Kuipers's work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with recurrence in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Oxford University Press eBooks
Computer
Communications of the ACM

In recognition of their contributions, they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations

Benjamin Kuipers;Yung-Tai Byun

1804
Citations
Modeling Spatial Knowledge

Benjamin J. Kuipers

1387
Citations
Computer Power and Human Reason

Benjamin Kuipers;John McCarthy;Joseph Weizenbaum

1310
Citations
The spatial semantic hierarchy

Benjamin Kuipers

1099
Citations
Qualitative Reasoning: Modeling and Simulation with Incomplete Knowledge

Benjamin Kuipers

1043
Citations
A Description of Think Aloud Method and Protocol Analysis

Marsha E. Fonteyn;Benjamin Kuipers;Susan J. Grobe

896
Citations
Commonsense reasoning about causality: deriving behavior from structure

Benjamin Kuipers

822
Citations
Recognizing human actions by attributes

Jingen Liu;Benjamin Kuipers;Silvio Savarese

712
Citations
Qualitative Simulation *

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710
Citations
The `Map in the Head' metaphor

Benjamin J. Kuipers

528
Citations
Navigation and mapping in large-scale space

Benjamin Kuipers

482
Citations
Walk the talk: connecting language, knowledge, and action in route instructions

Matt MacMahon;Brian Stankiewicz;Benjamin Kuipers

403
Citations
Causal Reasoning in Medicine: Analysis of a Protocol

Benjamin Kuipers;Jerome P. Kassirer

402
Citations
Cross-view action recognition via view knowledge transfer

Jingen Liu;Mubarak Shah;Benjamin Kuipers;Silvio Savarese

343
Citations
Model-based monitoring of dynamic systems

Daniel Dvorak;Benjamin Kuipers

315
Citations
A robust, qualitative method for robot spatial learning

Benjamin J. Kuipers;Yung-Tai Byun

301
Citations
Local metrical and global topological maps in the hybrid spatial semantic hierarchy

B. Kuipers;J. Modayil;P. Beeson;M. MacMahon

300
Citations
Towards a general theory of topological maps

Emilio Remolina;Benjamin Kuipers

295
Citations
Using incomplete quantitative knowledge in qualitative reasoning

Benjamin Kuipers;Daniel Berleant

273
Citations
Map Learning with Uninterpreted Sensors and Effectors

David Pierce;Benjamin J. Kuipers

270
Citations
Towards Autonomous Topological Place Detection Using the Extended Voronoi Graph

P. Beeson;N.K. Jong;B. Kuipers

249
Citations
Integrating topological and metroc maps for mobile robot navigation: a statistical approach

Sebastian Thrun;Jens-Steffen Gutmann;Dieter Fox;Wolfram Burgard

236
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvio Savarese Stanford University

Thomas F. Edgar The University of Texas at Austin

Risto Miikkulainen The University of Texas at Austin

Karl Johan Åström Lund University

Thomas R. Shultz McGill University

Kenneth D. Forbus Northwestern University

Sven Koenig University of Southern California

Peter Gärdenfors Lund University

Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University

Dieter Fox University of Washington

External Links

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