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Cognizant
Cognizant is a professional services company, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era.
Crunchbase, retrieved 2024-05-16| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Sector | Software & IT Services |
| Website | https://www.cognizant.com |
Between 2015 and 2025, Cognizant researchers released179 AI research articles
- #67in PARAT for number of AI research articles
- 65.89citations per AI article on average (#49 in PARAT, #24 in the S&P 500)
- 15highly cited articles (#77 in PARAT, #33 in the S&P 500)
- +9.1%growth in Cognizant's public AI research (2020–2023)
- 2articles at top AI conferences (#138 in PARAT, #63 in the S&P 500)
- 27.5%of Cognizant's total public research was AI-focused
Cognizant's top AI research topics
Subfield | Articles | Citations per article | Growth (2020–2023) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV publications | 43 | 194.7 | 101.85 |
| NLP publications | 12 | 35.9 | -100 |
| Robotics publications | 15 | 19.7 | -75 |
| AI safety publications | 7 | 1092.9 | -100 |
| Large language model publications | 6 | 205.5 | -100 |
Between 2015 and 2025, Cognizant filed83 AI-related patents
- #138in PARAT for number of AI-related patents filed
- 19%growth in Cognizant's AI-related patent filing (2017–2020)
- 54AI-related patents were granted to Cognizant (2017–2020)
- 45.1%of Cognizant's filed patents were AI-related
Top AI application areas across Cognizant's filed patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Knowledge representation patents | 11 | 16.67% |
| Planning and scheduling patents | 10 | -50% |
| Computer vision patents | 8 | -75% |
| Speech processing patents | 4 | N/A |
| Analytics and algorithms patents | 2 | -100% |
Top use cases across Cognizant's filed AI patents
Subfield | Patents filed | Growth (2017–2020) |
|---|---|---|
| Personal devices and computing patents | 45 | 60.61% |
| Business patents | 12 | -75% |
| Telecommunications patents | 9 | 25% |
| Life sciences patents | 5 | -75% |
| Security patents | 4 | -50% |
5,554
AI jobs
According to our data, Cognizant currently employs about 5,554 AI workers (#7 rank in PARAT, #6 in the S&P 500). AI workers in PARAT include anyone a high probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
135,941
Tech Team 1 jobs
According to our data, Cognizant currently employs about 135,941 Tech Team 1 workers (#2 rank in PARAT, #2 in the S&P 500).Tech Team 1 workers include anyone with technical skills and a reasonable probability of working with AI. Recent hires may be omitted. Read more >>
The AI activity metrics in the Private-Sector AI Indicators dataset are derived from data from Revelio Labs, ETO's Merged Academic Corpus, and other sources. Additional descriptive metadata in PARAT comes from the Crunchbase Open Data Map (powered by Crunchbase) and PermID. Emerging technology topic classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.