(Incomplete) list of MDS researchers

1. Warren S. Torgerson:


• former professor at John Hopkins
• developed MDS while he was a PhD student
• known for the classical scaling (aka., Torgerson scaling) in MDS
• Solution from Torgerson scaling can be used as initial configuration; however, it is a rational configuration and is prone to local minima


2. Louis E. Guttman:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
• developed Guttman loss function in SYSTAT


3. Roger N. Shepard:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
  
• professor of cognitive psychology at Stanford University (Emeritus)
• known for Shepard diagram
  


4. Joseph B. Kruskal:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
• former president of the Classification Society of North America
• developed stress formula 1 and formula 2
  
• developed the program of KYST (Kruskal, Young, & Seery, 1973)


5. Forrest W. Young:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
• professor of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Emeritus)
• developer of ALSCAL (alternating least squares scaling) (available in SPSS)
  


6. J. Douglas Carroll:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
• professor of management and psychology at Rutgers University
• developer of INDSCAL (individual differences scaling)


7. Jan de Leeuw:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
• developer of smacof package in R


8. Lawrence J. Hubert:


• former president of the Psychometric Society
• developer of combinatorial analysis
• developer of dynamic programming
• developer of city-block MDS


9. Ingwer Borg and Patrick J. F. Groenen:


• authors of the Bible book of MDS: Borg, I., & Groenen, P.J.F. (2005). Modern multidimensional scaling. 2nd edition. New York: Springer.