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The CS expert database: 1,777,551 experts · 2,837,695 papers in CCF A–C and ICORE A*–C venues · 10 venue-derived domains · snapshot 2026-09-22.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
Experts by expertise
The expertise taxonomy: 90,661 topics extracted from 634,694 papers of 537,692 experts, organised under the ten CCF categories and 168 areas. Pick a category, then narrow down to a topic; every level lists its experts by weight.
Artificial intelligence
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Sub-topics
111 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
clustering 601randomized algorithms 492dynamic programming 422numerical linear algebra 320parallel algorithms 292metric embedding 280polynomial-time algorithms 221sketching 177parameterized algorithms 164search algorithms 150numerical algorithms 122spectral methods 117dynamic data structures 115dynamic algorithms 111group testing 102markov chains 94load balancing 92similarity search 90symbolic computation 85priority queues 83combinatorial algorithms 79probabilistic data structures 70selection 70classification 60exact exponential algorithms 59heuristic algorithms 59kernel methods 57sublinear algorithms 56analysis of algorithms 51data structure lower bounds 51number-theoretic algorithms 51exact algorithms 50matrix approximation 50runtime analysis 47deterministic algorithms 44linear algebra 41decision tree 40ranking 31decision diagrams 30tree data structures 30algebraic computation 29convolution 28space-efficient algorithms 28similarity measures 26self-assembly 25comparison-based algorithms 24counting and sampling 23learning algorithms 21fourier transform 20embedding 18pseudorandom number generation 18sketching and streaming algorithms 18sorting and merging 18anytime algorithms 15data streams 15modular arithmetic 15similarity estimation 15recursive algorithms 13sorting and selection 12data structure design 11diophantine equations 10pruning 10top-k query 10data summarization 8sequence algorithms 8algorithm engineering 7computer arithmetic 7metric space algorithms 7inference algorithms 6query processing 6computational biology 5memory hierarchy 5signal processing algorithms 5stochastic analysis 4
Show 37 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
storage allocation 9search space reduction 8algorithm portfolio 7bilinear map 7certifying algorithm 7stopping time 7adversarial robustness 6coin tossing 6constructive algorithms 6deamortization 6fixed dimension 6robust algorithms 6sorting and searching 6table look-up 6associative memory retrieval 5lewis weights 5mixture models 5radon transform 5crossover operators 4lexicographic ordering 4linear measurements 4real-time simulation 4similarity computation 4sparse projection 4two-dimensional arrays 4variance minimization 4bit-reversal permutation 3counterfactual explanation 3distance matrix 3permutation test 3recursive decomposition 3row minima 3time-expanded graph 3tree topology 3tree-structured graph 3verifiable computation 3VLSI implementation 3
Experts on Algorithms and data structures
17,987 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics