VLDB 2026 Research / recruiting

Reviewers in the wild

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.

Recruitment bar

Who qualifies as a reviewer for this venue: pick venues from the rank lists, then set the junior and senior requirements. Each role keeps its own saved bar, which diagnosis and pool planning also use.
Saved reviewer bar: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, EDBT, PODS, CIKM +1 · junior 2+ first-author in 5y or senior 4+ papers in 5y
1Venues the expert should have published in
No venue selected
Computer architecture / parallel and distributed computing / storage systems 90
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Computer networks 54
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Network and information security 58
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Software engineering / systems software / programming languages 78
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Databases / data mining / content retrieval 62
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Theory of computer science 52
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Computer graphics and multimedia 53
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Artificial intelligence 105
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing 35
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
Interdisciplinary / comprehensive / emerging 52
CCF A
CCF B
CCF C
46Information and computing sciences 14
ICORE B
ICORE C
0806Information systems 1
ICORE B
4601Applied computing 57
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4602Artificial intelligence 117
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4603Computer vision and multimedia computation 51
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4604Cybersecurity and privacy 62
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4605Data management and data science 73
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4606Distributed computing and systems software 151
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4607Graphics, augmented reality and games 25
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4608Human-centred computing 83
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4611Machine learning 48
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4612Software engineering 107
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
4613Theory of computation 87
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
CSEComputer Systems Engineering 30
ICORE A*
ICORE A
ICORE B
ICORE C
Only venues with papers since 2020 are listed. A venue ranked by both catalogues, or filed under several fields, is one entry: ticking any copy ticks them all. Rank labels are the catalogues', not a quality judgement.
2Publication requirement
at least papers as first author in the recent years
at least papers as any author in the recent years
“Recent k years” means papers dated 2026−k+1 or later; 2026 is incomplete in the snapshot and a few journals already date papers 2027. First author = first-listed, not corresponding.

Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021

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.
Sub-topics 9 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on analog circuit design automation 201 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years)
ExpertWeight Papers on topicLast on topic All papersLastORCID
Xuan Zeng 0001
dblp:58/5418-1
4.3 72026 229 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weidong Cao 0001
dblp:61/5251-1
3.0 42025 27 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Xuan Zhang 0001
dblp:36/31-1
3.0 42025 73 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fan Yang 0001
dblp:29/3081-1
2.3 32026 161 · 108 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dian Zhou
dblp:73/6801
2.1 32026 151 · 48 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jintao Li 0002
dblp:414/6882-2
1.9 22026 16 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiangli Huang
dblp:284/8427
1.8 22026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhaori Bi
dblp:158/7470
1.8 22026 41 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Hamidreza Aghasi
dblp:17/9223
1.5 22025 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 conflict
Changhao Yan
dblp:79/6099
1.5 22026 83 · 46 since 2021 2026 verified
Mouhacine Benosman
dblp:135/4237
1.4 22025 7 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Sachin S. Sapatnekar
dblp:s/SachinSSapatnekar
1.4 22024 341 · 70 since 2021 2026 verified
Jiarui Bao
dblp:99/10442
1.4 22024 3 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Zhangcheng Huang 0001
dblp:254/6073-1
1.4 22024 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 verified
Meghna Madhusudan
dblp:241/4342
1.4 22024 23 · 17 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Ramesh Harjani
dblp:22/2712
1.4 22024 55 · 25 since 2021 2025 verified
Jiang Hu 0001
dblp:20/5455-1
1.4 22024 226 · 53 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ye Lu 0005
dblp:05/511-5
1.4 22024 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Georges Gielen
dblp:71/3189
1.4 72026 220 · 32 since 2021 2026 verified
Jialin Cai 0001
dblp:194/0830-1
1.1 22026 9 · 9 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shui Yu 0002
dblp:90/3575-2
1.0 12026 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Guoyong Shi
dblp:52/4856
1.0 12026 46 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Norbert Wehn
dblp:48/6980
1.0 12026 155 · 43 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhuoli Ouyang
dblp:426/9444
1.0 12026 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Aojin Li
dblp:421/9931
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 reported
Ji Zhuang
dblp:410/5493
1.0 12026 1 · 1 since 2021 2026 reported
Haoning Jiang
dblp:401/9328
1.0 12026 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jinyi Shen
dblp:399/0085
1.0 12026 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 reported
Li Shang 0002
dblp:32/4492-2
1.0 12026 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Mohsen Ahmadzadeh
dblp:284/0604
1.0 12026 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jan Lappas
dblp:244/7637
1.0 12026 7 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhenxin Chen
dblp:228/9793
1.0 12026 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Tinghuan Chen
dblp:175/6569
1.0 12026 61 · 57 since 2021 2026 verified
Junmin Jiang
dblp:158/9060
1.0 12026 18 · 16 since 2021 2026 verified
David Z. Pan
dblp:p/DavidZhigangPan
0.9 12025 368 · 89 since 2021 2026 verified
Jussi Ryynänen
dblp:94/4315
0.9 12025 33 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Yun Li 0002
dblp:87/6284-2
0.9 12025 91 · 43 since 2021 2026 conflict
Amir Salman Avestimehr
dblp:63/1946
0.9 12025 209 · 68 since 2021 2026 verified
Altti Heikkinen
dblp:413/6472
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Yilun Huang 0006
dblp:408/7361
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 conflict
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