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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Reinforcement learning›bellman equation topic 14 papers · 48 experts
Experts on bellman equation 48 · 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
Yun-Hsuan Lien
dblp:265/3582
0.8 12024 8 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ping-Chun Hsieh
dblp:163/7352
0.8 12024 36 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Tzu-Mao Li
dblp:122/4798
0.8 12024 47 · 34 since 2021 2026 reported
Yu-Shuen Wang
dblp:08/742
0.8 12024 50 · 16 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Lihong Li 0001
dblp:l/LihongLi
0.7 22019 89 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Stefano Ermon
dblp:47/8135
0.7 12023 270 · 147 since 2021 2025 verified
Kuno Kim
dblp:270/0270
0.7 12023 7 · 5 since 2021 2023 none
Martin J. Wainwright
dblp:48/6396
0.6 12022 170 · 18 since 2021 2026 verified
Andrea Zanette
dblp:222/9859
0.6 12022 20 · 12 since 2021 2025 none
Rémi Munos
dblp:69/6815
0.6 22024 176 · 39 since 2021 2025 none
Anuj Mahajan
dblp:99/3800
0.5 12021 13 · 8 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Shimon Whiteson
dblp:42/2548
0.5 12021 143 · 44 since 2021 2025 none
Anima Anandkumar
dblp:25/1529
0.5 12021 204 · 107 since 2021 2025 conflict
Viktor Makoviychuk
dblp:228/7766
0.5 12021 12 · 8 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Mikayel Samvelyan
dblp:170/0101
0.5 12021 11 · 8 since 2021 2024 none
Jean Kossaifi
dblp:155/6766
0.5 12021 30 · 12 since 2021 2025 verified
Yuke Zhu
dblp:133/1772
0.5 12021 85 · 55 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Animesh Garg
dblp:123/5728
0.5 12021 86 · 55 since 2021 2025 conflict
Qiang Liu 0001
dblp:61/3234-1
0.4 12019 131 · 58 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yihao Feng
dblp:204/3696
0.4 12019 28 · 21 since 2021 2025 none
Zhen Liu 0019
dblp:77/35-19
0.3 12018 26 · 15 since 2021 2025 conflict
Bo Dai 0001
dblp:64/2903-1
0.3 12018 114 · 61 since 2021 2025 conflict
Richard S. Sutton
dblp:48/6070
0.3 12018 86 · 13 since 2021 2025 conflict
Huizhen Yu
dblp:47/3140
0.3 12018 9 · 2 since 2021 2026 unresolved
Albert Eaton Shaw
dblp:267/9598
0.3 12018 5 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Ian Osband
dblp:131/6683
0.3 12018 21 · 5 since 2021 2023 none
Niao He
dblp:122/3014
0.3 12018 68 · 43 since 2021 2025 corroborated
A. Rupam Mahmood
dblp:120/6935
0.3 12018 26 · 16 since 2021 2024 conflict
Brendan O'Donoghue
dblp:116/3587
0.3 12018 19 · 12 since 2021 2023 none
Jianshu Chen
dblp:11/3124
0.3 12018 54 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Volodymyr Mnih
dblp:04/1930
0.3 12018 29 · 7 since 2021 2025 none
Ke Tang 0001
dblp:50/3146-1
0.3 12017 221 · 66 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xin Yao 0001
dblp:26/3646
0.3 12017 581 · 135 since 2021 2026 conflict
Liangpeng Zhang
dblp:165/3160
0.3 12017 5 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Mark Rowland 0001
dblp:86/4090
0.2 12024 57 · 36 since 2021 2025 conflict
Kevin Kevin Li
dblp:396/8699
0.2 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Akifumi Wachi
dblp:218/7526
0.2 12024 16 · 12 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yunhao Tang
dblp:210/2229
0.2 12024 46 · 32 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Will Dabney
dblp:200/8494
0.2 12024 47 · 29 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Xun Shen
dblp:193/0660
0.2 12024 19 · 17 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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