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 2 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on call graph construction 151 · 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
Li Li 0029
dblp:53/2189-29
2.4 32025 171 · 115 since 2021 2026 conflict
Mira Mezini
dblp:m/MiraMezini
1.9 42024 138 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Jordan Samhi
dblp:267/9338
1.8 32025 20 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Frank Tip
dblp:32/524
1.8 62023 84 · 14 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Dominik Helm
dblp:200/7210
1.6 32024 10 · 5 since 2021 2024 verified
John C. Grundy
dblp:g/JohnCGrundy
1.5 22025 401 · 191 since 2021 2026 verified
Chunyang Chen 0001
dblp:180/7246
1.5 22025 109 · 82 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiao Chen 0002
dblp:05/3054-2
1.5 22025 33 · 27 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yonghui Liu 0001
dblp:04/1044-1
1.5 22025 10 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Tobias Roth
dblp:83/7289
1.5 22024 11 · 7 since 2021 2024 conflict
Sven Keidel
dblp:190/7898
1.5 22024 11 · 7 since 2021 2026 verified
Charles Zhang 0001
dblp:51/7008-1
1.4 22024 79 · 42 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuandao Cai
dblp:295/3456
1.4 22024 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Anders Møller
dblp:55/6739
1.3 22024 75 · 8 since 2021 2025 verified
Ondrej Lhoták
dblp:05/469
1.2 42021 73 · 12 since 2021 2025 reported
Julian Dolby
dblp:08/7028
1.1 42021 75 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Michael Reif
dblp:167/7837
1.1 32024 11 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Manu Sridharan
dblp:83/2559
1.0 22025 58 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Ming Wen 0001
dblp:99/1109-1
1.0 22025 69 · 52 since 2021 2025 conflict
in pool Hai Jin 0001
dblp:98/4156
1.0 22025 1298 · 561 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ben Hermann
dblp:147/7971
1.0 22024 25 · 16 since 2021 2026 verified
Jacques Klein
dblp:k/JacquesKlein
0.9 22024 178 · 92 since 2021 2027 verified
Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
dblp:00/8006
0.9 22024 184 · 107 since 2021 2027 verified
Chang Xu 0001
dblp:97/2966-1
0.9 12025 138 · 45 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yue Li 0006
dblp:61/500-6
0.9 12025 29 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yulei Sui
dblp:58/10567
0.9 12025 118 · 65 since 2021 2026 verified
Miaoying Cai
dblp:386/7418
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yizhuo Yang 0005
dblp:37/11052-5
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Shuangxiang Kan
dblp:349/0810
0.9 12025 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhiyun Qian
dblp:31/8302
0.9 12025 119 · 55 since 2021 2026 verified
Guoren Li
dblp:272/7041
0.9 12025 10 · 9 since 2021 2026 none
Yufei Liang
dblp:251/0826
0.9 12025 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 conflict
Mingyi Zhou
dblp:238/4774
0.9 12025 15 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yucheng Su
dblp:233/5796
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 conflict
Sen Chen 0001
dblp:180/8218-1
0.9 12025 73 · 56 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xusheng Xiao
dblp:13/9656
0.9 12025 68 · 27 since 2021 2026 verified
Tian Tan 0001
dblp:127/9100-1
0.9 12025 25 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lingling Fan 0003
dblp:11/2636-3
0.9 12025 45 · 35 since 2021 2025 conflict
Michael D. Ernst
dblp:e/MDErnst
0.8 12024 157 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
René Just
dblp:75/10029
0.8 12024 48 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
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