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 21 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on causal discovery 1,075 · 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
Kun Zhang 0001
dblp:96/3115-1
35.4 612026 254 · 170 since 2021 2026 conflict
Biwei Huang
dblp:165/3288
14.7 242026 54 · 42 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ruichu Cai
dblp:09/6889
11.7 192026 178 · 117 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Negar Kiyavash
dblp:85/4976
11.5 192026 125 · 37 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ignavier Ng
dblp:251/3037
10.5 142026 29 · 27 since 2021 2026 none
Zhifeng Hao 0004
dblp:94/6214-4
9.9 152026 105 · 82 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bernhard Schölkopf
dblp:97/119
9.7 222025 463 · 165 since 2021 2026 verified
Kui Yu
dblp:52/2586
9.3 132026 110 · 80 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhengming Chen 0002
dblp:17/7724-2
8.5 112025 17 · 17 since 2021 2025 conflict
Mingming Gong
dblp:98/8479
8.4 132025 178 · 129 since 2021 2026 conflict
Feng Xie 0002
dblp:11/4605-2
7.9 122025 31 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Murat Kocaoglu
dblp:74/11343
7.7 152025 43 · 24 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jilles Vreeken
dblp:94/6462
7.3 102026 135 · 43 since 2021 2026 verified
Tongliang Liu
dblp:150/6667
7.0 92025 331 · 257 since 2021 2026 verified
Jihong Guan
dblp:89/2685
7.0 122025 210 · 104 since 2021 2027 verified
Shuigeng Zhou
dblp:52/6744
7.0 122025 316 · 131 since 2021 2027 verified
Jie Qiao
dblp:00/7723
6.3 102025 33 · 24 since 2021 2026 conflict
Huanhuan Chen 0001
dblp:72/5816-1
6.2 82025 147 · 92 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bryon Aragam
dblp:140/7564
6.1 92025 40 · 27 since 2021 2025 none
Ehsan Mokhtarian
dblp:276/5445
5.7 82026 12 · 12 since 2021 2026 verified
Hao Zhang 0079
dblp:55/2270-79
5.2 102025 42 · 36 since 2021 2026 conflict
Derui Lyu
dblp:340/0074
5.1 62025 19 · 19 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lyuzhou Chen
dblp:336/0856
5.1 62025 20 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Taiyu Ban
dblp:336/0737
5.1 62025 21 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiangyu Wang 0016
dblp:02/6128-16
5.1 62025 31 · 31 since 2021 2026 conflict
Clark Glymour
dblp:88/16
4.9 152024 33 · 3 since 2021 2024 none
Yewei Xia
dblp:339/8598
4.9 72025 21 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Elias Bareinboim
dblp:85/9005
4.9 92025 104 · 52 since 2021 2025 none
Xinshuai Dong
dblp:279/6151
4.8 62025 30 · 29 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Peter Spirtes
dblp:87/3550
4.7 82025 50 · 19 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Guoxian Yu
dblp:41/8967
4.6 62025 155 · 82 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jun Wang 0035
dblp:125/8189-35
4.6 62025 109 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Pradeep Ravikumar
dblp:94/3594
4.6 72024 154 · 49 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Stefan Bauer
dblp:45/9110
4.6 72024 52 · 28 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Haoyue Dai
dblp:277/1316
4.4 62025 12 · 12 since 2021 2025 none
Kevin Bello
dblp:202/2531
4.4 72024 17 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yashas Annadani
dblp:190/7411
4.1 62024 11 · 8 since 2021 2025 reported
Saber Salehkaleybar
dblp:44/7997
3.9 72025 36 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Fuyuan Cao
dblp:98/7299
3.8 52025 56 · 39 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jiye Liang
dblp:80/6535
3.8 52025 251 · 144 since 2021 2026 conflict
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