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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
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems›Cloud and datacenter computing
area
9,026 papers · 22,267 experts
Sub-topics
121 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
cluster resource management and scheduling 1,054virtualization 696resource management 540cloud storage 534serverless computing 445resource allocation 298job scheduling 215quality of service 156cloud security 120datacenter network 116inference serving 100workflow scheduling 91autoscaling 84database-as-a-service 77resource provisioning 73datacenter storage 62computation offloading 53microservices 48workload prediction 46container orchestration 43mobile cloud computing 40cloud service reliability 39data outsourcing 37performance isolation 36datacenter operations 33request scheduling 31cloud infrastructure 29edge and fog computing 26machine learning as a service 26resource disaggregation 25big data analytics 24cloud networking 24cloud data management 22geo-distributed cloud 22cloud service management 21overload control 21datacenter workloads 20datacenter architecture 19datacenter infrastructure 19multi-tenancy 18configuration tuning 17latency-critical applications 17cloud deployment model 16cloud deployment 15cloud platform 15access control 14cloud outsourcing 14cloud federation 13cloud management 12cluster computing framework 12log analysis 12cloud caching 11cloud migration 11secure outsourcing 11big data platform 10online algorithms 10cloud economics 8application deployment 7datacenter services 7elastic computing 6resource prediction 6cloud applications 5cloud service models 5computing continuum 5utility computing 5auction mechanisms 4workload isolation 3
Show 54 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
cloud radio access network 9cloud service provider 9cloud-device collaboration 9container management 8latency-cost tradeoff 8warehouse-scale computing 8cloud data analytics 7server workloads 7stochastic optimization 7cloud bursting 6container registry 6dynamic adaptation 6network i/o 6workload shifting 6application migration 5cloud architecture 5cloud-RAN 5datacenter RPC 5encrypted data 5geo-distributed applications 5job submission 5model deployment 5network performance optimization 5request batching 5bin packing 4cloud workflow 4cluster data processing 4configuration optimization 4control plane 4data market 4data movement acceleration 4database migration 4datacenter application performance 4denial of service 4green cloud 4KV cache reuse 4straggler detection 4traffic redundancy elimination 4cloud programming models 3cloud-based testing 3context caching 3datacenter simulation 3keep-alive policy 3load shedding 3microsecond-scale RPC 3network measurement 3noisy cloud environments 3power attack 3reproducible analysis pipeline 3scale-out 3traffic isolation 3trust computing 3userspace networking 3wide-area platform 3
Experts on Cloud and datacenter computing
22,267 · 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