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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 5 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on cluster scheduling 159 · 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
Shivaram Venkataraman
dblp:65/8569
2.2 32024 55 · 26 since 2021 2026 verified
Chen Chen 0067
dblp:65/4423-67
1.5 32025 52 · 42 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wing Cheong Lau
dblp:l/WingCheongLau
1.0 32019 104 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Huanle Xu
dblp:141/1931
1.0 32019 51 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Minyi Guo
dblp:99/6797
0.9 12025 545 · 272 since 2021 2026 verified
Jing Yang 0017
dblp:62/5839-17
0.9 12025 23 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Quan Chen 0002
dblp:40/3858-2
0.9 12025 159 · 112 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weihao Cui
dblp:243/1639
0.9 12025 33 · 30 since 2021 2026 verified
Pengyu Yang
dblp:218/6076
0.9 12025 5 · 4 since 2021 2025 conflict
Chunyu Xue
dblp:08/885
0.9 12025 7 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Han Zhao 0005
dblp:03/3520-5
0.9 12025 25 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Aditya Akella
dblp:a/AdityaAkella
0.8 22023 157 · 48 since 2021 2026 verified
Samer Al-Kiswany
dblp:67/4560
0.8 12024 40 · 13 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Rutwik Jain
dblp:327/3719
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Keting Chen
dblp:324/0637
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2024 conflict
Ashraf Abdel-Hadi
dblp:279/5606
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 reported
Sreeharsha Udayashankar
dblp:279/5491
0.8 12024 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Matthew D. Sinclair
dblp:27/9796
0.8 12024 28 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Brandon Tran
dblp:160/1121
0.8 12024 10 · 4 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Amar Phanishayee
dblp:14/877
0.8 12024 41 · 16 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ali José Mashtizadeh
dblp:135/6767
0.8 12024 20 · 11 since 2021 2025 verified
Gustavo de Veciana
dblp:v/GustavodeVeciana
0.7 22019 176 · 30 since 2021 2026 verified
Mihai Budiu
dblp:b/MihaiBudiu
0.7 12023 32 · 4 since 2021 2025 none
Rui Pan 0003
dblp:74/9957-3
0.7 12023 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Athinagoras Skiadopoulos
dblp:310/1377
0.7 12023 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Tarannum Khan
dblp:286/1997
0.7 12023 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lalith Suresh 0001
dblp:206/4530
0.7 12023 30 · 11 since 2021 2025 none
Kexin Rong 0001
dblp:192/4560
0.7 12023 19 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Amy Tai
dblp:182/6629
0.7 12023 15 · 9 since 2021 2023 verified
Bo Li 0001
dblp:50/3402-1
0.6 22018 388 · 131 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wei Wang 0030
dblp:35/7092-30
0.6 22018 112 · 65 since 2021 2026 conflict
Gregory R. Ganger
dblp:g/GregoryRGanger
0.6 22018 137 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Michael A. Kozuch
dblp:59/5000
0.6 22018 53 · 3 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Alexey Tumanov
dblp:41/6224
0.6 22018 38 · 15 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jun Woo Park
dblp:17/808
0.6 22018 7 · 0 since 2021 2018 corroborated
William E. Allcock
dblp:a/WilliamEAllcock
0.6 12022 30 · 6 since 2021 2022 verified
Boyang Li 0018
dblp:70/1211-18
0.6 12022 4 · 4 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Dustin Favorite
dblp:333/2463
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 none
Naunidh Singh
dblp:333/2227
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 none
Michael E. Papka
dblp:21/5623
0.6 12022 89 · 35 since 2021 2026 verified
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