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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
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages›Compilers and program optimization
area
5,389 papers · 10,404 experts
Sub-topics
99 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
code generation 517program transformation 259instruction scheduling 223parsing 195register allocation 158compiler optimization 153parallelizing compiler 146intermediate representation 128loop transformation 114verified compilation 113loop optimization 94dependence analysis 90compiler correctness 73partial evaluation 72compiler construction 63vectorization 63domain-specific compilation 58dynamic optimization 56deep learning compiler 51decompilation 40automatic differentiation 36code size reduction 34parallelization 31compiler analysis 30autotuning 29program specialization 28optimizing compiler 27binary rewriting 26code layout optimization 26code motion 24dead code elimination 24incremental compilation 23program instrumentation 21interprocedural optimization 20secure compilation 20compiler infrastructure 19memory optimization 19attribute grammar evaluation 17machine learning compiler 16hardware compilation 15accelerator compilation 14cost model 13compiler-based fault tolerance 11memoization 11prefetching 11code duplication 10floating-point arithmetic 10predicated execution 10compiler back end 9parallel program optimization 9approximate computing 6compiler security 6compiler-hardware co-design 6software optimization 6binary optimization 4compiler toolchain 4numerical program optimization 4compiler front end 3parallel language compilation 3sparse computation 3
Show 39 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
polyhedral model 9auto-scheduling 7stencil computation 7automatic code optimization 6compiler validation 6computation offloading 6floating-point conversion 6pretty printing 6recompilation 6stream programming 6compilation target 5compiler bugs 5expression evaluation 5instruction cache optimization 5microprogramming 5performance bottleneck identification 5scheduling language 5storage assignment 5code bloat 4logic program optimization 4microprogram optimization 4specialization 4structure sharing 4code acceleration 3code efficiency optimization 3compilation caching 3domain-specific language implementation 3domain-specific optimization 3e-graph 3instruction encoding and decoding 3microcode optimization 3predicated compilation 3run-time checks 3runtime representation 3space optimization 3static compilation 3straight-line programs 3synchronization insertion 3tree pattern matching 3
Experts on Compilers and program optimization
10,404 · 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