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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
Sub-topics
98 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
circuit complexity 1,071lower bounds 903parameterized complexity 789hardness of approximation 782communication complexity 703constraint satisfaction 640proof complexity 525property testing 470algebraic complexity 423query complexity 400decidability 388fine-grained complexity 378derandomization 281space complexity 275pseudorandomness 263counting complexity 257complexity classes 235average-case complexity 202learning theory 201descriptive complexity 199undecidability 184kolmogorov complexity 181time-space tradeoffs 163computability theory 149structural complexity 136probabilistically checkable proofs 131parallel complexity 122reduction 102phase transition 101inductive inference 84boolean function analysis 75randomized computation 67randomness extraction 63decision problems 60statistical-computational gaps 57counting problems 56relativization 55algorithmic randomness 49boolean function complexity 49complexity of reasoning 49hitting set 48nondeterminism 48game complexity 46lattice problems 45computational models 37implicit computational complexity 33search problems 31complexity measures 30verification complexity 30complexity 26computational hardness 25meta-complexity 19nonuniform complexity 19polynomial method 19resource-bounded computation 17matrix semigroups 12lower bound technique 10randomness in computation 10boolean function theory 7cryptographic complexity 3information-based complexity 3language complexity 3
Show 36 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
boolean function computation 8gowers norm 8two-prover games 8reliable computation 7complexity of numerical computation 6computation tree 6hypercontractive inequalities 6low-degree polynomial algorithms 6memory complexity 6number-theoretic problems 6computational complexity of coding 5error reduction 5logical complexity 5long code 5low-degree polynomials 5NP-hardness and approximation 5NP-optimization problems 5parameterized and fine-grained complexity 5soundness 5distinguishers 4gaussian space 4low-degree likelihood ratio 4reconfiguration complexity 4ackermann-completeness 3algebraic geometry methods 3approximate checking 3approximation properties of neural networks 3binarization 3black-white pebbling 3circuit analysis algorithms 3function complexity 3interactive oracle proof of proximity 3QMA(2) 3size-space trade-offs 3smoothed complexity of local search 3unsolvability 3
Experts on Computational complexity
12,383 · 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