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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
114 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
topological data analysis 346voronoi diagram 258geometric data structures 221range searching 192graph drawing 188geometric modeling and processing 170geometric optimization 169combinatorial geometry 159convex hull 158motion planning 144triangulation 126arrangement 93point location 93mesh generation 87visibility 76spatial data structures 68computational topology 58geometric graph 57metric space 57discrete geometry 55combinatorial complexity 54convex geometry 46geometric covering 43projective geometry 43distance measures 42geometric intersection 40shape analysis 40proximity problems 38robust geometric computation 38algebraic geometry 37digital geometry 37epsilon-net 35topological algorithms 35curve similarity 34polygon decomposition 34packing and covering 33geometric matching 32output-sensitive algorithms 29high-dimensional geometry 28polytopes 28distance computation 27intersection graphs 27plane sweep 21partitioning 20shape matching 20geometric graph theory 17geometric search 17differential geometry 16geometric shortest paths 16parallel geometric algorithms 15klee's measure problem 13grassmann manifold 12metric geometry 12steiner points 11convexity 10fractal geometry 10geometric complexity 10geometric decomposition 10geometric reasoning 10polygon algorithms 10geometric folding 9trajectory analysis 8geometric topology 5VLSI layout 5geometric inference 4geometric transformation 4randomized geometric algorithms 4curve representation 3geometric sampling 3geometric vision 3integral geometry 3mechanism kinematics 3polygon geometry 3
Show 41 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
geometric concept learning 9geometric predicates 9geometric construction 8geometric separation 8robot localization 8topological complexity 8morse theory 7planar curves 6visualization 6geometric invariants 5hough transform 5output-sensitive construction 5singularity analysis 5tukey depth 5visibility and guarding 5clifford algebra 4dynamic computational geometry 4locality-sensitive orderings 4on-line recognition 4proximity measures 4regression depth 4terrain analysis 4bisector 3cartograms 3cell complex 3covering space 3delaunay and voronoi tessellation 3epsilon-cutting 3finite precision arithmetic 3geometric measure 3geometric similarity 3incremental construction 3iterative closest point 3k-chains 3modular robots 3periodic structures 3skyline computation 3spatial statistics 3topological guarantees 3triangular decomposition 3wavefront propagation 3
Experts on Computational geometry
7,310 · 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