VLDB 2026 Research / recruiting

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.
Experts on computational phenotyping 34 · 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
Jimeng Sun 0001
dblp:54/4948
1.0 32021 244 · 87 since 2021 2026 verified
William Kwok-Wai Cheung
dblp:w/WKWCheung
1.0 22022 106 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Benjamin C. M. Fung
dblp:f/BCMFung
1.0 22022 103 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Kejing Yin
dblp:222/7901
1.0 22022 14 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Jonathan Poon
dblp:222/7883
1.0 22022 6 · 3 since 2021 2023 corroborated
David L. Buckeridge
dblp:74/3031
0.6 12022 49 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
Yue Li 0017
dblp:61/500-17
0.6 12022 24 · 13 since 2021 2026 conflict
Aman Verma
dblp:47/635
0.6 12022 17 · 12 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yuanyi Hu
dblp:267/0310
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 none
Fenglong Ma
dblp:85/10856
0.5 12021 146 · 99 since 2021 2026 conflict
Muchao Ye
dblp:251/3433
0.5 12021 19 · 16 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Junyu Luo 0001
dblp:198/0850
0.5 12021 20 · 14 since 2021 2024 conflict
Cao Xiao
dblp:170/1833
0.5 12021 93 · 53 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Dong Qian
dblp:82/7696
0.4 12019 5 · 3 since 2021 2025 conflict
Hwanjo Yu
dblp:80/6889
0.3 12017 158 · 51 since 2021 2026 verified
Yejin Kim 0001
dblp:74/3301-1
0.3 12017 13 · 7 since 2021 2024 conflict
Xiaoqian Jiang
dblp:43/3924
0.3 12017 163 · 65 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bradley A. Malin
dblp:m/BradleyMalin
0.2 12015 163 · 46 since 2021 2026 verified
Abel N. Kho
dblp:76/7309
0.2 12015 61 · 6 since 2021 2026 verified
Yichen Wang 0001
dblp:74/8792-1
0.2 12015 13 · 0 since 2021 2019 conflict
Joydeep Ghosh
dblp:51/2272
0.2 12015 194 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Joshua C. Denny
dblp:41/7339
0.2 12015 168 · 17 since 2021 2025 verified
Robert Chen 0001
dblp:35/8919-1
0.2 12015 7 · 0 since 2021 2019 corroborated
You Chen 0001
dblp:31/3137-1
0.2 12015 28 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Jing Ma 0005
dblp:96/6129-5
0.1 12021 11 · 7 since 2021 2025 conflict
in pool Li Xiong 0001
dblp:39/3530-1
0.1 12021 174 · 71 since 2021 2026 verified
Sivasubramanium Bhavani
dblp:301/7730
0.1 12021 4 · 4 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Qiuchen Zhang
dblp:203/8357
0.1 12021 13 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Joyce C. Ho
dblp:144/4961
0.1 12021 45 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Jian Lou 0001
dblp:05/4625-1
0.1 12021 74 · 62 since 2021 2026 verified
Herbert Edelsbrunner
dblp:e/HerbertEdelsbrunner
0.0 12011 218 · 16 since 2021 2026 verified
Steve Gu
dblp:38/8054
0.0 12011 13 · 0 since 2021 2012 none
Philip Benfey
dblp:36/10771
0.0 12011 1 · 0 since 2021 2011 none
Carlo Tomasi
dblp:24/2162
0.0 12011 78 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
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