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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
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing›Computational science and engineering
area
3,874 papers · 13,333 experts
Sub-topics
147 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
scientific machine learning 123computational fluid dynamics 117computational chemistry 98numerical analysis 85partial differential equations 76partial differential equation solver 65finite element analysis 59numerical simulation 49model simulation 41materials science 37materials informatics 32dynamical systems 30astronomy 29uncertainty quantification 29inverse problem 24model selection 21numerical solution of differential equations 21computational reproducibility 20fluid dynamics 20high-dimensional data analysis 20multi-task learning 20scientific workflow 20workflow management 19computational mechanics 18scientific data management 18statistical significance testing 18engineering design 17sensitivity analysis 17compositional data analysis 16high energy physics 16mediation analysis 16numerical linear algebra 16system identification 16time series analysis 16data assimilation 15manufacturing automation 15cosmology 12computational physics 11differential equations 11structural analysis 11agricultural robotics 10AI for science 10analog computation 10computational sustainability 10multiphysics simulation 10statistical physics 10scientific visualization 9statistical computing 8latent variable model 7computational cognitive science 6computer-aided engineering 6ensemble learning 6graphical models 6information retrieval 6scientific data analysis 6active learning 5graph learning 5model interpretability 5multimodal learning 5parallel computing 5pattern recognition 5spatial statistics 5structural optimization 5computational geometry 4scientific software 4data infrastructure 3dynamic network analysis 3regression modeling 3
Show 79 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
architectural design 9microfluidic device 8benchmark dataset 7bias correction 7correlation analysis 7domain adaptation 7foundation models 7motor control 7product lifecycle management 7spatial data analysis 7theoretical neuroscience 7visual analytics 7chemistry 6controlled vocabulary 6empirical bayes 6error model 6expert system 6false positive filtering 6ontology mapping 6plasma physics 6positive-unlabeled learning 6redundancy removal 6symbolic computation 6code generation 5compressed index 5discriminant analysis 5functional data analysis 5locality-sensitive hashing 5matrix completion 5model identification 5nanorobotics 5self-organizing map 5self-supervised representation learning 5synthetic data generation 5systematic error correction 5topic modeling 5topological analysis 5differential equation solving 4forward and inverse problems 4observational study 4process control 4benchmark framework 3bi-level optimization 3branching process models 3class imbalance 3combinatorial optimization 3complex systems 3computational steering 3cost optimization 3covariance estimation 3credit assignment 3data simulation 3energy minimization 3generalization analysis 3hierarchical model 3information sharing 3knowledge distillation 3mechanistic modeling 3missing data 3model checking 3model predictive control 3motion control 3mutual information analysis 3neurolinguistics 3noise modeling 3optimal transport 3parameter space exploration 3replicability analysis 3research software infrastructure 3rule induction 3signal alignment 3software interoperability 3state and parameter estimation 3supply chain 3support vector machine classification 3template matching 3temporal data analysis 3variance decomposition 3warehouse automation 3
Experts on Computational science and engineering
13,333 · 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