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 counterfactual learning to rank 41 · 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
Maarten de Rijke
dblp:r/MdRijke
3.8 82023 554 · 216 since 2021 2026 verified
Harrie Oosterhuis
dblp:166/3041
3.0 62023 47 · 34 since 2021 2026 verified
Thorsten Joachims
dblp:j/ThorstenJoachims
2.9 62024 140 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Qingyao Ai
dblp:169/1808
1.4 22025 118 · 88 since 2021 2026 verified
Ji-Rong Wen
dblp:w/JRWen
0.9 12025 517 · 313 since 2021 2026 verified
Zechun Niu
dblp:374/8861
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jiaxin Mao
dblp:174/8367
0.9 12025 106 · 68 since 2021 2026 verified
Rolf Jagerman
dblp:144/7357
0.8 22020 18 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Giuseppe Di Benedetto
dblp:262/0045
0.8 12024 4 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Aman Agarwal
dblp:25/8468
0.8 22019 9 · 3 since 2021 2024 conflict
Alexander Buchholz
dblp:222/9898
0.8 12024 3 · 1 since 2021 2024 reported
Ivan Zaitsev
dblp:220/3318
0.8 22019 2 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Jan Malte Lichtenberg
dblp:218/9778
0.8 12024 3 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Yannik Stein
dblp:131/6605
0.8 12024 12 · 1 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Ben London 0001
dblp:126/4745
0.8 12024 16 · 5 since 2021 2025 verified
Shashank Gupta 0001
dblp:89/5046-1
0.7 12023 12 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Inderjit S. Dhillon
dblp:d/InderjitSDhillon
0.6 12022 188 · 36 since 2021 2026 verified
Parth Gupta
dblp:80/8429
0.6 12022 16 · 5 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Tao Yang 0030
dblp:67/1120-30
0.6 12022 8 · 7 since 2021 2024 conflict
Chen Luo 0003
dblp:46/4719-3
0.6 12022 34 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hanqing Lu
dblp:39/6752
0.6 12022 442 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Adam Block
dblp:258/1018
0.6 12022 21 · 21 since 2021 2026 unresolved
Daniel N. Hill
dblp:166/5282
0.6 12022 7 · 3 since 2021 2022 none
Rahul Kidambi
dblp:117/0532
0.6 12022 19 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Steven C. H. Hoi
dblp:h/StevenCHHoi
0.5 12021 299 · 77 since 2021 2026 verified
Jianling Sun
dblp:53/3693
0.5 12021 79 · 33 since 2021 2026 verified
Mouxiang Chen
dblp:297/0365
0.5 12021 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhengxiao Du
dblp:234/0081
0.5 12021 16 · 13 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Himank Yadav
dblp:211/7842
0.5 12021 1 · 1 since 2021 2021 none
Ilya Markov
dblp:69/4432
0.4 12020 28 · 3 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Ragib Ahsan
dblp:257/5097
0.4 12020 4 · 3 since 2021 2025 unresolved
Kathryn Vasilaky
dblp:257/4939
0.4 12020 2 · 1 since 2021 2021 corroborated
Zohreh Ovaisi
dblp:222/5610
0.4 12020 4 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ali Vardasbi
dblp:145/5406
0.4 12020 20 · 16 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Elena Zheleva
dblp:01/5750
0.4 12020 34 · 20 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Marc Najork
dblp:n/MarcNajork
0.4 12019 88 · 25 since 2021 2025 verified
Xuanhui Wang
dblp:67/2661
0.4 12019 75 · 24 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Kenta Takatsu
dblp:245/1856
0.4 12019 3 · 1 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Cheng Li 0012
dblp:16/6465-12
0.4 12019 25 · 9 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tobias Schnabel
dblp:137/3312
0.3 12018 25 · 9 since 2021 2026 conflict
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