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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.
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval›Recommender systems›cross-domain recommendation topic 236 papers · 853 experts
Sub-topics 11 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on cross-domain recommendation 853 · 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
Chaochao Chen 0001
dblp:26/1492-1
13.1 202026 142 · 111 since 2021 2026 verified
Weiming Liu 0005
dblp:00/105-5
8.9 132025 74 · 74 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xinting Liao
dblp:331/1544
6.6 92025 26 · 26 since 2021 2025 verified
Tingwen Liu
dblp:56/7911
6.3 82026 127 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ruobing Xie
dblp:178/8590
6.2 92025 125 · 104 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiangyu Zhao 0001
dblp:08/890-1
5.8 72026 225 · 213 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yanchao Tan
dblp:210/4829
5.7 82024 61 · 59 since 2021 2026 verified
Lei Guo 0008
dblp:64/1967-8
5.6 72025 44 · 36 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lei Zhu 0002
dblp:99/549-2
5.5 72025 260 · 181 since 2021 2026 conflict
Mengling Hu
dblp:313/9362
5.4 82024 12 · 12 since 2021 2024 conflict
Fuzhen Zhuang
dblp:48/5638
5.3 82025 286 · 163 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiangxia Cao
dblp:261/9841
5.1 72026 31 · 30 since 2021 2026 verified
Jiawei Sheng
dblp:276/7004
5.1 62026 51 · 50 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Hongzhi Yin
dblp:04/10606
4.6 62025 374 · 255 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fan Wang 0020
dblp:88/898-20
4.6 62025 38 · 36 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaodong Li 0012
dblp:50/3993-12
4.5 52026 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xu Zhang 0028
dblp:98/5660-28
4.1 62025 30 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiajie Su
dblp:293/4976
3.8 62024 19 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Leyu Lin
dblp:218/7323
3.8 62025 69 · 46 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lixin Zou
dblp:193/4216
3.6 42026 76 · 63 since 2021 2026 verified
Feng Zhu 0011
dblp:71/2791-11
3.6 62025 23 · 14 since 2021 2025 conflict
Weike Pan
dblp:86/7788
3.6 52026 123 · 79 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Jun Zhou 0011
dblp:99/3847-11
3.5 52025 256 · 210 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wayne Xin Zhao
dblp:52/8700
3.5 52026 265 · 185 since 2021 2026 conflict
Min Zhang 0006
dblp:83/5342-6
3.5 52025 242 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weizhi Ma
dblp:169/1390
3.5 52025 86 · 64 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yiqing Wu
dblp:45/7102
3.5 42025 25 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xixun Lin
dblp:190/7231
3.4 42026 45 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Jingjing Li 0001
dblp:65/4699-1
3.4 42026 175 · 126 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shirui Pan
dblp:91/8171
3.4 42026 379 · 294 since 2021 2026 verified
Xinghua Zhang 0001
dblp:188/3331-1
3.4 42026 28 · 27 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hongke Zhao
dblp:160/5961
3.3 42026 102 · 75 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chenliang Li 0005
dblp:52/9457-5
3.2 42026 120 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Senzhang Wang
dblp:118/5055
2.9 42026 190 · 109 since 2021 2026 verified
Yan Wang 0002
dblp:59/2227-2
2.8 52025 187 · 96 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qiang Yang 0001
dblp:82/6362-1
2.8 62025 517 · 116 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ziang Lu 0001
dblp:215/3629-1
2.6 32026 3 · 3 since 2021 2026 verified
Wenyuan Zhang 0002
dblp:174/0648-2
2.6 32026 24 · 24 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuekui Yang
dblp:79/2690
2.6 32025 17 · 10 since 2021 2026 conflict
Huishi Luo
dblp:342/8943
2.6 32025 4 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
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