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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Deep learning architectures and training›data augmentation topic 819 papers · 2,963 experts · placed by the area most of its papers name
Sub-topics 27 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on data augmentation 2,963 · 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
Ekin Dogus Cubuk
dblp:83/7734
4.2 92023 29 · 13 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Dacheng Tao
dblp:46/3391
3.4 72025 1407 · 608 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yinghuan Shi
dblp:30/7184
3.4 52026 135 · 84 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tianyi Zhou 0001
dblp:88/8205-1
3.3 52025 131 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Quoc V. Le
dblp:29/6166
3.1 72021 158 · 45 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Stan Z. Li
dblp:l/StanZLi
2.7 42024 406 · 160 since 2021 2026 verified
Furao Shen
dblp:80/4685
2.6 32026 121 · 48 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jian Zhao 0013
dblp:70/2932-13
2.6 32026 67 · 52 since 2021 2026 conflict
Suorong Yang
dblp:318/9341
2.6 32026 15 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Barret Zoph
dblp:169/3474
2.6 62021 30 · 10 since 2021 2024 none
Xinchao Wang
dblp:23/8015
2.6 42024 240 · 183 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yisen Wang 0001
dblp:172/1346-1
2.6 42024 118 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Philip Torr 0001
dblp:t/PhilipHSTorr
2.4 42024 467 · 211 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dinesh Manocha
dblp:m/DineshManocha
2.3 42025 593 · 202 since 2021 2026 verified
Sonal Kumar
dblp:66/7465
2.3 42025 28 · 28 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sreyan Ghosh
dblp:173/5626
2.3 42025 39 · 38 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Rong Ge 0001
dblp:89/6869-1
2.3 42025 85 · 27 since 2021 2025 conflict
Muthu Chidambaram
dblp:304/3319
2.3 42025 8 · 8 since 2021 2025 none
Xinbo Gao 0001
dblp:99/4522
2.3 32024 1009 · 615 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jinwoo Shin
dblp:31/7062
2.2 42023 196 · 109 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Tao Mei 0001
dblp:12/5444-1
2.2 32026 460 · 146 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yulin Wang 0002
dblp:28/5434-2
2.2 42024 41 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Songcan Chen
dblp:60/5111
2.2 32024 294 · 94 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lei Qi 0001
dblp:15/2464-1
2.2 32024 104 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Rongrong Ji
dblp:86/5681
2.1 32024 599 · 303 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ramaneswaran S.
dblp:331/4189
2.1 32024 14 · 14 since 2021 2025 reported
Utkarsh Tyagi
dblp:286/2046
2.1 32024 16 · 16 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jun-Hai Yong
dblp:50/4074
2.1 32025 123 · 34 since 2021 2026 reported
Tongliang Liu
dblp:150/6667
2.0 42024 331 · 257 since 2021 2026 verified
Yanbin Hao
dblp:96/1538
2.0 32026 82 · 70 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yang Gao 0001
dblp:89/4402-1
2.0 32026 292 · 174 since 2021 2026 conflict
Julien Mairal
dblp:49/6555
1.9 42023 89 · 31 since 2021 2025 verified
Yifei Wang 0001
dblp:00/555-1
1.9 32024 50 · 50 since 2021 2026 verified
Randall Balestriero
dblp:175/5364
1.9 32023 46 · 39 since 2021 2025 verified
Chunyan Miao
dblp:m/ChunyanMiao
1.9 32025 350 · 155 since 2021 2026 verified
Jonathon Shlens
dblp:37/4945
1.9 42022 43 · 14 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yongyi Mao
dblp:86/2933
1.9 42023 103 · 49 since 2021 2026 verified
Steven Euijong Whang
dblp:w/StevenEuijongWhang
1.9 22026 49 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Pengfei Wang 0008
dblp:90/4693-8
1.9 22026 46 · 39 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kunpeng Liu 0001
dblp:80/10061-1
1.9 22026 70 · 62 since 2021 2026 conflict
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