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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.
Computer graphics and multimedia›Visualization and visual analytics›software visualization›data-flow visualization topic 4 papers · 24 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Experts on data-flow visualization 24 · 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
Thomas Ertl
dblp:e/ThomasErtl
0.8 12024 238 · 21 since 2021 2025 conflict
Guido Reina
dblp:80/2527
0.8 12024 38 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Steffen Frey
dblp:62/7527
0.8 12024 35 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Alexander Straub
dblp:300/7300
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 reported
Nikolaos Karadimitriou
dblp:289/0118
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Holger Steeb
dblp:231/6755
0.8 12024 3 · 2 since 2021 2024 verified
Martin Wattenberg
dblp:w/MartinWattenberg
0.3 12018 45 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Fernanda B. Viégas
dblp:v/FernandaBViegas
0.3 12018 28 · 7 since 2021 2026 verified
Daniel Smilkov
dblp:56/9364
0.3 12018 4 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Jimbo Wilson
dblp:210/5428
0.3 12018 2 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
James Wexler
dblp:210/5412
0.3 12018 9 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Doug Fritz
dblp:210/5402
0.3 12018 1 · 0 since 2021 2018 none
Dan Mané
dblp:177/9158
0.3 12018 2 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Kanit Wongsuphasawat
dblp:119/4550
0.3 12018 10 · 1 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Dilip Krishnan
dblp:08/2316
0.3 12018 47 · 13 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Cláudio T. Silva
dblp:s/ClaudioTSilva
0.3 12017 183 · 40 since 2021 2026 verified
Bowen Yu 0004
dblp:95/10266-4
0.3 12017 3 · 0 since 2021 2020 conflict
M. Eduard Gröller
dblp:g/MEGroller
0.0 12011 187 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
Günter Blöschl
dblp:70/1860
0.0 12011 5 · 1 since 2021 2024 verified
Hrvoje Ribicic
dblp:61/8756
0.0 12011 6 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Jürgen Waser
dblp:52/7527
0.0 12011 17 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Christian Hirsch
dblp:51/2209
0.0 12011 13 · 2 since 2021 2024 conflict
Benjamin Schindler
dblp:33/7528
0.0 12011 13 · 4 since 2021 2026 reported
Raphael Fuchs
dblp:03/5155
0.0 12011 16 · 0 since 2021 2013 none
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