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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
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval›Data integration and cleaning
area
4,557 papers · 9,234 experts
Sub-topics
99 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
entity resolution 295schema matching 197schema mapping 164data quality 159data provenance 154data warehouse 122entity matching 107truth discovery 90data fusion 85data exchange 80data preprocessing 80heterogeneous data integration 80missing data 69dependency discovery 63data transformation 60data profiling 56schema integration 49entity disambiguation 38ontology-based data access 37metadata management 35heterogeneous data sources 29schema inference 28data extraction 26data discovery 24semantic integration 23data curation 22data wrangling 21web data integration 18approximate matching 17data markets 17heterogeneous data source integration 17model management 16table understanding 15data acquisition 14extract-transform-load 14schema translation 14data migration 13multi-source data integration 12web data management 12data generation 11data publishing 11mediator systems 11heterogeneous data 10integrity constraint discovery 10interoperability 10uncertain data integration 10enterprise information integration 9database integration 7heterogeneous query processing 7link discovery 7table discovery 7data integration system 6data reconciliation 6dataspaces 6web service integration 6crowdsourced data processing 5knowledge base canonicalization 5heterogeneous data management 4semi-structured data integration 4data heterogeneity 3data matching 3information mediation 3scientific data integration 3
Show 36 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
imputation 7ontology-based data management 7data integration for machine learning 6data mapping 6data services 6dataset similarity 6matching dependencies 6spatial data integration 6ad hoc data processing 5constraint violation detection 5data reconstruction 5graph-based data integration 5imprecise data 5data explanation 4data forgetting 4data-driven workflows 4heterogeneous information systems 4query mapping 4big data integration 3collaborative data management 3data pipeline debugging 3data source integration 3entity relationship discovery 3integration benchmarking 3large-scale data integration 3middleware query processing 3multi-level filtering 3object identification 3schema refinement 3schema similarity 3semantic join 3synonym discovery 3temporal data integration 3uncertainty reduction 3user views 3web service discovery 3
Experts on Data integration and cleaning
9,234 · 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