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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.
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
Sub-topics
124 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
clustering 4,052pattern mining 1,958anomaly detection 1,421dimensionality reduction 317time series analysis 317spatiotemporal data mining 253crowdsourcing 147text mining 122representation learning 119semi-supervised learning 119network analysis 82predictive modeling 75exploratory data analysis 71sampling 71process mining 70data stream mining 68temporal data mining 59causal inference 57feature engineering 57dataset construction 55model selection 52multi-view learning 49probabilistic graphical models 46probabilistic model 34high-dimensional data 33tabular data 31big data analytics 28relational learning 28density estimation 25privacy-preserving data mining 25high-dimensional data analysis 23uncertain data mining 20data reduction 18similarity computation 17approximation algorithm 16predictive analytics 15sports analytics 14temporal analysis 14visualization 14direct marketing 13large-scale data analytics 13behavior modeling 12business intelligence 12interactive data mining 12multivariate data analysis 12pattern recognition 12network inference 11statistical analysis 11distance metric 10e-commerce data mining 10educational data mining 10incremental mining 9interpretable machine learning 9matrix approximation 9multidimensional data analysis 8data mining system 7granular computing 6knowledge discovery process 6sequence analysis 6industrial data mining 5algorithmic fairness 4semi-structured data mining 4behavior analysis 3customer relationship management 3multimodal data analysis 3multimodal data mining 3structured data mining 3
Show 57 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
urban computing 9attribute-oriented induction 8submodular maximization 8expectation-maximization 6log analysis 6similarity-based learning 6approximate computation 5background knowledge 5competitive analysis 5distance estimation 5k-nearest neighbor graph construction 5knowledge acquisition 5power law distribution 5privacy-preserving data publishing 5risk analysis 5alternating least squares 4automated data science 4continuous data 4image mining 4knowledge management 4latent structure discovery 4matrix and tensor decomposition 4multi-source learning 4relational data analysis 4set-valued data 4similarity graph construction 4time series generation 4topological data analysis 4bias correction 3causality and responsibility 3confounder balancing 3context-aware learning 3dependence maximization 3earthquake detection 3facility location 3false alarm reduction 3fault diagnosis 3genetic programming 3influence function 3mining software repositories 3network modeling 3observational data analysis 3online mining 3outlier rejection 3overfitting 3rule ordering 3rule-based learning 3sampling-based data mining 3scalable inference 3self-paced learning 3sensor deployment 3seriation 3similarity analysis 3similarity and distance measure 3site selection 3threshold selection 3topology preservation 3
Experts on Data mining
29,418 · 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