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.
Experts on data wrangling 100 · 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
Yingcai Wu
dblp:49/6702
1.6 42025 178 · 116 since 2021 2026 conflict
Di Weng
dblp:190/2257
1.4 32025 42 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhongsu Luo
dblp:249/9854
1.1 22025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
El Kindi Rezig
dblp:96/8919
0.9 12025 20 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Paul Rosen 0001
dblp:85/1344
0.9 12025 46 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Hongzhi Wang 0001
dblp:81/940
0.9 12025 273 · 162 since 2021 2026 conflict
Annabelle Warner
dblp:413/4812
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
in pool Jianzhong Qi 0001
dblp:41/1074-1
0.9 12025 134 · 67 since 2021 2026 verified
Amanda Case
dblp:401/8272
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 reported
Weixi Tong
dblp:389/4795
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2026 reported
Chen Liang 0002
dblp:35/3221-2
0.9 12025 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zheng Liang 0002
dblp:31/5353-2
0.9 12025 15 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yafeng Tang
dblp:299/8115
0.9 12025 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ashlesha Akella
dblp:246/7819
0.9 12025 4 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Andrew M. McNutt
dblp:244/3144
0.9 12025 22 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Xinhuan Shu
dblp:210/5431
0.9 12025 28 · 26 since 2021 2026 verified
Wei-Hao Chen
dblp:20/7529
0.9 12025 12 · 4 since 2021 2025 conflict
Tianyi Zhang 0001
dblp:17/322-1
0.9 12025 51 · 35 since 2021 2025 conflict
in pool Xiaoou Ding
dblp:168/4671
0.9 12025 34 · 29 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhiyu Liang
dblp:139/6492
0.9 12025 21 · 19 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Krishnasuri Narayanam
dblp:123/5487
0.9 12025 6 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
in pool Joseph M. Hellerstein
dblp:h/JosephMHellerstein
0.8 42025 182 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Takashi Kato
dblp:81/10
0.8 12024 14 · 2 since 2021 2025 conflict
Wei-Peng Chen
dblp:79/496
0.8 12024 27 · 6 since 2021 2025 reported
Tatsuya Asai
dblp:54/6721
0.8 12024 12 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Taisei Kakibuchi
dblp:393/9505
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 unresolved
Maria Xenochristou
dblp:303/4273
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Shailaja Sampat
dblp:228/0631
0.8 12024 7 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Lei Liu 0061
dblp:21/2715-61
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 verified
So Hasegawa
dblp:160/1595
0.8 12024 7 · 4 since 2021 2025 conflict
Christopher K. I. Williams
dblp:w/ChristopherKIWilliams
0.7 12023 93 · 11 since 2021 2025 verified
Sebastian Michel 0001
dblp:m/SebastianMichel
0.7 12023 68 · 9 since 2021 2024 conflict
Tomas Petricek 0001
dblp:50/8166
0.7 12023 16 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Damjan Gjurovski
dblp:266/6160
0.7 12023 6 · 5 since 2021 2024 verified
Nico Schäfer
dblp:261/1970
0.7 12023 5 · 3 since 2021 2023 none
Angjela Davitkova
dblp:261/1893
0.7 12023 4 · 3 since 2021 2024 none
Taha Ceritli
dblp:254/2065
0.7 12023 7 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
dblp:22/5749
0.7 12023 41 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
Gerrit J. J. van den Burg
dblp:203/7226
0.7 12023 5 · 3 since 2021 2023 reported
Alfredo Nazábal
dblp:13/8853
0.7 12023 8 · 2 since 2021 2023 corroborated
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