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.
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval›Data integration and cleaning›entity resolution›deep learning-based entity resolution topic 7 papers · 34 experts
Experts on deep learning-based entity resolution 34 · 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
in pool Baihua Zheng
dblp:93/4303
0.7 12023 173 · 50 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhikun Zhang 0001
dblp:90/545-1
0.7 12023 56 · 50 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Yunjun Gao
dblp:80/2651
0.7 12023 326 · 183 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Lu Chen 0001
dblp:69/157-1
0.7 12023 177 · 126 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhengjie Zhou
dblp:353/4588
0.7 12023 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 reported
in pool Yuren Mao
dblp:268/1340
0.7 12023 30 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Ziquan Fang
dblp:241/7962
0.7 12023 44 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Yuxiang Guo 0003
dblp:215/9733-3
0.7 12023 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Guoliang Li 0001
dblp:l/GuoliangLi
0.6 12022 362 · 147 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Ju Fan
dblp:78/4413
0.6 12022 91 · 49 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Xiaoyong Du 0001
dblp:47/3542-1
0.6 12022 332 · 136 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Nan Tang 0001
dblp:27/104-1
0.6 12022 147 · 68 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jianhong Tu
dblp:227/8305
0.6 12022 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
in pool Chengliang Chai
dblp:181/5689
0.6 12022 75 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaoyue Han
dblp:120/9517
0.6 12022 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Norman W. Paton
dblp:p/NWPaton
0.5 12021 142 · 15 since 2021 2025 verified
André Freitas
dblp:47/9409
0.5 12021 98 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Stuart Davie
dblp:279/3075
0.5 12021 1 · 1 since 2021 2021 none
Mark Douthwaite
dblp:209/2727
0.5 12021 2 · 2 since 2021 2022 none
Alex Teodor Bogatu
dblp:202/0373
0.5 12021 10 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Xin Dong 0001
dblp:d/XinLunaDong
0.4 12020 118 · 30 since 2021 2025 conflict
Shuiwang Ji
dblp:84/6405
0.4 12020 180 · 79 since 2021 2026 verified
Bunyamin Sisman
dblp:116/6836
0.4 12020 11 · 3 since 2021 2024 none
Lucian Popa 0001
dblp:p/LucianPopa
0.4 12019 63 · 16 since 2021 2025 conflict
Kun Qian 0002
dblp:77/2062-2
0.4 12019 17 · 6 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yunyao Li 0001
dblp:60/2319
0.4 12019 84 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sairam Gurajada
dblp:31/7537
0.4 12019 11 · 4 since 2021 2024 none
Jungo Kasai
dblp:205/9020
0.4 12019 25 · 18 since 2021 2025 corroborated
in pool Divesh Srivastava
dblp:s/DiveshSrivastava
0.3 22022 348 · 63 since 2021 2026 verified
Paolo Merialdo
dblp:m/PaoloMerialdo
0.3 22022 43 · 11 since 2021 2027 verified
in pool Nick Koudas
dblp:k/NickKoudas
0.3 22022 193 · 35 since 2021 2026 verified
Tommaso Teofili
dblp:201/6374
0.3 22022 8 · 8 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Donatella Firmani
dblp:05/10127
0.3 22022 38 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Vincenzo Martello
dblp:317/1104
0.2 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 unresolved
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