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.
Sub-topics 4 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on demand prediction 56 · 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 Hui Xiong 0001
dblp:262/1686-1
1.1 42021 622 · 316 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ziyou Gao
dblp:95/5600
1.0 12026 37 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lixing Yang
dblp:15/1184
1.0 12026 38 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jinlei Zhang
dblp:133/4464
1.0 12026 22 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yongjie Yang 0006
dblp:13/9959-6
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 reported
Shuai Wang 0008
dblp:42/1503-8
0.9 22024 145 · 122 since 2021 2026 conflict
Desheng Zhang 0002
dblp:15/8612-2
0.9 22024 131 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tian He 0001
dblp:h/TianHe
0.7 12023 345 · 96 since 2021 2026 conflict
Haotian Wang 0008
dblp:63/11345-8
0.7 12023 41 · 41 since 2021 2026 conflict
Li Lin 0011
dblp:38/4000-11
0.7 12023 40 · 34 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kaiwen Xia
dblp:302/3687
0.7 12023 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yanjie Fu
dblp:134/3987
0.6 32021 189 · 115 since 2021 2026 conflict
Milind Tambe
dblp:67/2667
0.6 12022 219 · 64 since 2021 2026 verified
Haipeng Chen 0001
dblp:53/8073-1
0.6 12022 32 · 19 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jinhua Zhao 0001
dblp:48/3620-1
0.6 12022 18 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Nikhil Behari
dblp:324/1587
0.6 12022 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 none
Mollie Williams
dblp:324/1242
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 none
Gregory Fan
dblp:324/1051
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 none
Dingyi Zhuang
dblp:267/5691
0.6 12022 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Nancy E. Oriol
dblp:248/5291
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 unresolved
Susobhan Ghosh
dblp:245/3484
0.6 12022 7 · 5 since 2021 2024 conflict
Shenhao Wang
dblp:232/4326
0.6 12022 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Arpita Biswas
dblp:162/5030
0.6 12022 20 · 11 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Haris N. Koutsopoulos
dblp:09/2937
0.6 12022 15 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Bowen Du 0001
dblp:94/4213-1
0.5 22021 92 · 65 since 2021 2026 conflict
Junchen Ye
dblp:245/5968
0.5 22021 21 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Leilei Sun
dblp:152/1810
0.5 22021 102 · 82 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Guoliang Li 0001
dblp:l/GuoliangLi
0.5 12021 362 · 147 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Christian S. Jensen
dblp:j/ChristianSJensen
0.5 12021 451 · 141 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xinjiang Lu
dblp:82/10445
0.5 12021 70 · 33 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Lu Chen 0001
dblp:69/157-1
0.5 12021 177 · 126 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fuzhen Zhuang
dblp:48/5638
0.5 12021 286 · 163 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Haitao Yuan 0002
dblp:267/9406-2
0.5 12021 55 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dejing Dou
dblp:26/2854
0.5 12021 185 · 108 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ruijie Xi
dblp:253/4805
0.5 12021 11 · 11 since 2021 2025 conflict
Lingfeng Ming
dblp:252/8130
0.5 12021 7 · 5 since 2021 2024 none
in pool Zhifeng Bao
dblp:20/3716
0.5 12021 186 · 77 since 2021 2026 verified
Qiyu Wu 0001
dblp:197/6506-1
0.5 12021 11 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Junhao Hua
dblp:174/4236
0.5 12021 2 · 1 since 2021 2021 corroborated
in pool Bolong Zheng
dblp:152/4895
0.5 12021 107 · 59 since 2021 2026 verified
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