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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
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Generative modeling›diffusion model
topic
6,389 papers · 16,893 experts
Sub-topics
85 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
text-to-image generation 945latent diffusion model 287video diffusion model 207conditional diffusion model 200diffusion transformer 147score-based generative model 146conditional generation 107discrete diffusion model 983d shape generation 83score distillation sampling 75controllable generation 72diffusion model acceleration 72diffusion sampling 59diffusion distillation 56human motion generation 54rectified flow 44schrödinger bridge 44tabular data generation 43consistency model 42image editing 40time series generation 39diffusion planning 37geometric diffusion model 33guided diffusion 33graph diffusion model 32personalized image generation 32diffusion bridge 30denoising 27inverse problem solving 273d diffusion models 25diffusion prior 25diffusion model architecture 24image restoration 21motion diffusion 20diffusion model training 18few-step generation 18multimodal diffusion model 17denoising training 14conditional sampling 13diffusion-based purification 13guided sampling 13parallel sampling 13diffusion inversion 12molecular conformation generation 12memorization mitigation 11noise scheduling 113d-aware diffusion 10diffusion-based data augmentation 10efficient diffusion model 9image diffusion model 9diffusion-based representation learning 6diffusion model adaptation 5diffusion model inference 5hierarchical diffusion model 5deterministic sampler 4diffusion-based perception 3
Show 29 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
cross-attention control 8crystal structure generation 8textual inversion 8inference-time optimization 6periodic material generation 6physics-informed diffusion model 6spatio-temporal diffusion 6jump-diffusion 5nonlinear diffusion 5anisotropic diffusion 4controlnet 4differentially private image synthesis 4diffusion model interpretability 4diffusion-generated image detection 4guided image synthesis 4monte carlo diffusion 42d diffusion model 3bridge models 3conditional trajectory generation 3contrastive diffusion 3differentially private diffusion model 3diffusion GAN 3diffusion model conditioning 3diffusion model watermarking 3diffusion trajectory analysis 3diffusion-based steganography 3memorization in diffusion models 3noise optimization 3structure-guided diffusion 3
Experts on diffusion model
16,893 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years)