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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Reinforcement learning›exploration›exploration bonus topic 8 papers · 31 experts
Experts on exploration bonus 31 · 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
Alexander Rakhlin
dblp:59/407
0.8 12024 100 · 41 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Srinath Mahankali
dblp:321/0657
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Ayush Sekhari
dblp:203/8152
0.8 12024 31 · 27 since 2021 2025 none
Zhang-Wei Hong
dblp:198/0600
0.8 12024 24 · 21 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Pulkit Agrawal 0001
dblp:149/2672-1
0.8 12024 70 · 55 since 2021 2025 conflict
Jie Wang 0005
dblp:29/5259-5
0.7 12023 99 · 67 since 2021 2026 conflict
Taoxing Pan
dblp:255/9328
0.7 12023 3 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Qi Zhou 0008
dblp:15/3785-8
0.7 12023 7 · 5 since 2021 2023 conflict
Yuandong Tian
dblp:t/YuandongTian
0.5 12021 116 · 71 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Kurt Keutzer
dblp:k/KurtKeutzer
0.5 12021 272 · 90 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiaolong Wang 0004
dblp:91/952-4
0.5 12021 124 · 91 since 2021 2025 conflict
Joseph Gonzalez 0001
dblp:61/8262
0.5 12021 151 · 103 since 2021 2026 verified
Yi Wu 0013
dblp:44/3684-13
0.5 12021 60 · 43 since 2021 2025 conflict
Tianjun Zhang
dblp:193/9376
0.5 12021 45 · 40 since 2021 2026 conflict
Huazhe Xu
dblp:164/9006
0.5 12021 72 · 63 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yaoliang Yu
dblp:90/4989
0.4 12019 90 · 31 since 2021 2026 none
Alessandro Lazaric
dblp:36/321
0.4 12019 97 · 24 since 2021 2025 verified
Linglong Kong
dblp:35/8525
0.4 12019 46 · 34 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Hengshuai Yao
dblp:25/4960
0.4 12019 17 · 4 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jian Qian
dblp:232/2479
0.4 12019 29 · 23 since 2021 2026 unresolved
Ronan Fruit
dblp:198/1167
0.4 12019 6 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Borislav Mavrin
dblp:194/4255
0.4 12019 5 · 2 since 2021 2023 none
Kaiwen Wu
dblp:187/9427
0.4 12019 14 · 11 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Matteo Pirotta
dblp:137/3249
0.4 12019 56 · 25 since 2021 2025 none
Nelson Ma
dblp:400/8456
0.3 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 reported
Jie Lu 0001
dblp:39/2936-1
0.3 12026 399 · 161 since 2021 2026 conflict
Guangquan Zhang 0001
dblp:37/628-1
0.3 12026 327 · 118 since 2021 2026 conflict
Junyu Xuan
dblp:08/10768
0.3 12026 60 · 33 since 2021 2026 verified
Kenji Kawaguchi
dblp:127/7411
0.2 12013 98 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sham M. Kakade
dblp:s/SMKakade
0.0 12000 185 · 64 since 2021 2026 none
Peter Dayan
dblp:22/522
0.0 12000 157 · 34 since 2021 2026 conflict
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