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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 12 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on eye tracking 864 · 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
Yiran Shen 0001
dblp:71/11188-1
2.3 32025 69 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Ye Yan 0001
dblp:85/6777-1
2.2 32025 33 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Liang Xie 0012
dblp:81/2806-12
2.2 32025 48 · 48 since 2021 2027 conflict
Yingxi Li
dblp:336/4292
2.2 32025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiaowei Bai
dblp:293/4391
2.2 32025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Erwei Yin
dblp:138/2127
2.2 32025 63 · 54 since 2021 2027 verified
Guohao Lan
dblp:178/9755
1.8 42023 35 · 21 since 2021 2025 verified
Andreas Bulling
dblp:67/1543
1.8 102025 181 · 70 since 2021 2026 verified
Tongyu Zhang
dblp:04/4246
1.6 22025 6 · 5 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hongkai Wen 0001
dblp:55/7703
1.5 22025 70 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Chris Harrison 0001
dblp:77/2637
1.5 22026 117 · 35 since 2021 2026 verified
Enkelejda Kasneci
dblp:08/1610
1.5 32022 134 · 91 since 2021 2026 verified
Guangrong Zhao
dblp:250/4466
1.4 22024 13 · 12 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Hans-Werner Gellersen
dblp:g/HWGellersen
1.4 42025 146 · 39 since 2021 2026 verified
Karan Ahuja
dblp:185/0960
1.4 22025 31 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Cristina Conati
dblp:34/5056
1.3 62021 119 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Ken Pfeuffer
dblp:83/8359
1.3 32025 52 · 34 since 2021 2026 verified
Andrew T. Duchowski
dblp:66/3798
1.3 52020 97 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
Feng Lu 0005
dblp:97/6483-5
1.3 22024 106 · 61 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sven Mayer
dblp:161/3111
1.3 22024 108 · 74 since 2021 2026 verified
Anjul Patney
dblp:60/6580
1.2 22023 27 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Budmonde Duinkharjav
dblp:311/3799
1.2 22023 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Rachel Brown
dblp:26/11370
1.2 22023 4 · 3 since 2021 2023 conflict
Qi Sun 0003
dblp:05/4187-3
1.2 22023 39 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Krzysztof Krejtz
dblp:57/11303
1.2 32020 46 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Tianxing Li 0001
dblp:133/6667
1.2 42018 29 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Maria Gorlatova
dblp:58/7552
1.2 32022 65 · 38 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Timothy James Scargill
dblp:272/1986
1.2 32022 11 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa
dblp:19/6374
1.2 52018 123 · 44 since 2021 2026 verified
Meng Jin 0002
dblp:33/6937-2
1.2 22023 62 · 37 since 2021 2026 conflict
Songzhou Yang
dblp:238/9450
1.2 22023 6 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yuan He 0004
dblp:11/1735-4
1.2 22023 173 · 66 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sébastien Lallé
dblp:65/9061
1.1 42021 42 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Chen Xia
dblp:84/2491
1.0 22025 28 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Linzhi Yu
dblp:371/4833
1.0 22025 3 · 3 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Wenqi Zhong
dblp:34/4205
1.0 22025 9 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Huiyu Duan
dblp:205/7136
1.0 22025 71 · 66 since 2021 2026 verified
Guangtao Zhai
dblp:19/3230
1.0 22025 563 · 375 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dingwen Zhang
dblp:150/6620
1.0 22025 171 · 124 since 2021 2027 conflict
Xiongkuo Min
dblp:139/6983
1.0 22025 269 · 224 since 2021 2026 verified
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