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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›Trustworthy machine learning›fairness
topic
2,551 papers · 7,216 experts
Sub-topics
53 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
bias mitigation 221algorithmic fairness 72group fairness 72fair classification 67bias evaluation 63fair representation learning 55individual fairness 54fairness evaluation 41fair unsupervised learning 29fairness trade-off 29fairness auditing 25gender bias 24group robustness 23causal fairness 22fair graph learning 22algorithmic bias 18bias in language models 17demographic bias 17fairness in generative models 17ranking fairness 15fairness and robustness 14social bias 13fairness criteria 12intersectional fairness 10fair optimization 9model bias 7fair sequential decision making 6fairness under distribution shift 5fair data pre-processing 4fair prediction 4fairness in NLP 3
Show 22 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
bias identification 8spatial fairness 8fair resource allocation 7fair representation 6fairness and bias mitigation 6bias detection and mitigation 5fairness and bias evaluation 5unbiased learning 5fair training 4fairness and explainability 4fairness and recourse 4intersectional bias 4moral alignment 4within-group fairness 4algorithmic monoculture 3allocative harm 3demographic disparities 3demographic representation 3fairness generalization 3fairness guarantees 3fairness improvement 3fairwashing 3
Experts on fairness
7,216 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years)