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.
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval›Recommender systems›fashion recommendation topic 49 papers · 155 experts
Sub-topics 5 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on fashion recommendation 155 · 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
Liqiang Nie
dblp:92/8277
2.6 72023 506 · 334 since 2021 2026 verified
Xuemeng Song
dblp:147/9141
2.5 72022 119 · 84 since 2021 2026 verified
Tat-Seng Chua
dblp:24/6606
2.2 52022 763 · 330 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yan Chen 0007
dblp:88/2827-7
1.7 32023 224 · 99 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yang Hu 0006
dblp:43/4685-6
1.7 32023 93 · 67 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bing Zeng 0001
dblp:26/3636-1
1.7 32023 208 · 76 since 2021 2026 conflict
Cong Yu 0011
dblp:259/5253
1.7 32023 17 · 16 since 2021 2025 verified
Yunshan Ma 0002
dblp:228/1391-2
1.7 42022 55 · 48 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fuli Feng
dblp:183/9198
1.4 42019 195 · 165 since 2021 2026 verified
Kristen Grauman
dblp:57/4553
1.3 42020 242 · 72 since 2021 2026 verified
Xianjing Han
dblp:220/3407
1.3 42020 14 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Weili Guan
dblp:236/2820
1.2 22023 103 · 90 since 2021 2026 verified
Larry Davis 0001
dblp:d/LarrySDavis
1.2 32021 455 · 33 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Xin-Shun Xu
dblp:90/10573
1.2 32020 132 · 72 since 2021 2026 verified
Peiguang Jing
dblp:04/10628
1.0 22023 85 · 54 since 2021 2027 verified
Fei Shen 0004
dblp:99/6100-4
1.0 12026 54 · 54 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaoce Wang
dblp:408/1931
1.0 12026 1 · 1 since 2021 2026 none
Jinkai Zheng
dblp:276/3153
1.0 12026 34 · 33 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ming Li 0073
dblp:181/2821-73
1.0 12026 27 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hongbo Ma
dblp:179/3059
1.0 12026 10 · 9 since 2021 2026 conflict
Liangqiong Qu
dblp:149/2634
1.0 12026 37 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
Yen-Liang Lin
dblp:55/8117
0.9 22021 30 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Wei-Lin Hsiao
dblp:203/9059
0.8 22020 6 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Meng Wang 0001
dblp:93/6765-1
0.8 22019 737 · 374 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xun Yang 0001
dblp:72/4772-1
0.8 22019 149 · 129 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lizi Liao
dblp:149/1249
0.7 22019 77 · 62 since 2021 2026 verified
Zekun Li 0001
dblp:150/2008-1
0.7 22019 23 · 19 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhongyuan Lai
dblp:90/4522
0.7 12023 29 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qi Zhang 0020
dblp:52/323-20
0.7 12023 90 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Liang Hu 0004
dblp:48/5388-4
0.7 12023 70 · 44 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tangwei Ye
dblp:345/6436
0.7 12023 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Dora D. Liu
dblp:312/2803
0.7 12023 7 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Usman Naseem
dblp:253/6972
0.7 12023 107 · 98 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yunchao Jiang
dblp:250/4458
0.7 12023 2 · 1 since 2021 2023 none
Yuting Su 0001
dblp:10/7033-1
0.7 12023 200 · 88 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xin Liu 0075
dblp:76/1820-75
0.7 22021 2 · 2 since 2021 2021 verified
Ziwei Liu 0002
dblp:05/6300-2
0.7 22021 310 · 275 since 2021 2026 conflict
Julian J. McAuley
dblp:29/3483
0.6 32017 250 · 165 since 2021 2026 verified
Shamik Sural
dblp:67/3314
0.6 12022 132 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Tiago Lacerda
dblp:319/9004
0.6 12022 3 · 3 since 2021 2022 corroborated
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