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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.

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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.
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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

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›Efficient and distributed learning›federated learning›federated optimization›federated hyperparameter optimization topic 3 papers · 28 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Experts on federated hyperparameter optimization 28 · 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
in pool Ce Zhang 0001
dblp:97/919-1
 0.7 12023 157 · 86 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhen Wang 0036
dblp:78/6727-36
 0.7 12023 29 · 24 since 2021 2025 conflict
in pool Bolin Ding
dblp:46/3522
 0.7 12023 180 · 110 since 2021 2026 verified
Weirui Kuang
dblp:318/1583
 0.7 12023 8 · 8 since 2021 2024 corroborated
in pool Yaliang Li
dblp:127/6999
 0.7 12023 180 · 109 since 2021 2026 verified
Vishal M. Patel
dblp:86/4726-1
 0.6 12022 299 · 160 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bradford J. Wood
dblp:66/3377
 0.6 12022 30 · 13 since 2021 2024 verified
Ziyue Xu 0001
dblp:59/9160-1
 0.6 12022 43 · 25 since 2021 2026 conflict
An Xu
dblp:47/8547
 0.6 12022 13 · 9 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Holger Roth
dblp:42/8528
 0.6 12022 62 · 35 since 2021 2026 verified
Can Zhao 0001
dblp:35/2787-1
 0.6 12022 18 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dong Yang 0005
dblp:33/412-5
 0.6 12022 48 · 35 since 2021 2026 conflict
Elvira Stellato
dblp:281/9883
 0.6 12022 2 · 2 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Francesca Patella
dblp:279/3853
 0.6 12022 2 · 2 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Gianpaolo Carrafiello
dblp:279/3697
 0.6 12022 3 · 3 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Stephanie A. Harmon
dblp:242/8848
 0.6 12022 11 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ali Hatamizadeh
dblp:226/7000
 0.6 12022 17 · 16 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Baris Turkbey
dblp:18/8485
 0.6 12022 36 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Wenqi Li 0001
dblp:15/9687-1
 0.6 12022 33 · 16 since 2021 2025 conflict
Evrim Turkbey
dblp:147/5042
 0.6 12022 9 · 4 since 2021 2022 verified
Daguang Xu
dblp:140/3604
 0.6 12022 67 · 49 since 2021 2026 verified
Maria-Florina Balcan
dblp:b/MariaFlorinaBalcan
 0.5 12021 142 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Tian Li 0005
dblp:91/7844-5
 0.5 12021 17 · 15 since 2021 2025 unresolved
Ameet Talwalkar
dblp:56/5528
 0.5 12021 66 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
Liam Li
dblp:228/7816
 0.5 12021 6 · 5 since 2021 2023 none
Renbo Tu
dblp:218/5627
 0.5 12021 4 · 4 since 2021 2024 none
Mikhail Khodak
dblp:199/2224
 0.5 12021 22 · 13 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Virginia Smith
dblp:120/0921
 0.5 12021 38 · 28 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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