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.
Sub-topics 16 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on FPGA accelerator 1,978 · 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
Jason Cong
dblp:c/JasonCong
10.5 322025 523 · 91 since 2021 2026 verified
Chao Wang 0003
dblp:w/ChaoWang3
9.1 162026 174 · 84 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xuehai Zhou
dblp:53/2969
9.1 162026 213 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lei Gong 0003
dblp:01/805-3
8.2 122026 77 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Viktor Prasanna 0001
dblp:p/ViktorKPrasanna
6.7 202025 518 · 108 since 2021 2026 verified
Wayne Luk
dblp:l/WayneLuk
6.6 152026 471 · 75 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Gustavo Alonso
dblp:a/GustavoAlonso
6.3 152025 245 · 57 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xi Li 0003
dblp:46/2311-3
6.1 122025 102 · 20 since 2021 2025 conflict
Rajgopal Kannan
dblp:66/2538
5.1 102025 124 · 61 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yun Liang 0001
dblp:83/2265
4.6 122024 179 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaowei Li 0001
dblp:37/5372-1
4.4 72025 441 · 147 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yu Wang 0002
dblp:w/YuWang2
4.1 82025 355 · 172 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yao Chen 0008
dblp:70/3621-8
4.0 62026 52 · 35 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weng-Fai Wong
dblp:37/1143
3.9 52026 155 · 54 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhenman Fang
dblp:44/10032
3.9 62026 87 · 57 since 2021 2026 verified
Guohao Dai 0001
dblp:147/1470
3.7 52025 110 · 89 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Hai Jin 0001
dblp:98/4156
3.6 92025 1298 · 561 since 2021 2026 conflict
Liqiang Lu
dblp:202/5928
3.5 102024 52 · 44 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaofei Liao
dblp:56/4402
3.3 82025 292 · 139 since 2021 2026 conflict
Deming Chen
dblp:37/1234
3.3 62025 234 · 73 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuze Chi
dblp:169/9784
3.2 72023 34 · 21 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yingxue Gao
dblp:292/0980
3.2 42025 18 · 18 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ray C. C. Cheung
dblp:96/2421
3.1 62026 119 · 46 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Bingsheng He
dblp:h/BingshengHe
3.0 52026 391 · 169 since 2021 2026 verified
Eriko Nurvitadhi
dblp:43/3042
3.0 72023 59 · 16 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Shulin Zeng
dblp:211/7708
2.9 42025 30 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Huazhong Yang
dblp:94/1128
2.8 62024 362 · 138 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Tong Geng
dblp:188/5531
2.8 52024 84 · 68 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xianglan Chen
dblp:74/3735
2.7 32026 19 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wenyan Lu
dblp:39/1010
2.6 42025 33 · 20 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Guihai Yan
dblp:12/7075
2.6 42025 68 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hongxiang Fan
dblp:200/2748
2.6 52023 54 · 44 since 2021 2026 verified
Yilan Zhu
dblp:321/0201
2.5 32026 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Wenqi Lou
dblp:211/7977
2.5 32026 30 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
Jingya Wu
dblp:195/8770
2.5 32025 28 · 21 since 2021 2026 conflict
David Boland
dblp:23/5076
2.5 42026 44 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Long Zheng 0003
dblp:68/6274-3
2.5 42025 75 · 48 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhenhao He
dblp:231/4720
2.4 42024 16 · 10 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lei Ju 0001
dblp:97/3791-1
2.4 32025 96 · 48 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hanchen Ye
dblp:262/6216
2.3 32025 16 · 14 since 2021 2025 verified
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