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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
Sub-topics
112 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
diffusion model 6,389generative adversarial network 2,207variational autoencoder 934image generation 452normalizing flow 416autoregressive model 340video generation 289energy-based model 237flow matching 234synthetic data generation 211generative model 160multimodal generation 109molecular generation 103motion generation 100face synthesis 97conditional generative model 88generative model evaluation 76synthetic training data 74generative flow networks 69style transfer 643d generative model 57score matching 57cross-modal generation 56concept erasure 54latent space model 45feature generation 42trustworthy generative modeling 39generative prior 34image tokenization 34image reconstruction 32inverse problem 31model collapse 24implicit generative model 22score-based model 22latent space optimization 21iterative refinement 20scene generation 19masked generative modeling 18domain translation 17audio generation 16score estimation 16music generation 15image translation 14latent space regularization 14maximum likelihood learning 14latent space exploration 12latent space interpretation 12multimodal prediction 11vector-quantized generative models 11image manipulation 10adversarial generative modeling 9transformer-based generative model 8visual generation 8computational creativity 7adversarial inference 3protein design 3spatio-temporal generative modeling 3
Show 55 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
avatar generation 9latent space control 8ODE solvers 8generative domain adaptation 6generative retrieval 6invertible generative models 6likelihood-based outlier detection 6optimal transport based generative models 6zero-shot generation 6amortized sampling 5degradation modeling 5variational encoder-decoder 5lossless compression 4model generation 4neural cellular automata 4prompt inversion 4rate-distortion tradeoff 4recognition network 4visual illusion 4adversarial pre-training 3appearance transfer 3auxiliary variable 3cellular automata 3codebook prior 3consistency model training 3cycle-consistent generative modeling 3discriminator regularization 3exchangeable data 3feature distribution calibration 3feed-forward generation 3flow network 3generative feedback 3generative flow 3generative model representations 3goodness-of-fit assessment 3inversion 3labeled data generation 3latent space mapping 3learned prior 3manifold sampling 3motion refinement 3ODE solver acceleration 3proposal distribution 3score function 3score-based sampling 3self-consuming generative model 3smooth interpolation 3spatial-temporal consistency 3spectrum control 3step distillation 3style generation 3timestep sampling 3variational transformer 3video tokenizer 3winner-takes-all 3
Experts on Generative modeling
34,128 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics