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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Graph learning›graph neural network›graph convolution topic 97 papers · 402 experts
Sub-topics 8 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on graph convolution 402 · 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
Aseem Baranwal
dblp:285/5304
1.9 32024 5 · 5 since 2021 2024 reported
Kimon Fountoulakis
dblp:149/5799
1.9 32024 22 · 14 since 2021 2026 none
Ming Li 0065
dblp:181/2821-65
1.8 32025 103 · 94 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jian Yang 0003
dblp:y/JianYang3
1.3 32021 786 · 441 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhen Cui 0001
dblp:59/8491-1
1.3 32021 165 · 96 since 2021 2026 conflict
Aukosh Jagannath
dblp:19/10670
1.2 22023 14 · 11 since 2021 2026 none
Xiao-Ming Wu 0003
dblp:98/2898-3
1.1 32023 72 · 57 since 2021 2026 conflict
Han Liu 0008
dblp:35/2899-8
1.1 32023 77 · 61 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaotong Zhang 0003
dblp:31/2303-3
1.1 32023 54 · 37 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qimai Li
dblp:213/8201
1.1 32023 15 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Zhendong Zhao
dblp:46/6153
1.0 12026 34 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yabin Peng
dblp:332/8901
1.0 12026 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 verified
Bisheng Tang
dblp:330/7411
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xingyu Gao 0001
dblp:32/4831-1
1.0 12026 78 · 53 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shaoxun Liu
dblp:310/9030
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuexin Xuan
dblp:294/8069
1.0 12026 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Shaopu Wang
dblp:261/3136
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Chenyu Zhou 0004
dblp:215/8318-4
1.0 12026 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fan Zhang 0044
dblp:21/3626-44
1.0 12026 26 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaojun Chen 0004
dblp:20/3215-4
1.0 12026 64 · 44 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tong Duan
dblp:153/0008
1.0 12026 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hainan Cui
dblp:151/8858
1.0 12026 33 · 18 since 2021 2026 verified
Pietro Liò
dblp:l/PietroLio
0.9 22021 219 · 129 since 2021 2026 verified
Tong Zhang 0021
dblp:07/4227-21
0.9 22021 61 · 36 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yu Guang Wang 0001
dblp:03/10023-1
0.9 22021 35 · 26 since 2021 2025 verified
Mark Coates
dblp:c/MarkCoates
0.9 22024 108 · 40 since 2021 2025 verified
Yingxue Zhang 0001
dblp:174/0010-1
0.9 22024 57 · 47 since 2021 2025 conflict
in pool Philip S. Yu
dblp:y/PhilipSYu
0.9 12025 1626 · 556 since 2021 2026 conflict
Edwin R. Hancock
dblp:h/EdwinRHancock
0.9 12025 523 · 55 since 2021 2026 verified
Thomas Liebig
dblp:94/3226
0.9 12025 25 · 9 since 2021 2026 conflict
Min Han 0001
dblp:75/6083-1
0.9 12025 159 · 27 since 2021 2025 conflict
Bo Yu 0013
dblp:75/2868-13
0.9 12025 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lixin Cui
dblp:72/5436
0.9 12025 62 · 43 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yew-Soon Ong
dblp:64/4136
0.9 12025 363 · 176 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xin Luo 0001
dblp:53/5106-1
0.9 12025 226 · 157 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xinya Qin
dblp:415/4016
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 none
Sinuo Zhang
dblp:380/1295
0.9 12025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qunshan He
dblp:344/9111
0.9 12025 10 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yue Wang 0014
dblp:33/4822-14
0.9 12025 44 · 21 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jifeng Hu
dblp:316/5980
0.9 12025 18 · 18 since 2021 2026 conflict
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