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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.

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 data augmentation topic 43 papers · 206 experts
Sub-topics 1 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on graph data augmentation 206 · 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
Shuiwang Ji
dblp:84/6405
2.7 42024 180 · 79 since 2021 2026 verified
Youzhi Luo
dblp:280/0590
2.1 32024 17 · 17 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Zhimeng Jiang
dblp:217/3235
1.9 32023 28 · 26 since 2021 2026 verified
Wei Zhao 0019
dblp:z/WeiZhao19
1.9 22026 88 · 71 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shirui Pan
dblp:91/8171
1.9 22026 379 · 294 since 2021 2026 verified
Chao Li 0022
dblp:66/190-22
1.9 22026 49 · 44 since 2021 2027 conflict
Qingtian Zeng
dblp:57/5087
1.9 22026 136 · 98 since 2021 2027 verified
Ziyu Guan
dblp:43/6970
1.9 22026 150 · 93 since 2021 2026 conflict
Gen Liu 0001
dblp:211/9583-1
1.9 22026 10 · 10 since 2021 2027 conflict
Yaming Yang 0002
dblp:204/3789-2
1.9 22026 32 · 30 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weigang Lu 0001
dblp:14/10146-1
1.9 22026 19 · 19 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhongying Zhao 0001
dblp:04/1381-1
1.9 22026 72 · 63 since 2021 2027 verified
Xiao Wang 0017
dblp:49/67-17
1.6 22026 127 · 82 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qitian Wu
dblp:224/2507
1.4 22024 46 · 38 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Hongyi Ling
dblp:259/0934
1.3 22023 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 conflict
Na Zou 0001
dblp:152/0090-1
1.3 22023 33 · 28 since 2021 2025 verified
in pool Jun Zhou 0011
dblp:99/3847-11
1.2 22023 256 · 210 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jie Tang 0001
dblp:t/JieTang
1.2 22024 417 · 164 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wenzheng Feng
dblp:203/9459
1.2 22024 18 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Tong Zhao 0003
dblp:94/6503-3
1.1 22022 55 · 49 since 2021 2026 verified
Meng Jiang 0001
dblp:69/339-1
1.1 22022 141 · 81 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bo Long
dblp:96/6993
1.0 12026 92 · 50 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hui Liu 0031
dblp:93/4010-31
1.0 12026 63 · 49 since 2021 2026 conflict
Mauro Conti
dblp:82/4386
1.0 12026 460 · 256 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhigang Hua
dblp:76/170
1.0 12026 24 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jiliang Tang
dblp:64/10812
1.0 12026 275 · 130 since 2021 2026 verified
Shuo Wang 0035
dblp:63/1591-35
1.0 12026 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yu Song 0007
dblp:54/1216-7
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Xi Zhou 0009
dblp:42/5705-9
1.0 12026 12 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jingzhe Liu
dblp:339/7558
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ziyu Zheng
dblp:28/11424
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Junwei Gong
dblp:275/6653
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Beilei Ling
dblp:246/3074
1.0 12026 6 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Bingheng Li
dblp:231/1904
1.0 12026 18 · 17 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Alessandro Brighente
dblp:196/4896
1.0 12026 61 · 53 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiao Shen 0001
dblp:166/6158-1
1.0 12026 26 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Meng Yan 0013
dblp:131/4289-13
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Xuelong Li 0001
dblp:l/XuelongLi
0.9 12025 1307 · 634 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hongyuan Zhang 0001
dblp:96/1452-1
0.9 12025 43 · 41 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xavier Bresson
dblp:95/378
0.9 12025 50 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
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