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 factorization topic 6 papers · 28 experts
Experts on graph factorization 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
Jun Wang 0020
dblp:w/JunWang20
0.9 12025 46 · 41 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xinting Liao
dblp:331/1544
0.9 12025 26 · 26 since 2021 2025 verified
Pengyang Zhou 0001
dblp:300/4317-1
0.9 12025 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Chaochao Chen 0001
dblp:26/1492-1
0.9 12025 142 · 111 since 2021 2026 verified
Xingyu Lou
dblp:242/3345
0.9 12025 13 · 12 since 2021 2026 verified
Fengyuan Yu 0001
dblp:225/8550-1
0.9 12025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhihui Fu
dblp:158/9419
0.9 12025 20 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weiming Liu 0005
dblp:00/105-5
0.9 12025 74 · 74 since 2021 2026 conflict
Aidong Zhang 0001
dblp:z/AidongZhang
0.7 12023 290 · 76 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhao Song 0002
dblp:76/4051-2
0.7 12023 172 · 114 since 2021 2026 conflict
Nedim Lipka
dblp:40/1266
0.7 12023 45 · 29 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Hongteng Xu
dblp:38/10816
0.7 12023 106 · 63 since 2021 2026 verified
Sudhanshu Chanpuriya
dblp:266/7498
0.7 12023 8 · 6 since 2021 2024 unresolved
Zhenmei Shi
dblp:246/5216
0.7 12023 24 · 24 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lawrence Carin
dblp:23/2168
0.7 12023 365 · 37 since 2021 2025 verified
Yiyou Sun
dblp:211/5630
0.7 12023 25 · 23 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jiachang Liu 0001
dblp:194/1565-1
0.7 12023 10 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Anup B. Rao
dblp:179/2509
0.7 12023 48 · 27 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Tung Mai
dblp:177/8902
0.7 12023 28 · 19 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ryan Rossi
dblp:17/5085
0.7 12023 178 · 134 since 2021 2026 verified
Cameron Musco
dblp:149/2327
0.7 12023 81 · 45 since 2021 2026 verified
Yixuan Li 0001
dblp:144/6087-1
0.7 12023 93 · 78 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dixin Luo
dblp:126/6597
0.7 12023 31 · 19 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Alexander J. Smola
dblp:s/AlexanderJSmola
0.2 12013 227 · 21 since 2021 2025 verified
Vanja Josifovski
dblp:67/3556
0.2 12013 83 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Shravan M. Narayanamurthy
dblp:63/1469
0.2 12013 10 · 0 since 2021 2017 none
Amr Ahmed 0001
dblp:49/2951
0.2 12013 55 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Nino Shervashidze
dblp:05/7057
0.2 12013 6 · 0 since 2021 2013 none
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