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 area 10,783 papers · 22,156 experts
Sub-topics 133 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Show 69 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
graph propagation 9spatial correlation modeling 9graph reconstruction 8molecular graph 8graph metric learning 7graph tokenization 7label correlation 7LLM-enhanced graph learning 7protein structure prediction 7random walk learning 7advertising applications 6graph factorization 6graph learning benchmark 6graph walk 6label consistency 6causal inference on networks 5deep graph learning 5directed graph 5graph pruning 5interacting dynamical systems 5interaction graph 5signed network 5topological embedding 5attributed graphs 4dependency graph 4functional connectivity 4graph network simulators 4graph-based feature fusion 4graph-based retrieval 4invariant pattern learning 4learned physical simulation 4multimodal graph 4noisy graph learning 4pre-trained graph model 4random graphs 4social networks 4structural entropy 4text-rich networks 4unsupervised graph learning 4urban region representation learning 4affinity computation 3attributed network 3co-clustering 3concept shift 3contrastive learning for anomaly detection 3dynamic network structure 3graph decoding 3graph ensemble learning 3graph grammar 3graph structure 3graph-based feature selection 3hypergraph laplacian 3label attention 3line graph 3long-range dependency modeling on graphs 3model augmentation 3molecular structure modeling 3network rewiring 3node aggregation 3non-euclidean data 3non-euclidean domains 3positional and structural encoding 3semantic aggregation 3simplicial complex 3skill graph 3spatial graph representation 3structural feature extraction 3structure-aware representation learning 3tag representation learning 3
Experts on Graph learning 22,156 · 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
ExpertWeight Topics held All papersLastORCID
in pool Philip S. Yu
dblp:y/PhilipSYu
151.8 90 1626 · 556 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shirui Pan
dblp:91/8171
136.3 83 379 · 294 since 2021 2026 verified
Chuan Shi 0001
dblp:64/3041-1
95.8 64 253 · 156 since 2021 2026 conflict
Di Jin 0001
dblp:67/1861-1
87.9 41 179 · 125 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hao Peng 0001
dblp:69/7742-1
86.3 59 235 · 204 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dongxiao He
dblp:48/8875
80.1 34 128 · 94 since 2021 2026 verified
Ming Li 0065
dblp:181/2821-65
78.1 33 103 · 94 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jia Wu 0001
dblp:25/5536-1
74.9 49 354 · 234 since 2021 2026 conflict
Michael M. Bronstein
dblp:07/2668
71.3 45 168 · 73 since 2021 2026 verified
Junchi Yan
dblp:60/7949
68.9 44 442 · 330 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Wentao Zhang 0001
dblp:41/3249-1
67.5 41 131 · 128 since 2021 2027 conflict
Jundong Li
dblp:144/7997
65.7 48 198 · 134 since 2021 2026 verified
Chuxu Zhang
dblp:133/8537
65.7 45 102 · 81 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Hongzhi Yin
dblp:04/10606
65.4 50 374 · 255 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wenwu Zhu 0001
dblp:97/6308-1
62.1 42 429 · 174 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiliang Tang
dblp:64/10812
62.0 45 275 · 130 since 2021 2026 verified
Lu Bai 0001
dblp:26/1137-1
61.9 27 121 · 69 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xinwang Liu 0002
dblp:45/6569-2
61.4 40 429 · 342 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hanghang Tong
dblp:58/1757
60.9 48 358 · 167 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiao Wang 0017
dblp:49/67-17
60.7 40 127 · 82 since 2021 2026 conflict
Muhan Zhang
dblp:157/5518
58.5 40 76 · 63 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jianxin Li 0002
dblp:l/JianxinLi-2
58.1 48 228 · 143 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuan Fang 0001
dblp:22/981-1
56.8 40 100 · 72 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Lei Chen 0002
dblp:c/LeiChen0002
56.5 40 650 · 250 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jure Leskovec
dblp:l/JureLeskovec
55.7 44 274 · 88 since 2021 2025 verified
Carl Yang 0001
dblp:305/0254
55.3 43 151 · 127 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lixin Cui
dblp:72/5436
54.4 23 62 · 43 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Pan Li 0005
dblp:72/2643-5
52.7 42 86 · 66 since 2021 2026 conflict
Pietro Liò
dblp:l/PietroLio
52.4 33 219 · 129 since 2021 2026 verified
Xin Wang 0019
dblp:10/5630-19
52.0 34 180 · 147 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiao Luo 0001
dblp:50/1585-1
51.8 25 140 · 139 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bryan Hooi
dblp:169/9975
51.4 37 163 · 121 since 2021 2026 verified
Liang Yang 0002
dblp:05/3933-2
51.3 29 85 · 54 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhen Wang 0004
dblp:78/6727-4
51.0 31 248 · 230 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Hui Xiong 0001
dblp:262/1686-1
50.0 39 622 · 316 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jia Li 0009
dblp:23/6950-9
48.4 38 77 · 72 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaochun Cao
dblp:39/3695
47.6 34 494 · 294 since 2021 2026 verified
Yanfang Ye 0001
dblp:07/4509
47.1 33 132 · 86 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wei Ju 0001
dblp:171/4781-1
45.9 25 85 · 85 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yue Gao 0002
dblp:33/3099-2
45.9 25 285 · 140 since 2021 2026 conflict
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