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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
133 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
graph neural network 4,180graph representation learning 762network embedding 648link prediction 282graph clustering 227graph classification 215dynamic graph learning 184graph generation 177graph matching 148graph structure learning 142graph self-supervised learning 119hypergraph learning 119graph kernel 114heterogeneous graph 86graph neural network training 85graph anomaly detection 84graph autoencoder 80spatio-temporal graph learning 78graph reasoning 67heterogeneous graph learning 53graph construction 51stochastic block model 49dynamic graph 48graph prompt learning 48graph signal processing 48graph diffusion 47molecular representation learning 47graph augmentation 46graph foundation model 41graph pre-training 41graph regularization 39network alignment 37graph representation 36social network analysis 30graph inference 29influence maximization 28graph meta-learning 23affinity learning 21graph out-of-distribution generalization 21text-attributed graph 20random walk 19network analysis 17spectral graph methods 17topological data analysis 17graph fusion 14trustworthy graph learning 14graph sampling 13algorithmic reasoning 11graph analytics 11multi-graph learning 10multimodal graph learning 10recommendation 10spectral graph theory 10relation modeling 9high-order interaction 8directed graph learning 5geometric learning 4graph algorithms 4data-centric graph learning 3efficient graph learning 3hypergraph 3incomplete graph learning 3limited supervision 3open-world graph learning 3
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