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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
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Graph learning›graph neural network
topic
4,180 papers · 10,468 experts
Sub-topics
57 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
graph convolutional network 769node classification 402message passing 309graph transformer 213expressive power 189heterogeneous graph neural network 184dynamic graph neural network 160graph convolution 97graph pooling 73heterophily 72scalable graph neural network 56spectral graph neural network 45graph data augmentation 43graph neural architecture search 39robust graph neural network 36graph attention 28spatio-temporal graph 24graph rewiring 22graph neural network inference 21graph unlearning 20trustworthy graph neural networks 19deep graph neural network 15fraud detection 15geometric graph neural network 15relational network 13long-range interaction 12attention-based graph neural network 11directed graph neural network 11graph neural networks for combinatorial optimization 11privacy-preserving graph neural network 11recurrent graph neural network 11graph neural network architecture 10efficient graph neural network 9graph neural network generalization 9homophily and heterophily 9multi-scale graph neural network 8continuous graph neural network 7subgraph learning 6graph compression 4topological graph neural network 4aggregation function 3graph neural network security 3
Show 15 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
brain network analysis 8hierarchical graph 7graph lottery ticket 5graph neural network for NLP 5graph-level task 5covariance neural networks 4graph neural network applications 4graph neural network evaluation 4graph neural network systems 4knowledge distillation for graph neural networks 4logical expressiveness 3node prediction 3session graph 3transformer-based graph learning 3weisfeiler-leman graph neural networks 3
Experts on graph neural network
10,468 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years)