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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.
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
Network and information security›Hardware security and side channels
area
4,414 papers · 8,606 experts
Sub-topics
56 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
side-channel attack 1,047trusted execution environments 882fault attacks 235side-channel countermeasures 223intellectual property protection 142microarchitectural side channel 121hardware trojan 64cache side channel 56microarchitectural attacks 45memory encryption 39side channel 36fault attack countermeasure 26side-channel resistance 26tamper-resistant hardware 22cryptographic hardware 18side-channel leakage 18hardware attack detection 17hardware fingerprinting 16side-channel cryptanalysis 16hardware obfuscation 13integrated circuit security 13physical attacks 12hardware authentication 11intellectual property theft 11attestation 10counterfeit IC detection 10hardware security primitives 9hardware reverse engineering 8hardware attacks 7hardware security verification 7hardware monitoring 6leakage analysis 6hardware vulnerability detection 5secure speculation 5hardware trust 4memory integrity 4memory security 3
Show 19 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
hardware performance counters 8physical security 8formal verification of security properties 5GPU security 5integrated circuit counterfeiting 5hardware vulnerabilities 4speculative execution 4air-gapped computer attack 3cache replacement policy 3covert channel countermeasure 3electromagnetic interference 3hardware information flow tracking 3information-theoretic analysis 3leakage exploitation 3quantitative security analysis 3quantum computer security 3secret protection 3tamper-resistant device 3transient execution vulnerability 3
Experts on Hardware security and side channels
8,606 · 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