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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.

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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.
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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

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
Computer graphics and multimedia›Virtual and augmented reality›immersive display›head-tracked display topic 6 papers · 21 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Experts on head-tracked display 21 · 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
Thomas A. DeFanti
dblp:d/ThomasADeFanti
 0.1 22008 50 · 2 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Tom Peterka
dblp:26/2029
 0.1 22008 67 · 20 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Dan Sandin
dblp:00/4330
 0.1 22008 29 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Andrew E. Johnson 0001
dblp:j/AndrewEJohnson
 0.1 12008 66 · 5 since 2021 2025 verified
Robert Kooima
dblp:31/589
 0.1 12008 9 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Jason Leigh
dblp:29/532
 0.1 12008 67 · 5 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Todd Margolis
dblp:76/1823
 0.1 12005 2 · 0 since 2021 2011 reported
Jinghua Ge
dblp:74/4892
 0.1 12005 5 · 0 since 2021 2007 none
Javier Girado
dblp:65/4813
 0.1 12005 7 · 0 since 2021 2009 none
Steven K. Feiner
dblp:f/StevenFeiner
 0.0 12013 133 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Weiquan Lu
dblp:80/6045
 0.0 12013 8 · 0 since 2021 2017 corroborated
Henry Been-Lirn Duh
dblp:33/2980
 0.0 12013 68 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Larry F. Hodges
dblp:50/4272
 0.0 22002 49 · 0 since 2021 2016 corroborated
Zachary Wartell
dblp:46/660
 0.0 22002 19 · 1 since 2021 2025 corroborated
William Ribarsky
dblp:31/1379
 0.0 22002 53 · 0 since 2021 2017 none
Pat Hanrahan
dblp:h/PatHanrahan
 0.0 11997 144 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Bernd Fröhlich 0001
dblp:f/BerndFrohlich
 0.0 11997 100 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Ian McDowall
dblp:88/5383
 0.0 11997 8 · 0 since 2021 2015 none
Mark T. Bolas
dblp:69/3320
 0.0 11997 47 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Maneesh Agrawala
dblp:64/2431
 0.0 11997 175 · 41 since 2021 2026 verified
Andrew C. Beers
dblp:24/5722
 0.0 11997 6 · 0 since 2021 2000 none
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