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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
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems›High-performance computing
area
5,056 papers · 13,552 experts
Sub-topics
98 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
scientific computing systems 829performance optimization at scale 304cluster computing 196scientific computing 181collective communication 179supercomputing 177parallel i/o 155performance optimization 150parallel numerical algorithms 115distributed memory systems 94numerical linear algebra 79sparse linear algebra 69stencil computation 68data-intensive computing 56scientific data management 51sparse linear solver 48scientific workflow 47large-scale graph processing 46large-scale training 43domain decomposition 38fast fourier transform 37scientific data compression 35data transfer 31lossy compression 30n-body simulation 29supercomputer architecture 26large-scale simulation 24iterative methods 18system monitoring 17distributed computing infrastructure 16finite element method 16high-throughput computing 14scientific data analysis 14scientific visualization 13tensor computation 12unstructured mesh computation 10quantum chemistry 9HPC storage systems 7linear algebra library 7code optimization 6fault tolerance at scale 6system resilience 6numerical computation 4program analysis 4performance engineering 3
Show 53 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
computational steering 9i/o characterization 8numerical libraries 8i/o intensive applications 7job runtime prediction 7many-core acceleration 7quantum mechanical simulation 7communication trace collection 6large-scale data management 6parallel compression 6parallel workflow 6queue wait time prediction 6sequence alignment 6application portability 5i/o bottleneck 5large-scale parallel debugging 5message aggregation 5atomistic simulation 4brain simulation 4distributed i/o 4high performance distributed computing 4in transit processing 4low-latency networking 4multi-physics simulation 4nuclear reactor simulation 4parallel and distributed algorithms 4particle simulation 4scalable solver 4space-time adaptive processing 4streaming i/o 4application porting 3approximate queries 3astrophysical simulation 3barrier elimination 3communication characterization 3cost-based optimization 3electromagnetic scattering simulation 3graph compression 3gyrokinetic simulation 3i/o behavior prediction 3i/o latency hiding 3image compositing 3ising model simulation 3iterative applications 3lightweight operating system 3log mining 3multiscale simulation 3plasma simulation 3power system simulation 3resource requirement prediction 3structural analysis 3topology-aware partitioning 3wave propagation simulation 3
Experts on High-performance computing
13,552 · 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