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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
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval›Information retrieval
area
19,327 papers · 31,837 experts
Sub-topics
190 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
retrieval models 2,061evaluation 1,149ranking 1,116image retrieval 1,065search engines 672similarity search 636retrieval-augmented generation 552cross-modal retrieval 530web search 525retrieval evaluation 400indexing 337hashing 334query processing 314cross-language information retrieval 295multimedia analysis and retrieval 278text summarization 273interactive information retrieval 264relevance feedback 261reranking 217query log analysis 207query understanding 206text analysis 184document retrieval 169question answering 162personalized search 153e-commerce search 151query suggestion 149multimodal retrieval 143query formulation 133online advertising 131search interfaces 131search result diversification 126keyword search 121distributed information retrieval 119query reformulation 116similarity measure 86user behavior 65fact-checking 57information filtering 53similarity learning 42content-based retrieval 41large-scale retrieval 40digital libraries 39personal information management 34semantic matching 32question answering and dialogue systems 31user interaction 31similarity estimation 28domain adaptation 27string matching 27information seeking 26pattern matching 26contextual search 25citation analysis 23evidence retrieval 23filtering 20search and recommendation 18text matching 18case-based retrieval 17image matching 17agentic search 16hard negative mining 15retrieval augmentation 15efficient retrieval 14cross-domain retrieval 13generative information retrieval 13retrieval models and ranking 13evidence combination 11multi-hop retrieval 11systematic review 11user interface design 11vocabulary mismatch 11dialogue systems 10document organization 10keyword query 10text compression 10web navigation 10adversarial retrieval 9diversified retrieval 9type-ahead search 9machine learning for information retrieval 6multi-stage retrieval 5document processing 4trustworthy information retrieval 3
Show 106 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
query logs 9query prediction 9retrieval strategies 8weighting schemes 8catastrophic forgetting 7eye-tracking 7query result diversification 7semantic alignment 7social annotation 7sparse feature learning 7topic relevance 7user interface 7web graph 7compressed text search 6corpus construction 6document search 6hidden web database 6multi-domain query 6multimodal embedding 6query sampling 6semantic correlation 6tagging systems 6term frequency 6token pruning 6vector compression 6zero-shot transfer 6candidate selection 5click-through rate 5database and information retrieval integration 5search economics 5thesaurus 5tool retrieval 5tree-based retrieval 5user-centric retrieval 5annotation propagation 4compact coding 4context-based retrieval 4cross-view retrieval 4discrete optimization 4domain generalization 4dueling bandit 4graph regularization 4heuristic search 4hierarchical structure 4hybrid search 4image browsing 4information dissemination 4language model smoothing 4multi-dimensional retrieval 4office information systems 4pattern search 4pre-trained language model 4query-based retrieval 4question generation 4relevance search 4score distribution modeling 4similarity preservation 4template retrieval 4visual codebook construction 4web corpus 4web information discovery 4adaptive feature weighting 3author representation learning 3backward-compatible representation learning 3bayesian inference 3compact image representation 3concept embedding 3continual retrieval 3cross-modal representation learning 3distributional thesaurus 3embedding space geometry 3fine-tuning 3generalization error bounds 3generative engine optimization 3health misinformation 3hubness 3in-context learning 3knowledge-enhanced representation learning 3linear discriminant projection 3long-tail query 3multilingual dictionary construction 3natural language inference 3news aggregation 3pagerank estimation 3personalized navigation 3pre-trained graph transformer 3precision-oriented retrieval 3product discovery 3relevance propagation 3retrieval noise 3retrieval-based dialogue 3score distribution 3score normalization 3search result overlap 3shape matching 3signature-based retrieval 3speech recognition 3surrogate loss 3tag cloud 3transaction log analysis 3transfer learning for retrieval 3translation probability estimation 3triangle inequality pruning 3usability and user experience research 3variance reduction 3visual word representation 3
Experts on Information retrieval
31,837 · 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