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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
Sub-topics
161 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
wireless sensor network 2,922RFID systems 409backscatter communication 339age of information 328energy efficiency 311energy harvesting 282delay tolerant networks 258iot networks 250mobile crowdsensing 220time synchronization 194iot security 172industrial iot 153LPWAN 133mobile sensor networks 130topology control 126data dissemination 116cross-technology communication 108wireless body area network 98sensor network security 95status update 87underwater sensor networks 81opportunistic networks 80neighbor discovery 78network connectivity 75low-power wireless 74mobile sensing 70crowdsensing 66smart home 60wireless sensor and actuator networks 51data forwarding 47camera sensor networks 43sensor placement 43lora networks 40sensing coverage 39machine-to-machine communication 37environmental sensing 35UAV-assisted data collection 33wireless charging 33battery-free sensing 32sensor network query processing 31iot applications 30resource-constrained devices 30adaptive sampling 28energy management 28iot devices 28industrial network 27sensor data management 27multicast capacity 25nanonetworks 23service discovery 21data replication 20multimodal sensing 20security 19cyber-physical systems 17reliability 16wireless ad hoc and sensor networks 16transmission policy 15data compression 14erasure coding 14group communication 14query processing 14iot data management 13data recovery 12distributed storage 12home network 12iot application development 12location service 12AIoT 11information gathering 11device discovery 10iot data analytics 10network coverage 10self-configuration 10ultrasonic communication 10crowdsourcing 9iot platform 9iot services 7iot architecture 6distributed signal processing 5iot security and privacy 5networked embedded systems 5underwater network 5wearable computing 4iot resource management 3motion sensing 3
Show 76 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
service composition 9cross-technology interference mitigation 8iot interoperability 8iot testbed 8link quality 8topology management 8wireless sensor 7mission-critical iot 6object detection 6resource-constrained networks 6sensor data 6sensor systems 6surveillance systems 6challenged networks 5closed-loop control 5energy-constrained sensing 5hierarchical clustering 5industrial sensing 5message delivery 5non-invasive sensing 5packet management 5rule matching 5spatiotemporal correlation 5ubiquitous sensing 5underwater sensing 5aerial data collection 4battery-free communication 4combinatorial multi-armed bandit 4community sensing 4correlated sources 4data augmentation 4desynchronization 4erasure networks 4hierarchical control 4home gateway 4iot blockchain 4iot data market 4network initialization 4power line communication networks 4quality of information 4resource-constrained communication 4robust transmission 4small data transmission 4spatial interpolation 4value of information 4wearable and mobile sensing 4coexistence management 3communication cost tradeoff 3data availability 3data harvesting 3data protection 3data reduction 3design space exploration 3detection latency 3distributed indexing 3duty cycle 3hidden camera detection 3iot device detection 3iot frameworks 3logistics networks 3low-cost sensing 3mobile agent 3mobile sensor node 3modular hardware architecture 3multi-modal communication 3passive iot 3probabilistic detection 3quorum system 3rate distribution 3real-time detection 3sensor network geometry 3sensor-based monitoring 3sparse networks 3sparse sampling 3sparse sensing 3trajectory control 3
Experts on Internet of things and sensor networks
21,253 · 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