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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.

Recruitment bar

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.
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

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.
Computer graphics and multimedia›Image and video processing›video frame interpolation›interpolation topic 20 papers · 41 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Sub-topics 2 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on interpolation 41 · 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
Rainer Böhme
dblp:52/6295
0.2 22019 55 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Hanno Scharr
dblp:64/2329
0.1 12020 32 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Daniel Pflugfelder
dblp:264/6953
0.1 12020 1 · 0 since 2021 2020 reported
Cecilia Pasquini
dblp:137/2429
0.1 12019 21 · 6 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Christoph Garth
dblp:89/4860
0.1 12010 61 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Kenneth I. Joy
dblp:21/4648
0.1 12010 86 · 0 since 2021 2016 none
Matthias Kirchner
dblp:97/1874
0.1 12008 10 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ken Namiki
dblp:63/4812
0.1 12007 1 · 0 since 2021 2007 none
Yasunori Matsumoto
dblp:29/4295
0.1 12007 1 · 0 since 2021 2007 none
Takashi Maekawa
dblp:25/2246
0.1 12007 46 · 5 since 2021 2024 verified
Youngjoon Cha
dblp:19/6926
0.1 12007 6 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Seongjai Kim
dblp:00/5806
0.1 12007 11 · 1 since 2021 2023 reported
Yang Liu 0009
dblp:51/3710-9
0.1 12014 7 · 1 since 2021 2021 conflict
Yuzhen Niu
dblp:28/7442
0.1 12014 92 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lei Wang 0184
dblp:181/2817-184
0.1 12014 5 · 3 since 2021 2024 conflict
Iman Aganj
dblp:98/5859
0.0 12013 8 · 2 since 2021 2026 verified
B. T. Thomas Yeo
dblp:79/4563
0.0 12013 19 · 2 since 2021 2025 verified
Bruce Fischl
dblp:40/1628
0.0 12013 47 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Mert R. Sabuncu
dblp:36/4898
0.0 12013 74 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Erik Meijering
dblp:m/ErikHWMeijering
0.0 22002 74 · 40 since 2021 2026 verified
Jarek Rossignac
dblp:r/JarekRossignac
0.0 12011 115 · 5 since 2021 2023 verified
Brian Whited
dblp:15/3846
0.0 12011 8 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Weimin Wei
dblp:93/7637
0.0 12010 8 · 4 since 2021 2026 none
Shuozhong Wang
dblp:46/781
0.0 12010 35 · 0 since 2021 2017 none
Zhenjun Tang
dblp:09/7638
0.0 12010 126 · 91 since 2021 2027 verified
Xinpeng Zhang 0001
dblp:01/3442-1
0.0 12010 416 · 294 since 2021 2026 conflict
Samuel R. Buss
dblp:b/SamuelRBuss
0.0 12001 89 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
Jay P. Fillmore
dblp:56/4123
0.0 12001 3 · 0 since 2021 2001 none
Weiyin Ma
dblp:69/6190
0.0 12009 87 · 17 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Costanza Conti
dblp:98/1803
0.0 11996 13 · 1 since 2021 2021 corroborated
Alessandra Sestini
dblp:60/6085
0.0 11996 23 · 1 since 2021 2026 verified
Daniel C. H. Yang
dblp:97/3537
0.0 11994 7 · 0 since 2021 2003 none
Dimitris Kiritsis
dblp:58/4778
0.0 11994 21 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Tom Kong
dblp:06/1248
0.0 11994 1 · 0 since 2021 1994 none
Howard Falk
dblp:00/7506
0.0 12002 18 · 0 since 2021 2011 none
Anis Limaiem
dblp:31/6092
0.0 11996 4 · 0 since 2021 1998 none
Hoda A. ElMaraghy
dblp:18/4172
0.0 11996 12 · 0 since 2021 1998 none
Chii-Jen Chung
dblp:120/6571
0.0 11994 1 · 0 since 2021 1994 none
Sin-Horng Chen
dblp:00/3107
0.0 11994 68 · 2 since 2021 2023 reported
Muhammad Ghazie Ismail
dblp:271/5230
0.0 11981 1 · 0 since 2021 1981 none
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