VLDB 2026 Research / recruiting

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.
Artificial intelligence›Natural language and speech›Language models and text generation›knowledge editing topic 213 papers · 837 experts
Sub-topics 15 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on knowledge editing 837 · 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
Ningyu Zhang 0001
dblp:139/4181-1
7.1 102025 104 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Junfeng Fang
dblp:340/7929
6.5 82026 43 · 43 since 2021 2026 conflict
Houcheng Jiang
dblp:389/5053
5.6 72026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 reported
Xiang Wang 0010
dblp:31/2864-10
5.6 72026 188 · 153 since 2021 2026 conflict
Huajun Chen
dblp:94/5089
5.4 82025 226 · 150 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kang Liu 0001
dblp:42/4903
5.1 72025 208 · 126 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jun Zhao 0001
dblp:47/2026-1
4.4 62025 234 · 123 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jie Yu 0008
dblp:74/3437-8
4.4 52026 67 · 48 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaopeng Li 0006
dblp:45/1827-6
4.4 52026 12 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shasha Li 0001
dblp:34/8146-1
4.4 52026 93 · 76 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shezheng Song
dblp:302/7694
4.4 52026 16 · 16 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xi Chen 0003
dblp:16/3283-3
4.3 62026 45 · 38 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jia-Chen Gu
dblp:93/3604
4.3 52026 30 · 23 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yunzhi Yao
dblp:295/9476
3.8 52025 17 · 17 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiangnan He 0001
dblp:59/1007
3.6 42026 308 · 181 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bin Ji 0002
dblp:119/1943-2
3.6 42026 33 · 31 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jun Ma 0015
dblp:91/4845-15
3.5 42026 51 · 40 since 2021 2026 conflict
Baolong Bi
dblp:367/3982
3.5 42025 15 · 15 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhen-Hua Ling
dblp:70/5210
3.4 42026 231 · 114 since 2021 2026 verified
Jun-Yu Ma
dblp:315/4046
3.4 42026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qiang Liu 0006
dblp:61/3234-6
3.3 42025 96 · 77 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kaixiong Zhou
dblp:178/7315
3.1 42025 52 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shumin Deng
dblp:213/1853
3.0 42025 53 · 48 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yubo Chen 0001
dblp:90/7879
2.8 42025 81 · 60 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qingbin Liu
dblp:137/6023
2.8 42026 17 · 17 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Shangwen Wang
dblp:219/1645
2.7 32026 60 · 51 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhumin Chen
dblp:88/1081
2.6 32026 124 · 74 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiaotian Ye
dblp:371/1109
2.6 32026 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 none
Hao-Xiang Xu
dblp:366/4496
2.6 32026 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 none
Dianbo Sui
dblp:254/8270
2.6 32026 35 · 32 since 2021 2026 verified
Mengqi Zhang 0002
dblp:175/8543-2
2.6 32026 21 · 20 since 2021 2026 conflict
Pengjie Ren
dblp:168/4596
2.6 32026 119 · 81 since 2021 2026 verified
Xueqi Cheng 0001
dblp:44/912-1
2.6 32025 485 · 242 since 2021 2026 conflict
Min Zhang 0005
dblp:83/5342-5
2.5 32025 507 · 324 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jing Gao 0004
dblp:67/4834-4
2.5 32025 178 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Haoyu Wang 0004
dblp:50/8499-4
2.5 32025 34 · 30 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qizhou Chen
dblp:376/3942
2.5 32025 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 reported
Julian J. McAuley
dblp:29/3483
2.5 32025 250 · 165 since 2021 2026 verified
Taolin Zhang 0001
dblp:270/2482-1
2.5 32025 21 · 21 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiusi Chen
dblp:210/1049
2.5 32025 33 · 29 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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