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›Machine learning›Optimization for machine learning›learned optimizer topic 77 papers · 246 experts
Sub-topics 3 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on learned optimizer 246 · 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
Zhangyang Wang
dblp:119/4026
7.1 132023 366 · 268 since 2021 2026 verified
Tianlong Chen 0001
dblp:68/10575-1
5.4 102023 180 · 163 since 2021 2026 conflict
Luke Metz
dblp:172/1332
3.1 72023 16 · 9 since 2021 2023 none
Xiaohan Chen 0001
dblp:94/3802-1
2.4 42023 29 · 19 since 2021 2025 conflict
Wotao Yin
dblp:76/2265
2.4 42023 89 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
dblp:51/7117
2.3 62022 52 · 13 since 2021 2024 none
Xuxi Chen
dblp:267/9662
1.9 32023 24 · 23 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Peter Ochs
dblp:50/10771
1.7 22025 20 · 8 since 2021 2025 verified
Michael Sucker
dblp:331/6232
1.7 22025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 none
Jialin Liu 0003
dblp:32/5050-3
1.7 32023 18 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Howard Heaton
dblp:237/5344
1.7 32023 6 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Rajiv Sambharya
dblp:220/3395
1.6 22025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 none
Bartolomeo Stellato
dblp:192/2914
1.6 22025 10 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Niru Maheswaranathan
dblp:155/7407
1.5 42021 14 · 3 since 2021 2021 reported
James Harrison
dblp:60/3349
1.3 22024 22 · 16 since 2021 2026 none
Nelson Vadori
dblp:216/3102
1.2 22023 5 · 4 since 2021 2024 none
Yuandong Tian
dblp:t/YuandongTian
1.0 22023 116 · 71 since 2021 2025 corroborated
C. Daniel Freeman
dblp:190/7046
1.0 22023 6 · 3 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Wuyang Chen 0001
dblp:241/5918-1
1.0 22022 28 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Jianye Hao
dblp:21/7664
1.0 22025 288 · 207 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhiwen Yu 0001
dblp:z/YuZhiwen
1.0 12026 421 · 257 since 2021 2026 conflict
H. Vincent Poor
dblp:p/HVincentPoor
1.0 12026 1449 · 485 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bo Yang 0035
dblp:46/999-35
1.0 12026 38 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ruihuai Liang
dblp:356/3818
1.0 12026 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xuelin Cao
dblp:209/6248
1.0 12026 38 · 28 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chau Yuen
dblp:01/753
1.0 12026 599 · 398 since 2021 2026 verified
Allan Zhou
dblp:195/6907
1.0 22024 15 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Chelsea Finn
dblp:131/1783
1.0 22024 159 · 105 since 2021 2025 verified
Yang Shen 0001
dblp:95/5308-1
1.0 22022 19 · 11 since 2021 2024 conflict
Yue Cao 0010
dblp:74/5570-10
1.0 22022 4 · 3 since 2021 2022 unresolved
Jian Sun 0009
dblp:68/4942-9
1.0 22022 99 · 54 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zongben Xu
dblp:25/3264
1.0 22022 290 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shipeng Wang 0002
dblp:122/0054-2
1.0 22022 8 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Paul Vicol
dblp:167/9924
0.9 32023 17 · 9 since 2021 2025 none
Mohamed-Jalal Fadili
dblp:f/JalalFadili
0.9 12025 69 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Mounir Kaaniche
dblp:97/7871
0.9 12025 43 · 16 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiping Hu
dblp:81/10098
0.9 12025 159 · 117 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jean-Christophe Pesquet
dblp:78/2060
0.9 12025 160 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Fangzhou Zhu
dblp:74/8725
0.9 12025 17 · 10 since 2021 2025 conflict
Ismail Ben Ayed
dblp:68/4478
0.9 12025 147 · 77 since 2021 2026 verified
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