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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.
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
120 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
generalization bounds 1,341online learning 1,006sample complexity 892generalization 641PAC learning 527statistical learning theory 527classification 383model selection 294statistical estimation 250computational learning theory 172empirical risk minimization 167high-dimensional statistics 124hypothesis testing 114neural network theory 111nonparametric regression 107over-parameterization 100inductive bias 95implicit bias 94minimax optimality 94loss function 93distribution learning 90inductive inference 84approximation theory 83excess risk bounds 70generalization error 70matrix completion 67statistical query learning 67query learning 65high-dimensional regression 57spectral methods 53computational complexity 52concentration inequalities 51statistical guarantees 49learning dynamics 48margin maximization 45overfitting 39phase transition 36ranking 36sparse recovery 36learning curves 35curse of dimensionality 33information-theoretic learning 30random matrix theory 30PAC-Bayesian analysis 27random projection 24statistical pattern recognition 23finite-time analysis 22compressed sensing 19spectral analysis 18minimax analysis 16resampling 15fisher information 13pairwise learning 13finite state machine 12margin-based learning 12meta-learning theory 11lipschitz constant 10probability metric 10information-theoretic analysis 9distributional assumptions 8clustering theory 7transfer learning theory 6learning bounds 5function spaces 3information theory 3
Show 55 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
concentration of measure 9dependence measure 9distance estimation 9provable guarantees 9batch learning 8discrepancy measure 7high-dimensional learning 7randomized algorithms 7stochastic learning 7distance-based learning 6functional linear regression 6linear separability 6aggregation strategy 5learning-augmented algorithms 5prediction error bounds 5sampling distribution 5weak-to-strong learning 5weighted majority vote 5adaptive submodularity 4contrastive learning theory 4ensemble learning theory 4generalization and overfitting 4invariant causal prediction 4local curvature 4martingale analysis 4partial AUC 4propagation of chaos 4approximation and estimation theory 3cognitive plausibility 3collaborative prediction 3correlation analysis 3crowdsourced data 3diffusion approximation 3downstream task performance prediction 3error rate analysis 3generalization and regularization 3generic chaining 3integral operator 3large deviations analysis 3leave-one-out error 3linear dynamical system learning 3linear evaluation functions 3low rank experts 3margin-based feature selection 3metric entropy 3model expressivity 3noise stability 3phase diagram 3precision-recall curves 3randomized learning 3rotation learning 3similarity functions 3stability and replicability 3statistical robustness 3well-posedness 3
Experts on Learning theory
17,251 · 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