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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.

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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›Representation and self-supervised learning›prototype learning›learning vector quantization topic 10 papers · 24 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Experts on learning vector quantization 24 · 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
Michael Biehl
dblp:19/5410
0.6 22021 103 · 18 since 2021 2026 verified
Rick van Veen
dblp:211/5089
0.5 12021 4 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Gert-Jan de Vries
dblp:18/7809
0.5 12021 7 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Benoît Patra
dblp:56/9435
0.1 12011 3 · 0 since 2021 2012 none
Mihajlo Grbovic
dblp:77/1208
0.1 12009 39 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Slobodan Vucetic
dblp:13/5776
0.1 12009 86 · 13 since 2021 2026 reported
Barbara Hammer
dblp:h/BarbaraHammer
0.1 12007 347 · 114 since 2021 2026 verified
Anarta Ghosh
dblp:15/2675
0.1 12007 14 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Carlos Eduardo Pedreira
dblp:85/4886
0.1 12006 27 · 6 since 2021 2026 verified
Ran Gilad-Bachrach
dblp:g/RGiladBachrach
0.0 12002 34 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Koby Crammer
dblp:74/6961
0.0 12002 94 · 1 since 2021 2022 verified
Amir Navot
dblp:61/4422
0.0 12002 5 · 0 since 2021 2005 none
Naftali Tishby
dblp:03/2176
0.0 12002 108 · 2 since 2021 2022 verified
Ioannis Pitas
dblp:p/IPitas
0.0 11996 429 · 55 since 2021 2026 verified
Nikos Nikolaidis 0001
dblp:n/NikosNikolaidis
0.0 11996 123 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Constantine Kotropoulos
dblp:k/CKotropoulos
0.0 11996 122 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Ruikang Yang
dblp:83/4532
0.0 11996 20 · 8 since 2021 2024 conflict
Manolis A. Christodoulou
dblp:38/2398
0.0 11996 23 · 0 since 2021 2013 none
Moncef Gabbouj
dblp:08/6597
0.0 11996 393 · 91 since 2021 2026 verified
Elias B. Kosmatopoulos
dblp:02/3335
0.0 11996 28 · 1 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Keiji Yamada
dblp:27/109
0.0 11995 31 · 0 since 2021 2012 corroborated
Atsushi Sato
dblp:05/4768
0.0 11995 19 · 0 since 2021 2019 conflict
Virginia R. de Sa
dblp:94/4658
0.0 11992 32 · 5 since 2021 2025 none
Dana H. Ballard
dblp:68/6429
0.0 11992 91 · 1 since 2021 2021 none
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