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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.
Sub-topics 2 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on logical relations 94 · 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
Jacob Thamsborg
dblp:97/6120
0.4 22016 7 · 0 since 2021 2016 none
Ugo Dal Lago
dblp:44/3105
0.4 12019 122 · 48 since 2021 2026 verified
Francesco Gavazzo
dblp:199/1997
0.4 12019 21 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Akira Yoshimizu
dblp:143/2718
0.4 12019 6 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Didier Rémy
dblp:r/DRemy
0.3 12018 25 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Maciej Piróg
dblp:53/10735
0.3 12018 14 · 1 since 2021 2022 verified
Thomas Williams
dblp:21/4101
0.3 12018 8 · 3 since 2021 2024 conflict
Morten Krogh-Jespersen
dblp:192/0423
0.3 12018 3 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Piotr Polesiuk
dblp:163/7256
0.3 12018 13 · 2 since 2021 2026 verified
Léo Stefanesco
dblp:160/7666
0.3 12018 12 · 6 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Dariusz Biernacki
dblp:03/6365
0.3 12018 36 · 7 since 2021 2025 verified
Daniel Patterson 0001
dblp:66/6237-1
0.3 12017 8 · 4 since 2021 2025 verified
James T. Perconti
dblp:139/2711
0.3 12017 3 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Christos Dimoulas
dblp:03/2293
0.3 12017 28 · 10 since 2021 2026 verified
Thomas Bauereiß
dblp:95/8429
0.3 12025 11 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Peter Sewell
dblp:74/185
0.3 12025 86 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Ricardo Almeida 0003
dblp:68/4053-3
0.3 12025 5 · 4 since 2021 2026 verified
Brian Campbell 0001
dblp:58/4171-1
0.3 12025 18 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
Angus Hammond
dblp:321/5604
0.3 12025 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ian Stark
dblp:08/3395
0.3 12025 23 · 5 since 2021 2025 verified
Frank Piessens
dblp:85/6647
0.2 12016 160 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Dominique Devriese
dblp:74/8301
0.2 12016 56 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Marco Patrignani
dblp:41/9729
0.2 12016 29 · 15 since 2021 2025 verified
Guilhem Jaber
dblp:27/8313
0.2 12016 19 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Daniel R. Licata
dblp:47/1513
0.2 12023 27 · 7 since 2021 2023 verified
Eric Giovannini
dblp:344/3781
0.2 12023 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Max S. New
dblp:173/9463
0.2 12023 17 · 6 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jorge A. Pérez 0001
dblp:p/JorgeAPerez
0.2 12014 56 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Frank Pfenning
dblp:p/FPfenning
0.2 12014 132 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Martin Hofmann 0001
dblp:h/MartinHofmann
0.2 12014 82 · 2 since 2021 2022 conflict
Nick Benton
dblp:b/NickBenton
0.2 12014 33 · 0 since 2021 2018 none
Bernardo Toninho
dblp:46/9220
0.2 12014 28 · 10 since 2021 2026 verified
Luís Caires
dblp:36/4734
0.2 12014 42 · 4 since 2021 2024 reported
Vivek Nigam
dblp:26/7042
0.2 12014 48 · 14 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Simon L. Peyton Jones
dblp:j/SimonLPeytonJones
0.2 12022 164 · 7 since 2021 2025 verified
Andrew W. Fitzgibbon
dblp:f/AndrewWFitzgibbon
0.2 12022 126 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Nada Amin
dblp:88/11209
0.2 12022 23 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Faustyna Krawiec
dblp:279/2892
0.2 12022 2 · 2 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Tom Ellis
dblp:158/5171
0.2 12022 2 · 2 since 2021 2022 reported
Richard A. Eisenberg
dblp:119/7138
0.2 12022 27 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
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