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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›Transfer learning and domain adaptation›meta-learning topic 866 papers · 2,794 experts
Sub-topics 26 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on meta-learning 2,794 · 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
Huaxiu Yao
dblp:197/1635
7.8 152024 85 · 65 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhenyi Wang 0001
dblp:10/10222-1
6.4 102026 42 · 38 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sung Ju Hwang
dblp:52/8653
5.6 112025 157 · 109 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Massimiliano Pontil
dblp:67/557
5.6 122026 156 · 41 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Timothy M. Hospedales
dblp:32/3545
5.4 102025 194 · 75 since 2021 2026 verified
Ying Wei 0001
dblp:14/4899-1
5.1 102023 67 · 44 since 2021 2026 conflict
Li Shen 0008
dblp:91/3680-8
5.0 72026 237 · 231 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chelsea Finn
dblp:131/1783
4.9 122022 159 · 105 since 2021 2025 verified
Carlo Ciliberto
dblp:88/10332
4.8 92026 41 · 12 since 2021 2026 verified
Dacheng Tao
dblp:46/3391
4.1 62026 1407 · 608 since 2021 2026 conflict
Han-Jia Ye
dblp:165/3014
4.1 72024 98 · 83 since 2021 2026 verified
Jinwoo Shin
dblp:31/7062
4.0 72023 196 · 109 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Sergey Levine
dblp:80/7594
4.0 112022 371 · 196 since 2021 2026 verified
Chun Yuan 0003
dblp:00/4572-3
3.8 52026 199 · 137 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuan Fang 0001
dblp:22/981-1
3.8 62025 100 · 72 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiantong Zhen
dblp:78/10651
3.6 72024 144 · 72 since 2021 2026 verified
Atsutoshi Kumagai
dblp:178/8630
3.5 62024 51 · 38 since 2021 2026 corroborated
De-Chuan Zhan
dblp:74/498
3.5 62024 152 · 113 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hado van Hasselt
dblp:16/7643
3.3 62025 51 · 19 since 2021 2025 none
Yiqin Lv
dblp:291/3737
3.3 42026 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Minyoung Kim 0001
dblp:34/5733-1
3.2 42025 62 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Cheems Wang
dblp:19/1924-5
3.1 42026 27 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Cees Snoek
dblp:s/CeesSnoek
3.1 62024 237 · 85 since 2021 2026 verified
Yingjun Du
dblp:263/6794
3.1 62024 26 · 20 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Kyoung Mu Lee
dblp:17/4029
3.1 62024 224 · 61 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ling Shao 0001
dblp:75/1281
3.1 52025 668 · 241 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhenhui Li
dblp:27/178
3.1 72021 97 · 28 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yu Zhang 0006
dblp:50/671-6
3.0 52024 129 · 67 since 2021 2026 conflict
James T. Kwok
dblp:k/JamesTinYauKwok
3.0 52023 268 · 85 since 2021 2026 verified
Satinder Singh 0001
dblp:09/3058
3.0 62023 181 · 32 since 2021 2025 conflict
Andreas Krause 0001
dblp:87/1831-1
2.9 52023 314 · 125 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jonas Rothfuss
dblp:213/7319
2.9 52023 13 · 12 since 2021 2024 unresolved
Long-Kai Huang
dblp:133/2006
2.8 52023 32 · 24 since 2021 2025 verified
Aryan Mokhtari
dblp:140/7407
2.8 52025 73 · 38 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Sebastian Flennerhag
dblp:220/3914
2.7 52023 10 · 7 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Sungyong Baik
dblp:243/2775
2.7 52024 29 · 24 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Mehrtash Harandi
dblp:92/5921
2.7 52023 164 · 82 since 2021 2026 verified
Yutian Chen 0001
dblp:95/7441-1
2.7 52023 30 · 11 since 2021 2024 conflict
Amos J. Storkey
dblp:13/4446
2.6 62023 70 · 18 since 2021 2025 verified
Yongxian Wei
dblp:329/0726
2.5 32026 12 · 12 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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