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.
Experts on multimodal fake news detection 83 · 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
Minnan Luo
dblp:99/10051
1.6 22025 120 · 77 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiaoming Zhang 0001
dblp:86/2120-1
1.6 22025 81 · 28 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhi Zeng 0001
dblp:41/6387-1
1.6 22025 22 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zihan Ma 0001
dblp:322/1997-1
1.6 22025 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 conflict
Litian Zhang
dblp:309/7066
1.6 22025 31 · 31 since 2021 2027 corroborated
Ziyi Zhou 0003
dblp:23/8491-3
1.6 22025 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chaozhuo Li
dblp:169/7349
1.6 22025 127 · 107 since 2021 2027 conflict
in pool Xiang Zhao 0002
dblp:07/668-2
1.6 22025 185 · 135 since 2021 2026 conflict
Richang Hong
dblp:59/1501
1.5 22024 420 · 239 since 2021 2026 verified
Jun Hu 0016
dblp:28/441-16
1.5 22024 44 · 36 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jinguang Wang
dblp:21/11182
1.5 22024 11 · 10 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shengsheng Qian
dblp:138/4249
1.5 22024 104 · 75 since 2021 2026 verified
Wayne Lu
dblp:193/1302
1.0 12026 5 · 4 since 2021 2026 none
in pool Philip S. Yu
dblp:y/PhilipSYu
0.9 12025 1626 · 556 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shoaib Jameel
dblp:94/10440
0.9 12025 66 · 36 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xi Zhang 0008
dblp:87/1222-8
0.9 12025 81 · 60 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chao Gao 0001
dblp:86/5355-1
0.9 12025 99 · 70 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhen Wang 0004
dblp:78/6727-4
0.9 12025 248 · 230 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xianghua Li
dblp:76/10435
0.9 12025 49 · 37 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiande Sun 0001
dblp:68/365-1
0.9 12025 166 · 95 since 2021 2026 verified
Muhammad Imran Razzak
dblp:59/8379
0.9 12025 183 · 149 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bo Liu 0004
dblp:58/2670-4
0.9 12025 97 · 66 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jie Gui
dblp:45/794
0.9 12025 110 · 76 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qiang Gao 0003
dblp:43/5917-3
0.9 12025 53 · 47 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dong Wang 0002
dblp:40/3934-2
0.9 12025 186 · 89 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yifei Li 0006
dblp:38/1978-6
0.9 12025 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Zihang Guo
dblp:366/2443
0.9 12025 15 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yaokun Liu
dblp:345/7675
0.9 12025 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lingzhi Shen
dblp:333/2832
0.9 12025 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ruichen Yao
dblp:332/2315
0.9 12025 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Guanming Chen
dblp:320/3729
0.9 12025 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 conflict
Herun Wan
dblp:295/9587
0.9 12025 22 · 22 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Weihai Lu
dblp:278/0289
0.9 12025 19 · 18 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yifan Liu 0019
dblp:23/4955-19
0.9 12025 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
En Yu
dblp:213/4929
0.9 12025 35 · 31 since 2021 2026 conflict
Biwei Cao
dblp:204/0889
0.9 12025 21 · 19 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiuxin Cao
dblp:20/2389
0.9 12025 106 · 69 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Jiajing Yu
dblp:195/3611
0.9 12025 4 · 3 since 2021 2025 none
Huaiwen Zhang
dblp:180/5703
0.9 12025 43 · 40 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiaohao Cai
dblp:16/10261
0.9 12025 22 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
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