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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.
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages›Requirements engineering and software design›requirements specification›natural language requirements topic 16 papers · 30 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Experts on natural language requirements 30 · 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
Mehrdad Sabetzadeh
dblp:25/6367
2.3 62023 92 · 32 since 2021 2027 verified
Chetan Arora 0002
dblp:19/1006-2
2.3 62023 47 · 34 since 2021 2026 verified
Saad Ezzini
dblp:216/8359
1.7 32023 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Sallam Abualhaija
dblp:146/0408
1.7 32023 22 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Lionel C. Briand
dblp:93/1501
1.3 52024 388 · 81 since 2021 2026 verified
Colin S. Gordon
dblp:77/11368
0.9 12025 19 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Frank Zimmer
dblp:89/6569
0.6 32015 23 · 7 since 2021 2025 none
Rodney D. Nielsen
dblp:58/2526
0.4 12020 34 · 2 since 2021 2023 none
Hassan Takabi
dblp:23/2357
0.4 12020 27 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Masoud Narouei
dblp:161/1769
0.4 12020 8 · 0 since 2021 2020 reported
Kristian Kolthoff
dblp:169/3827
0.4 12019 9 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Alvaro Veizaga
dblp:264/4883
0.2 12024 3 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Seung Yeob Shin
dblp:160/7699
0.2 12024 18 · 12 since 2021 2026 verified
Arda Goknil
dblp:44/4521
0.2 12015 42 · 16 since 2021 2026 verified
Erol-Valeriu Chioasca
dblp:65/6755
0.2 12013 2 · 0 since 2021 2013 none
Liping Zhao 0001
dblp:32/3188-1
0.2 12013 31 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Raul Gnaga
dblp:133/8138
0.2 12013 2 · 0 since 2021 2013 none
Keletso Letsholo
dblp:08/11498
0.2 12013 3 · 1 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Anne N. De Roeck
dblp:r/AnneDeRoeck
0.1 12010 28 · 0 since 2021 2012 none
Alistair Willis
dblp:67/4642
0.1 12010 20 · 0 since 2021 2020 corroborated
Bashar Nuseibeh
dblp:26/1319
0.1 12010 150 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Hui Yang 0004
dblp:04/999-4
0.1 12010 12 · 0 since 2021 2012 corroborated
Deva Kumar Deeptimahanti
dblp:55/7880
0.1 12009 2 · 0 since 2021 2017 corroborated
Muhammad Ali Babar 0001
dblp:03/1909
0.1 12009 236 · 81 since 2021 2026 conflict
Vincenzo Gervasi
dblp:g/VincenzoGervasi
0.1 22005 42 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
John C. Grundy
dblp:g/JohnCGrundy
0.1 12015 401 · 191 since 2021 2026 verified
Tuong Huan Nguyen
dblp:120/0745
0.1 12015 6 · 0 since 2021 2016 none
Mohamed Almorsy
dblp:08/10279
0.1 12015 89 · 45 since 2021 2025 verified
Didar Zowghi
dblp:57/215
0.1 12005 77 · 7 since 2021 2025 verified
Vincenzo Ambriola
dblp:a/VincenzoAmbriola
0.0 11997 15 · 1 since 2021 2021 none
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