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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.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
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
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Sub-topics
95 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
traffic characterization 272traffic classification 202traffic measurement 197traffic analysis 179anomaly detection 133network tomography 127internet measurement 70sketch-based measurement 66workload characterization 63latency measurement 61bandwidth estimation 57traffic matrix estimation 57traffic prediction 56network performance measurement 45topology discovery 44heavy hitter detection 41passive measurement 40topology measurement 40web measurement 38per-flow measurement 37internet topology measurement 36sketch data structures 35mobile network measurement 34network coordinate system 34wireless network measurement 33network telemetry 29distance estimation 28sampling 27missing data recovery 24internet topology mapping 23end-to-end measurement 21network measurement methodology 21topology analysis 20active measurement 19network diffusion 19flow monitoring 17web performance measurement 17traffic generation 16device fingerprinting 15geolocation 15measurement infrastructure 15membership query 15packet capture 15streaming data 14traffic estimation 14protocol analysis 13flow aggregation 12matrix completion 12social network analysis 12trace analysis 12application performance measurement 11network mining 11network inference 10stream processing 10security measurement 9traffic analytics 9network timing analysis 7flow analytics 6network event detection 3statistical inference 3
Show 35 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
network topology modeling 8web crawling 8network embedding 7network vulnerability 7random walk 7VoIP traffic 7adaptive sensing 6correlated packet loss 6flow state management 6middlebox measurement 5mobility traces 5network characterization 5path metric 5throughput degradation 5change point detection 4internet resilience 4load shedding 4memory-efficient measurement 4mobile application traffic 4network forensics 4peer-to-peer traffic 4principal component analysis 4proximity estimation 4telemetry 4traffic traces 4attack modeling 3cellular network traces 3compact data structure 3congestion prediction 3distributed measurement 3feature selection 3middlebox detection 3neighbor selection 3network timing 3network traces 3
Experts on Network measurement and analytics
8,978 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics