Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / recruitment
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.
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
93 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
resource allocation 4,016admission control 264pricing 238network design 175throughput maximization 145game theory 126fairness 117auction mechanism 89throughput-optimal scheduling 84mechanism design 69delay minimization 59spectrum auction 56revenue maximization 47network optimization 36dynamic resource allocation 35resource sharing 35energy efficiency optimization 33throughput optimality 30distributed optimization 26social welfare maximization 25multi-armed bandit 24delay-constrained scheduling 20spectrum market 20auction theory 13network economics 13network scheduling 13spectrum leasing 13cost sharing 12latency optimization 12hose model 11network flow 10stable matching 7stochastic network optimization 7online advertising 6reinforcement learning 5combinatorial optimization 4data market 4multi-criteria decision making 4online decision making 4optimization decomposition 3
Show 53 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
lyapunov optimization 8pareto optimality 8competitive online algorithm 7noncooperative networks 7threshold policy 7multi-class traffic 6network throughput optimization 6regret minimization 6throughput region characterization 6adaptive control 5column generation 5communication cost 5competitive ratio analysis 5operational cost minimization 5stochastic approximation 5utility function 5admission control and routing 4adversarial traffic 4budget-constrained optimization 4cost modeling 4digital divide 4lyapunov drift analysis 4multi-resource fair queueing 4network modernization 4routing and flow control 4service routing 4stochastic control 4traffic localization 4traffic uncertainty 4adversarial attack defense 3algorithmic game theory and mechanism design 3bilevel optimization 3cooperation stimulation 3cost-delay tradeoff 3distributed online algorithm 3distributed rate computation 3energy trading 3influence maximization 3information asymmetry 3lyapunov drift 3max-min optimization 3minimax optimization 3multiservice loss networks 3network coordination 3optimal control policy 3outage probability optimization 3reliability maximization 3revenue management 3role assignment 3selfish behavior 3stochastic knapsack 3two-timescale optimization 3user satisfaction maximization 3
Experts on Network optimization and economics
12,568 · 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