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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.
Computer graphics and multimedia›Rendering›neural radiance fields topic 464 papers · 1,590 experts
Sub-topics 8 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on neural radiance fields 1,590 · 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
Jonathan T. Barron
dblp:30/9988
10.8 182025 96 · 55 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Christian Theobalt
dblp:55/3346
9.6 152025 345 · 159 since 2021 2026 verified
Pratul P. Srinivasan
dblp:169/4719
9.1 152025 50 · 37 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ben Mildenhall
dblp:167/4350
8.0 132025 40 · 30 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Lin Gao 0004
dblp:92/2834-4
7.8 112025 117 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Peter Hedman
dblp:122/1063
7.4 122025 28 · 20 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Hujun Bao
dblp:b/HujunBao
6.7 112025 416 · 193 since 2021 2026 verified
Matthias Nießner
dblp:84/8221
6.4 102025 190 · 107 since 2021 2026 verified
Yukun Lai
dblp:60/4932
4.8 72025 303 · 176 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jingyi Yu 0001
dblp:58/4808-1
4.8 72025 262 · 141 since 2021 2026 conflict
Michael Zollhöfer
dblp:52/8573
4.7 82024 95 · 45 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ricardo Martin-Brualla
dblp:16/7968
4.7 82025 39 · 26 since 2021 2025 verified
Dor Verbin
dblp:188/5667
4.5 72025 21 · 20 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Renjie Wan
dblp:191/2619
4.4 72026 59 · 45 since 2021 2026 verified
Lingjie Liu
dblp:204/0052
4.2 72024 79 · 70 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qi Zhang 0029
dblp:52/323-29
4.2 62025 55 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Vladislav Golyanik
dblp:180/6438
4.0 62025 102 · 71 since 2021 2026 verified
Kalyan Sunkavalli
dblp:42/5978
4.0 62024 90 · 31 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Sai Bi
dblp:165/9898
4.0 62024 41 · 35 since 2021 2025 conflict
Zexiang Xu
dblp:154/0366
3.8 62024 61 · 47 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Zhiguo Cao 0001
dblp:01/4449-1
3.7 52025 187 · 120 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaoguang Han 0001
dblp:60/8294
3.7 52025 140 · 112 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ying Shan
dblp:68/5910
3.7 62024 230 · 198 since 2021 2026 conflict
Andrea Tagliasacchi
dblp:46/5514
3.6 62024 92 · 55 since 2021 2026 verified
Christian Richardt
dblp:94/7988
3.6 52024 63 · 31 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Fangneng Zhan
dblp:223/4246
3.5 52025 42 · 35 since 2021 2026 verified
Dan Xu 0002
dblp:16/3823-2
3.5 42026 99 · 65 since 2021 2026 conflict
Haithem Turki
dblp:64/10771
3.4 52024 9 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jia-Bin Huang 0001
dblp:51/1815-1
3.4 52024 128 · 64 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yan-Pei Cao 0001
dblp:141/6343
3.4 52024 78 · 70 since 2021 2026 conflict
Matthew Tancik
dblp:188/6146
3.4 62023 23 · 17 since 2021 2025 verified
Deva Ramanan
dblp:49/488
3.3 52024 198 · 88 since 2021 2026 verified
Lin Gu 0003
dblp:70/3413-3
3.3 42025 85 · 64 since 2021 2026 conflict
Minye Wu
dblp:178/5646
3.2 52024 32 · 26 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Juyong Zhang
dblp:38/5125
3.2 52024 116 · 66 since 2021 2026 conflict
Peidong Liu 0001
dblp:07/11190-1
3.1 42025 29 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Jing Liao 0001
dblp:48/5348-1
3.1 52024 125 · 90 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xun Cao
dblp:78/7658
3.0 42026 102 · 64 since 2021 2026 conflict
Boxin Shi
dblp:69/783
3.0 42025 247 · 154 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tatsuya Harada
dblp:14/5849
3.0 42025 189 · 78 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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