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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.
Sub-topics 26 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on neuromorphic computing 2,106 · 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
Zhaofei Yu
dblp:166/0573
12.9 202026 115 · 100 since 2021 2026 conflict
Malu Zhang
dblp:156/7882
10.9 172026 94 · 79 since 2021 2026 conflict
Gang Pan 0001
dblp:86/4183-1
10.4 142026 238 · 136 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tiejun Huang 0001
dblp:h/TiejunHuang
9.8 172026 370 · 184 since 2021 2026 verified
Jianhao Ding
dblp:128/2534
8.1 132025 28 · 25 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yonghong Tian 0001
dblp:86/5857
7.3 102026 331 · 197 since 2021 2026 verified
Kaushik Roy 0001
dblp:r/KaushikRoy
6.8 182024 560 · 88 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wenjie Wei
dblp:20/3112
6.3 82026 28 · 25 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qi Xu 0008
dblp:84/1680-8
6.1 92025 52 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Huajin Tang
dblp:18/434
5.8 102026 159 · 84 since 2021 2026 conflict
Haizhou Li 0001
dblp:36/4118
5.3 82026 731 · 274 since 2021 2026 verified
Guoqi Li 0002
dblp:13/5353-2
5.2 92025 102 · 71 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hairong Lin
dblp:162/4470
5.2 72025 29 · 28 since 2021 2026 verified
Shuai Wang 0058
dblp:42/1503-58
5.0 72026 16 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tong Bu
dblp:282/5404
4.6 72026 19 · 19 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zecheng Hao
dblp:339/6969
4.6 62025 17 · 17 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Chunhua Wang 0001
dblp:26/8200-1
4.5 72025 47 · 40 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhaokun Zhou
dblp:241/5641
4.4 52026 23 · 21 since 2021 2026 conflict
De Ma
dblp:18/8568
4.2 62026 42 · 32 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Herbert H. C. Iu
dblp:42/5266
3.9 52026 135 · 67 since 2021 2027 verified
Yichuang Sun
dblp:96/3449
3.9 52025 76 · 33 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lei Deng 0003
dblp:96/755-3
3.9 82026 69 · 43 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yang Yang 0002
dblp:48/450-2
3.9 62025 406 · 229 since 2021 2027 conflict
Dehao Zhang
dblp:194/7033
3.8 52026 14 · 13 since 2021 2026 unresolved
Man Yao
dblp:21/5932
3.7 52025 24 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhengyu Ma
dblp:242/2942
3.6 42026 26 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhezhi He
dblp:184/1264
3.6 52025 86 · 54 since 2021 2026 verified
Mohsen Imani
dblp:139/8964
3.5 72023 198 · 131 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zihan Huang
dblp:163/0535
3.5 42026 26 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Abhronil Sengupta
dblp:12/10604
3.5 72024 31 · 9 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jibin Wu
dblp:228/1824
3.4 62025 51 · 41 since 2021 2026 verified
Hai Li 0001
dblp:30/5330-1
3.3 132021 322 · 108 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiangrong Shen
dblp:208/3564
3.2 52025 36 · 32 since 2021 2026 verified
Wei Fang 0006
dblp:48/2709-6
3.1 52026 15 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Weng-Fai Wong
dblp:37/1143
3.1 62025 155 · 54 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Honglin Cao
dblp:153/0705
3.0 42026 9 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lei Wang 0011
dblp:w/LeiWang11
3.0 42026 52 · 31 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qinghui Hong
dblp:226/1169
3.0 52026 47 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Ammar Belatreche
dblp:80/4997
2.9 52026 70 · 21 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Deren Yang
dblp:57/10131
2.9 42025 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 corroborated
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