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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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Generative modeling›normalizing flow topic 416 papers · 1,331 experts
Sub-topics 16 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on normalizing flow 1,331 · 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
Ullrich Köthe
dblp:15/809
4.9 82025 55 · 21 since 2021 2025 verified
Max Welling
dblp:16/2286
4.1 92023 214 · 51 since 2021 2026 verified
Ricky T. Q. Chen
dblp:228/6698
3.6 62024 38 · 34 since 2021 2025 none
Leon Klein
dblp:249/9262
3.6 52025 8 · 7 since 2021 2025 none
Felix Draxler
dblp:242/9148
3.5 52024 11 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Frank Noé
dblp:46/6007
3.4 62024 22 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Tianrong Chen
dblp:227/7295
3.3 42025 19 · 19 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Emiel Hoogeboom
dblp:217/1488
3.1 72021 19 · 13 since 2021 2025 none
Eric Vanden-Eijnden
dblp:88/7927
3.0 42025 22 · 18 since 2021 2025 none
Christoph Schnörr
dblp:59/5226
2.9 42025 93 · 8 since 2021 2025 verified
Chun-Yi Lee
dblp:36/3668
2.8 42024 56 · 39 since 2021 2026 reported
Michael S. Albergo
dblp:258/1134
2.7 42025 12 · 11 since 2021 2025 verified
Miguel Ángel Bautista 0001
dblp:38/10085
2.6 32025 31 · 17 since 2021 2025 none
Ruixiang Zhang
dblp:20/9860
2.6 32025 30 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Huangjie Zheng
dblp:192/2170
2.6 32025 31 · 28 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Shuangfei Zhai
dblp:172/1386
2.6 32025 38 · 24 since 2021 2025 none
Jiatao Gu
dblp:164/5848
2.6 32025 66 · 37 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Joshua M. Susskind
dblp:132/7797
2.6 32025 56 · 47 since 2021 2025 reported
Michael M. Bronstein
dblp:07/2668
2.6 32025 168 · 73 since 2021 2026 verified
Tommi S. Jaakkola
dblp:j/TommiJaakkola
2.6 42024 198 · 66 since 2021 2026 none
Peter Sorrenson
dblp:256/5384
2.5 42025 5 · 4 since 2021 2025 none
Marcus A. Brubaker
dblp:18/3060
2.4 62021 45 · 20 since 2021 2025 verified
Fan Zhou 0002
dblp:63/3122-2
2.4 52023 243 · 206 since 2021 2026 conflict
Priyank Jaini
dblp:184/4579
2.2 52021 18 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ting Zhong
dblp:73/9481
2.2 42023 139 · 113 since 2021 2026 conflict
Alexander Tong 0001
dblp:153/9296
2.2 32025 30 · 25 since 2021 2025 verified
Neta Shaul
dblp:349/2355
2.2 32024 8 · 8 since 2021 2025 none
Armand Rousselot
dblp:304/8323
2.2 32024 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 none
Yaron Lipman
dblp:30/5015
2.2 32024 83 · 27 since 2021 2025 none
Luc Van Gool
dblp:61/5017
2.2 52022 864 · 310 since 2021 2026 verified
Radu Timofte
dblp:24/8616
2.2 52022 210 · 127 since 2021 2026 verified
Joey Bose
dblp:174/3372
2.1 32025 28 · 20 since 2021 2025 none
Jonas Köhler 0001
dblp:185/5564-1
2.0 42023 6 · 2 since 2021 2023 verified
Junier B. Oliva
dblp:137/8390
2.0 52023 34 · 14 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Laurent Dinh
dblp:131/6819
2.0 42025 12 · 4 since 2021 2025 none
Albert Pumarola
dblp:138/0487
2.0 32024 26 · 16 since 2021 2025 none
Sinisa Segvic
dblp:42/3275
1.9 32024 36 · 19 since 2021 2025 reported
Chin-Wei Huang
dblp:87/7431
1.9 42022 14 · 4 since 2021 2022 unresolved
Aaron C. Courville
dblp:56/1688
1.9 42022 159 · 71 since 2021 2025 verified
Mengying Zhu
dblp:181/3389
1.9 32023 29 · 27 since 2021 2026 conflict
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