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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›Reinforcement learning›off-policy evaluation topic 224 papers · 497 experts
Sub-topics 11 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on off-policy evaluation 497 · 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
Nathan Kallus
dblp:142/2900
9.8 212024 82 · 56 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Chengchun Shi
dblp:235/9988
7.5 112025 29 · 26 since 2021 2025 reported
Philip S. Thomas
dblp:46/11107
5.7 132024 55 · 21 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Josiah Hanna
dblp:135/6336
5.7 102025 38 · 24 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yuta Saito
dblp:89/8195
5.5 82025 42 · 33 since 2021 2026 conflict
Emma Brunskill
dblp:27/1277
5.5 142024 134 · 41 since 2021 2026 verified
Masatoshi Uehara
dblp:225/6517
5.4 112023 36 · 27 since 2021 2025 reported
Zhengling Qi
dblp:173/0201
5.2 72025 14 · 14 since 2021 2025 none
Shangtong Zhang
dblp:165/9581
4.9 72025 34 · 24 since 2021 2026 none
Yash Chandak
dblp:168/8450
4.0 72024 25 · 19 since 2021 2025 conflict
Nan Jiang 0008
dblp:06/4489-8
4.0 72025 59 · 37 since 2021 2025 conflict
Min Chi
dblp:15/1732
3.6 52024 111 · 48 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lihong Li 0001
dblp:l/LihongLi
3.4 102020 89 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shuze Daniel Liu
dblp:402/3007
3.4 42025 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 none
Rui Song 0006
dblp:01/2743-6
3.2 52025 43 · 31 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qiang Liu 0001
dblp:61/3234-1
2.9 72021 131 · 58 since 2021 2025 conflict
Miroslav Pajic
dblp:74/7446
2.8 42024 80 · 34 since 2021 2026 verified
Haruka Kiyohara
dblp:294/5273
2.8 42024 10 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Qitong Gao
dblp:238/5422
2.8 42024 9 · 8 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Bo Dai 0001
dblp:64/2903-1
2.8 72021 114 · 61 since 2021 2025 conflict
Scott Niekum
dblp:62/8399
2.7 62024 56 · 25 since 2021 2025 none
Mengdi Wang 0001
dblp:64/10471-1
2.7 52023 118 · 85 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wen Sun 0002
dblp:69/1010-2
2.7 42024 82 · 52 since 2021 2025 conflict
Claire Chen 0001
dblp:19/7720-1
2.6 32025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 none
Marcello Restelli
dblp:64/1011
2.5 42025 165 · 92 since 2021 2026 verified
Xi Yang 0019
dblp:13/1520-19
2.3 32024 18 · 12 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yusuke Narita
dblp:155/4967
2.2 32025 10 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ziyang Tang
dblp:146/1303
2.1 52021 20 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Thorsten Joachims
dblp:j/ThorstenJoachims
2.0 52023 140 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Wenbin Lu
dblp:18/8556
2.0 32025 25 · 13 since 2021 2025 conflict
Nikos Vlassis
dblp:v/NikosAVlassis
2.0 42024 63 · 4 since 2021 2026 none
Olivier Jeunen
dblp:232/8079
2.0 22026 38 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Arthur Gretton
dblp:56/2574
1.9 32025 140 · 48 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Audrey Huang
dblp:245/0244
1.9 32025 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 none
Alberto Maria Metelli
dblp:209/4941
1.9 32025 76 · 65 since 2021 2026 verified
Dale Schuurmans
dblp:96/6660
1.9 52020 209 · 59 since 2021 2025 none
Martha White
dblp:60/7057
1.9 32024 76 · 32 since 2021 2025 verified
Bruno C. da Silva 0001
dblp:75/3139
1.8 32024 30 · 17 since 2021 2026 conflict
Akshay Krishnamurthy
dblp:85/8024
1.8 42023 94 · 42 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Arnaud Doucet
dblp:68/1628
1.8 32023 138 · 52 since 2021 2025 corroborated
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