VLDB 2026 Research / recruiting

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 8 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on on-chip interconnect 248 · 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
Yingnan Zhao 0001
dblp:92/4786-1
1.2 22026 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ke Wang 0030
dblp:181/2613-30
1.2 22026 22 · 18 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ahmed Louri
dblp:17/5827
1.2 22026 103 · 44 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Luca Benini
dblp:b/LucaBenini
0.9 22025 807 · 236 since 2021 2026 verified
Weifeng He
dblp:90/8030
0.9 12025 56 · 33 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhelong Wang
dblp:74/6249
0.9 12025 48 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bowen Wang 0012
dblp:64/4732-12
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 conflict
Xiangyu Ran
dblp:408/8519
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Diyou Shen
dblp:398/2367
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 reported
Marco Bertuletti
dblp:331/3697
0.9 12025 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yuxuan Qin
dblp:311/5563
0.9 12025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wei W. Xing
dblp:284/1640
0.9 12025 46 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Samuel Riedel
dblp:276/1958
0.9 12025 18 · 17 since 2021 2025 verified
Chuxiong Lin
dblp:263/0711
0.9 12025 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yichao Zhang 0003
dblp:16/9222-3
0.9 12025 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Alessandro Vanelli-Coralli
dblp:13/30
0.9 12025 68 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Yuanqing Cheng
dblp:05/10696
0.9 12025 52 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Ning Xu 0006
dblp:04/5856-6
0.9 12025 22 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tor M. Aamodt
dblp:a/TorMAamodt
0.8 12024 75 · 21 since 2021 2025 verified
Christopher Rocca
dblp:392/2953
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
John Kim 0001
dblp:39/6945-1
0.8 12024 109 · 37 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhixian Jin
dblp:304/0502
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2024 none
Ali Bakhoda
dblp:29/7019
0.8 12024 7 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Hans Kasan
dblp:213/4782
0.8 12024 7 · 7 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Minsoo Rhu
dblp:02/8105
0.8 12024 48 · 26 since 2021 2026 verified
Yuan Xie 0001
dblp:x/YuanXie
0.4 22019 420 · 110 since 2021 2026 conflict
David Z. Pan
dblp:p/DavidZhigangPan
0.4 22018 368 · 89 since 2021 2026 verified
Derong Liu 0002
dblp:181/2755-2
0.4 22018 14 · 0 since 2021 2019 conflict
Itir Akgun
dblp:185/5781
0.4 12019 8 · 0 since 2021 2019 corroborated
Wenqin Huangfu
dblp:173/9349
0.4 12019 11 · 3 since 2021 2023 none
Xueqi Li 0001
dblp:163/2079-1
0.4 12019 25 · 20 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dylan C. Stow
dblp:145/3887
0.4 12019 6 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Gabriel H. Loh
dblp:03/2782
0.4 12019 91 · 8 since 2021 2025 conflict
Mau-Chung Frank Chang
dblp:c/MCFrankChang
0.3 32013 38 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Zheng Wang 0036
dblp:w/ZhengWang36
0.3 12018 2 · 0 since 2021 2018 verified
Zheng Zhao 0003
dblp:75/6680-3
0.3 12018 19 · 6 since 2021 2023 conflict
Ray T. Chen
dblp:53/4318
0.3 12018 26 · 15 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhoufeng Ying
dblp:212/7473
0.3 12018 10 · 5 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Michael C. Huang 0001
dblp:40/1854
0.3 22012 79 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Aaron Carpenter
dblp:24/9796
0.3 22012 6 · 0 since 2021 2018 corroborated
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