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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.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
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
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Sub-topics
86 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
wavelength-division multiplexing 290optical code-division multiple access 135network survivability 123WDM networks 120routing and wavelength assignment 114optical fiber communication 97optical fiber transmission 92optical switching 92wavelength conversion 83wavelength-routed network 55traffic grooming 46all-optical networks 45optical transmission 45elastic optical networks 42coherent optical communication 40fiber optic local area network 39submarine optical systems 38optical interconnect 33optical signal processing 27optical access network 25optical amplifier 25space-division multiplexing 23optical network control plane 22optical network architecture 21optical buffer 20optical communication systems 18optical switch 14photonic integrated circuits 14dynamic reconfiguration 13optical network design 13IP over optical networks 12optical devices 12optical fiber 12optical receiver 12optical routing 12wavelength division multiple access 11fiber optic network 10optical fiber cable 10optical network management 10transport network 9optical communication components 8optical transmission impairment 8protection switching 8optical transmitter 7reconfigurable optical networks 7packet-switched optical network 5quality of transmission 5switching network design 4coherent optical detection 3impairment compensation 3optical multiplexing 3photonic devices 3
Show 34 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
fiber sensing 9field trials 8message scheduling 8multicast traffic 8optical multicast 8receiver sensitivity 8non-stationary traffic 7fiber optic systems 5optical link 5optical queue 5switching matrix 5all-to-all broadcast 4fairness control 4microwave photonics 4nonlinear optics 4per-flow scheduling 4crosstalk avoidance 3heuristic optimization 3node bypass 3optical time-domain reflectometry 3packet-level forward error correction 3path decomposition 3photodetection 3pipelining 3quantum key distribution 3shared buffer 3sleep mode 3switch configuration 3throughput-delay characteristics 3transmission performance 3transmission surveillance 3variable length packets 3wavelength converter minimization 3wavelength converter sharing 3
Experts on Optical networks
4,991 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics