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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
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems›Parallel and multicore computing
area
10,903 papers · 20,254 experts
Sub-topics
100 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
parallel programming models 1,278parallel algorithms 997load balancing 718task scheduling 350parallel computing 239parallel graph algorithms 223parallel scheduling 215multiprocessor system 201synchronization 194task allocation 157transactional memory 134parallel programming models and runtimes 128parallel architecture 126parallel programming runtimes 126concurrent data structures 124parallel query processing 99MPI 96pipeline parallelism 89graph processing 86graph partitioning 78data-parallel programming 75processor allocation 74speculative parallelization 73data distribution 69array processor 62concurrent programming 62multicomputer 61thread-level parallelism 56parallel computation models 52dataflow computing 50task partitioning 44distributed deep learning training 42many-core systems 39data parallelism 35parallelizing compiler 33parallel data mining 30parallel programming environment 28scheduling algorithms 22programming models 20locality optimization 18deterministic execution 15parallel programming models and scheduling 13parallelization strategies 13skew mitigation 13data permutation 12domain-specific language 12runtime optimization 12graph coloring 11image processing 11loop transformation 11software partitioning 10parallel libraries 7parallel program transformation 7concurrent system 4
Show 46 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
kernel optimization 9memory model 8shared-memory parallel programs 8competitive analysis 7contention reduction 7message-passing programs 7workload adaptation 7eager execution 6shared memory simulation 6speculative computation 6work distribution 6resource constraints 5SPMD applications 5task granularity 5cache affinity 4KNN search 4multicore programming 4parallelism exploitation 4partitioning and mapping 4pipelined computation 4pipelined processing 4radix sort 4resource coordination 4adaptive algorithm selection 3buffer assignment 3clustering algorithm 3concurrent query processing 3dynamic analysis 3fast hartley transform 3graph reduction 3hardware-assisted IPC 3histogram computation 3matrix operations 3memory conflict avoidance 3multilevel algorithms 3non-contiguous allocations 3parallel learning 3parallelization of sequential computations 3planar graph algorithms 3program parallelism 3scalable data structures 3shared data structures 3space-time tradeoff 3stochastic gradient descent 3task graph analysis 3template matching 3
Experts on Parallel and multicore computing
20,254 · 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