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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.
Sub-topics 13 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on parallel graph algorithms 665 · 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
Chuntao Hong
dblp:62/6933
1.0 12026 19 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Vikrant Ashvinkumar
dblp:249/5668
1.0 12026 9 · 8 since 2021 2026 none
Maximilian Probst Gutenberg
dblp:223/4496
1.0 12026 40 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Thatchaphol Saranurak
dblp:123/4694
1.0 12026 87 · 63 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Weiguo Zheng
dblp:10/5927
1.0 12026 72 · 48 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Aaron Bernstein
dblp:02/4059
1.0 12026 55 · 24 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Rubao Lee
dblp:41/6729
1.0 22025 49 · 12 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiaodong Zhang 0001
dblp:37/4356-1
1.0 22025 182 · 16 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qiang-Sheng Hua
dblp:82/3694
1.0 32023 66 · 18 since 2021 2025 verified
Dongxiao Yu
dblp:44/7265
1.0 32023 256 · 190 since 2021 2026 verified
in pool Lu Qin 0001
dblp:51/5585
1.0 22022 231 · 90 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Lijun Chang
dblp:47/179
1.0 22022 108 · 33 since 2021 2026 corroborated
in pool Yue Wang 0012
dblp:33/4822-12
0.9 22024 36 · 21 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Jingren Zhou 0001
dblp:84/2644-1
0.9 32020 239 · 165 since 2021 2026 conflict
Philippas Tsigas
dblp:t/PhilippasTsigas
0.9 12025 113 · 16 since 2021 2026 verified
Patrizio Dazzi
dblp:d/PatrizioDazzi
0.9 12025 38 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Emanuele Carlini 0001
dblp:96/8282
0.9 12025 39 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Abhinav Bhatele
dblp:82/6441
0.9 12025 97 · 35 since 2021 2026 reported
Chuanfei Xu
dblp:80/7820
0.9 12025 25 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhihong Tian 0001
dblp:73/5444
0.9 12025 213 · 170 since 2021 2026 conflict
Matteo Mordacchini
dblp:71/6416
0.9 12025 31 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Lixin Gao 0001
dblp:69/3480-1
0.9 12025 151 · 17 since 2021 2025 conflict
in pool Ge Yu 0001
dblp:49/6363
0.9 12025 425 · 164 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ning Wang 0026
dblp:46/2005-26
0.9 12025 24 · 18 since 2021 2026 conflict
Aditya K. Ranjan
dblp:421/2253
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 reported
Gongtai Sun
dblp:419/8903
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 reported
Dayi Fan
dblp:374/7438
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Marco D'Antonio
dblp:359/5844
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 reported
Davide Rucci
dblp:357/2886
0.9 12025 6 · 6 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Youzhe Liu
dblp:350/5425
0.9 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Zhigang Wang 0001
dblp:35/1989-1
0.9 12025 32 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hans Vandierendonck
dblp:34/1350
0.9 12025 80 · 33 since 2021 2026 verified
Cunyang Wei
dblp:337/7607
0.9 12025 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
S. M. Shovan
dblp:326/5942
0.9 12025 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 reported
Daniele Sampietro
dblp:206/5333
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 reported
in pool Yu Gu 0002
dblp:15/4208-2
0.9 12025 143 · 80 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Lei Chen 0002
dblp:c/LeiChen0002
0.9 52018 650 · 250 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Rong-Hua Li 0001
dblp:37/548-1
0.8 32026 165 · 111 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yu Zhang 0027
dblp:50/671-27
0.8 42025 95 · 67 since 2021 2026 conflict
Mohsen Ghaffari 0001
dblp:33/5673
0.8 22020 129 · 47 since 2021 2026 conflict
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