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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Learning paradigms›weakly supervised learning›partial label learning topic 103 papers · 221 experts
Sub-topics 3 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on partial label learning 221 · 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
Min-Ling Zhang
dblp:84/271
15.6 272026 192 · 127 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lei Feng 0006
dblp:76/847-6
12.3 192026 108 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xin Geng 0001
dblp:61/6904-1
8.3 132024 226 · 162 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ning Xu 0009
dblp:04/5856-9
7.4 112024 51 · 43 since 2021 2026 conflict
Gang Niu 0001
dblp:26/3367-1
5.8 92025 139 · 84 since 2021 2026 conflict
Haobo Wang 0001
dblp:126/8982-1
5.5 82026 81 · 75 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuheng Jia
dblp:160/7861
5.2 72025 95 · 78 since 2021 2026 conflict
Masashi Sugiyama
dblp:35/1228
4.6 72025 410 · 139 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Gengyu Lyu
dblp:218/6818
3.8 52026 58 · 49 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Gang Chen 0001
dblp:67/6383-1
3.6 62025 382 · 167 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiuwen Gong
dblp:160/9976
3.4 52025 39 · 36 since 2021 2026 verified
Congyu Qiao
dblp:277/9262
3.2 52024 12 · 12 since 2021 2025 none
Dengbao Wang
dblp:204/2255
2.9 52024 25 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Songhe Feng
dblp:92/2415
2.9 42026 137 · 84 since 2021 2026 verified
Wei Tang 0017
dblp:58/1874-17
2.9 42024 7 · 7 since 2021 2025 conflict
Weijia Zhang 0001
dblp:158/5387-1
2.9 42024 20 · 14 since 2021 2025 verified
Junbo Zhao 0002
dblp:128/8266-2
2.8 42025 57 · 57 since 2021 2026 conflict
Guowu Yang
dblp:38/4538
2.7 42024 84 · 34 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shuo He 0001
dblp:186/3430-1
2.7 42024 15 · 11 since 2021 2025 conflict
Bo An 0001
dblp:42/6178-1
2.6 52024 251 · 144 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fuchao Yang
dblp:336/2241
2.4 32025 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Miao Xu 0001
dblp:42/3241-1
2.4 42024 52 · 40 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuhong Guo
dblp:34/5185
2.3 42023 106 · 31 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yan Yan 0025
dblp:13/3953-25
2.3 42023 11 · 7 since 2021 2024 verified
Dong-Dong Wu
dblp:323/9534
2.2 32025 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 none
Shiyu Xia
dblp:294/8485
2.0 32024 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yixuan Li 0001
dblp:144/6087-1
1.9 32024 93 · 78 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wei Wang 0373
dblp:35/7092-373
1.9 32025 6 · 5 since 2021 2025 conflict
Chao Xu 0008
dblp:79/1442-8
1.9 22026 15 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chenping Hou
dblp:59/3444
1.9 22026 115 · 62 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xijia Tang
dblp:292/0473
1.9 22026 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Wei Bao 0001
dblp:72/3664-1
1.8 32023 101 · 53 since 2021 2026 conflict
Dong Yuan 0001
dblp:15/2771-1
1.8 32023 123 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yong Rui
dblp:r/YongRui
1.8 22026 211 · 33 since 2021 2026 verified
Wei-Xuan Bao
dblp:299/4563
1.8 22026 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 none
Jianhua Tao 0001
dblp:46/2916-1
1.7 22026 275 · 147 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bin Liu 0041
dblp:35/837-41
1.7 22026 63 · 37 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zheng Lian 0004
dblp:213/7387-4
1.7 22026 47 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Hui Liu 0032
dblp:93/4010-32
1.6 22025 53 · 48 since 2021 2026 conflict
Guandong Xu
dblp:59/2340
1.6 22025 337 · 202 since 2021 2026 verified
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