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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
128 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
differential privacy 2,391privacy-preserving data analysis 615privacy-preserving machine learning 572anonymization 522location privacy 460anonymity 269privacy-preserving computation 211privacy-preserving query processing 88social network privacy 84information leakage 83image privacy 81de-anonymization 79statistical database privacy 75web tracking 68privacy perceptions 63privacy-preserving data sharing 57web privacy 52mobile app privacy 47data confidentiality 45query privacy 44mobile privacy 43privacy-preserving search 43facial privacy protection 37inference attack 37privacy compliance 37privacy policy 31privacy-preserving sensing 29privacy metrics 28privacy-preserving record linkage 27biometric privacy 25information disclosure 25data sharing 23online tracking 23data publishing 22identity privacy 21privacy preferences 21privacy-preserving image retrieval 20regulatory compliance 19surveillance 19privacy risk assessment 17privacy-preserving access control 17privacy management 15privacy-enhancing technologies 15secure deduplication 15cloud privacy 14randomization 14health data privacy 13privacy regulation 12online social networks 11privacy analysis 11privacy of vulnerable populations 11sensitive data protection 11user profiling 11privacy-preserving data processing 10communication privacy 9consumer privacy 8privacy evaluation 8contact tracing 7data auditing 7privacy in ubiquitous computing 7crowdsourcing 6information sharing 6data aggregation 5privacy protection mechanisms 5privacy engineering 4healthcare privacy 3privacy in distributed systems 3privacy in public spaces 3privacy-preserving accountability 3privacy-preserving data management 3
Show 58 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
data outsourcing 9personally identifiable information 9anonymity and unlinkability 8collaborative inference 8data ownership 8encrypted cloud data 8hypothesis testing 8privacy configuration 8smart grid privacy 8distributed mean estimation 7on-device data processing 7privacy norms 7truth discovery 7mobile crowdsensing 6pseudonymity 6vulnerable populations 6change point detection 5data capture 5data masking 5distributed learning 5encrypted data 5frequent itemset mining 5policy compliance 5spatial keyword query 5statistical database 5ad transparency 4adversary modeling 4auditability 4data classification 4distribution testing 4encrypted media 4geometric range query 4k-nearest neighbor query 4locality-sensitive hashing 4privacy attacks and defenses 4privacy information diffusion 4pseudonym 4sensitive information detection 4sparse estimation 4synthetic text generation 4task allocation 4confidentiality protection 3correlated data 3data privacy protection 3data transparency 3electronic health records 3federated query processing 3inference detection 3k-means clustering 3online targeting 3privacy vulnerability 3privacy-preserving data access 3shared data security 3side information 3spatial range query 3statistical data security 3statistical matching 3surveillance resistance 3
Experts on Privacy and data protection
19,652 · 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