Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / recruitment
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.
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
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
area
16,521 papers · 26,099 experts
Sub-topics
107 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
causal inference 933structured prediction 242statistical inference 186clustering 179sampling 174probabilistic inference 172probabilistic programming 98monte carlo methods 63stochastic processes 59missing data 55boltzmann machine 43experimental design 43bayesian decision theory 35copula models 35tractable probabilistic model 34data filtering 28dynamical system 28probabilistic classifier 26choice modeling 20moment matching 19bayesian data fusion 18divergence minimization 18extreme value theory 16probabilistic database 16bayesian meta-learning 15continuous-time model 14source separation 14class probability estimation 13information geometry 12noise modeling 12marginal likelihood 11deep probabilistic models 10divergence measure 10functional data analysis 10generative and discriminative models 9statistical decision theory 7structured models 7distribution approximation 6statistical dependence 6inverse decision-making 5hierarchical modeling 4model criticism 4statistical physics 3stochastic attention 3
Show 63 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
count data modeling 9level-set estimation 9conditional expectation 8discretization 8mode seeking 8probabilistic representation 8scoring rule 7trajectory inference 7bayesian regularization 6boltzmann density sampling 6covariance modeling 6derivative estimation 6directional statistics 6inference network 6numerical integration 6reparameterization trick 6small-variance asymptotics 6data assimilation 5fuzzy classification 5limit theorem 5bayesian information criterion 4evidence accumulation 4functional regularization 4gumbel-softmax 4neural population modeling 4observation model 4probabilistic transducers 4probability elicitation 4stochastic computation graph 4topological constraints 4approximate cross-validation 3bayesian surrogate model 3belief distributions 3compositional data analysis 3data integration 3decision boundary estimation 3density propagation 3discrete distribution 3diversity modeling 3efficient influence function 3elliptical distributions 3functional data 3information regularization 3inner product space representation 3input selection 3label distribution estimation 3model counting 3multimodal distribution 3nearest neighbor matching 3non-stationary data 3observational data 3parameter tying 3probabilistic dependencies 3sampling-free training 3signal-to-noise ratio analysis 3spatial interpolation 3spectral gap 3statistical genetics 3stochastic similarity measure 3subgroup analysis 3transport map 3unnormalized statistical model 3viterbi algorithm 3
Experts on Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
26,099 · 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