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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
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages›Program synthesis and code generation
area
2,382 papers · 6,275 experts
Sub-topics
66 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
code generation with language models 618programming by example 153code completion 100code summarization 81code translation 61inductive program synthesis 54syntax-guided synthesis 40code generation from natural language 37formal synthesis 32deductive program synthesis 30neural program synthesis 30domain-specific code generation 23code generation evaluation 22code language model 22inductive logic programming 17controller synthesis 16programming by demonstration 16specification synthesis 16type-directed synthesis 15search-based program synthesis 14constraint-based synthesis 13code documentation generation 11interactive program synthesis 11component-based synthesis 10code agent 8code model 8concurrent program synthesis 7knowledge-based program synthesis 6generative programming 5DSL-based synthesis 4code assistance 3
Show 35 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
rewrite rule inference 9algorithm synthesis 7natural language programming 7semantics-guided synthesis 7grammar-constrained generation 6interface generation 6version space algebra 6parameter-efficient fine-tuning 5probabilistic program synthesis 5rule learning 5version space learning 5code mining 4code understanding and generation 4genetic programming 4logic program synthesis 4neural code model 4random program generation 4relational program synthesis 4web automation 4AI-generated code detection 3API sequence generation 3code generation robustness 3code selection 3constrained decoding 3example generation 3fault-tolerant synthesis 3higher-order function synthesis 3incremental program generation 3incremental synthesis 3latent program space 3LLM-generated code detection 3neural machine translation for code 3program learning 3rule synthesis 3solver-aided programming 3
Experts on Program synthesis and code generation
6,275 · 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