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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 11 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on queueing network model 265 · 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
Rajkumar Buyya
dblp:b/RajkumarBuyya
1.0 22025 617 · 208 since 2021 2027 verified
Xiaoping Li 0001
dblp:35/6350-1
1.0 22025 135 · 57 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhicheng Cai
dblp:123/2595
1.0 22025 32 · 18 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bin Li 0014
dblp:89/6764-14
1.0 12026 65 · 33 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ning Lu 0001
dblp:29/2864-1
1.0 12026 50 · 21 since 2021 2026 conflict
Juaren Steiger
dblp:284/1392
1.0 12026 9 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Catia Trubiani
dblp:05/410
0.9 22022 69 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Mohamed M. Abdallah 0001
dblp:64/3421-1
0.8 12024 115 · 57 since 2021 2026 verified
Isra Mohamed Ali
dblp:239/6029
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Paolo Arcaini
dblp:86/7855
0.6 12022 121 · 80 since 2021 2027 verified
Thomas Laurent 0003
dblp:47/8889-3
0.6 12022 27 · 18 since 2021 2026 verified
Anthony Ventresque
dblp:38/5703
0.6 12022 43 · 18 since 2021 2026 verified
Cheng-Zhong Xu 0001
dblp:181/2765-1
0.5 12021 487 · 248 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tianhui Meng
dblp:162/9535
0.5 12021 10 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yubin Zhao
dblp:118/7603
0.5 12021 46 · 20 since 2021 2026 conflict
Katinka Wolter
dblp:10/5050
0.5 12021 55 · 18 since 2021 2026 verified
Mirco Tribastone
dblp:71/5436
0.5 22017 77 · 28 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Bernhard Egger 0002
dblp:40/2471-2
0.4 12020 48 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Surim Oh
dblp:185/0253
0.4 12020 6 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Younghyun Cho
dblp:185/0226
0.4 12020 13 · 5 since 2021 2025 conflict
Neil Robertson 0002
dblp:26/7169
0.4 12019 56 · 9 since 2021 2023 conflict
James R. Hopgood
dblp:21/1551
0.4 12019 30 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Saurav Sthapit
dblp:191/0968
0.4 12019 3 · 2 since 2021 2025 corroborated
John S. Thompson
dblp:13/6830
0.4 12019 211 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti
dblp:91/5530
0.3 12018 41 · 15 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Michael Heindlmaier
dblp:08/7602
0.3 12018 8 · 1 since 2021 2021 corroborated
Emilio Incerto
dblp:168/3137
0.3 12017 16 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
Giuliano Casale
dblp:16/2365
0.3 32010 114 · 44 since 2021 2026 verified
Aditya Akella
dblp:a/AdityaAkella
0.3 12025 157 · 48 since 2021 2026 verified
Xudong Liu 0008
dblp:90/2144-8
0.3 12025 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 verified
Kai Peng 0001
dblp:41/7760-1
0.3 12025 52 · 41 since 2021 2026 verified
Prathik Vijaykumar
dblp:383/3720
0.3 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Jeremy Carleton
dblp:340/6198
0.3 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Divyanshu Saxena
dblp:317/2218
0.3 12025 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 verified
Haonan Ding
dblp:315/8436
0.3 12025 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Menglan Hu
dblp:20/10116
0.3 12025 59 · 40 since 2021 2026 conflict
Liangyuan Wang
dblp:191/5245
0.3 12025 10 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Dheeraj Narasimha
dblp:154/6573
0.3 12025 10 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Srinivas Shakkottai
dblp:03/353
0.3 12025 76 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Don Towsley
dblp:t/DonaldFTowsley
0.2 72012 529 · 34 since 2021 2026 verified
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