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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.
Theoretical computer science›Computational complexity›relativization topic 55 papers · 63 experts
Sub-topics 5 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on relativization 63 · 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
Hanlin Ren
dblp:222/3116
0.7 12023 26 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhenjian Lu
dblp:196/2479
0.7 12023 23 · 19 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Shuichi Hirahara
dblp:150/4919
0.7 12023 60 · 46 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Holger Spakowski
dblp:73/1491
0.1 12009 21 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Rahul Tripathi
dblp:67/6112
0.1 12009 19 · 0 since 2021 2020 corroborated
Lance Fortnow
dblp:f/LanceFortnow
0.1 52003 148 · 0 since 2021 2018 corroborated
Richard Beigel
dblp:b/RichardBeigel
0.1 41999 75 · 0 since 2021 2016 none
Stuart A. Kurtz
dblp:13/5248
0.1 52003 27 · 0 since 2021 2017 none
Harry Buhrman
dblp:b/HarryBuhrman
0.1 52004 123 · 6 since 2021 2024 none
Stephen A. Fenner
dblp:f/SAFenner
0.1 22003 38 · 3 since 2021 2026 reported
Lide Li
dblp:41/2373
0.0 12003 3 · 0 since 2021 2003 none
Leen Torenvliet
dblp:t/LeenTorenvliet
0.0 32004 37 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Ronald V. Book
dblp:58/2261
0.0 81991 104 · 0 since 2021 1998 none
Alexis Maciel
dblp:89/2633
0.0 11999 14 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Gilles Brassard
dblp:b/GBrassard
0.0 31997 68 · 1 since 2021 2024 verified
Judy Goldsmith
dblp:g/JudyGoldsmith
0.0 11998 82 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Russell Impagliazzo
dblp:i/RImpagliazzo
0.0 32003 164 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Charles H. Bennett
dblp:71/210
0.0 21997 20 · 0 since 2021 2014 corroborated
Umesh V. Vazirani
dblp:v/UVVazirani
0.0 11997 84 · 6 since 2021 2024 none
Ethan Bernstein
dblp:56/3307
0.0 11997 4 · 0 since 2021 1997 corroborated
Osamu Watanabe 0001
dblp:w/OsamuWatanabe1
0.0 21993 113 · 0 since 2021 2020 verified
Ker-I Ko
dblp:45/2707
0.0 21991 64 · 1 since 2021 2021 none
Lane A. Hemaspaandra
dblp:h/LaneAHemaspaandra
0.0 11995 167 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Sudhir K. Jha
dblp:10/984
0.0 11995 2 · 0 since 2021 1995 none
Jeffrey B. Remmel
dblp:81/1919
0.0 12003 79 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Alan Nash
dblp:05/5652
0.0 12003 20 · 0 since 2021 2010 none
Ricard Gavaldà
dblp:86/4259
0.0 11993 59 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Alan L. Selman
dblp:s/AlanLSelman
0.0 31986 79 · 0 since 2021 2017 none
Xu Mei-Rui
dblp:23/5501
0.0 31983 3 · 0 since 2021 1983 none
José L. Balcázar
dblp:b/JoseLBalcazar
0.0 21986 71 · 1 since 2021 2021 verified
Jeong Han Kim
dblp:k/JeongHanKim
0.0 11999 23 · 1 since 2021 2022 conflict
William I. Gasarch
dblp:g/WilliamIGasarch
0.0 21987 61 · 2 since 2021 2023 verified
Daniel R. Simon
dblp:92/908
0.0 11999 13 · 0 since 2021 2009 none
Prasad Tetali
dblp:34/1161
0.0 11999 48 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Uwe Schöning
dblp:s/UweSchoning
0.0 21986 56 · 0 since 2021 2014 none
Timothy J. Long
dblp:l/TimothyJLong
0.0 21986 27 · 0 since 2021 2007 corroborated
Hans Heller
dblp:73/5107
0.0 21986 6 · 0 since 2021 1986 none
Laura A. Sanchis
dblp:59/1413
0.0 11990 9 · 0 since 2021 2002 none
Mark A. Fulk
dblp:39/2299
0.0 11990 11 · 0 since 2021 2011 none
Thomas Thierauf
dblp:t/ThomasThierauf
0.0 11998 57 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
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