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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
98 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
neural rendering 595novel view synthesis 549neural radiance fields 464volume rendering 405global illumination 365real-time rendering 355image-based rendering 309ray tracing 235gaussian splatting 225inverse rendering 222differentiable rendering 214physically based rendering 204monte carlo rendering 165texture mapping 161light transport 144appearance modeling 141relighting 128non-photorealistic rendering 120reflectance modeling 117antialiasing 104shadow rendering 81temporal rendering 75hidden surface removal 73material appearance 71visibility computation 68GPU rendering 67rasterization 67level of detail 61subsurface scattering 59shading 58bidirectional reflectance distribution function 53lighting 41sampling 40photorealistic rendering 39parallel rendering 35point-based rendering 31view-dependent rendering 30geometric rendering 29visibility culling 29perceptual rendering 28spherical harmonics 28monte carlo integration 27appearance acquisition 26participating media rendering 24procedural texture synthesis 23surface rendering 23interactive rendering 22level-of-detail rendering 22raster graphics 22participating media 21stroke-based rendering 20illumination 18remote rendering 18display systems 16graphics pipeline 15sampling and reconstruction 14graphics standards 12radiative transfer 12dynamic scene representation 11scene graph 11diffusion curves 10hybrid rendering 10text rendering 10graphics hardware 9large-scale scene rendering 8rendering optimization 6human performance rendering 5shader programming 5lens and aperture model 3multi-view rendering 3visibility and occlusion 3
Show 27 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
image rendering 9shaded display 8data-driven rendering 6multiresolution rendering 6texture optimization 6production rendering 5progressive rendering 5texture-based rendering 53d view synthesis 4adjoint method 4collaborative rendering 4face rendering 4high dynamic range rendering 4hybrid explicit-implicit representation 4particle rendering 4photorealism 4directional encoding 3font hinting 3image-based modeling and rendering 3lens simulation 3Monte Carlo PDE solver 3realism assessment 3rendering artifacts 3rendering perspective 3summed-area table 3temporal reprojection 3tensor approximation 3
Experts on Rendering
12,556 · 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