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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
157 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
grasping 1,981tactile sensing 408learning from demonstration 375dexterous manipulation 350mobile manipulation 321assembly 233parallel manipulator 200deformable object manipulation 196soft robotics 176object manipulation 150micromanipulation 143robot design 134continuum robot 123redundant manipulator 118dual-arm manipulation 115actuator design 85cooperative manipulation 83contact modeling 82industrial robot 80nonprehensile manipulation 78medical robotics 75grasping, dexterous and mobile manipulation 71affordance learning 70contact-rich manipulation 69diffusion policy 69force sensing 63modular robot 51robot vision 48robotic hand 47object rearrangement 45physical human-robot interaction 45robot programming 44flexible manipulator 42industrial manipulation 42micro/nano manipulation 40robotic hand design 40manipulator kinematics 37robot actuation 37service robot 37telemanipulation 36wearable robotics 34human-robot interaction 32robot simulation 32robot manipulator 31compliant manipulation 30parameter identification 29grasping and dexterous manipulation 21constrained manipulation 20visuomotor control 18cable-driven robot 15kinematic optimization 15robot sensing 15cluttered environments 14compliant motion 14end effector 14constrained motion 12contact task 12manipulation 12manipulation primitives 12manipulator modeling 12motion retargeting 12on-orbit servicing 11underwater manipulation 11actuation 10coordinated manipulation 10dexterity measure 10humanoid robot manipulation 10precision positioning 10mechanical design 9autonomous manipulation 7manipulation control 7task automation 6micro/nano robotics 5physical interaction 5disassembly 4embodied foundation models 4interaction control 4object perception 4manipulation mechanics 3manipulation skills 3
Show 77 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
affordance reasoning 9continuously variable transmission 8flexible joint 8micromanipulator 8tool generation 8cluttered scene manipulation 7digital twin 7finite element method 7hysteresis modeling 7impact force reduction 7remote operation 7sensor integration 7in-hand pose estimation 6programmable matter 6robot safety 6semi-autonomous control 6agricultural manipulation 5cooperative task execution 5grasping and manipulation skills 5haptic interface 5human demonstration 5manipulation benchmark 5manipulation tasks 5primitive skills 5robot interaction 5telerobotic systems 5visuo-tactile learning 5action primitive 4dexterous manipulator 4digital twin generation 4environment interaction 4flow-based policy 4hybrid tracking 4language-conditioned task planning 4magnetic spring 4manipulator accuracy 4material perception 4muscle co-contraction control 4musculoskeletal model 4object dynamics prediction 4object reconfiguration 4prediction error based fault detection 4sensorless collision detection 4static analysis 4stiffness optimization 4task transition 4whole-body coordination 4activities of daily living 3adaptive execution 3adhesion 3bio-inspired adhesion 3cable tension optimization 3cloth state estimation 3compliant interaction 3contact motion control 3dimensional inspection 3failure detection and recovery 3haptic perception 3laparoscopic surgery 3long-horizon task execution 3manipulator performance measures 3manufacturing workcell 3mobile humanoid robots 3musculoskeletal robot control 3non-prehensile grasping 3object acquisition 3parallel part manipulation 3perception under occlusion 3position sensing 3prehensile manipulation 3remote manipulator 3sensor-based manipulation 3sensory feedback 3subgoal image generation 3tactile and proximity sensing 3task segmentation 3warehouse automation 3
Experts on Robot manipulation
20,621 · 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