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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
117 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
SLAM 1,414localization 1,362mobile robot navigation 506obstacle avoidance 424state estimation 395sensor fusion 357visual odometry 323visual navigation 287place recognition 150occupancy grid mapping 144sensor calibration 123embodied navigation 105semantic mapping 103active vision 89obstacle detection 85target tracking 84map building 83object goal navigation 79multi-robot navigation 74scan matching 71active perception 64social navigation 63landmark detection 59sound source localization 50terrain classification 50object search 47view planning 45traversability estimation 43dynamic environments 35environment mapping 28spatial representation 28mobile robot perception 27sensor planning 27coverage control 25terrain perception 21environment representation 17learning-based navigation 15terrain modeling 15source localization 14docking 13embodied instruction following 13fault detection 13target search 13legged robot navigation 12drift reduction 11omnidirectional vehicle 11robot mapping 11landmark matching 10perception uncertainty 9multi-robot perception 8acoustic sensing 7long-term autonomy 6sensor design 5visual perception for robotics 4robot software frameworks 3spatial cognition 3
Show 61 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
embodied perception 9sensor modeling 9target localization 9safe autonomous systems 8embodied AI simulation 7multimodal sensing 7occlusion 7embodied interaction 6exploration and mapping 6map prediction 6navigation assistance 6semantic map 6sensing strategy 6spatial navigation 6state prediction 6visual landmark recognition 6visual memory 6appearance change 5auditory perception 5cooperative sensing 5forward model learning 5image stabilization 5informative sample selection 5motion model learning 5pose measurement 5robot architecture 5robot decision-making 5terrain matching 5distributed sensing 4environment partitioning 4fiducial marker 4hazard detection 4image sequence matching 4IMU preintegration 4line-of-sight sensors 4Localization and SLAM 4mobile robot evaluation 4real-time vision 4sensorimotor integration 4target monitoring 4vision-based sensing 4visual agent 4visual odometry and SLAM 4area coverage 3covariance recovery 3factor graph estimation 3fault detection and identification 3integrated navigation system 3landmark placement 3location estimation 3maritime navigation 3mobile service robot 3motion distortion correction 3obstacle detection and avoidance 3odometry and mapping 3robotic navigation and manipulation 3search and tracking 3sensor characterization 3SLAM and mapping 3surgical navigation 3traversability prediction 3
Experts on Robot navigation and mapping
18,933 · 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