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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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Learning theory›sample complexity topic 892 papers · 1,582 experts
Sub-topics 10 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on sample complexity 1,582 · 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
Jason D. Lee
dblp:88/3262
14.8 252025 148 · 94 since 2021 2026 verified
Simon S. Du
dblp:176/5602
9.7 182025 127 · 88 since 2021 2025 verified
Lin Yang 0011
dblp:166/6264
9.2 172025 87 · 49 since 2021 2026 verified
Sham M. Kakade
dblp:s/SMKakade
9.0 192024 185 · 64 since 2021 2026 none
Shay Moran
dblp:119/5111
8.5 152026 119 · 76 since 2021 2026 verified
Yuejie Chi
dblp:82/8759
8.5 152025 108 · 64 since 2021 2025 verified
Steve Hanneke
dblp:40/154
7.7 142026 99 · 68 since 2021 2026 verified
Yuxin Chen 0002
dblp:11/5123-2
7.1 142025 64 · 30 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yishay Mansour
dblp:m/YishayMansour
7.1 162026 374 · 84 since 2021 2026 verified
Nathan Srebro
dblp:50/3633
6.6 112026 163 · 54 since 2021 2026 verified
Denny Wu
dblp:215/4360
6.3 82025 33 · 30 since 2021 2025 none
Murat A. Erdogdu
dblp:139/1292
6.3 82025 53 · 37 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Chi Jin 0001
dblp:126/1802-1
5.4 112023 73 · 45 since 2021 2025 verified
Gen Li 0005
dblp:28/538-5
5.4 122024 35 · 25 since 2021 2025 conflict
Mengdi Wang 0001
dblp:64/10471-1
5.2 102024 118 · 85 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hassan Ashtiani
dblp:164/5733
4.9 92025 20 · 12 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Quanquan Gu
dblp:50/4597
4.9 112025 254 · 135 since 2021 2026 conflict
Alexander Rakhlin
dblp:59/407
4.9 72026 100 · 41 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ruosong Wang
dblp:183/6164
4.8 112025 41 · 16 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Csaba Szepesvári
dblp:62/567
4.7 112024 227 · 62 since 2021 2026 verified
Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini
dblp:435/8320
4.7 62025 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 none
Wen Sun 0002
dblp:69/1010-2
4.6 92025 82 · 52 since 2021 2025 conflict
Laixi Shi
dblp:211/7965
4.5 82025 24 · 23 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Kevin Jamieson 0001
dblp:85/10260
4.5 112024 69 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Akshay Krishnamurthy
dblp:85/8024
4.5 102025 94 · 42 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yuting Wei 0001
dblp:184/3856-1
4.4 92024 30 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wenhao Zhan
dblp:275/3558
4.4 62025 16 · 16 since 2021 2025 reported
Zhuoran Yang
dblp:172/1424
4.3 102025 134 · 94 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tomer Koren
dblp:12/10044
4.3 72026 89 · 50 since 2021 2026 conflict
Nan Jiang 0008
dblp:06/4489-8
4.2 92023 59 · 37 since 2021 2025 conflict
Alekh Agarwal
dblp:24/4383
4.1 92023 92 · 30 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Yu Bai 0017
dblp:03/6325-17
4.1 82024 41 · 33 since 2021 2025 conflict
Florent Krzakala
dblp:25/1282
4.0 62025 98 · 46 since 2021 2026 verified
Eshaan Nichani
dblp:260/6510
3.8 62025 12 · 12 since 2021 2026 none
Jing Yang 0002
dblp:62/5839-2
3.8 62025 99 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kasper Green Larsen
dblp:07/6242
3.7 52026 98 · 40 since 2021 2026 verified
Dylan J. Foster
dblp:167/4271
3.7 72025 63 · 36 since 2021 2026 none
Tuo Zhao
dblp:82/199
3.7 62024 124 · 70 since 2021 2026 conflict
Minshuo Chen
dblp:217/1509
3.7 62024 39 · 30 since 2021 2025 conflict
Volkan Cevher
dblp:70/5301
3.5 62024 234 · 99 since 2021 2025 verified
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