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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
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing›Bioinformatics and computational biology›sequence analysis
topic
973 papers · 2,682 experts
Sub-topics
67 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
genomic sequence analysis 106motif discovery 98sequence similarity search 98read mapping 96sequencing data analysis 66sequence assembly 65sequence comparison 61nanopore sequencing 57DNA sequence analysis 51sequence classification 51sequence clustering 39high-throughput sequencing data analysis 35long-read sequencing 34sequencing data processing 31sequence annotation 28sequence indexing 27homology detection 26sequencing error correction 25non-coding RNA identification 23base calling 21profile hidden markov model 20repeat detection 19RNA sequence analysis 18sequencing read preprocessing 18error correction 16sequence motif analysis 16pattern matching 15sequence compression 15sequence-based prediction 15database search 14k-mer analysis 12sequence similarity 12DNA language model 11k-mer sampling 11sequence visualization 11position-specific scoring matrix 10sequence assembly graph 8sequence feature extraction 6primer and probe design 4sequence profile analysis 4sequence modeling 3sequence variation analysis 3
Show 25 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
motif search 9similarity search 9statistical significance estimation 6BLAST output parsing 5in silico PCR 5mutation detection 5sequence homology 5targeted sequencing 5aptamer analysis 4biosequence analysis 4motif detection 4seed design 4sequence reconstruction 4sequence similarity scoring 4sequencing error modeling 4FM-index 3oligonucleotide thermodynamics 3overlap detection 3sequence complexity analysis 3sequence database redundancy reduction 3sequence homology analysis 3sequence motif 3sequence weighting 3unaligned sequence analysis 3unique sequence identification 3
Experts on sequence analysis
2,682 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years)