VLDB 2026 Research / recruiting

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.
Sub-topics 10 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on sequence labeling 636 · 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
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
dblp:95/3319
2.0 42025 65 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
David Vilares 0001
dblp:128/2835
2.0 42025 24 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Qi Zhang 0001
dblp:52/323-1
1.9 52022 231 · 139 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fei Huang 0002
dblp:h/FeiHuang-2
1.7 32024 222 · 194 since 2021 2026 conflict
Iryna Gurevych
dblp:85/6201
1.5 42020 282 · 127 since 2021 2026 verified
Tao Gui
dblp:135/6973
1.4 32022 113 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Min Zhang 0005
dblp:83/5342-5
1.3 52022 507 · 324 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xuanjing Huang 0001
dblp:05/6735-1
1.3 42020 327 · 173 since 2021 2026 verified
Yong Jiang 0005
dblp:74/1552-5
1.2 32021 61 · 42 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kewei Tu
dblp:22/918
1.2 32021 82 · 40 since 2021 2026 none
Luo Si
dblp:14/1217
1.2 22024 188 · 47 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Zhenghua Li
dblp:72/8937
1.1 42022 67 · 27 since 2021 2026 conflict
Caio F. Corro
dblp:308/0719
1.1 22025 15 · 10 since 2021 2026 none
Jiacheng Ye
dblp:249/2706
1.0 22022 20 · 16 since 2021 2025 conflict
Qun Liu 0001
dblp:75/4402-1
1.0 42021 231 · 89 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yue Zhang 0004
dblp:47/722-4
1.0 22022 327 · 157 since 2021 2026 conflict
Leyang Cui
dblp:247/6181
1.0 22022 33 · 26 since 2021 2025 verified
Nguyen Bach
dblp:52/951
0.9 22021 18 · 9 since 2021 2023 none
Tao Wang 0056
dblp:12/5838-56
0.9 22021 11 · 9 since 2021 2022 conflict
Zhongqiang Huang
dblp:10/3565
0.9 22021 52 · 27 since 2021 2025 conflict
Stéphane Clinchant
dblp:97/2910
0.9 12025 39 · 24 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Mathieu Lacroix 0001
dblp:84/8724
0.9 12025 18 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Fei Xia 0004
dblp:79/1081-4
0.9 22020 54 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Bin Cui 0001
dblp:55/5031
0.9 12025 394 · 235 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Wentao Zhang 0001
dblp:41/3249-1
0.9 12025 131 · 128 since 2021 2027 conflict
Jiaxin Gan
dblp:373/2544
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Ana Ezquerro
dblp:358/3553
0.9 12025 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Peichao Lai
dblp:331/1057
0.9 12025 19 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Vassilina Nikoulina
dblp:32/11424
0.9 12025 13 · 10 since 2021 2025 none
Feiyang Ye 0002
dblp:285/4704-2
0.9 12025 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Thibault Formal
dblp:262/5989
0.9 12025 14 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Joseph Le Roux
dblp:25/5993
0.9 12025 17 · 4 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yuanhe Tian
dblp:246/0133
0.9 22020 31 · 23 since 2021 2026 corroborated
in pool Fangcheng Fu
dblp:219/9677
0.9 12025 45 · 40 since 2021 2026 verified
Nadezhda Chirkova
dblp:205/2973
0.9 12025 12 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yan Song 0003
dblp:09/1398-3
0.9 22020 59 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tong Zhang 0001
dblp:07/4227-1
0.9 22020 331 · 128 since 2021 2026 conflict
Anssi Yli-Jyrä
dblp:06/3334
0.9 12025 11 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jiawei Han 0001
dblp:h/JiaweiHan
0.9 32020 880 · 146 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiang Ren 0001
dblp:36/360-1
0.9 32020 165 · 89 since 2021 2026 conflict
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