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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.
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
Sebastian Padó
dblp:p/SebastianPado
0.8 22022 61 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Roman Klinger
dblp:21/4183
0.8 22022 52 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Edwin Simpson
dblp:79/7584
0.8 22020 19 · 7 since 2021 2026 verified
German Rigau
dblp:66/1456
0.8 22020 88 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Rodrigo Agerri
dblp:57/5047
0.8 22020 44 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Jing Li 0034
dblp:l/JingLi34
0.8 22023 55 · 35 since 2021 2027 conflict
Shuo Shang
dblp:29/8750
0.8 22023 166 · 87 since 2021 2026 conflict
Kevin Gimpel
dblp:47/1252
0.8 22020 61 · 10 since 2021 2024 none
Lukas Lange
dblp:219/5288
0.8 32021 17 · 13 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Dietrich Klakow
dblp:00/1846
0.8 32021 173 · 68 since 2021 2026 verified
Börje Karlsson 0001
dblp:k/BorjeKarlsson
0.8 12024 27 · 16 since 2021 2026 verified
Nitesh V. Chawla
dblp:c/NiteshVChawla
0.8 22019 253 · 101 since 2021 2026 verified
Tong Zhao 0003
dblp:94/6503-3
0.8 22019 55 · 49 since 2021 2026 verified
Huajun Chen
dblp:94/5089
0.8 12024 226 · 150 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bing Qin 0001
dblp:86/5934
0.8 22019 270 · 188 since 2021 2026 conflict
Meng Jiang 0001
dblp:69/339-1
0.8 22019 141 · 81 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chin-Yew Lin
dblp:64/6843
0.8 12024 122 · 20 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Xiang Chen 0016
dblp:64/3062-16
0.8 12024 25 · 25 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ting Liu 0001
dblp:52/5150-1
0.8 22019 335 · 114 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiang Dazhi
dblp:375/6215
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Tiejun Zhao
dblp:35/1787
0.8 12024 158 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jieru Lin
dblp:336/1692
0.8 12024 4 · 4 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Guokai Zheng
dblp:320/5945
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Shumin Deng
dblp:213/1853
0.8 12024 53 · 48 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Tianwen Jiang
dblp:207/5395
0.8 22019 9 · 3 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Huiqiang Jiang
dblp:204/2497
0.8 12024 25 · 24 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Qianhui Wu
dblp:204/2307
0.8 12024 19 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chuanqi Tan
dblp:148/4497
0.8 12024 54 · 31 since 2021 2024 conflict
Ningyu Zhang 0001
dblp:139/4181-1
0.8 12024 104 · 95 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lei Li 0040
dblp:13/7007-40
0.8 12024 10 · 10 since 2021 2024 conflict
Bing Xiang
dblp:82/5456
0.7 22020 90 · 30 since 2021 2025 conflict
Marek Rei
dblp:136/9233
0.7 22019 34 · 14 since 2021 2026 reported
in pool Aoying Zhou
dblp:z/AoyingZhou
0.7 12023 414 · 108 since 2021 2026 verified
David Chiang 0001
dblp:89/233-1
0.7 12023 75 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Jianing Wang 0002
dblp:85/1466-2
0.7 12023 14 · 14 since 2021 2025 conflict
Huang Xu 0002
dblp:80/1433-2
0.7 12023 2 · 1 since 2021 2023 verified
Ming Gao 0001
dblp:71/4173-1
0.7 12023 65 · 45 since 2021 2026 conflict
Diyi Yang
dblp:70/11145
0.7 12023 165 · 122 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Bin Shi 0003
dblp:63/4724-3
0.7 12023 49 · 39 since 2021 2026 conflict
Rui Zhang 0037
dblp:60/2536-37
0.7 12023 48 · 33 since 2021 2025 conflict
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