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.
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Deep learning architectures and training›sequence modeling topic 285 papers · 1,037 experts
Sub-topics 25 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on sequence modeling 1,037 · 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
Christopher Ré
dblp:r/ChristopherRe
6.8 112024 232 · 86 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Albert Gu
dblp:130/0612
6.3 102024 35 · 21 since 2021 2025 none
Tri Dao
dblp:206/7018
5.8 92024 40 · 30 since 2021 2025 none
Michael Poli
dblp:248/7538
3.6 52025 23 · 21 since 2021 2025 verified
Atri Rudra
dblp:04/4980
3.6 62023 91 · 18 since 2021 2025 verified
Antonio Orvieto
dblp:228/9270
3.0 42025 40 · 35 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Stefano Massaroli
dblp:245/5812
2.9 42025 19 · 17 since 2021 2025 none
Stefano Ermon
dblp:47/8135
2.9 52024 270 · 147 since 2021 2025 verified
Daniel Y. Fu
dblp:218/5728
2.6 42023 17 · 15 since 2021 2025 corroborated
N. Benjamin Erichson
dblp:173/5153
2.6 42025 22 · 16 since 2021 2025 verified
Michael W. Mahoney
dblp:10/6978
2.6 42025 206 · 90 since 2021 2026 verified
Ali Behrouz
dblp:220/4163
2.5 32025 11 · 11 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Karan Goel
dblp:175/1290
2.3 42023 13 · 10 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Rom N. Parnichkun
dblp:359/5796
2.3 32025 4 · 4 since 2021 2025 none
Armin W. Thomas
dblp:228/8292
2.2 32025 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 reported
Yiran Zhong
dblp:158/9624
2.2 32025 51 · 40 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhen Qin 0003
dblp:06/864-3
2.2 32025 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yoshua Bengio
dblp:56/953
2.0 42023 483 · 150 since 2021 2026 verified
Ankit Gupta 0001
dblp:65/2886-1
2.0 32025 20 · 10 since 2021 2025 conflict
Dongsheng Li 0002
dblp:254/0830-2
2.0 32024 166 · 143 since 2021 2026 conflict
Khaled Saab 0002
dblp:176/4061
1.8 32023 11 · 8 since 2021 2023 verified
Vahab S. Mirrokni
dblp:m/VahabSMirrokni
1.7 22025 273 · 100 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiaolong Wang 0004
dblp:91/952-4
1.7 22025 124 · 91 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yu Sun 0020
dblp:62/3689-20
1.7 22025 15 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jan Kautz
dblp:48/6214
1.7 22025 262 · 98 since 2021 2025 verified
Karan Dalal
dblp:359/3103
1.7 22025 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 none
Mahdi Karami
dblp:90/394
1.6 22025 11 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Qi An 0001
dblp:89/5098-1
1.6 22025 14 · 8 since 2021 2025 conflict
Alessandro Moro
dblp:67/8170
1.6 22025 15 · 2 since 2021 2025 conflict
Melanie Nicole Zeilinger
dblp:41/7142
1.6 22025 14 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Annan Yu
dblp:302/3962
1.6 22025 6 · 6 since 2021 2025 reported
Jerome Sieber
dblp:268/7789
1.6 22025 4 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Carmen Amo Alonso
dblp:234/2243
1.6 22025 4 · 4 since 2021 2025 verified
Taiji Suzuki
dblp:08/312
1.6 22025 148 · 90 since 2021 2026 verified
Atsushi Yamashita
dblp:05/6868
1.6 22025 73 · 18 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuchao Dai
dblp:65/7804
1.5 22025 162 · 101 since 2021 2026 verified
Zicheng Liu 0006
dblp:l/ZichengLiu-6
1.5 22024 26 · 26 since 2021 2026 verified
Stan Z. Li
dblp:l/StanZLi
1.5 22024 406 · 160 since 2021 2026 verified
Siyuan Li 0002
dblp:63/9705-2
1.5 22024 60 · 59 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bailin Wang
dblp:218/7334
1.5 22024 35 · 27 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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