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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›Representation and self-supervised learning›representation learning›dimensionality reduction›subspace learning topic 162 papers · 414 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Sub-topics 21 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on subspace learning 414 · 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
Yun Fu 0001
dblp:00/5815-1
1.4 92016 428 · 132 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xuelong Li 0001
dblp:l/XuelongLi
1.3 62020 1307 · 634 since 2021 2026 conflict
René Vidal
dblp:v/ReneVidal
1.3 32021 195 · 60 since 2021 2025 verified
Zhihui Zhu
dblp:71/8081
1.3 32021 71 · 41 since 2021 2026 conflict
Daniel P. Robinson
dblp:20/8222
1.3 32021 21 · 8 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Tianyu Ding
dblp:134/4796
1.3 32021 40 · 37 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shuicheng Yan
dblp:y/ShuichengYan
1.1 122016 742 · 153 since 2021 2026 verified
Abd-Krim Seghouane
dblp:57/2950
1.0 12026 75 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Hangfei Zheng
dblp:373/5085
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Djamel Merad
dblp:06/1108
1.0 12026 21 · 3 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Thomas S. Huang
dblp:h/ThomasSHuang
1.0 102018 791 · 7 since 2021 2023 verified
Zhao Zhang 0001
dblp:87/6853-1
0.8 22020 250 · 123 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiahuan Ren
dblp:231/1744
0.8 22020 13 · 8 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Qi Tian 0001
dblp:78/1467-1
0.8 42018 804 · 279 since 2021 2026 conflict
Namrata Vaswani
dblp:v/NamrataVaswani
0.8 12024 87 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Kaibing Zhang
dblp:91/10256
0.8 12024 99 · 71 since 2021 2026 conflict
Peng Li 0030
dblp:83/6353-30
0.8 12024 98 · 69 since 2021 2026 conflict
Andrew Bond
dblp:65/11366
0.8 12024 4 · 3 since 2021 2025 none
Yang Liu 0005
dblp:51/3710-5
0.8 12024 179 · 92 since 2021 2026 conflict
Manolis C. Tsakiris
dblp:48/9800
0.8 22019 28 · 12 since 2021 2026 verified
Zafer Dogan
dblp:48/10697
0.8 12024 12 · 11 since 2021 2026 reported
Shaoyi Du
dblp:40/4846
0.8 12024 184 · 116 since 2021 2026 verified
Ankit Pratap Singh
dblp:357/5719
0.8 12024 7 · 7 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiayu Su
dblp:330/5324
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Guofa Wang
dblp:311/8893
0.8 12024 5 · 5 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuanhang Zheng
dblp:22/9875
0.8 12024 19 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhixing Tan
dblp:186/8414
0.8 12024 16 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
David A. Knowles
dblp:03/11107
0.8 12024 22 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Raul Rabadan
dblp:01/11007
0.8 12024 10 · 2 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiaozhao Fang
dblp:140/6459
0.7 22020 95 · 53 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiaoou Tang
dblp:04/5226
0.7 122010 355 · 3 since 2021 2022 none
Li Zhao 0003
dblp:97/4708-3
0.7 22019 58 · 17 since 2021 2025 conflict
Björn W. Schuller
dblp:54/4934
0.7 22019 661 · 236 since 2021 2026 verified
Xinzhou Xu
dblp:173/6448
0.7 22019 16 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Wenli Du
dblp:82/3485
0.7 12023 123 · 94 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zhe Wang 0002
dblp:75/3158-2
0.7 12023 189 · 123 since 2021 2027 conflict
Ziqiu Chi
dblp:296/1258
0.7 12023 18 · 18 since 2021 2025 verified
Zhongli Fang
dblp:253/3619
0.7 12023 5 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Bolu Wang
dblp:250/3817
0.7 12023 5 · 2 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Zonghai Zhu
dblp:217/0818
0.7 12023 19 · 11 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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