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.
Experts on synthetic EHR generation 29 · 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
Jimeng Sun 0001
dblp:54/4948
1.3 22024 244 · 87 since 2021 2026 verified
Fenglong Ma
dblp:85/10856
0.9 12025 146 · 99 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jiaqi Wang 0002
dblp:44/740-2
0.9 12025 25 · 25 since 2021 2025 conflict
Xiaokun Zhang 0001
dblp:32/753-1
0.9 12025 41 · 41 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuan Zhong 0002
dblp:20/8000-2
0.9 12025 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xiaochen Wang 0002
dblp:19/30-2
0.9 12025 15 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Bradley A. Malin
dblp:m/BradleyMalin
0.8 12024 163 · 46 since 2021 2026 verified
Yue Ning 0001
dblp:74/9990-1
0.8 12024 38 · 22 since 2021 2025 verified
Yong Chen 0016
dblp:67/6351-16
0.8 12024 58 · 37 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chandan K. Reddy
dblp:42/1341
0.8 12024 129 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
in pool Li Xiong 0001
dblp:39/3530-1
0.8 12024 174 · 71 since 2021 2026 verified
William Hao
dblp:382/3788
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 none
Wenjie Wang 0008
dblp:38/1956-8
0.8 12024 7 · 6 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yi-an Ko
dblp:371/5417
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Ping Wang 0024
dblp:37/1304-24
0.8 12024 10 · 7 since 2021 2024 conflict
Yuanming Shao
dblp:365/1105
0.8 12024 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shrusti Jain
dblp:363/9607
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Brandon Theodorou
dblp:318/3295
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Hongzhan Lin 0002
dblp:292/1751-2
0.8 12024 4 · 4 since 2021 2025 conflict
Hongda Sun 0001
dblp:279/2033-1
0.8 12024 13 · 13 since 2021 2025 verified
Lance Waller
dblp:277/7086
0.8 12024 1 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Rui Yan 0001
dblp:19/2405-1
0.8 12024 234 · 125 since 2021 2026 conflict
Cao Xiao
dblp:170/1833
0.8 12024 93 · 53 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Joyce C. Ho
dblp:144/4961
0.8 12024 45 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Dong Nie
dblp:130/8299
0.8 12024 58 · 31 since 2021 2026 verified
Yuanzhe Xi
dblp:122/6258
0.8 12024 10 · 7 since 2021 2025 conflict
Chang Lu 0004
dblp:10/10150-4
0.8 12024 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jian Lou 0001
dblp:05/4625-1
0.8 12024 74 · 62 since 2021 2026 verified
Zifeng Wang 0008
dblp:43/7716-8
0.6 12022 19 · 17 since 2021 2026 conflict
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