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›tabular data learning topic 16 papers · 69 experts
Experts on tabular data learning 69 · 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
Darby Tien-Hao Chang
dblp:63/3730
1.4 22024 17 · 3 since 2021 2025 conflict
Kuan-Yu Chen 0006
dblp:35/6313-6
1.4 22024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 verified
Ping-Han Chiang
dblp:304/1322
1.4 22024 3 · 3 since 2021 2024 none
Hsin-Rung Chou
dblp:228/8466
1.4 22024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 none
Danny Ziyi Chen
dblp:c/DannyZChen
1.2 22023 294 · 83 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jian Wu 0001
dblp:96/2744-1
1.2 22023 185 · 105 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jintai Chen
dblp:249/3929
1.2 22023 48 · 43 since 2021 2027 conflict
Wei Wang 0010
dblp:w/WeiWang
0.9 12025 263 · 93 since 2021 2026 conflict
Derek Qiang Xu
dblp:404/6252
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Yizhou Sun
dblp:37/3868
0.9 12025 205 · 102 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Olcay Cirit
dblp:322/0405
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Reza Asadi
dblp:166/1930
0.9 12025 9 · 1 since 2021 2025 unresolved
Chih-Sheng Chen
dblp:94/3162
0.8 12024 2 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Pengfei Wang 0008
dblp:90/4693-8
0.8 12024 46 · 39 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ingo Steinwart
dblp:89/3492
0.8 12024 46 · 11 since 2021 2025 verified
Hsi-Sheng Goan
dblp:84/10102
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 none
Kunpeng Liu 0001
dblp:80/10061-1
0.8 12024 70 · 62 since 2021 2026 conflict
Zaitian Wang
dblp:377/7687
0.8 12024 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xumeng Wen
dblp:358/9194
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2024 reported
Han Liu 0001
dblp:35/2899-1
0.8 12024 129 · 38 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu
dblp:349/3180
0.8 12024 22 · 22 since 2021 2025 unresolved
Chenwei Xu
dblp:322/8857
0.8 12024 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wei Xu 0005
dblp:32/1213-5
0.8 12024 44 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
Léo Grinsztajn
dblp:259/3203
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2024 none
Xinhao Zhang 0001
dblp:228/0970-1
0.8 12024 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 conflict
Ammar Gilani
dblp:225/5425
0.8 12024 3 · 3 since 2021 2025 none
Lu Jiang 0007
dblp:22/752-7
0.8 12024 26 · 23 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wanfu Gao
dblp:209/6359
0.8 12024 59 · 50 since 2021 2026 verified
David Holzmüller
dblp:207/7947
0.8 12024 9 · 9 since 2021 2025 none
Yu-Chao Huang
dblp:206/6915
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 none
Shun Zheng 0001
dblp:179/2615-1
0.8 12024 20 · 16 since 2021 2025 verified
Weijian Li 0002
dblp:128/5278-2
0.8 12024 6 · 6 since 2021 2025 verified
Jiang Bian 0002
dblp:09/851-2
0.8 12024 145 · 98 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
dblp:r/GaneshRamakrishnan
0.7 12023 111 · 43 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Pietro Liò
dblp:l/PietroLio
0.7 12023 219 · 129 since 2021 2026 verified
Cheng-Te Li
dblp:90/5961
0.7 12023 115 · 48 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yu-Che Tsai
dblp:65/2921
0.7 12023 11 · 5 since 2021 2024 reported
Mateja Jamnik
dblp:41/1392
0.7 12023 78 · 44 since 2021 2026 verified
Jiahuan Yan
dblp:334/7537
0.7 12023 10 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Jonathan Valverde
dblp:322/8723
0.7 12023 5 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
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