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›Learning paradigms›continual learning›task incremental learning topic 11 papers · 37 experts
Experts on task incremental learning 37 · 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
Vinay P. Namboodiri
dblp:95/6599
1.3 22024 132 · 63 since 2021 2026 verified
Pratik Mazumder
dblp:237/9769
1.3 22024 22 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Pravendra Singh
dblp:160/8743
1.3 22024 52 · 36 since 2021 2026 verified
Piyush Rai
dblp:02/525
1.3 22024 69 · 16 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Bing Liu 0001
dblp:l/BingLiu1
1.2 22023 253 · 50 since 2021 2026 conflict
Gyuhak Kim
dblp:317/0166
1.2 22023 8 · 8 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Zixuan Ke
dblp:196/3817
1.2 22023 22 · 16 since 2021 2025 none
Tatsuya Konishi
dblp:185/3974
1.2 22023 18 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yunhui Guo
dblp:165/3105
0.9 12025 42 · 31 since 2021 2026 conflict
Naoki Hiratani
dblp:155/6037
0.9 12025 6 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Thomas Hofmann 0001
dblp:h/ThHofmann
0.7 12023 140 · 46 since 2021 2025 conflict
Xin Tan 0002
dblp:89/6413-2
0.7 12023 110 · 98 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fan Zhou 0002
dblp:63/3122-2
0.7 12023 243 · 206 since 2021 2026 conflict
Sanghwan Kim
dblp:60/10274
0.7 12023 6 · 6 since 2021 2025 none
Qiang Gao 0003
dblp:43/5917-3
0.7 12023 53 · 47 since 2021 2026 conflict
Wenju Sun
dblp:300/7654
0.7 12023 15 · 15 since 2021 2026 conflict
Tenghao Cai
dblp:296/8054
0.7 12023 4 · 4 since 2021 2024 none
Wen Wang 0019
dblp:29/4680-19
0.7 12023 31 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Qingyong Li
dblp:29/4219
0.7 12023 67 · 38 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chihiro Ono
dblp:28/3923
0.7 12023 19 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Lorenzo Noci
dblp:268/6839
0.7 12023 14 · 14 since 2021 2025 none
Mori Kurokawa
dblp:25/2313
0.7 12023 18 · 13 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Antonio Orvieto
dblp:228/9270
0.7 12023 40 · 35 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Zhizhong Zhang 0001
dblp:20/1541-1
0.7 12023 88 · 83 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yuan Xie 0006
dblp:157/8128-6
0.7 12023 179 · 141 since 2021 2026 conflict
Chengjie Wang 0001
dblp:142/0008-1
0.7 12023 165 · 148 since 2021 2026 conflict
Guannan Jiang
dblp:135/6446
0.7 12023 40 · 38 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiaojun Shan
dblp:127/8709
0.7 12023 11 · 9 since 2021 2025 none
Jing Zhang 0058
dblp:05/3499-58
0.7 12023 9 · 7 since 2021 2024 conflict
Yanyun Qu
dblp:03/3500
0.7 12023 151 · 113 since 2021 2026 verified
Ken Shao
dblp:324/8663
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 reported
Changnan Xiao
dblp:292/3842
0.6 12022 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Rakib Hyder
dblp:212/6501
0.6 12022 10 · 5 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Muhammad Salman Asif
dblp:21/1910
0.6 12022 46 · 32 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Boyu Hou
dblp:184/6421
0.6 12022 13 · 11 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ashley Prater-Bennette
dblp:158/9018
0.6 12022 14 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Panos P. Markopoulos
dblp:133/3582
0.6 12022 21 · 5 since 2021 2022 verified
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