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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.
Sub-topics 12 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on task parallelism 217 · 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
Mike Rainey
dblp:82/6878
1.4 32024 24 · 7 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Umut A. Acar
dblp:44/3421
1.4 32024 86 · 14 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Nathan Beckmann
dblp:42/7272
0.9 12025 41 · 17 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Souradip Ghosh
dblp:284/4720
0.9 12025 10 · 9 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Brandon Lucia
dblp:18/6801
0.9 12025 56 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Christopher Batten
dblp:20/4601
0.8 22020 44 · 15 since 2021 2025 verified
Matthew Fluet
dblp:f/MatthewFluet
0.8 12024 23 · 1 since 2021 2024 verified
Jaroslaw Zola
dblp:66/5802
0.8 12024 33 · 13 since 2021 2025 reported
Zainul Abideen Sayed
dblp:371/3414
0.8 12024 2 · 2 since 2021 2024 reported
Sam Westrick
dblp:203/3288
0.8 12024 16 · 11 since 2021 2026 verified
Subhadeep Karan
dblp:185/0888
0.8 12024 4 · 1 since 2021 2024 none
Vivek Sarkar
dblp:s/VivekSarkar
0.7 32019 158 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
I-Ting Angelina Lee
dblp:82/1002
0.7 22019 34 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Kunal Agrawal 0001
dblp:35/962
0.7 22019 111 · 27 since 2021 2026 conflict
Robert Utterback
dblp:141/0286
0.7 22019 6 · 0 since 2021 2019 none
Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos
dblp:56/3817
0.7 12023 57 · 18 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Sara Royuela
dblp:55/11418
0.7 12023 18 · 9 since 2021 2025 verified
Chenle Yu
dblp:266/2453
0.7 12023 3 · 2 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Dimitrios Mangiras
dblp:250/1196
0.7 12023 5 · 2 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Eduardo Quiñones
dblp:21/595
0.7 12023 76 · 7 since 2021 2025 verified
David G. Chinnery
dblp:04/6478
0.7 12023 25 · 7 since 2021 2026 verified
Alfredo Goldman
dblp:g/AlfredoGoldman
0.6 22025 65 · 15 since 2021 2025 verified
Guido Araujo
dblp:a/GuidoAraujo
0.6 22025 88 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Carlos Álvarez 0001
dblp:72/4572
0.6 22025 34 · 12 since 2021 2026 verified
Michael Frank 0008
dblp:42/4902-8
0.6 22025 8 · 4 since 2021 2025 verified
Lucas Morais
dblp:208/8224
0.6 22025 6 · 4 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Mateo Valero
dblp:v/MateoValero
0.6 22018 292 · 7 since 2021 2026 verified
Miquel Moretó
dblp:80/1904
0.6 22018 114 · 46 since 2021 2026 verified
Marc Casas
dblp:68/6352
0.6 22018 94 · 36 since 2021 2026 verified
Cheng-Hsiang Chiu
dblp:313/1374
0.6 12022 13 · 13 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Tsung-Wei Huang
dblp:13/7933
0.6 12022 100 · 60 since 2021 2026 conflict
Nikos Hardavellas
dblp:h/NikolaosHardavellas
0.5 12021 43 · 13 since 2021 2026 verified
Peter A. Dinda
dblp:95/2040
0.5 12021 91 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Simone Campanoni
dblp:39/2917
0.5 12021 45 · 22 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Ryan Newton
dblp:34/3982
0.5 12021 40 · 5 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Kyle C. Hale
dblp:138/9443
0.5 12021 16 · 9 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Moyang Wang
dblp:184/8290
0.4 12020 8 · 4 since 2021 2024 conflict
Tuan Ta
dblp:122/4949
0.4 12020 8 · 3 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Eduard Ayguadé
dblp:62/6835
0.4 32016 216 · 19 since 2021 2025 verified
Alex Aiken
dblp:a/AAiken
0.4 22025 184 · 33 since 2021 2026 verified
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