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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.
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages›Program verification›temporal logic verification topic 38 papers · 105 experts
Sub-topics 4 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on temporal logic verification 105 · 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
Hiroshi Unno 0001
dblp:24/6058
1.9 42023 42 · 22 since 2021 2026 verified
Eric Koskinen
dblp:38/5902
1.3 42023 40 · 12 since 2021 2025 verified
Tachio Terauchi
dblp:96/889
1.2 32023 43 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Xu Lu 0003
dblp:53/6317-3
0.7 12023 18 · 13 since 2021 2026 conflict
Nan Zhang 0001
dblp:28/6297-1
0.7 12023 61 · 21 since 2021 2025 conflict
Bin Yu 0008
dblp:27/116-8
0.7 12023 27 · 25 since 2021 2026 conflict
Taro Sekiyama
dblp:155/8127
0.7 12023 29 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Yu Gu 0022
dblp:15/4208-22
0.7 12023 2 · 2 since 2021 2023 verified
Cong Tian 0001
dblp:00/5365-1
0.7 12023 144 · 66 since 2021 2026 verified
Byron Cook
dblp:36/113
0.6 32017 83 · 5 since 2021 2026 none
Jean-Paul Bodeveix
dblp:97/1837
0.5 12021 38 · 10 since 2021 2027 verified
Isil Dillig
dblp:85/3688
0.5 12021 118 · 53 since 2021 2026 verified
Julien Brunel
dblp:75/6016
0.5 12021 18 · 6 since 2021 2024 corroborated
David Chemouil
dblp:65/4674
0.5 12021 17 · 5 since 2021 2023 verified
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
dblp:32/2903
0.5 12021 81 · 23 since 2021 2026 verified
Benjamin Mariano
dblp:251/2041
0.5 12021 8 · 6 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Kostas Ferles
dblp:202/1679
0.5 12021 9 · 5 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Quentin Peyras
dblp:197/3171
0.5 12021 4 · 2 since 2021 2021 corroborated
Jon Stephens
dblp:196/8839
0.5 12021 8 · 5 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Naoki Kobayashi 0001
dblp:k/NaokiKobayashi
0.4 22023 142 · 27 since 2021 2026 verified
Ryosuke Sato 0001
dblp:25/9698-1
0.4 22023 30 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Hans Vangheluwe
dblp:v/HansVangheluwe
0.4 12020 44 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Martin T. Vechev
dblp:93/2189
0.4 12020 189 · 83 since 2021 2025 verified
Dimitar Dimitrov 0004
dblp:44/4685-2
0.4 12020 10 · 2 since 2021 2025 verified
Petar Tsankov
dblp:40/9612
0.4 12020 26 · 3 since 2021 2021 none
Anton Permenev
dblp:272/8284
0.4 12020 1 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Joachim Denil
dblp:26/10404
0.4 12020 16 · 8 since 2021 2026 verified
Bart Meyers
dblp:21/9761
0.4 12020 6 · 0 since 2021 2020 verified
Dana Drachsler-Cohen
dblp:155/1628
0.4 12020 27 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Rick Salay
dblp:00/1125
0.4 12020 38 · 2 since 2021 2022 none
Shmuel Sagiv
dblp:s/SSagiv
0.3 12018 157 · 10 since 2021 2024 verified
Andreas Podelski
dblp:p/APodelski
0.3 12018 147 · 19 since 2021 2026 verified
Sharon Shoham
dblp:92/128
0.3 12018 95 · 32 since 2021 2026 verified
Jochen Hoenicke
dblp:79/3265
0.3 12018 35 · 5 since 2021 2026 verified
Nick R. T. P. van Beest
dblp:72/1044
0.3 12018 21 · 9 since 2021 2026 verified
Marco Aiello 0001
dblp:43/3220-1
0.3 12018 66 · 26 since 2021 2026 conflict
Heerko Groefsema
dblp:23/10493
0.3 12018 6 · 3 since 2021 2026 verified
Yoji Nanjo
dblp:222/1269
0.3 12018 1 · 0 since 2021 2018 none
Oded Padon
dblp:155/8122
0.3 12018 40 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Giuliano Losa
dblp:04/11066
0.3 12018 28 · 15 since 2021 2026 corroborated
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