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 test reuse 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
Christoph Derks
dblp:308/0413
0.7 12023 2 · 2 since 2021 2023 none
Thorsten Berger
dblp:22/6472
0.7 12023 72 · 31 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Mukelabai Mukelabai
dblp:200/5923
0.7 12023 8 · 5 since 2021 2024 corroborated
Jacob Krüger
dblp:186/2756
0.7 12023 59 · 36 since 2021 2026 verified
Rahul Purandare
dblp:65/5006
0.6 12022 36 · 15 since 2021 2026 verified
Salil Purandare
dblp:294/1048
0.6 12022 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Devika Sondhi
dblp:242/6247
0.6 12022 5 · 2 since 2021 2022 corroborated
Mayank Jobanputra
dblp:220/8952
0.6 12022 6 · 6 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Divya Rani
dblp:207/1752
0.6 12022 3 · 2 since 2021 2024 conflict
Mauro Pezzè
dblp:98/6514
0.5 12021 131 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Sam Malek
dblp:88/4685
0.5 12021 89 · 24 since 2021 2026 verified
Jun-Wei Lin
dblp:87/5404
0.5 12021 12 · 3 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Iftekhar Ahmed 0001
dblp:57/5553
0.5 12021 52 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Leonardo Mariani
dblp:27/2914
0.5 12021 115 · 45 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Navid Salehnamadi
dblp:266/9861
0.5 12021 10 · 7 since 2021 2023 verified
Abdulaziz Alshayban
dblp:266/9836
0.5 12021 6 · 3 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Stacy M. Branham
dblp:26/7246
0.5 12021 40 · 19 since 2021 2026 reported
Valerio Terragni
dblp:167/0208
0.5 12021 38 · 27 since 2021 2025 verified
Ali Mohebbi 0003
dblp:147/2977-3
0.5 12021 4 · 4 since 2021 2024 verified
Miryung Kim
dblp:56/5320
0.3 12017 92 · 20 since 2021 2026 verified
Tianyi Zhang 0001
dblp:17/322-1
0.3 12017 51 · 35 since 2021 2025 conflict
Jean-Christophe Deprez
dblp:66/1713
0.1 12012 11 · 1 since 2021 2021 reported
Christophe Ponsard
dblp:24/4034
0.1 12012 57 · 14 since 2021 2026 verified
Guy Anckaerts
dblp:116/6761
0.1 12012 1 · 0 since 2021 2012 none
Nicolas Devos
dblp:116/6758
0.1 12012 1 · 0 since 2021 2012 unresolved
Benedicte Moriau
dblp:116/6747
0.1 12012 1 · 0 since 2021 2012 none
Renaud Bauvin
dblp:116/6675
0.1 12012 1 · 0 since 2021 2012 none
Chenqian Zhu
dblp:282/6661
0.1 12020 1 · 0 since 2021 2020 none
Yangyang Yuan
dblp:200/5556
0.1 12020 3 · 2 since 2021 2025 conflict
Weisong Sun
dblp:183/2642
0.1 12020 40 · 35 since 2021 2026 verified
Chunrong Fang
dblp:124/0310
0.1 12020 102 · 80 since 2021 2026 verified
Qin Liu 0002
dblp:06/2123-2
0.1 12020 19 · 8 since 2021 2025 conflict
Ruzanna Chitchyan
dblp:83/1979
0.0 12011 30 · 4 since 2021 2024 verified
Fabiano Cutigi Ferrari
dblp:48/5007
0.0 12011 30 · 10 since 2021 2025 verified
Bruno B. P. Cafeo
dblp:46/10082
0.0 12011 10 · 3 since 2021 2026 verified
Joost Noppen
dblp:29/3819
0.0 12011 11 · 2 since 2021 2021 corroborated
Awais Rashid
dblp:26/3330
0.0 12011 110 · 30 since 2021 2025 verified
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