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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›Software testing›test smell detection topic 8 papers · 32 experts
Experts on test smell detection 32 · 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
James A. Jones
dblp:57/6158
0.9 12025 51 · 10 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Faraz Gurramkonda
dblp:426/3510
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Monil Narang
dblp:426/3405
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Avishak Chakroborty
dblp:426/3345
0.9 12025 1 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Foyzul Hassan
dblp:35/9943
0.9 12025 22 · 14 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
dblp:140/0883
0.9 12025 108 · 79 since 2021 2026 verified
Bruce R. Maxim
dblp:05/3502
0.9 12025 18 · 4 since 2021 2025 verified
Xiaohu Yang 0001
dblp:95/6761
0.8 12024 88 · 51 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yanming Yang
dblp:52/2114
0.8 12024 10 · 6 since 2021 2024 conflict
Xing Hu 0008
dblp:49/10052-8
0.8 12024 75 · 70 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xin Xia 0001
dblp:06/2072-1
0.8 12024 324 · 181 since 2021 2026 conflict
Alexandru Bodea
dblp:325/0899
0.6 12022 1 · 1 since 2021 2022 none
Oleg Smirnov
dblp:93/6499
0.5 12021 7 · 6 since 2021 2025 none
Shinsuke Matsumoto
dblp:79/3883
0.5 12021 63 · 16 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Iftekhar Ahmed 0001
dblp:57/5553
0.5 12021 52 · 29 since 2021 2026 verified
Shinji Kusumoto
dblp:32/2663
0.5 12021 132 · 26 since 2021 2025 corroborated
Masayuki Taniguchi
dblp:311/8829
0.5 12021 1 · 1 since 2021 2021 none
Tongjie Wang
dblp:299/1925
0.5 12021 2 · 2 since 2021 2025 none
Yaroslav Golubev
dblp:256/6199
0.5 12021 28 · 25 since 2021 2026 verified
Timofey Bryksin
dblp:136/0260
0.5 12021 36 · 28 since 2021 2025 verified
Jiawei Li 0013
dblp:12/3242-13
0.5 12021 6 · 6 since 2021 2026 conflict
Massimiliano Di Penta
dblp:d/MassimilianoDiPenta
0.2 12016 277 · 69 since 2021 2027 verified
Andrea De Lucia
dblp:33/2785
0.2 12016 214 · 33 since 2021 2026 verified
Rocco Oliveto
dblp:18/6986
0.2 12016 183 · 43 since 2021 2027 verified
Michele Tufano
dblp:166/4957
0.2 12016 29 · 10 since 2021 2023 corroborated
Fabio Palomba
dblp:116/6732
0.2 12016 181 · 99 since 2021 2027 verified
Gabriele Bavota
dblp:09/8523
0.2 12016 209 · 80 since 2021 2027 conflict
Denys Poshyvanyk
dblp:02/320
0.2 12016 190 · 38 since 2021 2026 verified
Serge Demeyer
dblp:d/SDemeyer
0.1 12007 69 · 21 since 2021 2026 verified
Bart Van Rompaey
dblp:95/3884
0.1 12007 7 · 0 since 2021 2011 corroborated
Matthias Rieger
dblp:91/6617
0.1 12007 5 · 1 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Bart Du Bois
dblp:15/5848
0.1 12007 5 · 0 since 2021 2007 none
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