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›Natural language and speech›Language models and text generation›agentic language model›tool-augmented language models topic 31 papers · 175 experts · broader topic added to organise its sub-topics
Sub-topics 2 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
Experts on tool-augmented language models 175 · 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
Zhenya Huang
dblp:178/8690
1.7 22025 148 · 125 since 2021 2026 verified
Zhiyuan Ma 0006
dblp:138/5978-6
1.7 22025 4 · 4 since 2021 2025 verified
Jiayu Liu 0001
dblp:120/1047-1
1.7 22025 22 · 22 since 2021 2026 conflict
Hao Peng 0009
dblp:69/7742-9
1.5 22024 30 · 22 since 2021 2025 conflict
Heng Ji 0001
dblp:61/2408-1
1.5 22024 270 · 149 since 2021 2026 conflict
Lifan Yuan
dblp:305/0572
1.5 22024 18 · 18 since 2021 2025 none
Xingyao Wang 0002
dblp:264/9892-2
1.5 22024 12 · 12 since 2021 2025 conflict
Yangyi Chen
dblp:05/10083
1.5 22024 30 · 22 since 2021 2025 conflict
Weihua Du
dblp:229/1269
1.1 22025 10 · 10 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yanan Cao 0001
dblp:97/5152-1
1.0 12026 116 · 79 since 2021 2026 conflict
Fang Fang 0009
dblp:74/3719-9
1.0 12026 32 · 25 since 2021 2026 conflict
Ge Zhang 0002
dblp:70/6366-2
1.0 12026 19 · 17 since 2021 2026 verified
Xin Xu 0010
dblp:66/3874-10
1.0 12026 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 conflict
Jingang Wang
dblp:59/7807
1.0 12026 89 · 77 since 2021 2026 conflict
Shaoting Zhang 0001
dblp:53/3894
1.0 12026 214 · 121 since 2021 2026 conflict
Meixi Du
dblp:437/2037
1.0 12026 1 · 1 since 2021 2026 none
Yash Vishe
dblp:417/4234
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 reported
Shengqian Qin
dblp:400/5180
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 none
Peijia Qin
dblp:372/8155
1.0 12026 3 · 3 since 2021 2026 none
Zachary Novack
dblp:334/7662
1.0 12026 11 · 11 since 2021 2026 reported
Zhongzhen Huang
dblp:320/0462
1.0 12026 8 · 8 since 2021 2026 none
Farima Fatahi Bayat
dblp:320/0224
1.0 12026 4 · 4 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Junda Wu
dblp:295/8249
1.0 12026 35 · 35 since 2021 2026 conflict
Estevam Hruschka
dblp:294/1598
1.0 12026 59 · 5 since 2021 2026 verified
Julian J. McAuley
dblp:29/3483
1.0 12026 250 · 165 since 2021 2026 verified
Xiaofan Zhang 0002
dblp:28/9804-2
1.0 12026 39 · 32 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xunyi Jiang
dblp:255/9123
1.0 12026 2 · 2 since 2021 2026 conflict
Yakun Zhu
dblp:220/2775
1.0 12026 6 · 5 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yutong Huang
dblp:206/4540
1.0 12026 8 · 5 since 2021 2026 conflict
Rongxiang Weng
dblp:205/2780
1.0 12026 20 · 11 since 2021 2026 none
Jiahuan Li
dblp:199/0384
1.0 12026 13 · 12 since 2021 2026 conflict
Xixun Lin
dblp:190/7231
1.0 12026 45 · 42 since 2021 2026 verified
Pouya Pezeshkpour
dblp:159/1696
1.0 12026 8 · 7 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Xiting Wang
dblp:134/4020
1.0 12026 69 · 46 since 2021 2026 conflict
Pengtao Xie
dblp:133/1998
1.0 12026 61 · 34 since 2021 2026 corroborated
Yujiu Yang 0001
dblp:30/3847
1.0 22024 153 · 123 since 2021 2026 verified
Milind R. Naphade
dblp:n/MilindRNaphade
0.9 12025 62 · 1 since 2021 2025 none
Wanxiang Che
dblp:98/4640
0.9 12025 177 · 100 since 2021 2026 verified
Sambit Sahu
dblp:76/157
0.9 12025 48 · 6 since 2021 2026 none
Hao Liang 0017
dblp:62/5181-17
0.9 12025 14 · 14 since 2021 2026 conflict
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