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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.
Experts by research domain — the database's own venue-derived domains; a paper can belong to several; active = at least one paper since 2021
Artificial intelligence and machine learning
419,855 active · 726,626 total · 856,312 papers
NeurIPS · AAAI · ESWA · CVPR · ICML · EAAI
Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games
220,290 active · 419,218 total · 473,177 papers
AAAI · ICASSP · MTA · CVPR · INTERSPEECH · ICCV
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing
306,612 active · 637,688 total · 436,260 papers
TGARS · IGARSS · TITS · TII · CogSci · Bioinformatics
Systems, architecture and hardware
148,087 active · 345,638 total · 325,499 papers
IROS · ICRA · VTC · ISCAS · TJSC · IECON
Computer networks
105,468 active · 214,616 total · 249,845 papers
IOT · ICC · GLOBECOM · TWC · TCOM · TMC
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval
134,049 active · 269,256 total · 249,104 papers
IEEE BigData · CIKM · SIGKDD · TKDE · AEI · SIGIR
Theory of computation
38,447 active · 105,648 total · 202,645 papers
TIT · TCS · DAM · SODA · STOC · ICALP
Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing
114,847 active · 268,055 total · 198,672 papers
CHI · SMC · TSMC · SIGCSE · PACMHCI · IJHCI
Software engineering, systems software and programming languages
76,605 active · 178,952 total · 173,661 papers
DATE · COMPSAC · CoDIT · PACM PL · TSC · JSS
Security and privacy
57,527 active · 109,981 total · 102,399 papers
TIFS · TDSC · USENIX Security · TrustCom · CCS · JISA
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
231,922 experts · 238,182 papers
33 areas · 23,066 topics
Theoretical computer science
84,688 experts · 103,442 papers
15 areas · 12,358 topics
Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
119,266 experts · 88,175 papers
18 areas · 10,819 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia
99,217 experts · 74,150 papers
13 areas · 7,821 topics
Computer networks
79,947 experts · 72,281 papers
18 areas · 9,664 topics
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
83,822 experts · 68,869 papers
17 areas · 7,059 topics
Network and information security
67,706 experts · 53,290 papers
15 areas · 5,550 topics
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
111,858 experts · 46,353 papers
9 areas · 5,108 topics
Human-computer interaction and pervasive computing
77,670 experts · 43,820 papers
16 areas · 4,757 topics
Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
53,122 experts · 40,802 papers
14 areas · 4,459 topics
Computer graphics and multimedia›Visualization and visual analytics
area
7,160 papers · 14,841 experts
Sub-topics
132 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
visual analytics 576scientific visualization 433graph visualization 313flow visualization 196interactive visualization 175volume visualization 162information visualization 149dimensionality reduction 144uncertainty visualization 131high-dimensional data visualization 128topological data analysis 121visualization design 107medical visualization 82interactive data exploration 77biological data visualization 71geospatial visualization 71visual saliency 67text visualization 66spatiotemporal visualization 65visual attention 59visualization recommendation 56graphical perception 55multivariate data visualization 55focus+context visualization 54visualization evaluation 54software visualization 53visual encoding 53time series visualization 52interaction techniques 50data storytelling 46data visualization 45scatterplot 453d visualization 43hierarchical data visualization 41ensemble visualization 39visual comparison 39visualization literacy 37temporal data visualization 34visualization authoring 32biomedical visualization 28set visualization 25usability and user experience research 25video visualization 25collaborative visualization 23sensemaking 23design study 22display technology 21perception 21image abstraction 17interactive graphics 17clustering 14uncertainty quantification 14multi-view visualization 13outlier detection 13decision support 11interactive data analysis 11data exploration 10user behavior analysis 10visualization theory 10movement data analysis 9visual communication 9visual storytelling 9time series analysis 8visual design 8visualization generation 7data reduction 5social data analysis 5cartography 4data transformation 4interaction design 4spatial visualization 4explainable AI 3human-in-the-loop 3
Show 59 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
high-dimensional data exploration 9bayesian reasoning 8perception and cognition 8large display visualization 7model visualization 7sensitivity analysis 7eye tracking analysis 6layout algorithm 6visual reasoning 6visualization toolkit 6authoring tool 5automatic graphic design 5spatial ability 5causal analysis 4collaborative data analysis 4crowdsourced annotation 4decision-making with uncertainty 4geographic information systems 4health data visualization 4memorability 4prior elicitation 4visual clutter 4visual metaphor 4visual programming 4approximate visualization 3belief elicitation 3computational notebook 3data structure for visualization 3design visualization 3electron microscopy 3embedding comparison 3graph embedding 3graph representation 3graph-based navigation 3hierarchical aggregation 3human-computer collaboration 3infographic analysis 3knowledge discovery 3learning analytics 3matrix reordering 3multi-scale spatial aggregation 3multivariate data exploration 3overlap removal 3particle-based sampling 3scientometrics 3spatial interpolation 3spatial understanding 3spatio-temporal data exploration 3stress majorization 3stress minimization 3stress model 3time series querying 3topic analysis 3uncertainty communication 3user study methodology 3user-centered design 3visual augmentation 3visualization dataset 3wayfinding 3
Experts on Visualization and visual analytics
14,841 · by weight: papers on the topic counted with recency (1 for a paper about it, 0.3 as context, halved every five years), summed over the area's topics