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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 architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems›Distributed systems
area
13,906 papers · 27,615 experts
Sub-topics
184 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
fault tolerance 3,291consensus 941peer-to-peer systems 753distributed coordination 734replication 679distributed system architecture 384grid computing 379distributed algorithms 281distributed machine learning 173distributed coordination and fault tolerance 157clock synchronization 137distributed graph processing 136distributed data processing 121resource sharing 114distributed optimization 100remote procedure call 100middleware 98publish/subscribe systems 96blockchain 86communication optimization 86distributed scheduling 85edge computing 77consistency models 76group communication 76gossip protocols 74anomaly detection 66distributed database 66concurrency control 60distributed object systems 60mutual exclusion 59stream processing 58quorum systems 54root cause analysis 51coded computation 46service-oriented architecture 46distributed mobile computing 45distributed programming 45distributed caching 43distributed computing theory 42distributed control 41distributed data structures 38distributed resource management 38workflow management 31transaction processing 29distributed debugging 26graph processing systems 23data aggregation 22distributed system dependability 22distributed system security 21data consistency 20distributed system verification 20communication complexity 19concurrency 18distributed multimedia systems 18asynchronous systems 17dynamic network 17network connectivity 16communication protocols 15convergence analysis 15secure computation 15data synchronization 14formal specification 14data provenance 13data transmission 13distributed system testing 13remote execution 13consistency protocols 12replication and consistency 12distributed system specification 11crowdsourcing 10distributed interactive applications 10resource monitoring 10distributed management 9heterogeneous networks 9distributed application development 8distributed information systems 8distributed system modeling 8experimental testbed 7self-adaptive systems 7state management 7component-based systems 6fault management 6distributed communication 5distributed system evaluation 5load management 5observability 5operating system support 4performance management 4threshold policy 4distributed network 3network management 3
Show 93 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
internet-based computing 9network synchronization 9gradient compression 8task clustering 8time-sharing systems 8anomaly diagnosis 7bug detection 7consistency and availability tradeoff 7contention resolution 7distributed implementation 7distributed software development 7global memory 7incident management 7random walk 7system log analysis 7verifiable computation 7web caching 7adaptive partitioning 6cache invalidation 6data replication and migration 6data streaming 6distributed services 6message delivery 6shared memory emulation 6testbed experimentation 6consistency verification 5network computer 5network controllability 5object caching 5object sharing 5online social networks 5re-execution 5replication and caching 5search algorithms 5shortest path 5state migration 5computer network 4concurrent data transfer 4consistency conditions 4consistency-latency tradeoff 4delay compensation 4distributed cluster computing 4distributed job execution 4graph matching 4large-scale machine learning systems 4live reconfiguration 4oblivious computation 4query result caching 4random walk sampling 4randomized algorithms 4resource heterogeneity 4scalable data processing 4alternating direction method of multipliers 3causality tracking 3client scheduling 3code migration 3communication link 3compositional reasoning 3correctness verification 3database availability 3declarative networking 3deployment optimization 3distributed compilation 3distributed data association 3distributed production systems 3dynamic content web site 3event-based architecture 3heterogeneous database systems 3heterogeneous devices 3intermittent connectivity 3large-scale network 3large-scale networked systems 3leasing 3multi-object operation 3network ordering 3persistent object systems 3pipeline configuration 3problem diagnosis 3programming language support 3proximity query 3query forwarding 3random sampling 3remote control 3resource availability prediction 3resource-constrained client 3set agreement 3stepwise refinement 3task management 3topology discovery 3transaction commit 3trusted hardware 3wireless distributed computing 3zero-trust security 3
Experts on Distributed systems
27,615 · 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