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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
Sub-topics
228 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
combinatorial optimization 1,681discrete optimization 873nonconvex optimization 707integer programming 662linear programming 595stochastic optimization 560continuous optimization 549scheduling 511multi-objective optimization 389optimal transport 357submodular optimization 341semidefinite programming 339statistical estimation 289constrained optimization 268convergence analysis 249linear programming relaxation 210distributed optimization 199online optimization 186convex relaxation 166minimax optimization 153bilevel optimization 150riemannian optimization 149black-box optimization 135global optimization 132least squares 130gradient descent 112primal-dual method 112sparse optimization 99frank-wolfe algorithm 89knapsack problem 88metaheuristic optimization 85evolutionary computation 84iterative methods 81constraint programming 77bayesian optimization 76regularization 76control theory 73lagrangian relaxation 66experimental design 63sequential decision making 57high-dimensional statistics 55numerical computation 49dynamical systems 48polynomial system solving 46fixed point computation 45optimization 42root finding 40approximation theory 35variational methods 34numerical analysis 33inverse problems 31causal inference 30large-scale optimization 30importance sampling 29heuristic optimization 27multiplicative weights update 26support vector machine 26design optimization 25multiple hypothesis testing 25stochastic systems 25linear inequalities 21sparse learning 20relaxation 19robust statistics 18statistical learning theory 18convergence acceleration 17gradient estimation 16langevin dynamics 16parametric optimization 16markov random field 15optimization under uncertainty 15inventory management 14inverse optimization 14markov chain analysis 14multi-criteria decision making 14partial differential equations 13smoothing 13anomaly detection 12approximation methods 12optimization modeling 12queueing systems 12nonlinear equations 11parallel optimization 11sparsity 11bootstrap 10characteristic polynomial 10convex analysis 10integral equations 10line search 10parameter tuning 10random embedding 10tensor optimization 10variational analysis 10optimization for machine learning 8uncertainty quantification 8variational inference 6selective inference 5risk measures 4
Show 130 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
conditional independence testing 9differential equations 9dynamic optimization 9tensor methods 9auction algorithm 8cross-validation 8joint optimization 8adaptive step size 7hard thresholding 7learning to optimize 7levenberg-marquardt 7restart strategies 7spectral relaxation 7thresholding 7adaptive learning rate 6automatic differentiation 6cost function 6integer programming relaxation 6lagrangian multiplier method 6markovian noise 6min-sum algorithm 6multilevel optimization 6ordinary differential equation 6overcomplete dictionaries 6parameter optimization 6singular perturbation 6spin glass 6stratified sampling 6analysis of variance 5bethe free energy 5constrained sampling 5constraint generation 5continuous greedy 5derivative estimation 5functional data analysis 5lie algebra 5lipschitz continuity 5lipschitz extension 5lyapunov method 5multitask learning 5outlier removal 5probabilistic simulation 5randomized optimization 5statistical learning 5taylor expansion 5triangle inequality 5variable ordering 5algorithmic stability 4automated algorithm design 4banach space 4beamforming 4carathéodory theorem 4combinatorial relaxation 4continuous-time analysis 4divergence minimization 4feature reduction 4fuzzy optimization 4geometric measure theory 4hamilton-jacobi equations 4ising model sampling 4linear optimization oracle 4lipschitz maps 4loss function 4lp norm 4metropolis algorithm 4mixing time estimation 4neural network training 4polyak-łojasiewicz condition 4polynomial inequality 4potential function 4probabilistic models 4projection 4quadrangle inequality 4replica symmetry breaking 4robust inference 4scalable inference 4screw theory 4separation algorithms 4simultaneous inference 4solution prediction 4spherical harmonic expansion 4statistical guarantees 4step-size selection 4surrogate modeling 4two-point boundary value problem 4active sensing 3block term decomposition 3branch-and-prune 3concave relaxation 3convex hull minimization 3data-driven optimization 3deflation method 3differential privacy 3dual algorithm 3dual ascent 3euclidean distance geometry 3fixed point analysis 3forward-backward greedy algorithm 3fractional calculus 3generalization guarantees 3geometric flow 3grothendieck constant 3implicit function theorem 3instance generation 3lemke's algorithm 3manufacturing system optimization 3matrix multiplicative weights 3move-making algorithm 3non-commutative optimization 3optimization oracle 3oracle model 3osborne's iteration 3parallel and distributed optimization 3polyhedral cone 3presolving 3price optimization 3proximal average approximation 3proximal operator 3proximal operator computation 3quadratic approximation 3rank correlation 3real stable polynomials 3self-concordance 3solver code generation 3space allocation 3stochastic dominance 3supervised dimension reduction 3underdetermined linear systems 3vector machines 3viscosity solutions 3
Experts on Mathematical optimization
29,768 · 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