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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.
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
Artificial intelligence›Machine learning›Efficient and distributed learning
area
18,952 papers · 40,873 experts
Sub-topics
129 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
model compression 4,850federated learning 3,247distributed training 1,167parameter-efficient fine-tuning 1,122active learning 826inference efficiency 554inference acceleration 270memory-efficient training 190dataset distillation 187model merging 182data selection 169data-efficient learning 154on-device inference 111distributed inference 101parameter sharing 101automated machine learning 80collaborative learning 79adaptive computation 68low-precision training 66model acceleration 66federated and distributed training 64inference serving 58efficient training 57model quantization 55KV cache management 45large-scale learning 44model reuse 43resource allocation 40dynamic neural network 39communication compression 37token reduction 37model deployment 28parameter-efficient learning 27memory optimization 26data curation 24energy-efficient learning 17missing modality handling 16auto labeling 15scalable learning 15subset selection 15distillation 14gradient matching 14memory management 14progressive training 14KV cache 13attention efficiency 12model inference 12resource-constrained learning 11communication scheduling 10model initialization 10distributed statistical learning 9neuromorphic computing 9edge computing 8model composition 8model optimization 7resource-efficient learning 7hardware acceleration 6compression 5efficient neural network design 5data-centric learning 4sparse computation 4data reduction 3
Show 67 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
communication constraints 9softmax approximation 9efficient learning 8inference systems 8parallel inference 8communication complexity 7computation reuse 7distributed training and inference 7gradient tracking 7lightweight fine-tuning 7low-rank training 7collective learning 6data reweighting 6divide and conquer 6divide-and-conquer learning 6machine learning libraries 6sampling-based training 6adaptive parameter selection 5asynchronous execution 5distributed mean estimation 5efficient video understanding 5event-triggered communication 5hyperdimensional computing 5local updates 5model compilation 5model tuning 5orthogonal projection 5parameter-efficient model 5attention computation 4attention head selection 4batching 4cascaded inference 4coded computation 4computation offloading 4embedding cache 4model compression and efficient inference 4model maintenance 4model offloading 4production machine learning 4sampled softmax 4topology construction 4candidate selection 3co-learning 3communication strategies 3compressive learning 3data requirement estimation 3deep learning compilers 3draft model training 3efficient multimodal learning 3efficient video processing 3event-driven computation 3foveated sensing 3gradient filtering 3gradient mismatch 3gram matrix approximation 3hard sample synthesis 3inter-module communication 3label-efficient evaluation 3latency prediction 3lattice vector quantization 3low-rank projection 3machine learning for systems 3parameter averaging 3parameter prediction 3resource-constrained devices 3sensitivity sampling 3throughput optimization 3
Experts on Efficient and distributed learning
40,873 · 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