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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
Sub-topics
91 · with their number of papers; shaded topics divide further
vulnerability discovery 1,103memory safety 457operating system security 338information flow control 237exploitation 212multilevel security 80vulnerability management 80binary analysis 79software supply chain security 71vulnerability analysis 57data security 52reverse engineering 44vulnerability patching 42secure software development 38software protection 36memory protection 35database security 30information flow tracking 29attack surface reduction 26program analysis 25content moderation 24virtualization security 22language-based security 21trusted computing 21isolation 19software diversity 19supply chain security 19cloud security 18security policy enforcement 18code randomization 16data integrity 16firmware security 16distributed system security 15exploitation mitigation 15secure storage 15vulnerability prediction 14insider threat 13penetration testing 13file system security 12intrusion tolerance 12return-oriented programming defense 12firmware analysis 11secure system design 11security verification 11provenance tracking 10configuration security 9secure logging 9software vulnerability 9formal security model 8software update 7application security 6platform security 6program transformation 5security engineering 5security testing 5system auditing 5software integrity 4offensive security 3runtime security 3
Show 32 smaller topics (under 10 papers each)
security policy specification 9auditing 8operating systems 8trusted computer systems 8log analysis 7risk assessment 7secret leakage 7causality analysis 6insecure code generation 6credential leakage 5open source security 5binary instrumentation 4black-box testing 4defect detection 4vulnerability 4attacker deception 3automated attack discovery 3checksum verification 3confidentiality properties 3crash reporting 3dynamic code loading 3election security 3javascript engine 3key reconstruction 3policy-violation detection 3replicated execution 3security patch analysis 3self-modifying code 3semantic gap 3software mitigation 3untrusted platform 3user behavior monitoring 3
Experts on Systems and software security
11,875 · 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