CS Conferences – High‑Rank (CORE A*)

This guide lists premier computer‑science conferences that are considered equivalent to Q1 journals in prestige, primarily based on the CORE conference ranking (A tier) and community reputation. Conferences are grouped by research area, with links to their official homepages.*

📡 Networks & Communication

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | ACM SIGCOMM | SIGCOMM | ACM | A* | link | | IEEE INFOCOM | INFOCOM | IEEE | A* | link | | International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks | ICCCN | IEEE | A* | link |

👁️ Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | CVPR | CVPR | IEEE/CVF | A* | link | | ICCV | ICCV | IEEE/CVF | A* | link | | ECCV | ECCV | European Vision Society | A* | link |

🗣️ Natural Language Processing

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | ACL | ACL | ACL Anthology | A* | link | | EMNLP | EMNLP | ACL | A* | link | | NAACL | NAACL | ACL | A* | link |

🤖 Machine Learning & AI

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | NeurIPS | NeurIPS | NeurIPS Foundation | A* | link | | ICML | ICML | International Machine Learning Society | A* | link | | AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence | AAAI | AAAI | A* | link |

🔐 Security & Privacy

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | S&P | IEEE | A* | link | | USENIX Security | USENIX Security | USENIX | A* | link | | ACM CCS | CCS | ACM | A* | link |

🖥️ Systems & Architecture

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | OSDI | OSDI | ACM SIGOPS | A* | link | | SOSP | SOSP | ACM SIGOPS | A* | link | | International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems | ASPLOS | ACM SIGPLAN/IEEE | A* | link |

📐 Theory & Algorithms

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | STOC | STOC | ACM SIGACT | A* | link | | FOCS | FOCS | IEEE Computer Society | A* | link | | SODA | SODA | SIAM | A* | link |

🤖 Robotics & Automation

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | ICRA | ICRA | IEEE RAS | A* | link | | RSS | RSS | Robotics: Science and Systems | A* | link |

🧪 Quantum Computing

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | QIP | QIP | APS | A* | link | | IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering | QCE | IEEE | A* | link |

🧬 Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

| Conference | Acronym | Organizer | CORE Rank | URL | |—|—|—|—|—| | ISMB | ISMB | ISCB | A* | link | | RECOMB | RECOMB | RECOMB | A* | link |

Ranks are based on the CORE conference ranking (A tier) and community reputation as of 2025.*