CS Picks

Companion to PhD Demystify: tools for CS PhD applicants and early-career researchers. Live at cspicks.roars.dev.

• Search & Discoveries: CS professors, universities, and research areas (CSRankings data), A vs B comparisons, optional historical affiliations, and data-driven insights.
• Simulator: see how adding, moving, or removing faculty changes rankings.
• NSF Funding: NSF awards for CSRankings faculty.
• CS Confs: conference dates and submission deadlines.
• Awards & Grants: fellowships, research awards, and funding calls.
• Jobs: academic CS openings at universities worldwide, plus research jobs, postdocs, and PhD internships at industry and national labs.
• Stats: what the site tracks and recent repository activity.

Every view is a shareable URL. No backend: data comes from public sources and static JSON in public/.

Develop

npm ci
npm run dev      # http://localhost:5173/
npm test && npm run test:e2e && npm run build

Data refresh workflows are in MAINTENANCE.md. Architecture notes are in AGENTS.md.

Data

CSRankings (faculty, publications, rankings), DBLP, OpenAlex (historical affiliations), NSF Award Search, plus curated conference, grant, and job data checked against official pages. Rankings follow CSRankings' geometric-mean method. All results are estimates; confirm details on the official sources. Report corrections via GitHub issues or the submit forms on each page.

License

• Code: MIT.
• Our curated datasets (conferences csconfs/data/, awards and grants public/grants.json, jobs public/jobs.json, and other project-compiled data): CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, so attribution is required, with no commercial use and no derivatives. MIT does not apply to them.
• Third-party data keeps its own terms: follow the CSRankings license; DBLP and OpenAlex are CC0; NSF records are public government data.