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. Analytics: src/analytics.ts does nothing until you enable a provider (e.g. uncomment the Plausible tag in each page's <head>).

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.