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Plan for Remaining Validated PRs

Current State

  • 65 PRs merged (33 updates, 1 removal, 1 reinstatement, 30 new additions)
  • ~335 validated PRs still open (35 from analyzed batch + ~300 not yet analyzed)
  • 6 PRs confirmed ineligible (should be closed or have label removed)
  • 7 PRs are duplicates (should be closed after the original is merged)
  • ~22 batch PRs need per-faculty verification before merging

Immediate Actions (no further research needed)

Close as Ineligible (6 PRs)

PR Faculty Reason
#11475 Thomas Y. Yeh (UCI) Teaching track, not research tenure-track
#11159 Hesheng Wang (SJTU) Dept of Automation, not CS
#11450 Md. Tauhidur Rahman (FIU) Dept of ECE, not CS
#11129 John Thomas 0001 (RIT) Dept of ECE Technology, not CS
#11136 Xinning Gui (Penn State) College of IST, not CS
#11452 Christopher C. Yang (Drexel) Information Science dept, advises Info Sci PhD not CS PhD

Close as Duplicates (7 PRs)

Close Keep Person
#11080 #11163 (already merged) Eleni Tzirita Zacharatou
#11286 #11176 (pending) Chuanxia Zheng (NTU)
#11099 #11114 (pending) Keith G. Mills (LSU)
#11120 #11114 (pending) Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky (LSU)
#11139 #11114 (pending) James Ghawaly (LSU)
#11364 #11316 (pending) Jing Zhang 0037 (Wuhan)
#11471 none (needs fix) Jia Zhang -- PR adds both "Jia Zhang" and "Jia Zhang 0001" with same Scholar ID; needs to be fixed to only include "Jia Zhang 0001"

Decline with Explanation (2 PRs)

PR Faculty Reason
#11220 Rodney Van Meter (Keio) Faculty of Environment & Info Studies; PhD in "Media and Governance"; no evidence of CS PhD advising
#11149 Nicolas Christianson (JHU) Not yet in tenure-track role (starts Fall 2026); currently "assistant research professor"

Batch PRs Requiring Per-Faculty Verification

These PRs contain multiple faculty. Some may be eligible and some not. Each person needs individual checking.

Strategy for Verification

For each person in a batch PR, check:

  1. Department: Look at the faculty page URL. Chinese university faculty pages (jszy..edu.cn, faculty..edu.cn) typically show "School/Department:" field.
  2. Title: Confirm tenure-track equivalent.
  3. CS PhD advising: If not in CS dept, look for cross-appointment evidence.

Priority Order (largest impact first)

Tier 1: Large NTU batches (27 faculty total)

  • #11175 (12 faculty) and #11176 (15 faculty)
  • All use dr.ntu.edu.sg URLs (general directory)
  • Need to verify each is in SCSE (School of Computer Science and Engineering) or equivalent
  • Some may be in Math, EE, or Business schools

Tier 2: Wuhan University batches (39 faculty total across 7 PRs)

  • #11211 (7), #11232 (5), #11233 (4), #11312 (7), #11316 (9), #11323 (3), #11352 (7)
  • Known issues: #11352 contains Yuling Jiao (Math dept); #11312 contains Bijun Li (Surveying/Remote Sensing lab)
  • Most have jszy.whu.edu.cn URLs; check "School/Department" field on each page
  • Key departments: 计算机学院 (CS) = OK; 人工智能学院 (AI) = borderline; 数学与统计学院 (Math) = NO; 测绘 (Surveying) = NO

Tier 3: Nankai AI batches (17 faculty total across 3 PRs)

  • #11084 (13), #11092 (9), #11103 (4)
  • All from ai.nankai.edu.cn (College of Artificial Intelligence)
  • Need to verify: Can Nankai AI faculty solely advise CS PhD students?
  • Nankai has a separate College of Computer Science (cs.nankai.edu.cn)

Tier 4: Other batches

  • #11114 (LSU, 8 faculty) -- Also has duplicate issues with #11099, #11120, #11139. Scholar ID discrepancy for Keith Mills needs resolution.
  • #11310 (Sun Yat-sen, 4 faculty) -- 2 have cse.sysu.edu.cn URLs (OK), 2 have personal sites (need verification)
  • #11402 (ECNU, 4 faculty) -- Check departments
  • #11449 (Bogazici, 3 faculty) -- 1 confirmed CMPE (OK), 2 need verification
  • #11460 (Bogazici, 2 faculty) -- 1 confirmed CMPE (OK), 1 needs verification
  • #11222 (Keio SFC, 4 faculty) -- All in Faculty of Environment & Info Studies; same concern as Rodney Van Meter

Individual PRs Needing Quick Verification

  • #11429 (Xin Li 0033, Beijing Institute of Technology) -- Check CS department

PR #11085 (UCSD Miscellaneous) -- Special Case

This PR has mixed appropriate/questionable changes:

Appropriate changes:

  • Remove Fan Chung Graham / F.R.K. Chung / Fan R.K. Chung (3 entries) -- retired/emerita, Math dept, zero CSRankings publications
  • Remove H. L. Graham (Ronald Graham) -- deceased 2020, zero publications
  • Remove David Danks -- affiliate (not primary) CSE faculty
  • Consolidate Imani N. S. Munyaka / Imani N. Sherman into one entry
  • Add Thuy-Duong Vuong -- verified TT Assistant Professor in CSE

Questionable change:

  • Remove David J. Kriegman -- still listed as active Professor on UCSD CSE website. No public evidence of retirement.

Recommendation: Ask the PR author to provide evidence for the Kriegman removal, or split the PR to merge the uncontroversial changes separately.

Remaining ~300 Validated PRs (not yet analyzed)

There are approximately 300 additional validated PRs (roughly #10837-#11058) that were not covered in this analysis session. These should be processed using the same methodology:

  1. Categorize (update vs. new addition vs. removal)
  2. For updates: merge directly (>90% safe)
  3. For new additions: verify department, tenure-track status, CS PhD advising ability
  4. For batch additions: verify every faculty member individually
  5. Check for duplicates across PRs
  6. Check old/industry.csv for industry conflicts

Efficiency Improvements for Next Session

  1. Automate department checking for Chinese universities: curl the jszy.*.edu.cn page and grep for "School/Department" field
  2. Batch-verify NTU faculty by checking the SCSE faculty directory page against the PR names
  3. Process update-only PRs first -- they're always safe and reduce the queue quickly
  4. Use DBLP API to verify name disambiguation (0001, 0002 suffixes)
  5. Check for cross-PR duplicates by comparing Scholar IDs across all open PRs before merging