JHCS is edited by PhD-level computer scientists and reviewed by PhD students, postdocs, and industry researchers with peer-reviewed CS publications. Track editors are organized by subfield so every paper lands with reviewers who know the area.
PhD, Computer Science
The Editor-in-Chief oversees the review process, sets editorial standards for novelty, empirical rigor, and reproducibility, and issues the final decision on every manuscript.
Operations · Peer review · Author support
The Managing Editor coordinates reviewer assignments, tracks turnaround against the two-week/4–6-week SLAs, runs plagiarism and code-similarity checks, and is the primary contact for authors on process questions.
Every JHCS track is overseen by at least one PhD-level track editor with peer-reviewed publications in that subfield. Named editors are announced as the roster is finalized.
Deep learning, reinforcement learning, NLP, computer vision, generative models, ML evaluation and safety, ML systems.
Track editor: [TBD]
Algorithm design and analysis, data structures, complexity theory, approximation and randomized algorithms, formal methods.
Track editor: [TBD]
Operating systems, distributed systems, databases, storage, networking, embedded & IoT, computer architecture.
Track editor: [TBD]
Applied cryptography, systems and network security, usable security, privacy engineering, formal security models.
Track editor: [TBD]
Interaction techniques, accessibility, education technology, empirical HCI studies, human-AI interaction.
Track editor: [TBD]
Compilers, language design and semantics, static and dynamic analysis, testing, empirical software engineering.
Track editor: [TBD]
The advisory board comprises senior CS researchers and educators who help set editorial policy, review our process against academic norms, and guide the journal's development. Named advisors appear here as the board is finalized.
PhD-level CS faculty overseeing editorial standards.
Advisor: [TBD]
Senior industry CS researcher with a peer-reviewed publication record.
Advisor: [TBD]
CS-education specialist bridging academic peer review and pre-college research mentorship.
Advisor: [TBD]
JHCS is actively recruiting PhD students, postdocs, and industry CS researchers with published work in one of our tracks. Reviewers commit to a 4–6-week first-round turnaround (or 2 weeks on the fast track) and receive a modest honorarium per completed review.
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