Call For Reviewers
KDD is the premier Data Science and AI conference. KDD supports multiple submission cycles per year. For KDD 2026, the first cycle is already complete with submissions due on July 24, 2025 and the second cycle is underway with submissions due on February 1, 2026 (and full paper deadlines on February 8, 2026).
The conference will take place from August 9 to 13, 2026, in Jeju, Korea.
We invite researchers, scholars and practitioners to apply to review for the Research Track.
Candidate reviewers should meet two requirements:
- Expertise: You should have demonstrated subject matter expertise, with at least three papers in KDD (Research Track) or similar machine-learning, AI or data science conferences.
- Diligence: We ask candidate reviewers to commit to on-time and high-quality completion of the key review stages described below.
Key dates for reviewing
We hope to keep these dates fixed, but they may be subject to small changes:
- Main reviewing period: Feb 19, 2026 – Mar 19, 2026
- Engage with author rebuttals: Apr 11, 2026 – Apr 17, 2026
- Discuss with Area Chair: Apr 18, 2026 – Apr 25, 2026
If you are interested to be a reviewer, and can commit to the requirements above, please submit your application to review here.
We will review applications by Jan 2026 and send out invitation emails for accepted reviewers no later than Jan 31, 2026. You will receive a link from OpenReview to join as a reviewer if you are accepted. Please accept the invitation.
Using OpenReview for paper submissions and reviews
We will use OpenReview to manage the submissions and reviewing. All reviewers must have an up-to-date OpenReview profile. Here is information on how to create an OpenReview profile. Note that OpenReview may take up to two weeks to accept a newly-created profile, so please start early—their moderation policy states:
- New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
- New profiles created with an institutional email will be activated automatically.
To be considered complete, your OpenReview profile must include current and past institutional affiliation (going back at least 5 years), homepage, DBLP (only if you have prior publications), ORCID, Advisors and Recent Publications. Please also enter your Google Scholar page and any other information where possible.
Your papers should be automatically imported from your DBLP profile, but if you have a pre-existing profile without DBLP information, please follow OpenReview’s instructions on How to import papers from DBLP. If some papers are still missing, please follow the OpenReview instructions on How to upload papers directly
Thank you, and we look forward to having you join us as a reviewer for KDD 2026 Research Track.
Reviewer load
While the final load for reviewers will depend on the number of submissions, we expect around 5 papers per reviewer, with the possibility this could grow to as much as 10 papers in the event of an unexpected surge of submissions.
Reviewer awards
We will publish awards for excellent reviewers on the KDD website. Details for this program will be made available later. Reviewer awards will be based on quality of reviews and engagement, timeliness, and paper load.