ASE Submissions Doubled to 1,181 in a Year: CMU's Rohan Padhye on Why Peer Review Is Broken
moarbugs · x · 2026-09-18
CMU professor Rohan Padhye's essay diagnoses CS conference overload: ASE submissions nearly doubled from 587 to 1,181 between 2024 and 2025 with flat acceptance rates. He argues conferences are overloaded serving four functions at once—quality gating, mentoring, credentialing, and community—and recommends Nihar Shah's survey on peer review, offering his own views on what can be done.
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