Jie Tang
Computer scientist
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Jie Tang (born 1977)[3] is a full-time professor at the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University. He received a PhD in computer science from the same university in 2006.[4] He is known for building the academic social network search system AMiner (formerly known as ArnetMiner),[5] which was launched in March 2006 and now has attracted 2,766,356 independent IP accesses from 220 countries. His research interests include social networks and data mining.[6]
Jie Tang | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Tsinghua University |
| Awards | IEEE Fellow (2021)[1] ACM Fellow (2021)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | social networks data mining machine learning knowledge graphs |
| Institutions | Tsinghua University |
| Website | keg |
He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2021 "for contributions to knowledge discovery from data and social network mining".[1] He was elevated to ACM Fellow in 2022 "for contributions to information and social network mining".[2] He was elected AAAI Fellow in 2023.[7]
He is also a co-founder of Z.ai. As of March 2026, Forbes has estimated his net worth to be $1.9 billion.[8]