Jie Tang — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2021, ACM Fellow in 2022, and AAAI Fellow in 2023
Full-time professor at the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University
Co-founder of Z.ai
Built the academic social network search system AMiner, launched in March 2006
Received a PhD in computer science from Tsinghua University in 2006

Biography

Jie Tang, born in 1977, is a full-time professor at the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University. He earned his PhD in computer science from the same university in 2006. His research interests encompass social networks and data mining.

Tang is recognized for developing the academic social network search system AMiner (formerly ArnetMiner), which was launched in March 2006. This system has attracted over 2.7 million independent IP accesses from 220 countries.