Jie Tang
Computer scientist; lead developer of the AMiner project; professor of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
About Jie Tang
Jie Tang was a Chinese computer scientist, software developer and university teacher.
Jie Tang (born 1977) 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. He is known for building the academic social network search system AMiner (formerly known as ArnetMiner), 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.
He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2021 "for contributions to knowledge discovery from data and social network mining".
He is also a co-founder of Z.ai. As of March 2026, Forbes has estimated his net worth to be $1.9 billion.
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