Jie Tang

{{Short description|Computer scientist}}

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| name = Jie Tang

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| workplaces = Tsinghua University

| alma_mater = Tsinghua University

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| field = social networks
data mining
machine learning
knowledge graphs

| awards = IEEE Fellow (2021){{cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2021-ieee-fellows-Class.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206062543/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2021-ieee-fellows-Class.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 6, 2020|title=NEWLY ELEVATED FELLOW CLASS 2021|publisher=Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|date=2021}}
ACM Fellow (2021){{cite web|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/january/fellows-2021|title=ACM Names 71 Fellows for Computing Advances that are Driving Innovation|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|date=2022}}

| website = {{URL|http://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/jietang/}}

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Jie Tang (born 1977){{cite web|url=https://www.ccf.org.cn/Awards/Awards_Recipients/2012/CCF_IEEE_CS__Scientist/2012-02-16/578103.shtml|title=唐杰

|publisher=China Computer Federation|language=zh|date=2012}} 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.{{cite web |title=Jie TANG |url=https://www.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/csen/info/1181/4032.htm |website=Department of Computer Science and Technology |publisher=Tsinghua University |access-date=23 November 2022 |date=6 April 2021}} He is known for building the academic social network search system AMiner (formerly known as ArnetMiner),{{cite book|author1=Jie Tang|author2=Jing Zhang|author3=Limin Yao|author4=Juanzi Li|author5=Li Zhang|author6=Zhong Su|title=Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining |chapter=ArnetMiner |year=2008|pages=990–998|publisher=ACM|location=New York|doi=10.1145/1401890.1402008|isbn=9781605581934|s2cid=3348552|chapter-url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1401890.1402008}} 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.{{cite book|author1=Jie Tang|author2=Jimeng Sun|author3=Chi Wang|author4=Zi Yang|title=Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining |chapter=Social influence analysis in large-scale networks |year=2009|series=KDD '09|pages=807–816|publisher=ACM|location=New York|doi=10.1145/1557019.1557108|isbn=9781605584959|s2cid=4931148|chapter-url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1557108}}

He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2021 "for contributions to knowledge discovery from data and social network mining".

He was elevated to ACM Fellow in 2022 "for contributions to information and social network mining". He was elected AAAI Fellow in 2023.{{Cite web |title=Elected AAAI Fellows |url=https://aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awards/the-aaai-fellows-program/elected-aaai-fellows/ |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=AAAI |language=en-US}}