Yang Jiang

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Yang Jiang holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China and a doctorate in information from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Former postdoctoral researcher at Michigan’s School of Information, IBM Social Analytics researcher, Microsoft Research researcher, and head and senior researcher of Alibaba’s academic research platform. Received outstanding doctoral recognition at Michigan. Researches human-computer interaction, knowledge collaboration and social computing. Has more than 2000 Google Scholar citations, nearly 30 papers in leading journals and peer-reviewed conferences, over 50 invited conference and forum presentations and participation in more than a dozen research projects including NFS, as written in the source, and Microsoft research funding. Served as workshop chair and committee member and reviews for Information Systems Research, World Wide Web Journal, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Transactions on the Web and SIGCHI. Combines academic research and industrial innovation, leading Alibaba projects presented to Nobel laureates. Experience spans data science research and Alibaba data and AI strategy. Developed one of the earliest AI content generation tools in a previous venture and now leads PI (Presentation Intelligence), described as China’s first truly AI-native content creation and sharing platform.