Wang Jian (computer scientist)

Wang Jian (Chinese: 王坚; born October 1962) is a Chinese computer scientist currently serving as chief technology officer of Alibaba Group. He is an editor of Communications of the ACM.[1]

Wang Jian
BornOctober 1962 (age 57)
China
Alma materHangzhou University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsAlibaba Group
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese王堅
Simplified Chinese王坚
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Wang.

Biography

Wang was born in October 1962. He received his bachelor's degree and doctor's degree from Hangzhou University in 1984 and 1990, respectively. After graduating, he joined the faculty of the universit and was promoted to professor in 1992. He was director of Department of Psychology between 1994 and 1998. In 1996 he was a visiting professor at New York State University. In 1999 he joined the Microsoft Research Asia. In September 2008 he was offered a position as chief architect of Alibaba Group. In August 2012 he became chief technology officer.[2] In October 2019, Hurun Report listed him as the 1008th richest person in China with an estimated wealth of 4.1 billion yuan.[3]

Honours and awards
gollark: Now to figure out how much data I can gather about search results to ~~sell to Google~~ optimize my services!
gollark: I tick those boxes there to allow it to index those sites.
gollark: I've made a bit of a frontend for my search engine thing. Though it can't actually do search yet, only crawl/index/whatever pages.
gollark: Basically, if I want to run a search it just goes `SELECT * FROM page_tokens WHERE token = 'one token in search query'` or something like that, and it now has a list of pages with the right token, and SQLite can execute this query relatively fast.
gollark: I mean, as far as I can tell there isn't really a faster *and* more storage-efficient way to do search than the inverted-index page_tokens thing.

References
  1. Sun Bing (孙冰) (22 November 2019). “阿里云之父”王坚当选院士 花名可能要改了. ceweekly.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  2. 阿里集团任命王坚为CTO 实施技术发展战略. qq.com (in Chinese). 13 August 2012. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. 胡润百富榜2019年. sina (in Chinese). 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  4. 中国工程院2019年当选院士名单 [List of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering elected in 2019]. CAE (in Chinese). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
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