Tang Jie: AI Scholar and Z.ai Co-Founder

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Here’s a photo of Tang Jie (唐杰) — the co-founder of Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) and a professor at Tsinghua University.

Who is Tang Jie?

1. Academic Background

Tang Jie is a WeBank Chair Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, where he also completed his PhD in 2006. He’s notably recognized in fields including AI, social networks, data mining, machine learning, and knowledge graphs (Wikipedia, cs.tsinghua.edu.cn).
He’s been honored as a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAI—achievements spanning from 2021 through 2023 (Wikipedia, iswc2023.semanticweb.org).

2. Academic Achievements

He is the inventor of AMiner (ArnetMiner), an academic social network search platform that has drawn tens of millions of users from over 200 countries (Knowledge Engineering Group, iswc2023.semanticweb.org, Wikipedia).
Award recognitions include:
- SIGKDD Test-of-Time Award
- NSFC Distinguished Young Scholar
- Second National Award for Science & Technology
- SIGKDD Service Award (Knowledge Engineering Group, iswc2023.semanticweb.org).
In 2025, he was recognized by Research.com as a Computer Science in China Leader, a title he has held since at least 2023 (Research.com).

3. Z.ai / Zhipu AI Co-Founder

Tang Jie co-founded Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd., known publicly as Zhipu AI (and rebranded in 2025 as Z.ai), in 2019. He founded it alongside Li Juanzi, another Tsinghua professor (Wikipedia, Rockrose).
Z.ai is considered one of China’s leading AI startups—sometimes referred to as an “AI Tiger”—and ranks among the top three large language model (LLM) market players in China according to IDC (Wikipedia).
The company spun out of Tsinghua University, with backing from major investors including Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan, Xiaomi, and Saudi Arabia’s Prosperity7 Ventures (Wikipedia, Rockrose).
Z.ai has developed notable models and capabilities, such as:
- ChatGLM: A series of pretrained dialogue models developed in collaboration with Tsinghua KEG (Wikipedia).
- Other advanced AI offerings: GLM-4, GLM-4.5, GLM-4.5V (a vision-language model), Ying (a text-to-video model), and AutoGLM (a voice-driven AI agent app) (Wikipedia).

Summary: Tang Jie — Bridging Academia and AI Industry

Academic leader at Tsinghua, with deep expertise and recognition in AI, machine learning, data mining, and knowledge graphs.
Creator of AMiner, a worldwide academic discovery platform.
Co-founder of Z.ai, one of China’s most prominent AI startups spun out of Tsinghua University, delivering cutting-edge language models and AI applications.

If you’d like to explore his research further, learn more about Z.ai’s products, or see where to find his publications and academic profiles, feel free to ask!

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