PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Hao Yang

Also known as Yang Hao, 杨浩

Hao Yang is a scholar of Chinese philosophy and digital humanities who applies artificial intelligence to the study of ancient Chinese texts. He studied Chinese philosophy at Capital Normal University and Peking University, taught in Peking University's Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies from 2014 to 2022, and published a monograph on Zhu Xi's commentary on the Four Books in 2015. In 2023 he coauthored a Humanities and Social Sciences Communications paper that used deep neural networks to model millions of intertextual links in a 3,000-year corpus, and in 2024 he coauthored the CHisIEC corpus for extracting entities and relations from ancient Chinese history. He is an associate researcher at Peking University's Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and by December 2024 he was also deputy director of the Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center.

Timeline

  1. 2005–2012

    Chinese philosophy in Beijing

    He studies Chinese philosophy at Capital Normal University from 2005 to 2008 under Professor Cheng Gongrang, and at Peking University from 2008 to 2012, where Professor Tang Yijie guides his work on Zhu Xi's Commentary on the Four Books and Collected Annotations.

  2. 2012–2022

    Assistant professor of philosophy

    From 2012 to 2014, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University's School of Marxism. From 2014 to 2022, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and a researcher at the Research Center for the Compilation and Study of Confucian Canons.

  3. 2015–2020

    A monograph and a translation

    In 2015, he publishes the monograph The Transmission of the Heart Method in the Confucian Tradition, a study of Zhu Xi's Commentary on the Four Books and Collected Annotations. In 2020, he publishes an annotated translation, Reflections on Things At Hand, with the Zhonghua Book Company in Beijing.

  4. 2020–2022

    Peking University's digital humanities center

    In 2020, Peking University establishes its Digital Humanities Research Center, and he is among its key academics. From March 2022, the center accepts ByteDance donations for research on the intelligent processing of ancient book resources, and its laboratory, renamed the Peking University-ByteDance Digital Humanities Open Laboratory, operates under the Institute of Artificial Intelligence.

  5. June 2023

    Cultural evolution in ancient China

    In June 2023, he coauthors a Humanities and Social Sciences Communications paper with Siyu Duan, Jun Wang and Qi Su. The study models millions of intertextual associations in a 3,000-year corpus of ancient Chinese literature with a deep neural network and graph computation, and an online platform lets researchers run their own analyses on the corpus.

  6. July–August 2023

    A digital humanities summer workshop

    In July and August 2023, he serves on the teaching committee of the International Joint Summer Workshop on Digital Humanities at Peking University, themed "Humanistic Innovation in the AI Age." Peking University's Center for Digital Humanities, the Digital China Initiative of Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and Princeton's Department of East Asian Studies organize the course.

  7. March 2024

    The CHisIEC corpus

    In March 2024, he coauthors CHisIEC, the Chinese Historical Information Extraction Corpus, with Xuemei Tang, Zekun Deng, Qi Su and Jun Wang. The dataset spans 13 dynasties and over 1830 years, with 14,194 entities and 8,609 relations labeled for named entity recognition and relation extraction, and the authors also evaluate large language models on tasks in ancient Chinese history.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate researcher at PKU's AI Institute

    He is an associate researcher at Peking University's Institute for Artificial Intelligence, where his recent focus is applying AI methods to the compilation and study of ancient texts. In December 2024, as deputy director of the Peking University Digital Humanities Research Center and executive director of the Center for Digital Humanities and Civilization Evolution Studies, he is the featured speaker at an Institute salon on the Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist mind and the robot mind. In July 2026, he is quoted by China Daily in an article on Shidian Guji, the AI-assisted ancient-text database that ByteDance and the center launched in October 2022.

Career

  1. Since 2012Peking UniversityPostdoctoral Researcher, Assistant Professor

Education

  1. 2012Peking University
  2. 2008Capital Normal University

From the biography.

  1. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Peking University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Peking University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. Companies supply the most prior-work hires at 7 of the 9 frontier AI labsIncludes Peking University. Our estimates of the organizations where 550 people worked directly before joining 9 frontier AI labs across 620 career transitions, comparing the main feeder organizations per lab.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Peking University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.

Colleagues

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  1. Hao Yang - Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University ai.pku.edu.cn. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Research Center for Digital Humanities of PKU 北京大学数字人文研究中心 - ukcha ukcha.er.kcl.ac.uk. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Disentangling the cultural evolution of ancient China: a digital humanities perspective nature.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Joint Summer Workshop on Digital Humanities'2023 camp2023.pkudh.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. CHisIEC: An Information Extraction Corpus for Ancient Chinese History arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. 欢迎来到北京大学数字人文研究中心！ | 北京大学数字人文研究中心 pkudh.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Digital tools unlock ancient texts chinadailyasia.com. Checked 21 October 2026.