PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jing Jiang

Also known as Jiang Jing

Jing Jiang is a professor whose research covers the applied side of natural language processing, from information extraction and topic modelling to question answering and the evaluation of vision-language models. After a computer science PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008, she joined the faculty of Singapore Management University. Test of Time awards at WSDM in 2020 and ECIR in 2021 recognised two of her co-authored social media papers. She was a program co-chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, was named to the Singapore 100 Women in Tech list in 2021, and was elected VP-elect of the Association for Computational Linguistics in December 2025. She is a professor in the School of Computing at the Australian National University, where her current research looks at steering large language model behaviour without heavy computation and expensive training.

Timeline

  1. 2007–2008

    Domain adaptation and an Illinois PhD

    In 2007, she and ChengXiang Zhai publish Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Prague. In 2008, she completes a computer science PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a dissertation titled Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing, and Zhai chairs her doctoral committee. Her B.S. and M.S. degrees come from Stanford University.

  2. 2008

    Joining Singapore Management University

    After finishing her PhD in 2008, she joins the faculty of Singapore Management University. She becomes a full professor in its School of Computing and Information Systems, with research interests in natural language processing, text mining, machine learning and data mining.

  3. 2017–2020

    Two SMU research fellowships

    Singapore Management University gives her the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship in 2017 and the Lee Kuan Yew Fellowship for Research Excellence in 2020.

  4. 2019

    Program co-chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP

    She serves with Vincent Ng and Xiaojun Wan as a program co-chair of EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing held in Hong Kong in November 2019.

  5. 2020–2021

    Two Test of Time awards

    In 2020, her co-authored paper TwitterRank: Finding topic-sensitive influential Twitters, published at WSDM 2010, receives the WSDM Test of Time Award. In 2021, her co-authored paper Comparing Twitter and Traditional Media Using Topic Models receives the ECIR Test of Time Award. Both awards recognise lasting impact in social media analysis.

  6. 2021

    Singapore 100 Women in Tech

    She is named one of the Singapore 100 Women in Tech in 2021. At Singapore Management University she is Director of the Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Cluster and a former Deputy Director of the Living Analytics Research Centre.

  7. 2025

    ARR editor and ACL VP-elect

    In 2025, she is listed as an Editor-in-Chief of ACL Rolling Review. In December 2025, the Association for Computational Linguistics announces her election as VP-Elect, with her term starting in January 2026.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at the ANU

    She is a professor in the School of Computing at the Australian National University, in its Intelligent Systems cluster, and teaches Document Analysis (COMP4650/6490) in Semester 2 of 2024 and 2025. Her work on the applied side of natural language processing covers information extraction, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, social media analysis, question answering and the evaluation of vision-language models. Her current research looks at how to steer and change large language model behaviour without heavy computation and expensive training.

Career

  1. NowAustralian National UniversityProfessor
  2. 2008–2021Singapore Management UniversityFull Professor, Director

Education

  1. 2008University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPhD
  2. Stanford UniversityB.S. and M.S.

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes Australian National University. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Australian National 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.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Australian National 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.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Australian National 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.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in NLP - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Domain Adaptation in Natural Language Processing | IDEALS ideals.illinois.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Jing Jiang | ANU School of Computing comp.anu.edu.au. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. ACL VP-elect Jing Jiang will help steer the future of natural language processing | ANU School of Computing comp.anu.edu.au. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Jing Jiang's Homepage mysmu.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Three SMU female leaders recognised for their contributions to tech in the 2021 Singapore 100 Women in Tech List | SMU Newsroom news.smu.edu.sg. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Charting a Global Course: An Impactful Career in Natural Language Processing and Data Science - AWIS awis.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Call for Nominations of ARR co-Editors-in-Chief – ACL Rolling Review aclrollingreview.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. ACL 2025 Election Results: Congratulations to Jing Jiang and Raffaella Bernardi | ACL Member Portal aclweb.org. Checked 21 October 2026.