PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jiye Liang

Also known as 梁吉业, Liang Jiye

Jiye Liang is a computer scientist at Shanxi University whose work on multi-granularity data modeling and graph data mining made him an IEEE Fellow in the class of 2025. He earned a bachelor's degree at Shanxi University in 1983 and a master's and PhD at Xi'an Jiaotong University, then did postdoctoral research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Computing Technology from 2002 to 2004. His funded projects moved from rough set theory and granular computing to cognitive computing under China's New Generation Artificial Intelligence program, and in 2024 he coauthored the Graph External Attention Enhanced Transformer, presented at ICML. Alongside research, he served as president of Taiyuan Normal University and as vice president of Shanxi University, and he is a fellow of the China Computer Federation and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Today he chairs the Shanxi University Academic Committee and directs its Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing.

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Timeline

  1. 1983–2001

    Degrees from Shanxi and Xi'an Jiaotong

    He graduates from Shanxi University with a bachelor's degree in 1983. Graduate study at Xi'an Jiaotong University follows, with a master's degree in 1990 and a PhD in 2001.

  2. 2002–2005

    A CAS postdoc and rough sets

    From 2002 to 2004, he does postdoctoral research at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Between 2003 and 2005, he leads a National Natural Science Foundation of China project on uncertainty, fuzziness and knowledge acquisition in rough set theory.

  3. 2007–2019

    Granular computing for complex data

    He leads a national 863 Program project on granular computing theory and algorithms for high-dimensional complex data from 2007 to 2009. A key National Natural Science Foundation of China project on granular computing theory and methods for big data runs under his direction from 2015 to 2019.

  4. 2014

    President of Taiyuan Normal University

    As president of Taiyuan Normal University, he signs a memorandum of understanding with Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada, in November 2014, covering partnership opportunities such as student and faculty exchanges.

  5. 2020–2024

    A New Generation AI project

    From November 2020 to October 2024, he leads a project on the basic theory and methods of cognitive computing in China's Science and Technology Innovation 2030 New Generation Artificial Intelligence major program.

  6. 2024

    The GEAET graph transformer

    With Jianqing Liang and Min Chen, he coauthors the Graph External Attention Enhanced Transformer (GEAET) at ICML in 2024. Its attention mechanism uses external node and edge key-value units to capture correlations between graphs.

  7. 2025

    An IEEE fellowship

    He joins the IEEE Fellow class of 2025 evaluated by the Computational Intelligence Society, cited for contributions to multi-granularity data modeling and graph data mining.

  8. As of October 2026

    Chair of Shanxi's academic committee

    In 2024, he gives an invited talk on research progress in representation learning at the CCL 2024 conference, as a fellow of the China Computer Federation and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. A former vice president of Shanxi University at the rank of university president, he chairs the Shanxi University Academic Committee and directs its Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing.

Career

  1. NowShanxi UniversityVice president
  2. 2002–2004Chinese Academy of SciencesPostdoctoral researcher
  3. Taiyuan Normal UniversityPresident

Education

  1. 2001Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityPhD
  2. 1990Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 1983Shanxi UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography.

  1. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.
  2. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Chinese Academy of Sciences. 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.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Chinese Academy of Sciences. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. 山西大学大同校区 dt.sxu.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. 山西大学智能信息处理研究所 iiip.sxu.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Taiyuan Normal University | Office of International Activities brandonu.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. 梁吉业 - 计算机与信息技术学院（大数据学院） cs.sxu.edu.cn. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Graph External Attention Enhanced Transformer proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Fellows Evaluation Committee - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society cis.ieee.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Invited Talk - CCL 2024 cips-cl.org. Checked 20 October 2026.