PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Qing He

Also known as He Qing, 何清

Qing He is a computer scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences whose machine learning and data mining work includes cloud-based big data platforms and transfer learning. Mathematics degrees at Hebei Normal University and Zhengzhou University came first, followed by teaching at Hebei University of Science and Technology until 1997 and a PhD in fuzzy mathematics and artificial intelligence at Beijing Normal University in 2000. At the Institute of Computing Technology, which he joined as a postdoctoral researcher in 2000, he led a team that developed a cloud-based parallel data mining platform for the China Mobile Research Institute by the end of 2008. Recognition came as a second prize in the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Innovation Award in 2015 and the PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award in 2018, and in 2019 he was among the eight authors of the survey A Comprehensive Survey on Transfer Learning. A professor at the Institute of Computing Technology and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, he is also vice secretary-general of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

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Timeline

  1. 1985–2000

    A fuzzy mathematics PhD

    Hebei Normal University gives him a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1985, and Zhengzhou University a master's degree in mathematics in 1987. Between 1987 and 1997 he teaches at Hebei University of Science and Technology. In 2000, Beijing Normal University awards him a PhD in fuzzy mathematics and artificial intelligence.

  2. 2000–2008

    Postdoc to researcher at ICT

    The Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, takes him on as a postdoctoral researcher in 2000, an associate researcher in 2002 and a researcher in 2008. A visiting professorship at the Saint Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences comes in 2001.

  3. 2006

    A Beijing science and technology prize

    A professorship at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a third prize in the Beijing Science and Technology Award both come in 2006.

  4. 2008–2012

    A cloud platform for data mining

    By the end of 2008, his machine learning and data mining team, commissioned by the China Mobile Research Institute, develops a cloud-based parallel data mining platform for terabyte-level real data. Software from the team, including PDMiner, finds use in telecommunications, electricity, information security, environmental protection and financial insurance. In 2012, ZTE Communications publishes Parallel Web Mining System Based on Cloud Platform, which he coauthors with colleagues from ZTE and the institute.

  5. 2015

    A Wu Wenjun innovation award

    A second prize in the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Innovation Award comes to him in 2015, given for big data mining algorithms and cloud services.

  6. 2018

    PAKDD most influential paper award

    The PAKDD Most Influential Paper Award comes to him in 2018.

  7. 2019–2021

    Transfer learning survey and DSAN

    A Comprehensive Survey on Transfer Learning appears on arXiv in November 2019 with him among its eight authors; it reviews more than forty transfer learning approaches and runs over twenty models on three datasets. Deep Subdomain Adaptation Network for Image Classification, with him as a coauthor, appears on arXiv in June 2021. Its DSAN method aligns relevant subdomain distributions through a local maximum mean discrepancy and needs no adversarial training.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor at ICT and UCAS

    A professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, he also holds a professorship at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2003 he serves as vice secretary-general of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Career

  1. Since 2003Chinese Association for Artificial IntelligenceVice Secretary-General
  2. Since 2000Chinese Academy of SciencesPostdoctoral Researcher, Associate Researcher
  3. NowUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesProfessor
  4. From 2006Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of SciencesProfessor
  5. 2001Russian Academy of SciencesVisiting Professor
  6. 1987–1997Hebei University of Science and TechnologyTeacher

Education

  1. 2000Beijing Normal UniversityPhD
  2. 1987Zhengzhou UniversityMaster's degree
  3. 1985Hebei Normal 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. 何清-中国科学院大学-UCAS people.ucas.ac.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Parallel Web Mining System Based on Cloud Platform zte.magtechjournal.com. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. 何清--中国科学院计算技术研究所 ict.cas.cn. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. A Comprehensive Survey on Transfer Learning arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Deep Subdomain Adaptation Network for Image Classification arxiv.org. Checked 22 October 2026.