Tang Yong, founder of SCHOLAT（学者网）, is a Professor of the School of Computer Science, South China Normal University, and director of the Virtual Teaching and Research Office for the Data Science Course Group of the Ministry of Education. He is also a National Distinguished Teacher, a National-level Leading Talent (the "Ten-Thousand Talents Program"), and an expert enjoying the Special Government Allowance of the State Council. He is a distinguished scientist of Pazhou Laboratory, executive vice president of the Guangdong Computer Society, and academic vice president of Guangdong University of Science and Technology. His research focuses on data intelligence and academic social networks. He has been awarded the First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress of the Ministry of Education, the Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award, the Outstanding Teacher Award of the Ministry of Education-Huawei Intelligent Base, the CCF Outstanding Contribution Award in Collaborative Computing, and the CCF Distinguished Speaker Award, among others.

    He got his bachelor's and master's degrees from Wuhan University, and a doctoral degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, all in computer science. He has previously served as vice dean of the School of Information Science and Technology and director of the Department of Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen University, and vice chairman of the Academic Committee, director of the Teaching Guidance Committee, and dean of the School of Computer Science at South China Normal University. Other academic affiliations include director of the CCF Technical Committee on Collaborative Computing, founding chairman of YOCSEF Guangzhou, chairman of ACM Guangzhou, adjunct professor at Victoria University in Australia, founding director of the Guangdong Service Computing Engineering Center, and honorary chairman of the Guangdong Data Intelligence Technology Research Association.  

     Professional Expertise and Research Specialties: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, with main research interests in Data and Knowledge Engineering, Social Network and Collaborative Intelligence, Scholar Knowledge Graph and Large Model Applications.

    Temporal Data and Knowledge Engineering：Proposed a temporal knowledge representation model and developed a temporal data-based temporal reasoning algorithm; released the TempKDB software component, offering new ideas and methods for the research and application of temporal information (e.g., temporal workflow, social network temporal relationship analysis, temporal knowledge graphs and large models). which Related achievements were included in Wikipedia, Baidu Encyclopedia and national planned textbooks. Theoretical achievements won the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Award (2006). Developed the Intelligent Salary Management System based on Temporal Knowledge Data, which was applied in Guangdong Province since 2000 and pioneering the national unified financial salary disbursement，which winning the First Prize of the Guangdong Science and Technology Award (2005).

    Social Network and Collaborative Intelligence：Proposed a human-centered social network model (core idea: providing personal data space carriers for users, enabling content-driven effective social interaction, enhancing the credibility of social connections). Developed SCHOLAT (a scholarly social network platform) based on the above model; launched in Jan 2009, it now has 230,000 active registered users from over 5,000 domestic and international institutions (including all Project 985 universities), tens of thousands of teaching and research teams, and billions of academic information entities and their associated relations.  Leveraging SCHOLAT's data infrastructure, developed a scholar knowledge graph and a scholar-specific large model via multi-source data fusion; constructed a scholarly knowledge graph with over 1 billion entities and relationships, as well as a multi-agent collaborative intelligence service platform.

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 Prof/Dr. Yong TANG

Founder of SCHOLAT  

National Distinguished Teacher, the National High-Level Talent Special Support Plan  

Expert Receiving the State Council Special Government Allowance  

New Century Excellent Talent of the Ministry of Education of China 

Work Unit: South China Normal University, SCHOLAT Open Laboratory  

Research Fields: Data Intelligence and Collaborative Computing, Scholar Social Networks and Large Language Model Applications  

Emails: ytang@m.scnu,edu,cn; ytang4@qq.com  

Personal Homepage: www.scholat.com/ytang  

Address: School of Computer Science, South China Normal University, Tianhe District, Guangzhou, China  

Sep 1981–Jun 1985: Wuhan University, Bachelor of Science in Computer System Architecture  

Sep 1987–Jun 1990: Wuhan University, Master of Engineering in Computer Applications  

Oct 1998–Jun 2001: University of Science and Technology of China, PhD in Computer Science and Technology  

Jul 1989–Dec 1991: Changsha Railway University (now Central South University), Teaching Assistant, Department of Electronics, 

Jan 1992–May 1994: Wuhan University，Lecturer of Department of Computer Science, Deputy Director of Software Division II at Software Base (now National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software)  

May 1994–May 2002: Guangdong University of Technology，Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor, Vice Dean of School of Computer Science, 

Jun 2002–Sep 2009: Sun Yat-sen University，Professor, Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology, Director of Department of Computer Science，Director of National LINUX Technology Training and Promotion Center  

Sep 2009–Present: South China Normal University, Professor，Vice Chair of the University Academic Committee; Vice Chair of the University Degree Assessment Committee; Chair of the University Teaching Steering Committee; Dean of the School of Computer Science

Academic Services  

Academic Vice President, Guangdong University of Science and Technology  

Leader of the Virtual Teaching and Research Group for Data Science, Ministry of Education  

Distinguished Scientist, Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (Guangzhou); Leader of the Scholar Knowledge Graph and Collaborative Intelligence Application Team  

Executive Vice President and Legal Representative, Guangdong Computer Society  

Founding Director, Guangdong Service Computing Engineering Technology Research and Development Center  

Council Member, China Computer Federation (CCF); Director of the CCF Technical Committee of Collaborative Computing (2000–2024); Founding Chair of CCF YOCSEF Guangzhou Chapter  

Chair, ACM Guangzhou Chapter (2019–2022)  

Honorary President, Guangdong Academy of Digital Intelligence Technology; Editor-in-Chief of the editorial board of “Digital Intelligence Technology”   

Served as Chair or Keynote Speaker at numerous important international and domestic conferences including CSCWD, HCC, ChineseCSCW, NDBC (2006), and has delivered invited academic talks at over 150 universities in China and abroad (including 34 "985 Project" universities)  

National Distinguished Teacher; the National High-Level Talent Special Support Plan  

Expert Receiving the State Council Special Government Allowance  

New Century Excellent Talent of the Ministry of Education  

First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award (2005)  

Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education (2006)  

Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award (2022)  

Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award (2010, 2011, 2015, 2022)  

Baosteel Education Foundation National Outstanding Teacher Award（2008）

Ding Ying Science and Technology Award (the highest individual honor of the Guangdong Association for Science and Technology)，2004

Outstanding Teacher of the Ministry of Education-Huawei Intelligent Base Program (2022)  

CCF Outstanding Contribution Award in Collaborative Computing (2010–2020)  

CCF Distinguished Speaker (2020, 2022, 2023)  

Main research areas include Data Intelligence and Social Network Computing. Has led over 60 national, ministerial, provincial, and major industry-sponsored research projects, including Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research Topic of the National Key R&D Program, Team Project of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation. Achieved a series of theoretical and applied results, with over 100 papers published in prestigious journals and conferences such as TPAMI, TKDE, AAAI, SIGIR, VLDB, IJCAI, WWW, and more than 10 books. Representative achievements: Trademark Image and Text Intelligent Retrieval System, Temporal Knowledge/data management software TempKDB, Intelligent Fiscal Salary Management System based on Temporal Knowledge, and SCHOLAT (a scholar centered academic social network).  

Led the development of China's Trademark Image and Text Retrieval System (1992–1993). Proposed and implemented a trademark image-text database system. Supported by the National Trademark Office, it was developed into a standalone product and promoted nationwide. This project was a subsystem of the Administration for Industry and Commerce Information System led by Prof. Li Weihua (then Vice President of Wuhan University) and passed appraisal organized by the Ministry of Education in late 1992 (Academician Li Wei served as Chair of the appraisal committee).

Led the development of an intelligent salary management system for government institutions and public service units based on temporal knowledge reasoning (1998–2004). Main innovations included algorithms for automatic salary determination using temporal logic. Adopted by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance and Department of Personnel in 2000, it pioneered unified fiscal salary distribution in China. Listed as a key achievement of reform in the 2004 Guangdong Provincial Government Work Report, it won the First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award in 2005.

Conducted research and applications in temporal databases, pioneering the field of temporal knowledge engineering in China (1999– ). Authored China's first monograph on temporal databases. Responsible for the temporal database chapters and entries in the CCF Technical Committee on Databases' *Encyclopedia of Databases* and *Advances in Database Technology*. Released the TempKDB software component, which has been included as entries in Wikipedia, Baidu Baike, and chapters in multiple textbooks, widely downloaded and cited. Related work received the Second Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education (2006) and the First Prize of Guangdong Science and Technology Outstanding Paper Award (2008).

Proposed a human-centered social network model (core idea: providing personal data space carriers for users, enabling content-driven effective social interaction, enhancing the credibility of social connections). Developed SCHOLAT (a scholarly social network platform) based on the above model; launched in Jan 2009, it now has 230,000 active registered users from over 5,000 domestic and international institutions (including all Project 985 universities). Now SCHOLAT has become a unique generator of educational big data and China’s most influential scholar-centered academic social network. Leveraging SCHOLAT’s data infrastructure, developed a scholar knowledge graph and a scholar-specific large model via multi-source data fusion; constructed a scholarly knowledge graph with billions entities and relationships, as well as a multi-agent collaborative intelligence service platform.

Has supervised over 200 graduate students (including more than 60 Ph.D. candidates). Most supervisees are active in the IT industry domestically and internationally; some have become national/provincial-level talents, doctoral supervisors, or deans at "985/211 Project" universities.