Jiang Yang is a researcher at Alibaba Research. She graduated with a PhD from the UM School of Michigan and was also a post-doc at SI working on inter-cultural effects in online communities, especially in question-answering. Jiang has a BS degree in Information System & Management and a MS in Financial Engineering from the University of Science & Technology of China. Jiang was co-advised by Lada Adamic.Previous projects:

• Examining what keeps people online at three large Q&A communities
• Using social computational methods to understand the complexity in people's social interactions and co-evolution in the systems
• Thesis - Incentive and Culture: Shaping Information and Social Dynamics in Online Information Sharing Systems (2011)