Wang Jian
Chief Architect, Alibaba Group
President, Alibaba Cloud Computing

Wang Jian is chief architect for Alibaba Group and president of Alibaba Cloud Computing. He joined Alibaba Group in September 2008.

Prior to this, Wang Jian was assistant managing director at Microsoft Research Asia. Before joining Microsoft Research Asia in 1999, Wang Jian worked at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China as a professor and as head of the psychology department. He graduated from the psychology department of Hangzhou University in 1990 and has a Ph.D. degree in engineering.

Wang Jian is a standing committee member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), which recognized him in 2008 with an award for outstanding contribution. He was honored by the CCF Young Computer Scientists & Engineers Forum as one of China's 10-year outstanding young IT professionals.

Wang Jian was the chair of the 2010 CCF Conference and a co-chair of the 2011 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.