Prof. Jun Wang Jun is the director of the Research Center for Digital Humanities, Peking University. He has been engaged in interdisciplinary research and teaching in areas such as data analysis, text mining, knowledge organization, user behavior, information product design, digital libraries, and digital humanities. Currently, he is dedicated to applying techniques such as deep learning and knowledge graphs to reconstruct traditional Chinese classics and documents. He has undertaken multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Foundation. In 2005, he received support from the OCLC/ALISE Library and Information Science Outstanding Research Fund in the United States. In 2020, his interdisciplinary project "Construction of a Knowledge Graph for the Academic History of Confucianism in China" conducted in collaboration with the CBDB Group at Harvard University received support from the Key Cooperation Project of the National Natural Science Foundation. His academic achievements have been published in journals and conferences such as JASIST, JCDL, CIKM, Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, Journal of Library Science in China, and Journal of Chinese Information Processing. He was selected for the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program" by the Ministry of Education in 2005 and received the Excellent Achievement Award in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Ministry of Education in 2006. In 2013, he was awarded the title of "Excellent Teacher" in Beijing.
