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Jia G. Lu
Jia G. Lu is an applied physicist and nanoscientist who was an assistant professor at UC Irvine, receiving a 2002 PECASE for her work on spin electronics.
Jia Jia (robot)
Jia Jia (佳佳) is a lifelike humanoid robot developed at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and unveiled in 2016, nicknamed the robot goddess.
Jia Jiaya
Jia Jiaya (贾佳亚), born 1978, is a Chinese computer-vision researcher and chair professor at HKUST who founded SmartMore, a Hong Kong industrial AI unicorn, in 2019.
Jia Kui (Cao Wei general)
Jia Kui (賈逵), courtesy name Liangdao, 174–228, was a Cao Wei general and administrator remembered for his strict government of Yu Province and his irrigation works.
Jia Lanpo
Jia Lanpo (贾兰坡, 1908–2001) was a Chinese paleoanthropologist and Quaternary geologist who directed the Peking Man excavations at Zhoukoudian, helping unearth 45 Homo erectus fossils there.
Jia Li Jia Wai 2 (家里家外2)
Jia Li Jia Wai 2 (家里家外2) is the 2025 second season of the Sichuan-dialect micro short drama Jia Li Jia Wai, produced by Tinghua Island. Its 111 episodes continue the blended family of Cai Xiaoyan and Chen Haiqing from 1986 to 1998, passing 1 billion views in three days.
Jia Liu (刘佳)
Jia Liu (刘佳) is a partner at GSR Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, focusing on AI applications, consumer, and enterprise services since December 2013.
Jia Lu
Jia Lu (贾鲁) was a Yuan dynasty official and hydraulic engineer from Gaoping, Shanxi, who directed the 1351 Yellow River works and later died commanding troops at Haozhou.
Jia M. Cobb
Jia M. Cobb, full name Jia Michelle Cobb, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia since 2021, nominated by President Biden.
Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (贾平凹), born 1952 in Shaanxi, is a Chinese novelist and essayist whose fiction about rural life won the Mao Dun Literature Prize for Qinqiang (2005).
Jia Qin (贾沁)
Jia Qin (贾沁) is a partner and head of M&A at HongShan, the venture and private-equity firm formed from Sequoia's former China business after its 2024 independence.
Jia Sidao
Jia Sidao (贾似道, 1213–1275) was the dominant chief councilor of China's Southern Song dynasty, known for his public land law and defeat by the Mongols in 1275.
Jia Sidao's dominance at court
Jia Sidao's dominance at court (贾似道专权) was the period when the Southern Song chancellor Jia Sidao monopolized power, from 1260 until his fall in 1275.
Jia Tolentino
Jia Tolentino, Canadian-American essayist and screenwriter, New Yorker staff writer since 2016, author of the 2019 essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Won the 2023 National Magazine Award for abortion writing; formerly deputy editor of Jezebel.
Jia Xu
Jia Xu (贾诩), courtesy name Wenhe, was a strategist of the late Eastern Han dynasty whose advice sent Li Jue and Guo Si to attack Chang'an, and who ended his career as Grand Commandant of Wei.
Jia Yi (Song dynasty censorial official)
Jia Yi (贾易), courtesy name Mingshu, was a Song dynasty censorial official from Wuwei, Anhui, known for his repeated impeachments of Su Shi, Su Zhe, and Wen Yanbo.
Jia Yi (Western Han statesman and poet)
Jia Yi, also known as Jia Sheng, was a Chinese statesman and fu-poet of the Western Han dynasty who served Emperor Wen and died in 168 BC.
Jia Yi's and Chao Cuo's centralization proposals
Jia Yi's and Chao Cuo's centralization proposals (贾谊、晁错削藩议) were Western Han plans to weaken the feudal kingdoms, whose adoption provoked the 154 BC revolt of seven kingdoms.
Jia Yifan
Jia Yifan (贾一凡), Chinese women's doubles badminton player born 1997 in Tianjin; Olympic gold Paris 2024 and silver Tokyo 2020 with Chen Qingchen, four world titles, now paired with Zhang Shuxian.
Jia Yu Capital
Jia Yu Capital (嘉御资本), formerly Jia Yu Fund, is a Chinese venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Wei Zhe, Alibaba's former B2B chief executive.
Jia Yuanyuan
Jia Yuanyuan (贾媛媛), Chinese backstroke swimmer born 1978; won three relay golds and 200 m backstroke silver at the 1993 short-course world championships, setting a 4x100 m freestyle relay world record.
Jia Zhanbo
Jia Zhanbo (贾占波), born 1974, Chinese rifle shooter; won 2004 Athens Olympic gold in men's 50m rifle three positions (1264.5) after Matt Emmons cross-fired on the final shot; competed also at Beijing 2008.
Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯)
Jia Zhangke (贾樟柯), born 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi, is a Sixth Generation Chinese director of Xiao Wu, Still Life (Venice Golden Lion 2006), A Touch of Sin, and Caught by the Tides, known for realist films on China's social change.
Jia‐Huai Wang
Jia-Huai Wang is a structural biologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for crystal structures of immune receptors and early membership of the Beijing Insulin Group.
Jiading
Jiading (嘉定区) is a northwestern Shanghai district, 463.16 km², 1.89 million residents (2024); founded as a county in 1218, part of Shanghai since 1958; hub for autos, ICs, biopharma.
Jiading bamboo carving
Jiading bamboo carving (嘉定竹刻) is a Chinese craft tradition founded by Zhu He in Jiading, now a Shanghai district, that became one of two great bamboo carving schools.
Jiading Peace Accord
The Jiading Peace Accord (嘉定和議) was the 1208 treaty that ended the war between the Southern Song and the Jin dynasty after the failed Kaixi northern expedition.
Jiadong Zhou
Jiadong Zhou (周家东) is a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist, and a professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, known for synthesizing atomically thin 2D metal chalcogenides.
Jiah Khan (झिया ख़ान)
Jiah Khan (Nafisa Rizvi Khan, 1988-2013), American-born Hindi film actress; debuted in Nishabd (2007), appeared in Ghajini and Housefull; died in Mumbai 2013; boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi acquitted of abetment in 2023.
Jiahe Biopharmaceutical (嘉和生物药业)
Jiahe Biopharmaceutical, known in English as Genor Biopharma, is a Chinese biopharmaceutical company founded in Shanghai in 2007 that developed monoclonal antibodies and biosimilars for cancer and autoimmune disease.