For mining research teams more rationally, a teacher-student relationship based research team mining algorithm was proposed. First, the BiLSTM-CRF neural network model was used to extract the teacher and classmate named entities from the acknowledgement parts of academic dissertations. Secondly, the guidance and cooperation network between teachers and students was constructed. Thirdly, the Leuven algorithm was improved, and the teacher-student relationship based Leuven algorithm was proposed to mine the research teams. The performance comparison was performed to the label propagation algorithm, the clustering coefficient algorithm and the Leuven algorithm on the datasets such as American College football dataset. Moreover, the operating efficiency of the teacher-student relationship based Leuven algorithm was compared to the operating efficiency of the original Leuven algorithm on three academic dissertation datasets with different scales. Experimental results show that the larger the data size, the more obvious performance improvement of the teacher-student relationship based Leuven algorithm. Finally, based on the academic dissertation dataset of National University of Defense Technology, the performance of the teacher-student relationship based Leuven algorithm was validated. Experimental results show that research teams mined by the proposed algorithm are more reasonable compared to academic paper cooperation network based mining method in the aspects of team cooperation closeness, team scale, team internal relationship and team stability.