About
Dr. Jia Yu is the co-founder and Chief Architect of Wherobots, where he leads development of a cloud-native data warehouse for geospatial data. He co-created Apache Sedona, an open-source framework for large-scale spatial data processing in cloud and on-premise environments, and serves as PMC chair for the project. Prior to Wherobots, he was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Washington State University and has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications, with work presented at database conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE.
Co-founder & Chief Architect at Wherobots
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Co-founders at Wherobots
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Mo SarwatCo-Founder & CEO
Experience
- WherobotsCo-Founder and Chief Architectcurrent2022 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- The Apache Software FoundationV.P., Project Management Committee Chair of Apache Sedonacurrent2015 — present
- Washington State UniversityTenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science2020 — 2023Pullman, WA
- MicrosoftResearch Intern2019Redmond
- IBMResearch Intern2018San Francisco Bay Area
- AppleSoftware Developement Intern2016San Francisco Bay Area
Skills & more
Apache Spark14Apache Mesos3Ganglia3Research16Teaching7Program Development5Tutoring1Computer Science2Web Development1Programming4Data Analysis1LLVM1
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Apache SedonaPostgreSQL KernelHadoopPythonLaTeXLinuxGISMySQLUbuntuMongoDBC++DatabasesLanguages Chinese · English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jia Yu?
- Dr. Jia Yu is the co-founder and Chief Architect of Wherobots, where he leads development of a cloud-native data warehouse for geospatial data. He co-created Apache Sedona, an open-source framework for large-scale spatial data processing in cloud and on-premise environments, and serves as PMC chair for the project. Prior to Wherobots, he was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Washington State University and has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications, with work presented at database conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE.
- Where does Jia Yu work?
- Jia Yu is Co-founder & Chief Architect of Wherobots.
- What companies did Jia Yu found?
- Jia Yu founded Wherobots.
- Where did Jia Yu go to school?
- Jia Yu studied at Arizona State University (Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science); Northwest A&F University (Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Software engineering).
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Also attended Northwest A&F University1
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