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Jia Yu

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Co-founder & Chief Architect at Wherobots

Seattle, Washington, United States

FoundedWherobots

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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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Wherobots's investors · 6

Clear VenturesPalo Alto · $100K – $5M checks · since 2022Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks · since 2022JetBlue VenturesSan Francisco · since 2022Prosperity7 VenturesDhahran · since 2022SKY VCNew York · since 2022WingPalo Alto · $200K – $20M checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Wherobots

MSMo Sarwat
Mo SarwatCo-Founder & CEO

Experience

  1. WherobotsCo-Founder and Chief Architectcurrent2022 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
  2. The Apache Software FoundationV.P., Project Management Committee Chair of Apache Sedonacurrent2015 — present
  3. Washington State UniversityTenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science2020 — 2023Pullman, WA
  4. MicrosoftResearch Intern2019Redmond
  5. IBMResearch Intern2018San Francisco Bay Area
  6. AppleSoftware Developement Intern2016San Francisco Bay Area

Skills & more

Apache Spark14Apache Mesos3Ganglia3Research16Teaching7Program Development5Tutoring1Computer Science2Web Development1Programming4Data Analysis1LLVM1
+12 moreApache SedonaPostgreSQL KernelHadoopPythonLaTeXLinuxGISMySQLUbuntuMongoDBC++Databases

Languages Chinese · English

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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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