Jia Yu is a co-founder of Wherobots Inc., a venture-backed company for helping businesses to drive insights from spatiotemporal data. He was a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University from 2020 to 2023. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. His research focuses on large-scale database systems and geospatial data management. In particular, he worked on distributed geospatial data management systems, database indexing, and geospatial data visualization. Jia’s research outcomes have appeared in the most prestigious database / GIS conferences and journals, including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGSPATIAL and VLDB Journal. He is the main contributor of several open-sourced research projects such as Apache Sedona, a cluster computing framework for processing big spatial data, which receives 1 million downloads per month and has users / contributors from major companies.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020
Arizona State University
B.E. in Software Eng., Outstanding Graduate, 2013
Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China (西北农林科技大学, Project 985 & 211)
Micrsoft SQL Server
SIGMOD 2020 research paper
ALEX: An Updatable Adaptive Learned Indexrelational model, SQL and DB2 DBMS
SIGMOD 2019 research paper
Designing Succinct Secondary Indexing Mechanism by Exploiting Column Correlations VLDB 2019 demo paper
HERMIT in action: Succinct secondary indexing mechanism via correlation explorationApple Maps
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