Jia Yu is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University (advisor: Mohamed Sarwat) in Summer 2020. 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, SSTD and VLDB Journal. He is the main contributor of several open-sourced research projects such as Apache Sedona (incubating), a cluster computing framework for processing big spatial data, which receives 200,000 downloads per month and has users / contributors from major companies (e.g., Facebook, Uber, AT&T, and MoBike).
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Apache Sedona
(incubating, formerly GeoSpark), has been accepted to
The Apache Software Foundation.
GitHub,
Website: sedona.apache.org Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2020
Arizona State University
BEng in Software Engineering, Outstanding Graduate, 2013
Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China (西北农林科技大学)
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
Slides of my talks are usually available unless forbidden by Non-Disclosure Agreements