Jia Yu is a co-founder of Wherobots Inc., a venture-backed company for helping businesses to drive insights from spatiotemporal data, and leads the engineering team at Wherobots. He is currently on leave of absence from his role as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Arizona State University in Summer 2020 under the guidance of Mohamed Sarwat. 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 800,000 downloads per month and has users / contributors from major companies.

Call For Participation

• The 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (IEEE ICDE 2023) registration website is now open. Early Bird deadline: 02/24/2023. If you run into any issue when register for the conference, please contact me (Registration Chair of ICDE 2023) via my WSU email address.

News

• 01/2023: Apache Sedona is now an Apache Software Foundation Top Level Project (TLP). See the Announcement from ASF. Being a TLP at Apache signifies that the project is mature, independent, and enjoys strong community support.
• 12/2022: Invited to be a Program Committee member of ACM SIGMOD 2024.
• 09/2022: I am currently on leave of absence from WSU.
• 07/2022: The initial version of GLIN is released on GitHub. GLIN is a Lightweight Learned Indexing Mechanism for Complex Geometries.
• 05/2022: Invited to be a Program Committee member of ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022, SIGSPATIAL 2022 Student Research Competition, EDBT 2023 demo track.
• 05/19/2022: Delivered a talk about Apache Sedona to Amazon
• 02/16/2022: Delivered a talk about Apache Sedona to Microsoft Maps & Geospatial Team