SPEAKER
Jia
Yu
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Wherobots Inc.
Jia Yu is the co-founder of Wherobots, a Spatial Intelligence Cloud platform for spatial data ETL, analytics, and AI. Previously, he was a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University (2020–2023) and earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Jia specializes in large-scale database systems and geospatial data management, with a focus on distributed systems, indexing, and visualization. His work has been featured in top conferences and journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, SIGSPATIAL, and VLDB Journal. He is the primary contributor to Apache Sedona, an open-source big spatial data framework with over 2 million monthly downloads and widespread industry adoption.
Jia’s sessions
Jia will be contributing to these sessions at Data + AI Summit 2025:
Data Lakehouse Architecture and Implementation
Iceberg Geo Type: Transforming Geospatial Data Management at Scale
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