Summary
Junfeng Yang is a Computer Science professor at Columbia University and the co-founder and CEO of NimbleDroid, a Columbia spin-off in NYC inventing cutting-edge tools to redefine how developers craft apps. With over 15 years of experience, he has bridged academia and industry, including research and consulting at Microsoft, and leads work on performant, reliable, and secure software. His innovations have influenced Android, Linux, and production systems at Microsoft and VMware, benefiting hundreds of millions of users, and he has been honored with the Google Faculty Research Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, AFOSR Young Investigator Award, and NSF CAREER Award. The NimbleDroid team combines academics and practitioners, leveraging patent-pending technology from Columbia and a cadre of engineers, including developers with 2,000+ GitHub stars. He earned his PhD from Stanford and his BS from Tsinghua University, and his work continues to shape software research and education from New York.
11 years of coding experience