About Jybe
Jybe is a seed-funded startup, founded with the goal of connecting people to their social and physical worlds at the same time. (We'll tell you more about that later.) Our founders are veterans of the search engine industry (Yahoo!, Bing, Inktomi, Powerset), and we're both deadly serious and having a lot of fun as we build a fast-moving company in a novel niche. We're located in Menlo Park, and will continue be stealthy for the next few months. Technologies we like (or use): Scala, NoSQL, Hadoop, AWS, git, XCode. Join us.
The Team
Arnab Bhattacharjee
Founder and Co-CEO
Arnab brings a decade of experience in Web search technologies and previously ran the Yahoo! Search Technology team. As Vice President, Engineering, he was responsible for the Algorithmic Web Search back end (crawling, indexing and serving).
His team delivered industry leading products like Site Explorer, Search Monkey and BOSS. He also oversaw the application of search technologies as a horizontal platform, increasing agility and engagement across various many Yahoo experiences.
Arnab joined Yahoo! in March 2003, through the company's acquisition of Inktomi, where he was leading the search webmap team.
Arnab holds a B.Eng from the Indian Institute of Technology, and an MS, from the University of Pennsylvania, both in Computer Science.
Arnab has a proven track record as both a hands on innovator and a seasoned executive leading up to 200 person multi-disciplinary(R&D, operations, PM) teams. He is adept at hiring world class engineers, and has successfully built and integrated remote teams worldwide.
He has made several original contributions including Yahoo's first implementations of proximity ranking, near duplicate detection, crawling and webgraph algorithms, and a distributed batch processing infrastructure.
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Tim Converse
Founder and Co-CEO
Tim's specialty is leading mixed engineering/scientific efforts, and turning science projects into shipped product. He is a 10-year veteran of the search engine industry (Excite, Inktomi, Yahoo, Powerset, Microsoft) as an engineer, scientist and manager.
At Yahoo! Tim led the anti-webspam program, and built out a successful approach to combating spam via machine learning.
At Powerset, he led the ranking and relevance group for a natural-language search engine that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008.
At Microsoft, he led the search summaries group for Bing, managing a team of engineers and Ph.D. researchers to improve and (for the first time) measure the quality of summaries.
Tim holds a BA (Mathematics) and a MS (Computer Science), both from the University of Chicago. He was also the author of three editions of a popular guide to web programming in PHP (The PHP and MySQL Bible, published by Wiley Press).
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Tuoc Vihn Luong
Founder and Chairman of the Board
Tuoc is an accomplished executive with more than two decades of engineering and product expertise, having led and assembled engineering teams at successful IPO startup companies like Informix and Aurum Software, as well as industry fortune 500 companies like Yahoo, Microsoft and Oracle.
Tuoc was the founder of Lookspark, a community that connected people with interests in fashion and personal style. Yahoo acquired Lookspark in 2007.
Prior to co-founding Jybe, Tuoc was the senior vice president heading up the Yahoo Search Division. In this role Luong was responsible for Yahoo Search products worldwide including product management, engineering, inbound product marketing, program management, UED (User Experience & Design), and QA.
Prior to joining Yahoo, Luong was the chief technology officer for Zazzle, a private company specializing in personalized, on-demand retail products for consumers and major brands. Before Zazzle, Luong was the executive vice president and chief technology officer at IAC/InterActiveCorp Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.), which includes such popular destinations as Ask.com, Bloglines, Evite and more.
Luong holds a master's degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University and a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of California in Berkeley. He is also the author of the book, "Internationalization, Developing Software for the Global Market," published in 1995.
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Christian Kun
Member of Technical Staff
Christian is a veteran in designing and building reliable large-scale software systems, for web search and enterpriselevel information retrieval.
At Yahoo! Christian was a lead engineer for the content system. During his time there, the repository for all crawled web pages grew from less than one billion to several trillion links. He was also responsible for the migration to a highly scalable, Hadoop-based infrastructure.
Before Yahoo, Christian participated in a couple of startups that specialized in enterprise-level monitoring and information retrieval systems. Installations included Tokyo Electric Power, Samsung Aerospace, and the Hubble Space Telescope engineering library.
Christian holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Berne, Switzerland.
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Greg Laughlin
Advisor
Greg Laughlin is Professor and Chair of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is an internationally recognized authority on the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, and he is an expert on the extraction of signals from large data sets. Greg is discoverer of over fifty extrasolar planets, and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in the scientific literature.
Greg was the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award for outstanding young faculty members, and as a fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of
Science. He is co-author of several books, including Numerical Methods In Astrophysics: An Introduction, and The Five Ages of the Universe: The Astrophysics of the Extremely Distant Future.
Greg holds a B.A. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has been on the UCSC faculty since 2001. Previously, he did postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan and the University of California,
Berkeley, and he spent two years as a Planetary Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
In addition to his astronomical work, Greg maintains an expertise in data analysis problems that arise in numerical finance. He was Chief Scientist at Oklo Financial, LP, and currently serves as a consultant to VN7 Dynamic Capital, LP.
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