Jean Yang - Founder and CEO @ Akita Software

Overview

Number of Founded Organizations

CB Rank (Investor)

Primary Job Title Founder and CEO
Primary Organization
Akita Software

Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England
Gender Female

Jean Yang is a final-year PhD student at MIT. Jean creates programming languages and tools that make it easier for people to write the programs they intend to write. During her PhD she created a language, Jeeves, that automatically enforces information flow policies for security and privacy. She graduated with a degree in Computer Science from

Harvard University in 2008 and has interned at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Research. She won Best Paper Award at the Programming Languages and Implementation conference in 2009 for her paper. Safe to the Last Instruction: Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating System.

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs

Jean Yang

has

current jobs as

Founder and CEO

Akita Software

and

Co-Founder

Cybersecurity Factory

Akita Software Founder and CEO
Cybersecurity Factory Co-Founder

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