Ky J
Professor In The Practice, Associate Dean, And Shanna & Eric Bass 05 Director Of Entrepreneurship
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolKy J is a professor-practitioner and entrepreneurship leader with 16 years of experience building startups, teaching applied AI, and translating research into products. As Yale SOM’s Professor in the Practice and inaugural Shanna & Eric Bass Director of Entrepreneurship, Ky teaches LLMs, software development, databases, and founder studies while mentoring student ventures. A serial founder and technical lead, Ky built PriorSmart and co-founded Agrivida and Rho AI, developing production ML systems (Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Docker) whose products were acquired by RPX and GM. Their background blends a PhD in chemical engineering with hands-on machine learning, patent analytics, and biotech commercialization—work that has been cited in major outlets and supported by multi‑million dollar grants. Not obvious from the title: Ky regularly combines classroom humor (and a notorious lapel mic anecdote) with rigorous, production-grade engineering, making them equally at home in academic, startup, and corporate settings.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S., Chemical Engineering, B.S., Chemical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish, chinese (mandarin, 普通话), English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
postgresql10
python10
text-files10
haskell10
pgsql10
api10
rest10
jsonwebtoken10
sql10
golang10
cli10
database10
postgresql-database10
pg10
madlibs10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
yale-mgt-656/mgt656-madlibs
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
Madlibs game to demonstrate git
Contributions:13 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
madlibsmadlibs-gamegame
kljensen/mit-phd-thesis
Jan 2010 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 3 pushes in 10 years
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