Jade Wang

Jade Q. Wang (born 1983) is an American computer programmer and neuroscientist. She is co-founder of the open source project Sandstorm,[1][2] and founder of the hacker-focused hostel chain Chez JJ.[3]

Jade Q. Wang
Born1983
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorthwestern University
Stanford University
OccupationProgrammer, neuroscientist
EmployerSandstorm
Meteor
NASA Ames Research Center

Education

Wang graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with a bachelor's degree in biology,[4] where she co-authored the paper "Akt Contributes to Neuroprotection by Hypothermia against Cerebral Ischemia in Rats" in The Journal of Neuroscience.[5] She has also been published in the Journal of Neurosurgery.[6] She completed her Ph.D in neuroscience in 2010 at Northwestern University,[7] where she worked in the auditory neuroscience lab of Nina Kraus.[8]

Career

From 2010 through 2012, Wang worked as a research scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center,[9][10] where she did human-computer interaction research.[1]

Wang is the co-founder of Chez JJ with Jocelyn Berl.[11] Chez JJ is a "chain of three hacker homes", two in San Francisco and one in Mountain View in Silicon Valley.[3][12] Chez JJ has been investigated for not complying with zoning codes,[13] and was fined by the city of San Francisco after complaints from neighbors, whose disputes with Chez JJ were widely reported in the press.[3][14] Partly as a result, Chez JJ shut down in 2015, after providing housing for over 400 residents.[15]

Wang also co-founded Sandstorm, an "open source platform for personal servers".[1][16] Sandstorm was initially started with crowdfunding,[17][18] and later raised a $1.3 million seed round[19] lead by Quest Venture Partners.[20]

References
  1. Finley, Klint (July 28, 2014). "Out in the Open: Sandstorm Makes It Easy to Control Your Apps in the Cloud". Wired. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  2. Wang, Jade. "Full Stack". jQuerySF 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  3. Said, Carolyn (March 26, 2015). "Castro resident's three-year quest to shut down a hacker hostel". SF Chronicle. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  4. Wang, Jade. "Jade Wang". angel.co. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  5. Zhao, Heng; Shimohata, Takayoshi; Wang, Jade Q.; Sun, Guohua; Schaal, David W.; Sapolsky, Robert M.; Steinberg, Gary K. (19 October 2005). "Akt Contributes to Neuroprotection by Hypothermia against Cerebral Ischemia in Rats". The Journal of Neuroscience. 25 (42): 9794–9806. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3163-05.2005. PMID 16237183. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  6. Zhao, Heng; Wang, Jade Q.; Shimohata, Takayoshi; Sun, Guohua; Yenari, Midori A.; Sapolsky, Robert M.; Steinberg, Gary K. (2007-09-01). "Conditions of protection by hypothermia and effects on apoptotic pathways in a rat model of permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion". Journal of Neurosurgery. 107 (3): 636–641. doi:10.3171/JNS-07/09/0636. ISSN 0022-3085. PMID 17886565.
  7. Wang, Jade. "Jadism". Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  8. Kraus, Nina. "Meet the Members of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory". brainvolts. Northwestern University. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  9. Weekly, David. "Interview with Dr. Jade Wang of NASA Ames". Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  10. "Jade Wang". Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Anita Borg Institute. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  11. Chen, Brian X. (5 July 2012). "Crammed Into Cheap Bunks, Dreaming of Future Digital Glory". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  12. Chen, Brian X. (July 6, 2012). "Untold Stories From Hacker Hostels". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  13. Cruz, Claudia (July 24, 2012). "Hacker Hostel 'Illegal,' Says Code Enforcement Unit". Mountain View Patch. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  14. McDermid, Riley (August 24, 2015). ""Hacker hostel" Chez JJ closes its doors as S.F. grapples with share economy". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  15. Alba, Davey (August 22, 2015). "An SF Hacker Hostel Faces the Real World and Loses". Wired Magazine. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  16. Giang, Vivian (March 26, 2015). "What young women in tech are saying about the Ellen Pao case". Fortune. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  17. Wang, Jade (December 2, 2015). "5 open source web app alternatives to Google Drive". opensource.com. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  18. Swallow, Erica (February 24, 2015). "Y Combinator Gathers 800 Startup Women to Jumpstart Gender Equality in Tech". Huffington Post. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  19. Meyer, David (January 15, 2015). "Decentralization platform Sandstorm gets serious with $1.3M boost". GigaOM. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  20. "Sandstorm Secures $1.3M in Seed Funding". FinSMEs. January 16, 2015. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
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