# Jun Ye

> Jun Ye is the co-founder, president and CEO of Sentieon, a Mountain View bioinformatics company whose variant-calling software has swept the precisionFDA Truth and Consistency Challenges. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with more than 50 U.S. patents, he previously co-founded Brion Technologies (acquired by ASML in 2006) and Founton Technologies (acquired into Alibaba in 2012), and taught at Stanford as a consulting professor for fourteen years.

- **Role:** Co-Founder, President & CEO at Sentieon Inc.
- **Organizations:** Sentieon Inc., Cepton (board director), Stanford University (former consulting professor), Founton Technologies, Brion Technologies, Iowa State University LAS Dean's Advisory Council
- **From:** China
- **Nationality:** American (born in China)
- **Education:** B.S., Electrical Engineering, Fudan University, M.S., Physics, Iowa State University, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- **Known for:** Author of more than 50 U.S. patents across algorithm, software, hardware and system architecture, Co-founded Brion Technologies (acquired by ASML, 2006), Co-founded Founton Technologies (acquired into Alibaba Group, 2012)

## Career timeline

- **1987** — B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Fudan University
- **1991** — M.S. in Physics, Iowa State University
- **1996** — Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- **2001** — Begins 14-year stint as Consulting Professor of EE at Stanford
- **2002** — Co-founds Brion Technologies (computational lithography)
- **2006** — Brion Technologies acquired by ASML
- **2011** — Co-founds Founton Technologies (data mining / machine learning)
- **2012** — Founton acquired by Allyes Online Media (now Alibaba Group)
- **2014** — Co-founds Sentieon in Mountain View, CA
- **2014** — Receives Iowa State LAS John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award
- **2016** — Sentieon wins precisionFDA Consistency Challenge - top overall and highest reproducibility
- **2020** — Sentieon takes the most individual awards in precisionFDA Truth Challenge V2
- **2024** — Velsera + Sentieon's Pangenotyper wins Bio-IT World Best-of-Show

## Achievements

- Author of more than 50 U.S. patents across algorithm, software, hardware and system architecture
- Co-founded Brion Technologies (acquired by ASML, 2006)
- Co-founded Founton Technologies (acquired into Alibaba Group, 2012)
- Co-founded Sentieon, whose tools have won every precisionFDA challenge they have entered
- Iowa State University LAS John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award (2014)
- Consulting Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (2001-2015)

## Latest updates

- **2024-06** — Velsera and Sentieon's Pangenotyper named Bio-IT World 2024 Best-of-Show.

## Links

- Website: https://sentieon.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jun-ye-714b184

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