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Joy Ku
Research Technical Manager, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Current Role at StanfordJoy Ku is focused on biocomputation and the advancement of their use through teaching, science communications, community building, and the promotion of research resource sharing efforts, particularly as related to reproducibility and open-source science.
She is currently Senior Director of the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance at Stanford (https://humanperformance.stanford.edu) and also leads the education and outreach efforts for the overall Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, which consists of institutions across the country, including Salk, UC San Diego, the University of Kansas, the University of Oregon, and the Women's Health, Sports & Performance Institute. The Alliance's mission is to discover biological principles to optimize human performance and catalyze innovations in human health.
Dr. Ku is also the Director of Promotions and Didactic Interactions for the NIH-funded Restore Center (https://restore.stanford.edu), as well as the Director of Education and Communications for the Mobilize Center (https://mobilize.stanford.edu), an NIH Biomedical Technology Resource Center. Both Centers provide tools, infrastructure, and training to support the research community. The Mobilize Center's emphasis is on biomechanical modeling and machine learning algorithms to provide new insights into human movement from data sources, such as wearables, video, and medical images. The Restore Center's mission is to advance rehabilitation research using mobile sensor and video technology for real-world assessments of movement and factors affecting movement.
She also manages SimTK (https://simtk.org), a software, model, and data-sharing platform for the biocomputation research community. -
Jing Kuang
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Development and External Relations
BioJing Kuang is a founder and venture capitalist focused on consumer AI.
She is Co-Founder of Cresca, a consumer AI company developing private memory layer for professional relationships. She is also the Founding Partner of Y Plus Ventures, an early-stage venture firm investing in consumer AI startups at the angel, pre-seed, and seed stages. At Y Plus Ventures, Jing backs founders building AI-native products that can reshape how people live, create, connect, learn, and grow.
Before founding Cresca and Y Plus Ventures, Jing served as President and CEO of Yongjia Capital, where she oversaw more than $50 billion in cross-border M&A globally. Her work spanned deal structuring, due diligence, strategic integration, and investment execution across market cycles and geographies.
Jing is deeply engaged in the Stanford ecosystem. She is the Founder and Instructor of the RootedIn VC Fellowship at Stanford, where she teaches venture capital investment, deal sourcing, decision-making, and portfolio management. She also serves as a Teaching Facilitator for Executive Education at the Stanford d.school and has been a Guest Lecturer at the School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Peking University. Jing is also President of Stanford GSB Venture Capital Alumni Chapter, and has served as Co-President of Stanford GSB Asian Alumni Chapter and the Investment Committee Member for Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs.
Jing holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Peking University.
