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74th percentile
Penn State computer scientist with h-index 40 now building Education AI at StoryJumper
Credibility
Domain Expertise · 97th percentile
- Wikidata entity (Q6265139) exists for John Yen, confirming notability as an American computer scientist.
- Wikipedia page exists for John Yen, confirming public notability.
- Deep research credibility with an h-index of 40 at Pennsylvania State University (OpenAlex).
- Identified researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 40 and 7,802 citations across 271 works.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata entity (Q6265139) exists for John Yen, confirming notability as an American computer scientist.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikipedia page exists for John Yen, confirming public notability.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Founded the Cancer Informatics Initiative at Penn State University.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Deep research credibility with an h-index of 40 at Pennsylvania State University (OpenAlex).
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Identified researcher on OpenAlex with an h-index of 40 and 7,802 citations across 271 works.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account identified for John Yen (@john-yen), matching his name and Penn State affiliation.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub account is over 12 years old, created in December 2013.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current founder and CEO of StoryJumper, an Education AI platform.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Co-founded StoryJumper, indicating the venture had co-founders.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Most recent public GitHub push was 223 days ago (repo 'DS310'), within the last year but not within 90 days.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Stack Overflow account identified for John Yen.
What you likely need
You need events that bridge your deep academic credibility into startup-world visibility — think curated dinners with EdTech-focused investors who respect research pedigree, and roundtables with YC-affiliated founders who can demystify the application and fundraising process. Your strongest leverage is your citation record and Penn State network, so events that help you convert that authority into founder storytelling, developer community signal, and warm investor intros will move the needle fastest for StoryJumper.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- fundraisingA dinner with Owl Ventures and Learn Capital partners alongside 4-5 EdTech founders to pressure-test StoryJumper's seed pitch and get warm intro paths to EdTech-focused term sheets
- introsA roundtable with YC EdTech alumni (S19/W21/S22 batches) who have navigated the application as academic or research-background founders, to sharpen StoryJumper's YC narrative and get direct partner referrals
- positioningA workshop with 6-8 AI-in-education founders and operators to co-develop a public founder story framework, helping you translate your 7,800+ citations and Penn State research arc into a TechCrunch or Medium piece that lands with both investors and educators
- hiringA happy hour with Penn State IST graduate students and recent alumni in the NYC or SF tech scene to recruit early engineers and product leads into StoryJumper's founding team pipeline
- tacticalA dinner with open-source AI developer-tools founders who have successfully launched GitHub repos to community traction, to map out which StoryJumper AI stack component to open-source first and how to seed it with early contributors
- tacticalA roundtable with founders who have hit top-5 Product Hunt launches in the EdTech and AI categories to reverse-engineer a StoryJumper launch strategy that drives investor visibility and early user signups
- positioningA dinner with 5-6 founders who made the credibility leap from tenured professor or research lead to venture-backed startup, to workshop how to publicly reframe your Penn State and Texas A&M AI research as StoryJumper's unfair origin advantage