John Yang is a CS PhD student at Stanford, and the lead author of SWE-Bench and SWE-Agent. Before coming to Stanford, he did a thesis-based MSCS at Princeton, and before that, he studied EECS at Berkeley for undergrad.
Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.