Ion Stoica (born 1964 or 1965) is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking.[9][2][10][11] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab. He co-founded Conviva and Databricks with other original developers of Apache Spark.[6][12]
Ion Stoica | |
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Born | Ion Stoica 1964 or 1965 (age 58–59)[4] |
Citizenship | Romanian, American |
Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
Known for | Chord[5] Apache Spark[6] Apache Mesos[7] Alluxio[8] |
Awards | ACM Fellow[1] SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley Databricks Conviva |
Thesis | Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000) |
Doctoral advisor | Hui Zhang[3] |
Doctoral students | |
Website | www |
As of April 2022, Forbes ranked him and Matei Zaharia as the 3rd-richest people in Romania with a net worth of $1.6 billion.[13]
Stoica was born in Romania, where he grew up and attended Polytechnic University of Bucharest, receiving a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1989. He moved to the USA in 1994 to start a PhD at Old Dominion University with computer-science professor Hussein Abdel-Wahab.[14][15] In 1996, he transferred to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where in 2000 he received a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering supervised by Hui Zhang.[3][16] Subjects included Chord (peer-to-peer), Core-Stateless Fair Queueing (CSFQ), and Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3).
Stoica has been a Berkeley professor since 2000. His research interests include cloud computing,[17][18] networking, distributed systems and big data.[2] He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers in various areas of computer science.[2][19][20][21]
Stoica was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Conviva in 2006,[22] a company that came out of the End System Multicast project at CMU. In 2013 he co-founded Databricks, serving as its chief executive until being replaced by Ali Ghodsi in January 2016, when he became executive chairman.[23]
He is one of the inventors of Dominant resource fairness.
Stoica under the supervision of his doctoral advisor Hui Zhang (Chinese: 张晖) won the Association for Computing Machinery Ph.D. dissertation Award in 2001 for his thesis Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000).[16][24][25] Stoica is the recipient of a SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), the 2007 CoNEXT Rising Star Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2003) and a PECASE Award (2002). Stoica is also an ACM Fellow.[1] In 2019, Stoica received the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.[26]
In June 2021, Berkeley announced that Stoica had donated $25 million toward the university's computing and data science initiatives, making him and colleague Scott Shenker two of Berkeley's largest benefactors.[27][28]
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