Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica
Stoica in 2014
Born
Ion Stoica

1964 or 1965 (age 60–61)
CitizenshipRomanian, American
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Known forChord
Apache Spark
Apache Mesos
Alluxio
AwardsACM Fellow
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Databricks
Conviva
ThesisStateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000)
Doctoral advisorHui Zhang
Doctoral students
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~istoica

Ion Stoica (born 1964 or 1965) is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. 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 and Anyscale with other original developers of Ray.

As of April 2025, Forbes ranked him and Matei Zaharia as the 3rd-richest people in Romania with a net worth of $2.7 billion.