Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica | |
|---|---|
Stoica in 2014 | |
| Born | Ion Stoica 1964 or 1965 (age 60–61) |
| Citizenship | Romanian, American |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Known for | Chord Apache Spark Apache Mesos Alluxio |
| Awards | ACM Fellow 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 |
| Doctoral students |
|
| Website | www |
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.