Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia | |
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Matei Zaharia in 2004. | |
| Born | 1984 or 1985 (age 40–41) |
| Education | UC Berkeley (Ph.D.) University of Waterloo (BMath) |
| Known for | Apache Spark |
| Awards | ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019) SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | UC Berkeley Stanford University Databricks |
| Thesis | An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ion Stoica Scott Shenker |
| Website | people |
Matei Zaharia (born 1984 or 1985) is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark.
As of 2024, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd-richest Romanians with a net worth of $2.7 billion.