Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica | |
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Stoica in 2025 | |
| 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.
In 2022, Forbes ranked him and Matei Zaharia as the 3rd-richest Romanians with a net worth of $1.6 billion.