Ali Ghodsi is an Iranian-Swedish

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and entrepreneur specializing in

distributed systems A distributed system is a system whose components are located on different networked computers, which communicate and coordinate their actions by passing messages to one another from any system. Distributed computing is a field of computer sci ...

and

big data Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...

. He is a co-founder and CEO of

Databricks Databricks is an American enterprise software company founded by the creators of Apache Spark. Databricks develops a web-based platform for working with Spark, that provides automated cluster management and IPython-style notebooks. History Da ...

and an

adjunct professor An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, however the genera ...

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

. Ideas from his academic research in the area of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied in popular open source projects such as

Apache Mesos Apache Mesos is an open-source project to manage computer clusters. It was developed at the University of California, Berkeley. History Mesos began as a research project in the UC Berkeley RAD Lab by then PhD students Benjamin Hindman, Andy Konw ...

Apache Spark Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an interface for programming clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally developed at the University of Californi ...

, and

Apache Hadoop Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities that facilitates using a network of many computers to solve problems involving massive amounts of data and computation. It provides a software framework for distributed storage ...

. Ghodsi received his PhD from

KTH Royal Institute of Technology The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technolo ...

in Sweden, advised by Seif Haridi. He was a co-founder of Peerialism AB, a Stockholm-based company developing peer-to-peer systems to transport and store data on the Internet. He was also an

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at KTH from 2008 to 2009. He joined UC Berkeley in 2009 as a visiting scholar and worked with

Scott Shenker Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the Interna ...

Ion Stoica Ion Stoica 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-fo ...

, Michael Franklin, and

Matei Zaharia Matei Zaharia is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark. As of April 2022, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd- richest people in Romania with a net worth of $1.6 billion. Biography Zaharia gr ...

on research projects in distributed systems, database systems, and networking. During this period, he helped start Apache Mesos and Apache Spark projects. He also co-invented the concept of Dominant Resource Fairness, in a paper that heavily influenced resource management and scheduling design in distributed systems such as Hadoop. In 2013, he co-founded

, a company that commercializes Spark, and became chief executive in 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghodsi, Ali Living people Swedish computer scientists University of California, Berkeley alumni 1978 births