Romanian-American
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computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
specializing in
distributed systems
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,
cloud computing
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and
computer networking
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. He is a
professor
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of
computer science
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at the
University of California, Berkeley
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and co-director of
AMPLab
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. He co-founded
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History
The company was founded as Rin ...
and
Databricks
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Data ...
with other original developers of
Apache Spark
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.
As of April 2022,
Forbes
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ranked him 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 g ...
Romania
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, where he grew up and attended
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
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Old Dominion University
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with computer-science professor Hussein Abdel-Wahab. In 1996, he transferred to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where in 2000 he received a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering supervised by Hui Zhang.
Subjects included
Chord (peer-to-peer)
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, Core-Stateless Fair Queueing (CSFQ), and Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3).
Career and research
Stoica has been a
Berkeley
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professor since 2000. His research interests include
cloud computing
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distributed systems
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and
big data
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. He has authored or co-authored more than 100
peer review
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ed papers in various areas of
computer science
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End System Multicast
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History
The project was founded in 1999. It was used to bro ...
project at CMU.
In 2013 he co-founded
Databricks
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History
Data ...
, serving as its chief executive until being replaced by
Ali Ghodsi
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in January 2016, when he became executive chairman.
Association for Computing Machinery
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Ph.D. dissertation Award in 2001 for his thesis ''Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000)''. Stoica is the recipient of a SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), the 2007 CoNEXT Rising Star Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2003) and a PECASE Award (2002). Stoica is also an
ACM Fellow
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Computing
...
. In 2019, Stoica received the
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award The ACM SIGOPS (Special Interest Group on Operating Systems) Mark Weiser Award is awarded to an individual who has shown creativity and innovation in operating system research. The recipients began their career no earlier than 20 years prior to nom ...
.
Philanthropy
In June of 2021, Berkeley announced that Stoica had donated $25 million toward the university's computing and data science initiatives, making him and colleague
Scott Shenker
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