Ion Stoica
Stoica in 2014
Born
Ion Stoica

1964 or 1965 (age 58–59)[4]
CitizenshipRomanian, American
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Known forChord[5]
Apache Spark[6]
Apache Mesos[7]
Alluxio[8]
AwardsACM Fellow[1]
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Databricks
Conviva
ThesisStateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000)
Doctoral advisorHui Zhang[3]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~istoica

Ion Stoica (born 1964 or 1965) is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking.[9][2][10][11] 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.[6][12]

As of April 2022, Forbes ranked him and Matei Zaharia as the 3rd-richest people in Romania with a net worth of $1.6 billion.[13]

Education

Stoica was born in Romania, where he grew up and attended Polytechnic University of Bucharest, receiving a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1989. He moved to the USA in 1994 to start a PhD at Old Dominion University with computer-science professor Hussein Abdel-Wahab.[14][15] In 1996, he transferred to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where in 2000 he received a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering supervised by Hui Zhang.[3][16] Subjects included Chord (peer-to-peer), Core-Stateless Fair Queueing (CSFQ), and Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3).

Career and research

Stoica has been a Berkeley professor since 2000. His research interests include cloud computing,[17][18] networking, distributed systems and big data.[2] He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers in various areas of computer science.[2][19][20][21]

Stoica was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Conviva in 2006,[22] a company that came out of the End System Multicast project at CMU. In 2013 he co-founded Databricks, serving as its chief executive until being replaced by Ali Ghodsi in January 2016, when he became executive chairman.[23]

He is one of the inventors of Dominant resource fairness.

Awards

Stoica under the supervision of his doctoral advisor Hui Zhang (Chinese: 张晖) won the Association for Computing Machinery Ph.D. dissertation Award in 2001 for his thesis Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000).[16][24][25] 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.[1] In 2019, Stoica received the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award.[26]

Philanthropy

In June 2021, Berkeley announced that Stoica had donated $25 million toward the university's computing and data science initiatives, making him and colleague Scott Shenker two of Berkeley's largest benefactors.[27][28]

References

  1. ^ a b Ion Stoica author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  2. ^ a b c d Ion Stoica publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b Ion Stoica at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Cai, Kenrick (May 27, 2021). "Accidental Billionaires: How Seven Academics Who Didn't Want To Make A Cent Are Now Worth Billions". Forbes.
  5. ^ Stoica, I.; Morris, R.; Karger, D.; Kaashoek, M. F.; Balakrishnan, H. (2001). "Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications" (PDF). ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 31 (4): 149. doi:10.1145/964723.383071.
  6. ^ a b Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica (2010). "Spark: cluster computing with working sets. In Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing (HotCloud'10). USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, USA, 10-10". p. 10.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ "Mesos: A Platform for Fine-Grained Resource Sharing in the Data Center" (PDF).
  8. ^ "Tachyon: Reliable, Memory Speed Storage for Cluster Computing Frameworks" (PDF).
  9. ^ Koponen, Teemu; Chawla, Mohit; Chun, Byung-Gon; Ermolinskiy, Andrey; Kim, Kye Hyun; Shenker, Scott; Stoica, Ion (2007). "A data-oriented (and beyond) network architecture". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 37 (4): 181. doi:10.1145/1282427.1282402. ISSN 0146-4833.
  10. ^ Dabek, Frank; Kaashoek, M. Frans; Karger, David; Morris, Robert; Stoica, Ion (2001). "Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS". ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 35 (5): 202. doi:10.1145/502059.502054. ISSN 0163-5980. S2CID 2561445.
  11. ^ Dabek, Frank; Kaashoek, M. Frans; Karger, David; Morris, Robert; Stoica, Ion (2001). "Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS". Proceedings of the eighteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '01. p. 202. doi:10.1145/502034.502054. ISBN 978-1581133899. S2CID 2561445.
  12. ^ Zaharia, Matei; Franklin, Michael J.; Ghodsi, Ali; Gonzalez, Joseph; Shenker, Scott; Stoica, Ion; Xin, Reynold S.; Wendell, Patrick; Das, Tathagata; Armbrust, Michael; Dave, Ankur; Meng, Xiangrui; Rosen, Josh; Venkataraman, Shivaram (2016). "Apache Spark". Communications of the ACM. 59 (11): 56–65. doi:10.1145/2934664. ISSN 0001-0782. S2CID 207238620.
  13. ^ "Cei mai bogaţi oameni din lume în 2022. Şase români în topul Forbes". Adevărul (in Romanian). 6 April 2022.
  14. ^ Gupta, Indranil (13 April 2022). "Ion Stoica Interview". Immigrant Computer Scientists Podcast. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  15. ^ "Long-Time Old Dominion Computer Science Faculty Member Hussein Abdel-Wahab Dies at 69". News. Old Dominion University. 5 January 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  16. ^ a b Stoica, Ion Lucretiu (2000). Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (PhD thesis). Carnegie Mellon University. ISBN 9783540219606. OCLC 249141703. ProQuest 250244001.
  17. ^ Armbrust, Michael and Fox, Armando and Griffith, Rean and Joseph, Anthony D. and Katz, Randy H. and Konwinski, Andrew and Lee, Gunho and Patterson, David A. and Rabkin, Ariel and Stoica, Ion and Zaharia, Matei (2009). "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing: Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-28" (PDF). eecs.berkeley.edu.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ Armbrust, Michael; Stoica, Ion; Zaharia, Matei; Fox, Armando; Griffith, Rean; Joseph, Anthony D.; Katz, Randy; Konwinski, Andy; Lee, Gunho; Patterson, David; Rabkin, Ariel (2010). "A view of cloud computing". Communications of the ACM. 53 (4): 50. doi:10.1145/1721654.1721672. ISSN 0001-0782.
  19. ^ Ion Stoica at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  20. ^ Ion Stoica publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  21. ^ "Papers and Technical Reports".
  22. ^ "Our Team". Conviva web site. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  23. ^ "Former SICS-researcher Ali Ghodsi new CEO of Databricks". RISE web site. January 13, 2016. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  24. ^ "Ion Stoica - Award Winner". awards.acm.org. Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 2014-11-03.
  25. ^ "Ion Stoica". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  26. ^ "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  27. ^ Blake Edgar (June 7, 2021). "Trio of gifts, $75 million, accelerates transformation of computing and data science at Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu.
  28. ^ Ahavah Revis (November 5, 2021). "Largest Contributions to UC Berkeley". San Francisco Business Times.

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