Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica is a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anyscale. He is also a Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Director of SkyLab (https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/) where he is currently doing research on cloud computing and AI systems. Past work includes Ray, Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, Chord DHT, and Dynamic Packet State (DPS). He is an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the Mark Weiser Award (2019), SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2015), and several "Test of Time" awards. In addition to Anyscale, he co-founded Databricks (2013), where he was CEO until 2016, and Conviva (2006).