Biography:Ion Stoica

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Short description: Romanian–American computer scientist
Ion Stoica
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Ion Stoica speaking at a National Science Foundation workshop on cloud computing in 2014
Born
Ion Stoica
CitizenshipRomanian, American
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
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
  • Boon Thau Loo
  • Haoyuan Li
  • Matei Zaharia
  • Sylvia Ratnasamy
  • Mosharaf Chowdhury
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~istoica

Ion Stoica is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking.[4][2][5][6] 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.[7][8]

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.[9]

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.[10][11] 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][12] 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,[13][14] 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][15][16][17]

Stoica was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Conviva in 2006,[18] 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.[19]

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).[12][20][21] 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.[22]

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 two of Berkeley's largest benefactors.[23][24]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Ion Stoica author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
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  3. 3.0 3.1 Ion Stoica at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. 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. 
  5. 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. 
  6. 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. pp. 202. doi:10.1145/502034.502054. ISBN 978-1581133899. 
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  8. Zaharia, Matei; Franklin, Michael J.; Ghodsi, Ali; Gonzalez, Joseph; Shenker, Scott; Stoica, Ion; Xin, Reynold S.; Wendell, Patrick et al. (2016). "Apache Spark". Communications of the ACM 59 (11): 56–65. doi:10.1145/2934664. ISSN 0001-0782. 
  9. "Cei mai bogaţi oameni din lume în 2022. Şase români în topul Forbes" (in ro). 6 April 2022. https://adevarul.ro/international/in-lume/cei-maibogati-oameni-lume-in2022-Sase-romani-topul-forbes-1_624db0675163ec427117bdd7/index.html. 
  10. Gupta, Indranil (13 April 2022). "Ion Stoica Interview". http://csimmigrant.org/index.php/2022/04/13/episode-32-ion-stoica-interview/. 
  11. "Long-Time Old Dominion Computer Science Faculty Member Hussein Abdel-Wahab Dies at 69". Old Dominion University. 5 January 2017. https://www.odu.edu/news/2017/1/abdel_wahab_obit. 
  12. 12.0 12.1 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.
  13. 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". https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf. 
  14. Armbrust, Michael; Stoica, Ion; Zaharia, Matei; Fox, Armando; Griffith, Rean; Joseph, Anthony D.; Katz, Randy; Konwinski, Andy et al. (2010). "A view of cloud computing". Communications of the ACM 53 (4): 50. doi:10.1145/1721654.1721672. ISSN 0001-0782. 
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  16. Ion Stoica publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
  17. "Papers and Technical Reports". https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~istoica/pubs.html. 
  18. "Our Team". Conviva web site. http://www.conviva.com/our-team/. 
  19. "Former SICS-researcher Ali Ghodsi new CEO of Databricks". RISE web site. January 13, 2016. https://www.sics.se/media/news/former-sics-researcher-ali-ghodsi-new-ceo-of-databricks. 
  20. "Ion Stoica - Award Winner". Association for Computing Machinery. http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/stoica_cr56854.cfm. 
  21. "Ion Stoica" (in en). https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/stoica_CR56854. 
  22. "The Mark Weiser Award". ACM SIGOPS. https://www.sigops.org/awards/mw/. 
  23. Blake Edgar (June 7, 2021). "Trio of gifts, $75 million, accelerates transformation of computing and data science at Berkeley". https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/trio-gifts-75-million-accelerates-transformation-computing-and-data-science-berkeley. 
  24. Ahavah Revis (November 5, 2021). "Largest Contributions to UC Berkeley". https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2021/11/05/contributions-uc-berkeley.html. 

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