Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica speaking at a National Science Foundation workshop on cloud computing in 2014
Born	Ion Lucretiu Stoica
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	Cloud computing Networking Distributed systems Big data
Institutions	University of California Berkeley Databricks MIT Conviva.com
Alma mater	Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis	Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Hui Zhang
Known for	Chord Apache Spark
Notable awards	ACM Fellow
Website www.cs.berkeley.edu/~istoica

Ion Lucretiu 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-founded Conviva, and Databricks, with other original developers of Apache Spark.

Stoica was born and raised in Romania and educated at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, graduating with a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1989. He went on to study at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) gaining a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2000 supervised by Hui Zhang. Subjects included Chord (peer-to-peer), Core-Stateless Fair Queueing (CSFQ), and Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3).

Stoica's research interests include cloud computing,networking, distributed systems and big data. He authored or co-authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers in various areas of computer science.