Ion Stoica

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Ion Stoica
Citizenship United States
Nationality United States
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of California Berkeley
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet (2000)
Doctoral advisor Hui Zhang[1]
Doctoral students Rodrigo Fonseca
Boon Thau Loo[1]
Known for Chord (peer-to-peer)[2]
Website
www.cs.berkeley.edu/~istoica

Ion Stoica is a Romanian-American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. He is currently a professor of computer science at the University of California Berkeley, co-director of AMPLab. In 2006, he co-founded Conviva, a startup to commercialize technologies for large scale video distribution. Professor Stoica is also an ACM Fellow.

Education

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 gaining a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2000 under the supervision of Hui Zhang.[1] Stoica won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2001.[3]

Career

Before joining the University of California, Berkeley as a tenure-track professor, Stoica held a post-doc position at MIT.

Stoica is also a co-founder and CTO of Conviva,[4] a company that came out of the End System Multicast project at CMU. He is best known for his contributions in Chord (peer-to-peer), Core-Stateless Fair Queueing (CSFQ), and Internet Indirection Infrastructure (i3). He has authored more than 100 papers in various areas of Computer Science.[5]

Awards

Stoica is the recipient of a SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), the 2007 CoNEXT Rising Star Award, a Sloan Foundation Fellowship (2003), a PECASE Award (2002), and the 2001 ACM doctoral dissertation award.

Students

Previous Students:[citation needed]

  • Lucian Popa (2011, HP Labs)
  • Gautam Altekar (2011, Postdoc at UC Berkeley)
  • Rodrigo Fonseca (2009, Assistant Professor at Brown University)
  • Brighten Godfrey (2009, Assistant Professor at UIUC)
  • Dilip Joseph (2009, Conviva Networks)
  • Jayanth Kannan (2008, Google Inc.)
  • Ryan Huebsch (2008, with Joe Hellerstein, Playnomics)
  • Matt Caesar (2007, with Randy Katz, Assistant Professor at UIUC)
  • Karthik Lakshminarayanan (2007, Google Inc.)
  • Ananth Rajagopala-Rao (2007, Vudu Networks)
  • Boon Thau Loo (2006, with Joe Hellerstein, Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania)
  • Dennis Geels (2006, Google Inc.)
  • Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, (2005, with Randy Katz and Scott Shenker, Assistant Professor at New York University)
  • Shelly Zhuang (2005, with Randy Katz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson)
  • Sylvia Ratnasamy (2002, with Scott Shenker, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ion Stoica at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Stoica, I.; Morris, R.; Karger, D.; Kaashoek, M. F.; Balakrishnan, H. (2001). "Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 31 (4): 149. doi:10.1145/964723.383071. 
  3. ↑ "ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards". 
  4. ↑ "Conviva Home Page". 
  5. ↑ List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server


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