Ion Stoica

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. Stoica is an ACM Fellow. He's also known for his work on Apache Spark.

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.

References

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" (PDF). ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 31 (4): 149. doi:10.1145/964723.383071. 
3. ↑ "ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awards". 
4. ↑ "Conviva Home Page". 
5. ↑ Ion Stoica's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier