Ion Stoica
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Research Areas
- Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
- Security (SEC)
- Networking and distributed computer systems, Quality of Service (Q of S) and resources management, modeling and performance analysis
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Biography
Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley. He does research on cloud computing and networked computer systems. Past work includes Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, Chord DHT, and Dynamic Packet State (DPS). He is an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2015), the SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), and the ACM doctoral dissertation award (2001). In 2013, he co-founded Databricks a startup to commercialize technologies for Big Data processing, and in 2006 he co-founded Conviva, a startup to commercialize technologies for large scale video distribution.
Education
- 2000, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- 1989, M.S., Computer Science and Control Engineering, Polytechnic University Bucharest
Selected Publications
- P. Jain, A. Jain, A. Nrusimha, A. Gholami, P. Abbeel, K. Keutzer, I. Stoica, and J. Gonzalez, "Checkmate: Breaking the Memory Wall with Optimal Tensor Rematerialization," in Proceedings of Machine Learning and Systems 2020, Machine Learning and Systems, 2020, pp. 497--511.
- H. Li, A. Ghodsi, M. Zaharia, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Tachyon: Reliable, Memory Speed Storage for Cluster Computing Frameworks," in ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2014.
- M. Zaharia, T. Das, H. Li, T. Hunter, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Discretized Streams: Fault-Tolerant Streaming Computation at Scale," in ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 2013.
- R. S. Xin, J. Rosen, M. Zaharia, M. Franklin, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Shark: SQL and Rich Analytics at Scale," EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. UCB/EECS-2012-214, Nov. 2012.
- D. M. Geels, G. D. Altekar, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica, "Replay debugging for distributed applications," in Proc. 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2006, pp. 289-300.
- B. T. Loo, J. M. Hellerstein, I. Stoica, and R. Ramakrishnan, "Declarative routing: Extensible routing with declarative queries," in Proc. 2005 Conf. on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications, New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 289-300.
- I. Stoica, Stateless Core: A Scalable Approach for Quality of Service in the Internet, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2979, Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2004.
- I. Stoica, D. Adkins, S. Zhuang, S. Shenker, and S. Surana, "Internet indirection infrastructure," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 205-218, April 2004.
- L. Subramanian, V. Roth, I. Stoica, S. Shenker, and R. H. Katz, "Best Student Paper Award: Listen and whisper: Security mechanisms for BGP," in Proc. 1st Symp. on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2004, pp. 127-140.
- I. Stoica, R. Morris, D. Liben-Nowell, D. R. Karger, M. F. Kaashoek, F. Dabek, and H. Balakrishnan, "Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for Internet applications," IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 17-32, Feb. 2003.
Awards, Memberships and Fellowships
- ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award, 2019
- ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, 2015
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2012
- ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award, 2011
- ComSoc William R. Bennett Prize, 2004
- Sloan Research Fellow, 2003
- NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE), 2002
- ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2001
- Okawa Research Grant, 2001