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Ion Stoica is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Xu Bao Chancellor's Chair and directs SkyLab. His research primarily focuses on cloud computing and artificial intelligence systems. Notable contributions include his work on Ray, Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, the Chord DHT, and Dynamic Packet State. He is an honorary member of the Romanian Academy and an ACM Fellow, having received several prestigious awards including the Mark Weiser Award in 2019 and the SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2015. Stoica has co-founded multiple companies, including Anyscale in 2019 and Databricks in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and has a Master's in Computer Science and Control Engineering from Polytechnic University Bucharest. His teaching includes courses on research startups and building real-world AI systems, reflecting his extensive expertise in distributed systems and quality of service management.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, focusing on cloud computing, AI systems, distributed systems.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.