Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department and holds the Xu Bao Chancellor Chair at the University of California at Berkeley, the Director of Sky Computing Lab, and the Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale. He is currently doing research on AI systems and cloud computing, and his work includes numerous open-source projects such as SkyPilot, vLLM (most popular LLM inference engine), ChatBot Arena (most popular evaluation system for LLMs in the wild), Ray (emerging standard for scaling AI workloads used by OpenAI to train ChatGPT) and Apache Spark (de-facto standard for big data processing). He is a Member of National Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy and an ACM Fellow. He also co-founded three companies, Anyscale (2019), Databricks (2013) and Conviva (2006).