
Matei ZahariaResearcher
UC Berkeley
Associate Professor of EECS
via UC Berkeley
Founder · Researcher

Professor at UC Berkeley
Co-founder & Executive Chairman at Databricks
Co-founder & Executive Chairman at Anyscale
Co-founder at ArenaCo-founder at Conviva
Stoica is a UC Berkeley professor whose lab produced Apache Spark, Mesos, Ray, and Chatbot Arena. He co-founded Arena, Databricks, and Anyscale, translating research in distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and model evaluation into widely used platforms.
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Last editorial review: July 19, 2026