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Ion Stoica

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Professor at UC BerkeleyCo-founder & Executive Chairman at DatabricksCo-founder & Executive Chairman at AnyscaleCo-founder at ArenaCo-founder at Conviva

🇷🇴 Romania

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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Background

Current roles
Professor 2000-present
Co-founder & Executive Chairman 2013-present
Co-founder & Executive Chairman 2019-present
Co-founder 2025-present
Co-founder 2006-present
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: July 19, 2026