Matei Zaharia
Romanian-Canadian computer scientist and engineer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Matei Zaharia is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark.[1][2][3]
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Matei Zaharia | |
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Alma mater | UC Berkeley (Ph.D.) University of Waterloo (BMath) |
Known for | Apache Spark |
Awards | ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014) Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019) SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2023) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | UC Berkeley Stanford University Databricks |
Thesis | An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters (2013) |
Doctoral advisor | Ion Stoica Scott Shenker |
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As of April 2022, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd-richest people in Romania with a net worth of $1.6 billion.[4]