Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark. In 2022, Forbes ranked him and Ion Stoica as the 3rd-richest Romanians with a net... Wikipedia

• Born:  1984/1985(age 40–41)
• Fields:  Computer science
• Institutions:  UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Databricks
• Education:  UC Berkeley (Ph.D.), University of Waterloo (BMath)
• Thesis:  An Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters (2013)
• Known for:  Apache Spark
• Notable awards:  ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014), Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019), SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2023)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo