Presenter

Matei Zaharia is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and Chief Technologist at Databricks. He started the Apache Spark project during his PhD at UC Berkeley, and has worked on other widely used data analytics and AI software including MLflow and Delta Lake. At Stanford, he is co-PI of the DAWN lab working on infrastructure for machine learning. Matei’s research was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the US PECASE award.