Matei Zaharia

Matei Zaharia
Born1984 or 1985 (age 39–40)
EducationUC Berkeley (Ph.D.)
University of Waterloo (BMath)
Known forApache Spark
AwardsACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2014)
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2019)
SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2023)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUC Berkeley
Stanford University
Databricks
ThesisAn Architecture for Fast and General Data Processing on Large Clusters (2013)
Doctoral advisorIon Stoica
Scott Shenker
Websitepeople.eecs.berkeley.edu/~matei/

Matei Zaharia (born 1984 or 1985[1]) is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist, educator and the creator of Apache Spark.[2][3][4]

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.[5]

  1. ^ Cai, Kenrick (21 May 2021). "Accidental Billionaires: How Seven Academics Who Didn't Want To Make A Cent Are Now Worth Billions". Forbes.
  2. ^ Fiscutean, Andrada (August 20, 2019). "Why the US has lost to Russia in these top coding trials for almost a decade". ZDNet.
  3. ^ "Meet the 'nerdiest rock star': Matei Zaharia co-creator of Apache Spark | Computing". computing.co.uk. 2015-10-29. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  4. ^ Piatetsky, Gregory (May 2015). "Exclusive Interview: Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, on Spark, Hadoop, Flink, and Big Data in 2020".
  5. ^ "Cei mai bogaţi oameni din lume în 2022. Şase români în topul Forbes". Adevărul (in Romanian). 6 April 2022.