Ion Stoica
Co-author of the Ray and vLLM papers; UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale
- Professor of Computer Science; Director of the Sky Computing Lab, University of California, Berkeley12
- Co-founder (2013) and Executive Chairman, Databricks12
- Co-founder (2019) and Executive Chairman, Anyscale12
- Advisor, LMSYS3
Ion Stoica is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where Stoica directs the Sky Computing Lab, and the Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale, two of the three companies Stoica co-founded. Stoica's research sits at the intersection of AI and systems, cloud computing and distributed systems. Current projects listed on Stoica's homepage include Chatbot Arena, the vLLM inference engine, SkyPilot, the Ray distributed execution framework and Apache Spark, and Stoica is a co-author of the papers introducing Ray and vLLM's PagedAttention. Stoica is also an advisor to LMSYS.12453
Work
RayOpen-source code
Co-author of "Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications" (2017); Stoica's homepage lists Ray as a current project. The ray-project/ray repository is Apache-2.0 licensed.416
vLLMOpen-source code
Co-author of "Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention" (2023), the vLLM paper; Stoica's homepage lists vLLM as a current project. The vllm-project/vllm repository is Apache-2.0 licensed.517
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