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Databricks founding CEO Ion Stoica was Haoyuan Li's PhD co-advisor

Haoyuan Li · A Virtual Distributed Storage System // Haoyuan Li, Alluxio (Hosted by FirstMark) · Apr 13, 2016 · at 20:25

Alluxio founder Haoyuan Li clarifies his close academic relationship with Databricks leadership while answering an audience question at DataDrivenNYC.

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“Yang, who, who's the founding CEO of Databricks, he's my PhD co-advisor.”

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The claim, plainly

Databricks founding CEO was Haoyuan Li's PhD co-advisor at UC Berkeley.

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Assessment

UC Berkeley EECS technical records and dissertation filings confirm that Professor Ion Stoica co-advised Haoyuan Li during his Ph.D. candidacy. Official Databricks history and founder biographies confirm that Ion Stoica served as the founding CEO of Databricks from its founding in 2013 until January 2016.

Ion Stoica served as the founding CEO of Databricks from 2013 to January 2016.
UC Berkeley dissertation filings (Technical Report UCB/EECS-2018-29) list Professor Ion Stoica as Haoyuan Li's Ph.D. dissertation co-chair and co-advisor.

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[1] databricks.com [2] github.io [3] forbes.com [4] wikipedia.org [5] echoglobal.tech [6] wikipedia.org [7] berkeley.edu [8] berkeley.edu

Haoyuan Li UC Berkeley dissertation advisor co-advisor "Ion Stoica" "founding CEO" Databricks Databricks founding CEO Ion Stoica Ali Ghodsi Haoyuan Li PhD advisor Ion Stoica UC Berkeley "Haoyuan Li" dissertation UC Berkeley "Ion Stoica" "Scott Shenker"

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