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2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
153
Citations
139065
World Ranking
30
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to networking, distributed systems, and cloud computing.
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ion Stoica is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on several subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, and Hardware and Architecture.

Their work covers multiple main topics such as Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, and Distributed systems and fault tolerance.

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Ion Stoica are:

  • Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • What serverless computing is and should become, 2021, Communications of the ACM
  • NeuroCard, 2020, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • Representing Long-Range Context for Graph Neural Networks with Global Attention, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Single-cell DNA methylome and 3D multi-omic atlas of the adult mouse brain, 2023, Nature

Ion Stoica collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Joseph E. Gonzalez
  • Wei-Lin Chiang
  • Lianmin Zheng
  • Matei Zaharia
  • Zhuohan Li

The scientist has published prolifically in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Journal of Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, and Nature.

Ion Stoica has been recognized with awards including the ACM Fellow in 2012 for contributions to networking, distributed systems, and cloud computing, and was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications

    Ion Stoica;Robert Morris;David Karger;M. Frans Kaashoek

  • A view of cloud computing

    Michael Armbrust;Armando Fox;Rean Griffith;Anthony D. Joseph

  • Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

    Michael Armbrust;Armando Fox;Rean Griffith;Anthony D. Joseph

  • Spark: cluster computing with working sets

    Matei Zaharia;Mosharaf Chowdhury;Michael J. Franklin;Scott Shenker

  • Resilient distributed datasets: a fault-tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing

    Matei Zaharia;Mosharaf Chowdhury;Tathagata Das;Ankur Dave

  • Chord: a scalable peer-to-peer lookup protocol for Internet applications

    Ion Stoica;Robert Morris;David Liben-Nowell;David R. Karger

  • Apache Spark: a unified engine for big data processing

    Matei Zaharia;Reynold S. Xin;Patrick Wendell;Tathagata Das

  • Wide-area cooperative storage with CFS

    Frank Dabek;M. Frans Kaashoek;David Karger;Robert Morris

  • Improving MapReduce performance in heterogeneous environments

    Matei Zaharia;Andy Konwinski;Anthony D. Joseph;Randy Katz

  • A data-oriented (and beyond) network architecture

    Teemu Koponen;Mohit Chawla;Byung-Gon Chun;Andrey Ermolinskiy

  • Mesos: a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center

    Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski;Matei Zaharia;Ali Ghodsi

  • Delay scheduling: a simple technique for achieving locality and fairness in cluster scheduling

    Matei Zaharia;Dhruba Borthakur;Joydeep Sen Sarma;Khaled Elmeleegy

  • Dominant resource fairness: fair allocation of multiple resource types

    Ali Ghodsi;Matei Zaharia;Benjamin Hindman;Andy Konwinski

  • Discretized streams: fault-tolerant streaming computation at scale

    Matei Zaharia;Tathagata Das;Haoyuan Li;Timothy Hunter

  • GraphX: graph processing in a distributed dataflow framework

    Joseph E. Gonzalez;Reynold S. Xin;Ankur Dave;Daniel Crankshaw

  • Internet indirection infrastructure

    Ion Stoica;Daniel Adkins;Shelley Zhuang;Scott Shenker

  • Geographic routing without location information

    Ananth Rao;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Christos Papadimitriou;Scott Shenker

  • Understanding the impact of video quality on user engagement

    Florin Dobrian;Vyas Sekar;Asad Awan;Ion Stoica

  • Reining in the outliers in map-reduce clusters using Mantri

    Ganesh Ananthanarayanan;Srikanth Kandula;Albert Greenberg;Ion Stoica

  • Core-stateless fair queueing: achieving approximately fair bandwidth allocations in high speed networks

    Ion Stoica;Scott Shenker;Hui Zhang

  • Internet Indirection Infrastructure

    Ion Stoica;Daniel Adkins;Sylvia Ratnasamy;Scott Shenker

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Shenker
Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley
Ali Ghodsi
Ali Ghodsi University of Waterloo
Joseph E. Gonzalez
Joseph E. Gonzalez University of California, Berkeley
Matei Zaharia
Matei Zaharia University of California, Berkeley
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Joseph M. Hellerstein University of California, Berkeley
Randy H. Katz
Randy H. Katz University of California, Berkeley
Michael J. Franklin
Michael J. Franklin University of Chicago
Hui Zhang
Hui Zhang National University of Singapore
Shivaram Venkataraman
Shivaram Venkataraman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael I. Jordan
Michael I. Jordan University of California, Berkeley

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