# Matei Zaharia

### Research Areas

- Operating Systems & Networking (OSNT)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Database Management Systems (DBMS)

## Biography

Matei Zaharia is an Associate Professor of EECS at Berkeley and a Cofounder and CTO of Databricks. He started the Apache Spark open source project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009, and has worked broadly on other widely used data and AI software, including Delta Lake, MLflow, Dolly and ColBERT. He currently works on a variety of research projects in cloud computing, database management, AI and information retrieval. Mateiâs research was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, and the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

## Education

- 2013, PhD, Computer Science, UC Berkeley

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE), 2019
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), 2017