Matei Zaharia is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He is Chief Technologist and Co-Founder of Databricks, a company that provides a unified cloud platform for data and AI. He started the Apache Spark project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009, and has worked broadly in datacenter systems, co-starting the Apache Mesos project and contributing as a committer on Apache Hadoop. Today, Matei tech-leads the MLflow development effort at Databricks. Matei’s research work was recognized through the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for the best PhD dissertation in computer science, an NSF CAREER Award and several best paper awards.