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April 29-30, 2018: Training
April 30-May 2, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica
Professor, University of California, Berkeley

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Ion Stoica is a professor in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he does research on cloud computing and networked computer systems. Ion’s previous work includes dynamic packet state, chord DHT, internet indirection infrastructure (i3), declarative networks, and large-scale systems, including Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, and Alluxio. He is the cofounder of Databricks—a startup to commercialize Apache Spark—and Conviva—a startup to commercialize technologies for large-scale video distribution. Ion is an ACM fellow and has received numerous awards, including inclusion in the SIGOPS Hall of Fame (2015), the SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), and the ACM doctoral dissertation award (2001).

Sessions

1:40pm–5:10pm Monday, April 30, 2018
Implementing AI, Models and Methods
Location: Regent Parlor
Robert Nishihara (University of California, Berkeley), Philipp Moritz (University of California, Berkeley), Ion Stoica (University of California, Berkeley)
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Ion Stoica, Robert Nishihara, and Philipp Moritz lead a deep dive into Ray, a new distributed execution framework for reinforcement learning applications, walking you through Ray's API and system architecture and sharing application examples, including several state-of-the art RL algorithms. Read more.