Meet The Billionaire Professor Behind Databricks and Anyscale With a net worth of $2.5 billion, Berkeley Professor Ion Stoica quietly became one of tech’s most prolific academic founders,, Ion Stoica (born 1964 or 1965) is a Romanian–American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking. [9][2][10][11] He is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and co-director of AMPLab., Discover the impact of Ion Stoica, UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks, on AI and big data. Learn about his innovative research and mentorship!, A profile of UCB CS professor Ion Stoica, a billionaire who has helped launch four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including Databricks — This computer science professor became a billionaire launching four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including unicorns Databricks and Anyscale., It was Databricks that first made Ion Stoica (and at least two of his Berkeley cofounders) billionaires. In 2013, Stoica set out to discover how to process huge amounts of data more effectively with Ali Ghodsi, a visiting scholar from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and five PhD students., .