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Matei Zaharia

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Matei Zaharia

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Chief Technologist Databricks

Matei Zaharia is the CTO and co-founder of Databricks and an Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He initiated the Apache Spark project during his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2009 and has contributed to MLflow, Delta Lake, and DBRX. His recent research focuses on combining large language models with external data sources to improve efficiency and result quality. His work has been recognized with the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and the U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Bio from: Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023

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Founder discussion: Matei on UC, Data Intelligence and AI Governance

Matei is a legend of open source: he started the Apache Spark project in 2009, co-founded Databricks, and worked on other widely used data and AI software, including MLflow, Delta Lake, and Dolly. His most recent research is about combining large language models (LLMs) with external data sources, such as search systems, and improving their efficiency and result quality. This will be a conversation coverering the latest and greatest of UC, Data Intelligence, AI Governance, and more.

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with Bilal Aslam (Databricks) , Michael Armbrust (Databricks) , Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji (Databricks) , Miranda Luna (Databricks) , Michael Flynn (Rivian) , Ken Wong (Databricks) , Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) , Keegan Dubbs (Databricks) , Matei Zaharia (Databricks) , Michelle Leon (Databricks) , Michael Piatek (Databricks)

Discover the latest advances on the Data Intelligence Platform and hear from the companies who are already enjoying success.

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with Jonathan Hsieh (LanceDB) , Cathy Yin (Databricks) , Andrew Shieh (Databricks) , Ziyi Yang (Databricks) , Andy Konwinski (Databricks) , Denny Lee (Databricks) , Asfandyar Qureshi (Databricks) , Yuki Watanabe (Databricks) , Brandon Cui (Databricks) , Andrew Drozdov (Databricks) , Anand Kannappan (Patronus AI) , Harsh Panchal (Databricks) , Tomu Hirata (Databricks) , Daya Khudia (Databricks) , Jose Javier Gonzalez (Databricks) , Jasmine Collins (Databricks) , MAHESWARAN SATHIAMOORTHY (Bespoke Labs) , Jonathan Chang (Databricks) , Matei Zaharia (Databricks) , Alexander Trott (Databricks) , Tejas Sundaresan (Databricks) , Pallavi Koppol (Databricks) , Jonathan Frankle (Databricks) , Erich Elsen (Databricks) , Ivan Zhou (Databricks) , Davis Blalock , Gayathri Murali (META)

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