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Matei Zaharia

Computer scientist, UC Berkeley professor, and Databricks co-founder and CTO. He created Apache Spark and works on systems for large-scale data, machine learning, and compound AI applications.

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Education

University of Toronto PhD in Computer Science 2013

University of Waterloo Bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science 2008

Work

University of California, Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Databricks Co-founder and CTO 2013-01-01

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Large Language Models Nemotron-4 340B Technical Report

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https://dblp.org/pid/59/5161.html Official source · dblp https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~matei/ Official source · homepage https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3569-602X Official source · orcid https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7g4ZLkIAAAAJ&hl=en Official source · scholar

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https://twitter.com/matei_zaharia Supporting source · social https://www.linkedin.com/in/mateizaharia/ Supporting source · social