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ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department and holds the Xu Bao Chancellor Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the Director of the Sky Computing Lab and the Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale. His current research focuses on AI systems and cloud computing, and his work includes numerous open-source projects such as vLLM, SGLang, Chatbot Arena, SkyPilot, Ray, and Apache Spark. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, and an ACM Fellow. He has also co-founded several companies, including LMArena (2025), Anyscale (2019), Databricks (2013), and Conviva (2006).
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AI has taken the world by storm, enabling new applications, exacerbating GPU shortages, and raising concerns about the accuracy of model outputs. In this talk, I will present several projects I have worked on to address these challenges: Apache Spark, a scalable big-data processing framework; Ray, a distributed framework for scaling AI workloads; and vLLM and SGLang, two high-throughput inference engines for large language models. I will discuss how these efforts evolved from research prototypes into widely adopted industry tools, and I will conclude with key lessons learned and directions for future research.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Business Leaders: C-Level Executives, Project Managers, and Product Owners will get to explore best practices, methodologies, principles, and practices for achieving ROI.
Engineers, Researchers, Data Practitioners: Will get a better understanding of the challenges, solutions, and ideas being offered via breakouts & workshops on Natural Language Processing, Neural Nets, Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Evolution Strategies, AutoML, and more.
Job Seekers: Will have the opportunity to network virtually and meet over 30+ Top Al Companies.
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