Haoyuan Li
Haoyuan Li is a computer scientist and entrepreneur specializing in distributed systems, big data, and cloud computing. He is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Alluxio, Inc. He is a frequent speaker on the topic of AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Open Source at conferences. He is best known for proposing and creating the open-source virtual distributed file system, Alluxio.Biography
Li was born and raised in China, and educated at Peking University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. While at university, he participated in programming contests representing Peking University, and placed 11th worldwide in ACM ICPC 2005, and 13rd place worldwide in 2006. He went on to study at Cornell University gaining a M.S. in Computer Science.
He received his Computer Science Ph.D. from UC Berkeley AMPLab, under the supervision of Prof. Ion Stoica and Prof. Scott Shenker. In the course of his Ph.D. studies, he co-created the Alluxio open source project
, co-created the Apache Spark Streaming project
, and became an Apache Spark committer.
While during his Ph.D. study, Li co-founded Alluxio, Inc, a venture-backed companies based in San Francisco Bay Area based on his Ph.D. research. The company is commercializing the same name open source technology Alluxio.
