Matei Zaharia

I'm a first year PhD student at UC Berkeley, working in the RAD Lab. My advisor is Professor Scott Shenker. I am interested in computer systems and networking.

My current research project is on monitoring parallel applications written using Hadoop and using statistical learning techniques to automatically detect software and hardware errors. As part of this work, I'm a contributor to the X-Trace path-based tracing framework.

I got my Bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo, in Canada. During undergrad, I worked with Srinivasan Keshav on peer-to-peer systems, opportunistic wireless communication, and low-cost, disconnection-tolerant networking for rural areas. I contributed to the KioskNet and OCMP projects.

Contact

matei@berkeley.edu

493B Soda Hall,
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

Publications

2007

2006

Technical Reports

Other Activities

I've participated a number of programming contests. My team placed 4th in the world and 1st in North America in the 2005 ACM Programming Contest. Individually, I placed 15th in the world in the 2005 Google Code Jam. Since finishing undergrad, I've stopped doing contests but still love nice algorithmic problems.

I'm also a developer on the freeware realtime strategy game 0 A.D. My contributions include much of the gameplay logic, unit AI, random map generation, water rendering, and some multiplayer networking.

I enjoy reading, nature, and food that is either good or free.