Talk:Ali Ghodsi

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Sharing requests for review, I have a COI. Thank you! @Bluerasberry: @FeldBum: Just tagging you to confirm if I used proper process with links/structure based on earlier feedback.

Infobox: I've mocked up the best I could, summarizing updates below. It's just out of date currently.

Updates: Fields: Artificial Intelligence, more current website, photo (File: Databricks_Ali_Ghodsi_26.jpg)

Removals: Title: Scientific Career, Institutions, Doctoral Advisor (Move to Career)

Ali Ghodsi
Born	1978 (age 47–48) Iran
Citizenship	American, Swedish
Education	KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Ph.D.)
Known for	Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, Co-founding Databricks
Title	CEO of Databricks
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science Artificial intelligence
Workplaces	Databricks
Website	www.databricks.com/blog/author/ali-ghodsi

*Intro Paragraph: Please change the intro to the below. Updates noted in bold, this reads better and addresses spelling errors.

Ali Ghodsi (born 1978) is a Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur, specializing in distributed systems, big data and data management. He co-founder and CEO of Databricks. Ghodsi is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and has coauthored several influential papers, including Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL. Ghodsi holds a PhD in computer science. In 2026, He was named on Time100's most influential people in artificial intelligence.

*Education: Proposing moving around some things on the page, as well as adding some sources to streamline.

In 2002, Ghodsi received an MSc degree in computer engineering, and an MBA in logistics and strategic marketing from Mid-Sweden University.Please change section to the below, which uses existing lines from Intro, and new updates bolded:

In 2006, Ghodsi received his PhD in distributed computing from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, advised by Seif Haridi. His research interests include distributed systems, cloud computing, big data computing, and networking.

He was a co-founder of Peerialism AB, a Stockholm-based company developing a peer-to-peer data transfer system. From 2008 to 2009, He was also an assistant professor at KTH.

He joined UC Berkeley in 2009 as a visiting scholar and worked with Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Michael Franklin, and Matei Zaharia on research projects in distributed systems, database systems, and networking. During this period, he helped start the Apache Mesos and Apache Spark projects. He also co-invented the concept of Dominant resource fairness, in a paper that heavily influenced resource management and scheduling design in distributed systems such as Hadoop.

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2006, PhD, Computer Science, KTH/Royal Institute of Technology

2003, MBA, Logistics and Marketing, Mid-Sweden University

2002, MSc, Computer Engineering, Mid-Sweden University

1997, BSE, Electrical and Computer Engineering

*Career: I'll send a proposed Career section shortly as a new topic. Alice Inkhouse (talk) 17:07, 8 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Alice Inkhouse, taking a look and I can help. Give me a few days to dig in. --FeldBum (talk) 15:42, 9 September 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Alice Inkhouse I think I got everything new and significant on the page. There are some stylistic changes I skipped. I removed the 1997 degree as I could not find any source for it. --FeldBum (talk) 14:08, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

Forgot about the infobox, but got that done too. I don't see a good reason for removals, but I added the new stuff. I'll mark as closed. --FeldBum (talk) 17:59, 17 September 2026 (UTC)

@Alice Inkhouse Unfortunately BTW (Blue Tech Wave) is not a reliable source. It's largely LLM-generated and has a history of slanted work (this article discusses an example). Do you have a better citation for that part? Dreamyshade (talk) 02:54, 20 September 2026 (UTC)

@Dreamyshade Oh sorry, thanks for letting me know. The WSJ article should mention the KTH assistant professor years, and here is another that supports his various degrees. Alice Inkhouse (talk) 16:04, 22 September 2026 (UTC)