Reza Zadeh — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as CEO of Matroid, a company he founded to commercialize computer vision research.
A founding team member at Databricks, the company commercializing Apache Spark.
Holds a position as an adjunct professor at Stanford University.
Co-author of Apache Spark and its Machine Learning library, MLlib.
Developed a neural network for glaucoma detection that surpassed human doctor performance.
Created the machine learning algorithm behind Twitter's Who-To-Follow project.
Recipient of a KDD Best Paper Award and the Gene Golub Outstanding Thesis Award at Stanford.

Biography

Reza Zadeh is an American computer scientist, technology executive, and adjunct professor at Stanford University. He is the CEO of Matroid and a founding team member at Databricks. His work primarily focuses on machine learning, distributed computing, and discrete applied mathematics.

In computer vision, Zadeh founded Matroid, Inc. in 2016 to commercialize research in the field, raising $13.5 million from New Enterprise Associates, Intel, and other investors.