Matei Zaharia

Background

Matei Zaharia is a professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Databricks (Apache Spark). He co-authored the original ColBERT paper with Omar Khattab, contributing to the foundational work on late-interaction retrieval.

Key Work

  • ColBERT (SIGIR 2020) — co-author with Omar Khattab
  • Apache Spark — distributed computing framework
  • Databricks — data and AI platform

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