Ion Stoica
Professor
Builds cloud computing and AI systems, such as Ray, vLLM and Sky Computing.
Ion Stoica's lab at UC Berkeley works on distributed, cloud & edge systems. 103 papers since 2023, 87 at top venues, mostly ICML and ICLR. 19 PhD students. 57 alumni, most often to Google and Microsoft. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 27/ year
- at T1 venues
- 84%
- PhD students
- 19
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 57
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 20 papers2026 · T1 14 · collecting
- 39 papers2025 · T1 35
- 24 papers2024 · T1 20
- 20 papers2023 · T1 18
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, NSDI, OSDI
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Distributed, cloud & edge systems14 papers
- cloud8 papers
- cloud computing1 paper
- builds cloud0 papers
- computer sciences0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
202620 papers
- NSDI (T1)Agentix: An Efficient Serving Engine for LLM Agents as General Programs (opens in a new tab)
- ASPLOS (T1)BlendServe: Optimizing Offline Inference with Resource-Aware Batching (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Computer Agent Arena: Toward Human-Centric Evaluation and Analysis of Computer-Use Agents (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)DeltaQuant: 4-bit Video Diffusion Models with Spatiotemporal Delta Smoothing (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)EditBench: Evaluating LLM Abilities to Perform Real-World Instructed Code Edits (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)lmgame-Bench: How Good are LLMs at Playing Games? (opens in a new tab)
- CAISoptimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter (opens in a new tab)
- CAISoptimize_anything: Unified Text Optimization can Outperform Specialized Systems (opens in a new tab)
- NSDI (T1)RLBoost: Harvesting Preemptible Cloud Resources for Cost-Efficient Reinforcement Learning on LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- CAISSkyDiscover: A Flexible, Adaptive Framework for AI-Driven Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery (opens in a new tab)
- EuroSys (T1)SkyWalker: A Locality-Aware Cross-Region Load Balancer for LLM Inference (opens in a new tab)
202539 papers
- ICLR (T1)A Statistical Framework for Ranking LLM-based Chatbots (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Copilot Arena: A Platform for Code LLM Evaluation in the Wild (opens in a new tab)
- JMLR (T1)depyf: Open the Opaque Box of PyTorch Compiler for Machine Learning Researchers (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Efficiently Scaling LLM Reasoning Programs with Certaindex (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Establishing Best Practices in Building Rigorous Agentic Benchmarks (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Exploring and Mitigating Adversarial Manipulation of Voting-Based Leaderboards (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)Fair Transaction Processing For Multi-Tenant Databases (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Fast Video Generation with Sliding Tile Attention (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Faster Video Diffusion with Trainable Sparse Attention (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)From Crowdsourced Data to High-quality Benchmarks: Arena-Hard and Benchbuilder Pipeline (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)GameArena: Evaluating LLM Reasoning through Live Computer Games (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)GSO: Challenging Software Optimization Tasks for Evaluating SWE-Agents (opens in a new tab)
202424 papers
- NeurIPS (T1)Are More LLM Calls All You Need? Towards the Scaling Properties of Compound AI Systems (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Break the Sequential Dependency of LLM Inference Using Lookahead Decoding (opens in a new tab)
- NSDI (T1)Can't Be Late: Optimizing Spot Instance Savings under Deadlines (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference (opens in a new tab)
- NSDI (T1)Cloudcast: High-Throughput, Cost-Aware Overlay Multicast in the Cloud (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans Autom. Sci. Eng.Composing MPC With LQR and Neural Network for Amortized Efficiency and Stable Control (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Crafting Interpretable Embeddings for Language Neuroscience by Asking LLMs Questions (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Efficient LLM Scheduling by Learning to Rank (opens in a new tab)
- SPExploiting Programmatic Behavior of LLMs: Dual-Use Through Standard Security Attacks (opens in a new tab)
- OSDI (T1)Fairness in Serving Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)FogROS2-FT: Fault Tolerant Cloud Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)LLM-Assisted Code Cleaning For Training Accurate Code Generators (opens in a new tab)
202320 papers
- OSDI (T1)AlpaServe: Statistical Multiplexing with Model Parallelism for Deep Learning Serving (opens in a new tab)
- CIDRAnalyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems (opens in a new tab)
- OSDI (T1)Cilantro: Performance-Aware Resource Allocation for General Objectives via Online Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)CLUTR: Curriculum Learning via Unsupervised Task Representation Learning (opens in a new tab)
- SOSP (T1)Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention (opens in a new tab)
- OSDI (T1)ExoFlow: A Universal Workflow System for Exactly-Once DAGs (opens in a new tab)
- SIGCOMM (T1)Exoshuffle: An Extensible Shuffle Architecture (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)FlexGen: High-Throughput Generative Inference of Large Language Models with a Single GPU (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)FogROS2: An Adaptive Platform for Cloud and Fog Robotics Using ROS 2 (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Leveraging Cloud Computing to Make Autonomous Vehicles Safer (opens in a new tab)
- VLDB (T1)Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went57 listed, 41% to industry
Industry 19Academia 27
Most often to
- Microsoft
- stealth startup
Also to
- Stanford University
- UIUC
- Carnegie Mellon University
Apply to UC BerkeleyFall 2027
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