Andy Konwinski
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| Born | October 15, 1983 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
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| 🌐 Website | https://andykonwinski.com |
Andy Konwinski (born October 15, 1983) is an American computer scientist, serial entrepreneur, venture investor, and philanthropist. His work is at the intersection of research and real-world impact in artificial intelligence, data, and software infrastructure.[1]
He is a co-founder of early stage venture capital firm Laude Ventures;[2][3][4] co-founder of global data, analytics, and AI company Databricks;[5] and co-founder of conversational LLM search engine Perplexity. He co-teaches UC Berkeley’s Research to Startups PhD seminar.[6]
Education
Konwinski received his PhD from UC Berkeley,[7] advised by Randy H. Katz. During his time there, he contributed to Apache Hadoop and co-created Apache Mesos[8] and Apache Spark. He founded Databricks in 2013, with fellow AMPLab researchers Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, and Arsalan Tavakoli.[9]
Career and Research
Konwinski co-authored several influential papers, including "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives" (2024) with David Patterson, Jeff Dean, John L. Hennessy, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, and Finale Doshi-Velez;[10][11][12] "Dominant Resource Fairness" (2011) with Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Benjamin Hindman, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica;[13] and "A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing" (2009) with David Patterson, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia.[14]
At Databricks he was VP of Product Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning,[15] creator of the Data+AI Summit,[16] and co-author of the O’Reilly Learning Spark Book.[17]
In 2022, he co-founded the AI-powered search engine Perplexity with Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, and Johnny Ho.[18]
In 2024, he co-founded Laude Ventures, an early stage venture firm focused on investing in technical founders, mostly with research backgrounds, with Pete Sonsini and Andrew Krioukov.[2][3][4]
During 2024’s NeurIPS conference in Vancouver, he announced the Konwinski Prize, a $1 million competition to incentivize open-source progress on a contamination-free version of SWE-Bench, a software engineering benchmark assessing the ability of AIs to solve real GitHub issues.[19]
He was chosen to give the 2025 commencement address at UC Berkeley for the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, California.[20][21]
References
- ↑ Konwinski, Andy. "About Me". Andy Konwinski. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Konrad, Alex. "Laude Ventures Raises $150 Fund With Databricks, Perplexity Founders". Forbes. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chernova, Yuliya (3 May 2024). "Pete Sonsini, Early Investor in Databricks, Gets Closer to Launching New VC Firm". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Pete Sonsini". Forbes. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
- ↑ "Founders". Databricks. 3 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
- ↑ "Seminar (2024) - Research to Startup". Research to Startup. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ↑ Lohwater, Tiffany. "Andy Konwinski to speak at CDSS undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22 | CDSS at UC Berkeley". UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ↑ Metz, Cade. "Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google's Secret Weapon". Wired. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ Cai, Kenrick. "Accidental Billionaires: How Seven Academics Who Didn't Want To Make A Cent Are Now Worth Billions". Forbes. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ↑ Cuéllar M, Dean J, Doshi-Velez F, Hennessy J, Konwinski A, Koyejo S, Moiloa P, Pierson E, Patterson D (2024-12-11). "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives". arXiv:2412.02730 [cs.AI].
- ↑ "An agenda to maximise AI's benefits and minimise harms, by David Patterson". The Economist. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ Ghodsi A, Zaharia M, Hindman B, Konwinski A, Shenker S, Stoica I (2011). "Dominant resource fairness: Fair allocation of multiple resource types". 8th USENIX symposium on networked systems design and implementation (NSDI 11).
- ↑ Armbrust, M.; Fox, A.; Griffith, R.; Joseph, A. D.; Katz, R. H.; Konwinski, A.; Lee, G.; Patterson, D. A.; Rabkin, A.; Stoica, I.; Zaharia, M. (2009). "Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing". Technical Report UCB/EECS-2009-28, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley.
- ↑ "Articles by Andy Konwinski". Databricks Blog. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ "People to Watch 2025 - Andy Konwinski". BigDATAwire. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
- ↑ "Learning Spark". O’Reilly Media. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (4 April 2023). "AI-powered search engine Perplexity AI lands $26M, launches iOS app". TechCrunch. Yahoo. Retrieved 20 March 2025.
- ↑ Albergotti, Reed. "Databricks co-founder offers $1 million prize to solve AI coding problems". Semafor. Retrieved Dec 18, 2024.
- ↑ Tiffany, Lohwater. "Andy Konwinski to speak at CDSS undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 22". CDSS at UC Berkeley. Retrieved 3 April 2025.
- ↑ Lohwater, Tiffany. "Students celebrate, get inspired by alum speaker at CDSS college graduation". CDSS at UC Berkeley. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
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