# Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li

> Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li is the founder, chairman and CEO of Alluxio. A computer scientist trained at Peking University, Cornell and UC Berkeley, he co-created Alluxio and Spark Streaming and became a founding committer of Apache Spark. His work connects computing frameworks with data held across storage systems.

- **Role:** Founder, Chairman and CEO at Alluxio
- **Organizations:** Alluxio, UC Berkeley AMPLab, Apache Spark
- **Education:** B.S., Computer Science, Peking University, M.S., Computer Science, Cornell University, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-created Alluxio, originally Tachyon., Co-created Apache Spark Streaming and became a founding Apache Spark committer., Authored the 2018 dissertation Alluxio: A Virtual Distributed File System.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Placed 11th in the ACM-ICPC world finals representing Peking University.
- **2006** — Placed 13th in the ACM-ICPC world finals.
- **2012** — Built the first Tachyon version at Christmas while a Berkeley doctoral student.
- **2013** — Open-sourced Tachyon in April; became a founding Apache Spark committer.
- **2015** — Founded the company now called Alluxio with $7.5 million in Andreessen Horowitz investment.
- **2016** — Alluxio 1.0 released; Tachyon renamed Alluxio; announced open-source governance model in May.
- **2018** — Completed Berkeley Ph.D.; dissertation published May 7.
- **2019** — Served as chairman and CTO; delivered the opening Data Orchestration Summit keynote.
- **2020** — Listed as founder, chairman and CEO in the PrestoCon speaker biography.
- **2024** — Named to Datanami / BigDATAwire People to Watch.
- **2026** — As CEO, announced Alluxio data acceleration work on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

## Achievements

- Co-created Alluxio, originally Tachyon.
- Co-created Apache Spark Streaming and became a founding Apache Spark committer.
- Authored the 2018 dissertation Alluxio: A Virtual Distributed File System.
- Received the Olin Fellowship and IBM Fellowship twice, as listed on his personal website.
- Named to Datanami / BigDATAwire People to Watch for 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Alluxio announced data acceleration for AI workloads on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; Li described the objective as maximizing the value of each GPU.
- **2025-03** — Discussed Enterprise AI, distributed caching and adapting to changing customer workloads in an AiThority interview.
- **2024-08** — Alluxio announced his selection for Datanami / BigDATAwire People to Watch for 2024.

## Links

- Website: https://haoyuanli.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoyuanli1
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Haoyuan
- GitHub: https://github.com/haoyuan

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/haoyuan-li
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-10-22