Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and CTO of Databricks, the company commercializing Apache Spark. He begun the Spark project at UC Berkeley and continues to do research in big data processing and computer systems. Apart from Spark, he has contributed to other open source projects including Apache Mesos, the SNAP sequence aligner, and Apache Hadoop.

http://spark.apache.org

http://databricks.com

Jeremy Freeman's talks on neuroscience with Spark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_5fWllfgA.