Tom Stocky

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Tom Stocky
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
OccupationTechnology Fellow,
Known forFacebook Search, Google App Engine, Google Flights

Tom Stocky is an American computer scientist and technology executive. He is vice president of product at insitro, a drug discovery startup. He was previously vice president of Search at Facebook.

Stocky was a director of product management at Google. He was part of the founding team for Google App Engine, which laid the foundation for the Google Cloud Platform.[1]

In 2011, Stocky joined Facebook[2] to become VP of Search.[3] He grew Facebook Search to more than 2 billion searches per day.[4] He and Lars Rasmussen led the team who built Facebook Graph Search, a semantic search engine for the social network,[5][6] and Stocky then led the development of keyword search over the trillions of posts on Facebook.[7] Stocky and Rasmussen were included on Business Insider's list of The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley.[8] Stocky also started Facebook's language technology team, which developed an AI-powered translation engine for Facebook posts that completes 4.5 billion automatic translations per day across 44 languages.[9][10][11]

While at Facebook, Stocky was one of its first male executives to take the full four-month paternity leave they offered.[12] He wrote a post about his experience that went viral,[13][14] and Mark Zuckerberg later took a two-month paternity leave.[15] Stocky spoke about the importance of companies providing equal parental leave to men and women, and Facebook expanded its policy to give all employees four months of leave, regardless of gender or location.[16]

Stocky led the learning platform team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.[17][18] He also served on the board of Teach For America Bay Area.[19]

In 2020, Stocky joined Denali Therapeutics as a technology fellow. In 2021, he joined insitro as vice president of product. Stocky serves on the board of directors of the Banner Alzheimer's Foundation and on the scientific advisory board for Denali Therapeutics.[1] He is also a member of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation's Scientific Review Board.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "insitro Appoints Tom Stocky as Vice President of Product". Business Wire. 2021-09-07.
  2. ^ "Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google". All Things Digital. 2011-07-11.
  3. ^ "Tom Stocky: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2017-02-08.
  4. ^ "Facebook sees 2 billion searches per day, but it's attacking Twitter not Google". TechCrunch. 2016-07-27.
  5. ^ "Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search". Wired. 2013-01-15.
  6. ^ "Here Is The Ex-Googler Dream Team That Led Facebook's New Graph Search Tool". TechCrunch. 2013-01-15.
  7. ^ "Facebook Expands Search To All 2 Trillion Posts, Surfacing Public Real-Time News". TechCrunch. 2015-10-22.
  8. ^ "The Silicon Valley 100". Business Insider. 2013-02-12.
  9. ^ "Kissing Language Barriers Goodbye". Smithsonian. 2014-03-28.
  10. ^ "Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages". Wired. 2016-07-01.
  11. ^ "Facebook's translations are now powered completely by AI". The Verge. 2017-08-04.
  12. ^ "Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma". The New York Times. 7 November 2014.
  13. ^ "Facebook Employee Writes About What He Learned on Paternity Leave". Jezebel. 8 July 2013.
  14. ^ "Stay-at-Home Dad Shunned by Playground Moms". Good Morning America. 10 July 2013. ABC. transcript.
  15. ^ "How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It". Morning Edition. 8 February 2016. NPR. transcript.
  16. ^ "Facebook introduces four-month parental leave for all employees". The Guardian. 27 November 2015.
  17. ^ "CZI Takes Over Building Summit Learning Platform". EdSurge. 2017-03-13.
  18. ^ "The Summit Learning Platform". Summit Public Schools. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  19. ^ "Board of Directors - TFA - Bay Area". Teach For America. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  20. ^ "Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation - Scientific Review Board". Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. Retrieved 2021-03-09.


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