How to pronounce Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica is most commonly pronounced "ee own stoy kuh" (/iˈoʊn ˈstɔɪkə/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Romanian-American Berkeley professor: co-creator of Apache Spark, Mesos and Ray, co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale, and head of the Sky Computing Lab behind vLLM and Chatbot Arena. "Ion" is not the chemistry word — it is the Romanian form of "John", /iˈon/, so "ee-OHN" and not "EYE-on". The surname is "STOY-kuh": the "oi" is a single diphthong (the name goes back to Bulgarian Stoyko), not "sto-EE-ka" or "STOH-ik-uh".

Source: Wiktionary — Romanian given name "Ion", IPA /iˈon/ (equivalent to English "John")

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