Tom Stocky
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)SVP, Lab & Data Platform, insitro
Known forFacebook Search, Google App Engine, Google Flights

Tom Stocky is an American computer scientist and technology executive. He is senior vice president of lab & data platform at insitro, a drug discovery startup. He was previously vice president of Search at Facebook.[1][2][3]

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.[4]

In 2011, Stocky joined Facebook[5] to become VP of Search.[6] He grew Facebook Search to more than 2 billion searches per day.[7] He and Lars Rasmussen led the team who built Facebook Graph Search, a semantic search engine for the social network,[8][9] and Stocky then led the development of keyword search over the trillions of posts on Facebook.[10] Stocky and Rasmussen were included on Business Insider's list of The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley.[11] 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.[12][13][14]

While at Facebook, Stocky was one of its first male executives to take the full four-month paternity leave they offered.[15] He wrote a post about his experience that went viral,[16][17] and Mark Zuckerberg later took a two-month paternity leave.[18] 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.[19]

Stocky led the learning platform team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.[20][21] He also served on the board of Teach For America.[22]

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,[23] the scientific advisory board of Denali Therapeutics,[24] and the scientific review board of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.[25]

References

  1. ↑ "After a decade at Facebook and Google, a tech exec tries his hand at drug development". STAT News. September 13, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Daphne Koller makes key hire at insitro by welcoming Google and Facebook vet". Endpoints News. September 10, 2021.
  3. ↑ "insitro - Executive Team". Archived from the original on May 29, 2023.
  4. ↑ "insitro Appoints Tom Stocky as Vice President of Product". Business Wire. September 7, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google". All Things Digital. July 11, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Tom Stocky: Executive Profile & Biography". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on February 8, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Facebook sees 2 billion searches per day, but it's attacking Twitter not Google". TechCrunch. July 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search". Wired. January 15, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Here Is The Ex-Googler Dream Team That Led Facebook's New Graph Search Tool". TechCrunch. January 15, 2013.
  10. ↑ "Facebook Expands Search To All 2 Trillion Posts, Surfacing Public Real-Time News". TechCrunch. October 22, 2015.
  11. ↑ "The Silicon Valley 100". Business Insider. February 12, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Kissing Language Barriers Goodbye". Smithsonian. March 28, 2014.
  13. ↑ "Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages". Wired. July 1, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Facebook's translations are now powered completely by AI". The Verge. August 4, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma". The New York Times. November 7, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Facebook Employee Writes About What He Learned on Paternity Leave". Jezebel. July 8, 2013.
  17. ↑ "Stay-at-Home Dad Shunned by Playground Moms". Good Morning America. July 10, 2013. ABC. transcript.
  18. ↑ "How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It". Morning Edition. February 8, 2016. NPR. transcript.
  19. ↑ "Facebook introduces four-month parental leave for all employees". The Guardian. November 27, 2015.
  20. ↑ "CZI Takes Over Building Summit Learning Platform". EdSurge. March 13, 2017.
  21. ↑ "The Summit Learning Platform". Summit Public Schools. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  22. ↑ "Board of Directors - TFA Bay Area". Teach For America. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
  23. ↑ "Board of Directors :: Banner Alzheimer's Foundation". Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  24. ↑ "Denali | Leadership". Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  25. ↑ "Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation - Scientific Review Board". Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation. Retrieved March 9, 2021.


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