Tom Stocky

{{Short description|American computer scientist and technology executive}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

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| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| occupation = SVP, Lab & Data Platform, insitro

| known_for = Facebook Search, Google App Engine, Google Flights

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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.{{cite news|url=https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/13/tom-stocky-facebook-insitro-denali/|title=After a decade at Facebook and Google, a tech exec tries his hand at drug development|date=2021-09-13|publisher=STAT News}}{{cite news|url=https://endpts.com/flagship-keeps-ex-fda-commish-stephen-hahn-busy-with-another-cmo-gig-daphne-koller-makes-key-hire-at-insitro-by-welcoming-google-and-facebook-vet/|title=Daphne Koller makes key hire at insitro by welcoming Google and Facebook vet|date=2021-09-10|publisher=Endpoints News}}{{cite web|url=https://insitro.com/team?cat=executive-team|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529063624/https://insitro.com/team?cat=executive-team|title=insitro - Executive Team|archive-date=2023-05-29}}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210907005096/en/insitro-Appoints-Tom-Stocky-as-Vice-President-of-Product|title=insitro Appoints Tom Stocky as Vice President of Product|date=2021-09-07|publisher=Business Wire}}

In 2011, Stocky joined Facebook{{cite news|url=http://allthingsd.com/20110711/facebook-hires-new-director-of-product-tom-stocky-from-google/|title=Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google|date=2011-07-11|publisher=All Things Digital}} to become VP of Search.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=275947798&privcapId=4932069|title=Tom Stocky: Executive Profile & Biography|publisher=Bloomberg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208033420/http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=275947798&privcapId=4932069|archive-date=2017-02-08|url-status=dead}} He grew Facebook Search to more than 2 billion searches per day.{{cite web

|url= https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/facebook-will-make-you-talk/

|title= Facebook sees 2 billion searches per day, but it's attacking Twitter not Google

|publisher= TechCrunch

|date= 2016-07-27

}} He and Lars Rasmussen led the team who built Facebook Graph Search, a semantic search engine for the social network,{{cite web

|url= https://www.wired.com/2013/01/the-inside-story-of-graph-search-facebooks-weapon-to-challenge-google/

|title= Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search

|publisher= Wired

|date= 2013-01-15

}}{{cite web

|url= https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/here-is-the-ex-googler-dream-team-that-led-facebooks-new-graph-search-tool/

|title= Here Is The Ex-Googler Dream Team That Led Facebook's New Graph Search Tool

|publisher= TechCrunch

|date= 2013-01-15

}} and Stocky then led the development of keyword search over the trillions of posts on Facebook.{{cite web

|url= https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/facebook-search/

|title= Facebook Expands Search To All 2 Trillion Posts, Surfacing Public Real-Time News

|publisher= TechCrunch

|date= 2015-10-22

}} Stocky and Rasmussen were included on Business Insider's list of The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley.{{cite web

|url= http://www.businessinsider.com/the-silicon-valley-100-2013-2#79-lars-rasmussen-and-tom-stocky-22

|title= The Silicon Valley 100

|publisher= Business Insider

|date= 2013-02-12

}} 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.{{cite web

|url= https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/kissing-language-barriers-goodbye-180950310/

|title= Kissing Language Barriers Goodbye

|publisher= Smithsonian

|date= 2014-03-28

}}{{cite web

|url= https://www.wired.com/2016/07/fb-2/

|title= Soon Facebook Will Instantly Translate Your Posts Into 44 Languages

|publisher= Wired

|date= 2016-07-01

}}{{cite web

|url= https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/4/16093872/facebook-ai-translations-artificial-intelligence

|title= Facebook's translations are now powered completely by AI

|publisher= The Verge

|date= 2017-08-04

}}

While at Facebook, Stocky was one of its first male executives to take the full four-month paternity leave they offered.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/upshot/paternity-leave-the-rewards-and-the-remaining-stigma.html|title=Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma|date=2014-11-07|work=The New York Times}} He wrote a post about his experience that went viral,{{cite web|url=https://jezebel.com/facebook-employee-writes-about-what-he-learned-on-pater-708826203|title=Facebook Employee Writes About What He Learned on Paternity Leave|date=2013-07-08|publisher=Jezebel}}{{cite episode|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/parenting-stories-stay-home-dad-shunned-playground-moms-19625715|transcript=transcript|transcript-url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2013/07/stay-at-home-dad-reflects-on-criticism-low-expectations/|title=Stay-at-Home Dad Shunned by Playground Moms|date=10 July 2013|series=Good Morning America|network=ABC}} and Mark Zuckerberg later took a two-month paternity leave.{{cite episode|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/465726445/how-to-get-dads-to-take-parental-leave-seeing-other-dads-do-it|transcript=transcript|transcript-url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=465726445|title=How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It|date=2016-02-08|series=Morning Edition|station=NPR}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/27/facebook-four-month-parental-leave-mark-zuckerberg|title=Facebook introduces four-month parental leave for all employees|date=2015-11-27|work=The Guardian}}

Stocky led the learning platform team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.{{cite web

|url= https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-03-13-czi-steps-in-to-summit-learning-platform-to-revamp-personalized-learning

|title= CZI Takes Over Building Summit Learning Platform

|publisher= EdSurge

|date= 2017-03-13

}}{{cite web

|url= https://www.summitlearning.org/program/online-platform

|title= The Summit Learning Platform

|publisher= Summit Public Schools

|access-date= 2018-05-15

}} He also served on the board of Teach For America.{{cite web

|url= https://www.tfabay.org/about-us/board-of-directors/

|title= Board of Directors - TFA Bay Area

|publisher= Teach For America

|access-date= 2018-05-15

}}

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,{{cite web|url=https://www.bannerhealthfoundation.org/about/board-of-directors|title=Board of Directors :: Banner Alzheimer's Foundation|access-date=2022-02-21}} the scientific advisory board of Denali Therapeutics,{{cite web|url=https://www.denalitherapeutics.com/leadership|title=Denali {{pipe}} Leadership|access-date=2022-02-21}} and the scientific review board of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.{{cite web|url=https://www.alzdiscovery.org/about-addf/board-scientific|title=Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation - Scientific Review Board|access-date=2021-03-09|publisher=Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation}}