Professor
Computer Science
Virginia Tech
cloud. HPC. Storage&I/O. ML/DL.
Ali is a Professor of Computer Science (and ECE by courtesy) and Associate Department Head for Faculty Development in CS@VT. He is an ACM Distinguished Member. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2006. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award (2008), IBM Faculty Awards (2008, 2015), a VT College of Engineering (COE) Dean's award for "Outstanding New Assistant Professor" (2009), an IBM Shared University Research Award (2009), and NetApp Faculty Fellowships (2011, 2015). He was named a VT COE Faculty Fellow in 2013. Ali was an Academic Visitor at IBM Almaden Research Center (Summer 2012) and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University of Belfast (Summer 2013). He has served as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2018-present), ACM Transactions on Storage (2016-present), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2013-2016), Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications (2013-present), and Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (2010-2015). He is an alumni of the National Academy of Engineering's US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium (2009), US-Japan FOE (2012), and National Academy of Science's AA Symposium on Sensor Science (2015). He was also an organizer for the US FOE in 2010. Ali's research interests are in: cloud and high-performance computing systems; systems support for machine and deep learning applications; file, I/O, and storage systems; distributed systems; and large-scale experimental computer systems. At Virginia Tech he leads the Distributed Systems & Storage Laboratory (DSSL) and directs the stack@cs Center for Computer Systems.
Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021
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Fall 2011,
Fall 2012,
Fall 2014,
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Fall 2017,
Fall 2019,
Fall 2006,
Fall 2008,
Fall 2009,
Fall 2011,
Fall 2014,
Fall 2016,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2018,
Fall 2019,
Fall 2020,
Fall 2021
File and Storage Systems(Fall 2007)
Cloud Computing (Fall 2010)
A Walk on the Cloud Side (Spring 2016)
The Secret Life of Storage Systems (Fall 2019)
220 Gilbert Place, Suite 4210
Blacksburg, VA 24060
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