Curriculum Vitae Shoukat Ali

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1 Curriculum Vitae Shoukat Ali Address IBM Dublin Research Laboratory Damastown Industrial Estate Dublin 15, Ireland Phone: Alternate phone: Education 8/99 8/03 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Thesis: Robust Resource Allocation in Dynamic Distributed Heterogeneous Computing Systems Co-advisors: Profs. Howard Jay Siegel and Anthony Maciejewski 1/98 8/99 M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Thesis: A Comparative Study of Dynamic Mapping Heuristics for a Class of Independent Tasks onto Heterogeneous Computing Systems Advisor: Prof. Howard Jay Siegel Work Experience 1/10 Present Research Staff Member, Exascale Stream Computing Collaboratory, IBM Dublin Research Laboratory, Dublin, Ireland 4/07 1/10 Senior Component Design Engineer, Platform Validation and Enabling, Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA 1/09 3/09 Lecturer, Engineering Computer Science Department, UC Davis, CA 4/08 6/08 Lecturer, Engineering Computer Science Department, UC Davis, CA 8/03 3/07 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, MO Last updated February 15, 2013.

2 Shoukat Ali 2 Publications Journal Papers J1 S. Ali, B. Eslamnour and Z. Shah A case for on-machine load balancing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 71, No. 4, pp , April J2 B. Eslamnour and S. Ali, Measuring robustness of computing systems, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, Vol. 17, No. 9, pp , Oct. 2009, available online at J3 S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, H. J. Siegel, and A. A. Maciejewski, Static heuristics for robust resource allocation of continuously executing applications, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 68, No. 8, pp , Aug J4 P. Sugavanam, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, M. Oltikar, A. Mehta, R. Pichel, A. Horiuchi, V. Shestak, M. Al-Otaibi, Y. Krishnamurthy, S. Ali, J. Zhang, M. Aydin, P. Lee, K. Guru, M. Raskey, and A. Pippin, Robust Static Allocation of Resources for Independent Tasks under Makespan and Dollar Cost Constraints, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp , Apr J5 M. Maheswaran and S. Ali, A taxonomy of network computing systems, IEEE Computer, Oct J6 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, and J.-K. Kim, Measuring the robustness of a resource allocation, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 15, No. 7, July 2004, pp J7 S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, Y. Yu, S. B. Gundala, S. Gertphol, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and V. Prasanna, Utilization-based techniques for statically mapping heterogeneous applications onto the HiPer-D heterogeneous computing system, Parallel and Distributed Computing Practices, Vol. 5, No. 4, Dec J8 M. D. Theys, S. Ali, H. J. Siegel, M. Chandy, K. Hwang, K. Kennedy, L. Sha, K. G. Shin, M. Snir, L. Snyder, and T. Sterling, What are the top ten most influential parallel and distributed processing concepts of the past millenium?, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 61, No. 12, Dec. 2001, pp , invited. J9 S. Ali, H. J. Siegel, M. Maheswaran, D. Hensgen, and S. Sedigh-Ali, Representing task and machine heterogeneities for heterogeneous computing systems, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, Nov. 2000, pp , invited. J10 H. J. Siegel and S. Ali, Techniques for mapping tasks to machines in heterogeneous computing systems, Journal of Systems Architecture, Vol. 46, No. 8, May 2000, pp , invited. J11 M. Maheswaran, S. Ali, H. J. Siegel, D. Hensgen, and R. F. Freund, Dynamic mapping of a class of independent tasks onto heterogeneous computing systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 59, No. 2, Nov. 1999, pp

3 Shoukat Ali 3 Book BK1 Emulation Methodology Handbook, Internal Intel document, edited by S. Ali, I. Baucom, J. Friedrichsmeyer, and J. Maneely, Book Chapters (Invited) B1 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, Perspectives on robust resource allocation for heterogeneous parallel systems, Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, edited by Sanguthevar Rajasekaran and John Reif, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp , B2 S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, Y. Yu, S. B. Gundala, S. Gertphol, H. J. Siegel and A. A. Maciejewski, Utilization-Based Techniques for Statically Mapping Heterogeneous Applications onto the HiPer-D Heterogeneous Computing System, Algorithms and Tools for Parallel Computing On Heterogeneous Clusters, edited by Frederic Desprez, Eric Fleury, Alexey Kalinov, and Alexey Lastovetsky, Nova Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, pp , B3 S. Ali, T. D. Braun, H. J. Siegel, N. Beck, L. Bölöni, M. Maheswaran, A. I. Reuther, J. P. Robertson, M. D. Theys, and B. Yao, Characterizing resource allocation heuristics for heterogeneous computing systems, Parallel, Distributed, and Pervasive Computing, A. R. Hurson, ed., Vol. 63 of Advances in Computers, Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp , Conference and Workshop Papers C1 A. Hackett, D. Ajwani, S. Ali, S. Kirkland and J. P. Morrison, A network configuration algorithm based on optimization of Kirchhoff index, the 27th IEEE International Parallel And Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2013), May C2 E. Munir, S. Mohsin, A. Hussain, M. Nisar and S. Ali, SDBATS: a novel algorithm for task scheduling in heterogeneous computing systems, 22nd International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2013) in the proceedings of 27th IEEE International Parallel And Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-W 2013), May C3 A. Hackett, D. Ajwani, S. Ali, S. Kirkland and J. P. Morrison, Seeds for a heterogeneous interconnect, 22nd International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2013) in the proceedings of 27th IEEE International Parallel And Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-W 2013), May C4 D. Ajwani, S. Ali, and J. P. Morrison, Graph Partitioning For Reconfigurable Topology, the 26th IEEE International Parallel And Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012), May C5 D. Ajwani, S. Ali, K. Katrinis, C.-H. Li, A. J. Park, J. P. Morrison, and E. Schenfeld, A Flexible Workload Generator for Simulating Stream Computing Systems,

4 Shoukat Ali 4 the 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2011), July C6 M. Ellebrecht, Z. Shah, M. Gann and S. Ali, Enhancing SDP-generated localization solutions by the removal of anchorless connected components, the 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PER- COM Workshops), Mar C7 S. Ali, H. Pham, J. Fredine and Y. He, Emulating large Intel CPU designs, Intel Design and Test Technology Conference (DTTC 2008), Aug C8 B. Eslamnour and S. Ali, A probabilistic approach to measuring robustness in computing systems, the 6th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Optimization of Parallel and Distributed Systems in the proceedings of 21st International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-W 2007), Mar C9 V. Shestak, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and S. Ali, The robustness of resource allocations in parallel and distributed computing systems, the 19th IEEE International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems: System Aspects in Organic Computing (ARCS 2006), Mar C10 V. Shestak, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and S. Ali, Robust resource allocations in parallel computing systems: Model and heuristics, the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, Dec C11 B. Eslamnour and S. Ali, A measure of robustness against multiple kinds of perturbations, the 14th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2005) in the proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Apr C12 A. Mitra, M. Maheswaran, and S. Ali, Measuring scalability of resource management systems, the 14th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2005) in the proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Apr C13 P. Sugavanam, H. Siegel, A. Maciejewski, S. Ali, M. Al-Otaibi, M. A. K. Guru, A. Horiuchi, Y. Krishnamurthy, P. Lee, A. Mehta, M. O. R. Pichel, A. Pippin, M. Raskey, V. Shestak, and J. Zhang, Processor allocation for tasks that is robust against errors in computation time estimates, the 14th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2005) in the proceedings of the 19th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005), Apr C14 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, A measure of robustness for distributed computing systems, International National Science Foundation Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, Dec. 2004, invited.

5 Shoukat Ali 5 C15 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, and J.-K. Kim, Robust resource allocation for distributed computing systems, the 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2004), Aug C16 S. Ali, H. J. Siegel, and A. A. Maciejewski, Robustness measure for a resource allocation, the 3rd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2004), July 2004, invited keynote (Siegel). C17 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, Measuring robustness for distributed computing systems, International National Science Foundation Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology, Dec. 2003, invited. C18 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, and J.-K. Kim, On the robustness of resource allocation for parallel and distributed computing and communications, the 2003 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2003), Vol. I, June 2003, pp. 1 14, invited keynote (Siegel). C19 S. Ali, A. A. Maciejewski, H. J. Siegel, and J.-K. Kim, Definition of a robustness metric for resource allocation, the 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), Apr C20 S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, Y. Yu, S. B. Gundala, S. Gertphol, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and V. Prasanna, Greedy heuristics for resource allocation in dynamic distributed real-time heterogeneous computing systems, the 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Vol. II, June 2002, pp C21 S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, Y. Yu, S. B. Gundala, S. Gertphol, H. J. Siegel, A. A. Maciejewski, and V. Prasanna, Utilization-based heuristics for statically mapping real-time applications onto the HiPer-D heterogeneous computing system, the 11th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2002) in the proceedings of the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2002), Apr C22 S. Gertphol, Y. Yu, S. B. Gundala, V. K. Prasanna, S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, A. A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel, A metric and mixed-integer-programming-based approach for resource allocation in dynamic real-time systems, the 16th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2002), Apr C23 S. Ali, H. J. Siegel, M. Maheswaran, D. Hensgen, and S. Ali, Task execution time modeling for heterogeneous computing systems, the 9th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2000), May 2000, pp C24 M. Maheswaran, S. Ali, H. J. Siegel, D. Hensgen, and R. F. Freund, Dynamic matching and scheduling of a class of independent tasks onto heterogeneous computing systems, the 8th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 99), Apr. 1999, pp C25 D. A. Hensgen, T. Kidd, D. S. John, M. C. Schnaidt, H. J. Siegel, T. D. Braun, M. Maheswaran, S. Ali, J.-K. Kim, C. Irvine, T. Levin, R. F. Freund, M. Kussow,

6 Shoukat Ali 6 M. Godfrey, A. Duman, P. Carff, S. Kidd, V. Prasanna, P. Bhat, and A. Alhusaini, An overview of MSHN: The Management System for Heterogeneous Networks, the 8th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 99), Apr. 1999, pp Technical Reports TR1 Application-agnostic generation of synthetic task graphs for stream computing applications, D. Ajwani, S. Ali, and J. P. Morrison, Technical Report RC25181 (D ), IBM Research, M.S. Theses Supervised T1 A simulation environment modeling the use of wireless sensor networks for the detection and mapping of wildfires, M. Gann, Master s Thesis, Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, T2 Constraint based node localization for ad-hoc wireless networks and a simulation environment for wildfire detection and mapping using wireless sensor networks, M. Ellebrecht, Master s Thesis, Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, T3 A probabilistic approach to measuring robustness in distributed computing systems, B. Eslamnour, Master s Thesis, Computer Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla, Awards 1 School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, 2005, University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO. 2 Proceedings Chair Extraordinaire, 2006, International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 3 Division Recognition Award, 2009, Intel Co., Folsom, CA. 4 Invention Achievement Award, 2012, IBM Research - Ireland. Professional Service 1 Guest co-editor, Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on Ubiquitous Computing and Future Communication Systems, Elsevier, tentative publication date, September Guest co-editor, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Ubiquitous Multimedia Systems and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, tentative publication date, September 2013.

7 Shoukat Ali 7 3 Guest co-editor, Future Generation Computer Systems, Special Issue on Extreme Scale Parallel Architectures and Systems, Elsevier, tentative publication date, March Program co-chair, the 2nd International Workshop on Extreme Scale Parallel Architectures and Systems (ESPAS 2013). 5 Steering committee member, the 1st International Workshop on Extreme Scale Parallel Architectures and Systems (ESPAS 2012). 6 General co-chair, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC 2012). 7 Program co-chair, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2010). 8 Program co-chair, the 6th Workshop on Frontiers in Information Technology (FIT 2008). 9 Program co-chair, the 5th Workshop on Frontiers in Information Technology (FIT 2007). 10 Proceedings chair, the 21st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007). 11 Proceedings chair, the 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006). 12 Proceedings chair, the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2005). 13 On the program committee for peer review of the following conferences and workshops. (a) The 27th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2013). (b) The 22nd IEEE Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2013). (c) The 21st IEEE Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW 2012). (d) The 9th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computing Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2011) (e) 2007 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2007) (f) The 20th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposiums (IPDPS 2006). (g) The 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposiums (IPDPS 2005). (h) The 14th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2005). (i) The 13th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2004).

8 Shoukat Ali 8 (j) 2004 IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2004). 14 Publicity co-chair of the 11th IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop (HCW 2002). Invited Lectures 1 Partitioning Graphs For a Reconfigurable Topology, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2012), December Partitioning Graphs For a Reconfigurable Topology, the 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2012), June A Measure of Robustness for Distributed Computing Systems, the 2nd Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2004), December Measuring Robustness for Distributed Computing Systems, the 1st Workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2003), December A Measure of Robustness for Resource Allocations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May A Metric for Robust Resource Allocation, Florida State University, May Robust Resource Allocation, University of Missouri, Rolla, April Robustness of Resource Allocation for Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communications, University of Victoria, BC, Canada, April A Metric for Robust Resource Allocation, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), April Robustness of Resource Allocation for Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communications, University of Notre Dame, March 2003.