Mohammad Alian

Assistant Professor, EECS

Contact Info

alian@ku.edu

Nichols Hall Room 253
2335 Irving Hill Rd
Lawrence, KS 66045

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Biography —

Dr. Alian joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Kansas as an Assistant Professor in August 2020.

His research explores opportunities in the intersection of computer architecture and networking to build efficient datacenters. His goal is to unlock the potentials of hardware and operating system co-design in architecting application-transparent, near-data processing hardware for improving datacenter's performance, energy efficiency, and scalability.

Education —

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020, Urbana-Champaign, IL

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2015, Madison, WI

B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, 2013

Research —

Computer Architecture and Systems: performance, simulation

Operating Systems and Networking: datacenter networking, I/O subsystem

Teaching —

EECS-743 Advanced Computer Architecture: Spring 2021

EECS-645 Computer Architecture: Spring 2022

EECS-388 Embedded Systems: Fall 2020, Fall 2021

Awards & Honors —

Best paper finalist in IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) 2018

Best paper finalist in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO) 2018

Honorable mention in IEEE MICRO Top Picks 2017

Best paper finalist in IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software(ISPASS) 2017

Best paper finalist in IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture(HPCA) 2017