Professor
NED UET, Pak.
Speaker: Muhammad Ali Ismail, PhD, Senior Member IEEE & MIET is a Professor and Chair at Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology. He is also serving as Director High Performance Computing Center and Scientific Director National Center in Big Data and Cloud Computing at same University. He has more than 20 years’ experience of research, teaching and administration in both national and international universities. He did his PhD in High Performance Computing in 2011. Afterwards he pursued his post doctorate in Automatic Design space exploration from ULBS Romania. He has published over 80 scientific papers in international journals and conferences along with U.S. patent. He has won many of the national and international grants of worth above PKR. 250M. He is also the recipient of Research Productivity Award by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology- Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of Pakistan. His current research interests include High Performance Computing, Computational Astrophysics, Big data mining, Cluster and Cloud Computing, Multicore processor architecture and programming, Machine learning, Heuristics and automatic design space exploration. He is also serving IET Karachi Network as its Vice Chairman.