Mustafa Imran Ali


Mustafa Imran Ali Contact and Biography Research and Projects Publications Homepage Search People		Mustafa Imran Ali Mustafa Imran Ali School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom Position: Postgraduate, submitted in Electronic and Software Systems Extension: 23119 Telephone: Work (Voice): +44 (0)23 8059 3119 Fax: Work (Fax): 00442380592901 Email: mia08r [@] ecs [.] soton [.] ac [.] uk URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/11467 [browse] Interests: 3d graphics, combinatorial optimization, data compression, digital signal processing on fpgas, digital video technologies, energy harvesting, evolutionary meta-heuristics, graphics processing units, hardware optimization for fpgas, hardware-based encryptions, high definition video, high-end audio, high-speed interconnects, instruction-level parallelism, multicore processors, parallel meta-heuristics, reconfigurable hardware, vlsi test data compression Additional Contact Details Desk 4 Bay 3, Room 4237, Zepler Building 59 Biography I am a MPhil/PhD student at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. I belong to the Electronic Systems and Devices Group, working under the supervision of Prof. Bashir M. Al-Hashimi in the Pervasive Systems Centre on optimization of computing systems that utilize energy harvesting. Before joining ECS, I worked at Digitek Engineering Karachi as a hardware design engineer on design and verification of digital communication FPGAs from 2007-2008. Earlier I worked at the Information Technology Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on the implementation of SunGard Banner Student System as a member of the data migration team for a brief period of 6 months. I obtained my MS degree from the Department of Computer Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. I was a Research Assistant there did my thesis in the area of VLSI test data compression under the supervision of an excellent adviser Dr. Aiman H. El-Maleh. I also worked with the Parallel VLSI CAD group led by Dr. Sadiq M. Sait. I was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. I obtained my Secondary School Certificate (Science) in 1994 from St. Paul's English High School Karachi and got my Higher Secondary (School) Certificate (Pre-Engineering) from Adamjee Government Science College Karachi in 1996. I earned my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 2001 from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. From 2001-2003, I served as an instructor in the computer engineering department at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. Qualifications MS in Computer Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia B.E. in Computer Systems Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan Conferences Attended Asian Test Symposium (ATS-2007), Beijing, China IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2006), Rhodes Island, Greece The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington DC, USA

School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

Position: Postgraduate, submitted in Electronic and Software Systems
Extension: 23119
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 3119
Fax: 00442380592901
Email: mia08r [@] ecs [.] soton [.] ac [.] uk
URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/11467 [browse]

Interests: 3d graphics, combinatorial optimization, data compression, digital signal processing on fpgas, digital video technologies, energy harvesting, evolutionary meta-heuristics, graphics processing units, hardware optimization for fpgas, hardware-based encryptions, high definition video, high-end audio, high-speed interconnects, instruction-level parallelism, multicore processors, parallel meta-heuristics, reconfigurable hardware, vlsi test data compression

Additional Contact Details

Desk 4 Bay 3, Room 4237, Zepler Building 59

Biography

I am a MPhil/PhD student at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. I belong to the Electronic Systems and Devices Group, working under the supervision of Prof. Bashir M. Al-Hashimi in the Pervasive Systems Centre on optimization of computing systems that utilize energy harvesting.

Before joining ECS, I worked at Digitek Engineering Karachi as a hardware design engineer on design and verification of digital communication FPGAs from 2007-2008. Earlier I worked at the Information Technology Center at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals on the implementation of SunGard Banner Student System as a member of the data migration team for a brief period of 6 months.

I obtained my MS degree from the Department of Computer Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. I was a Research Assistant there did my thesis in the area of VLSI test data compression under the supervision of an excellent adviser Dr. Aiman H. El-Maleh. I also worked with the Parallel VLSI CAD group led by Dr. Sadiq M. Sait.

I was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan. I obtained my Secondary School Certificate (Science) in 1994 from St. Paul's English High School Karachi and got my Higher Secondary (School) Certificate (Pre-Engineering) from Adamjee Government Science College Karachi in 1996. I earned my Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 2001 from NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. From 2001-2003, I served as an instructor in the computer engineering department at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi.

Qualifications

MS in Computer Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

B.E. in Computer Systems Engineering, NED University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

Conferences Attended

Asian Test Symposium (ATS-2007), Beijing, China

IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2006), Rhodes Island, Greece

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), Washington DC, USA