Ameer Haj Ali

Advisor(s): Ion Stoica & Krste Asanovic
Website: https://ameerhajali.com

Ameer is a first-year Ph.D. student in the ADEPT Lab and RISE Lab at UC Berkeley. His current research is focused on Hardware/Software Codesign, Auto-Tuning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, ASIC Design, High Performance Computing, and hardware for machine learning.

Ameer finished his M.Sc. studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2018, where he worked on using emerging memory technologies to enhance the performance of modern computer systems with Professor Shahar Kvatinsky and made multiple journal and conference publications. He received the B.Sc. degree in computer engineering, summa cum laude (the valedictorian), in 2017 from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. From 2015 to 2016 he was with Mellanox Technologies as a chip designer where he worked on creating design and automation tools that facilitated the formal and dynamic verification process.