Scholar
Samer Al-Kiswany
Google Scholar ID: t7n06tsAAAAJ
University of Waterloo
Citations & Impact
Citations
749
H-index
14
i10-index
19
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
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Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Associate Editor at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) (2023 - ). PC Member for various conferences including FAST 2025, 2026, HotOS 2025 (Treasurer and Registration chair), EuroSys 2023, SRDS 2022, 2023, HostStorage 2022, FAST 2022, HPDC 2018 - 2023, SOSP 2019.
Research Experience
- Completed five internships at Microsoft Research Lab, Microsoft Azure, IBM Research, NEC Lab, and Argonne National Lab. Currently an Associate Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, leading the Waterloo Advanced Systems Lab (WASL).
Education
- PhD from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at The University of British Columbia, advised by Prof. Matei Ripeanu. Postdoc at the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, working with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, and the ADSL research group.
Background
- Research interests are in the area of computing systems with a special focus on distributed and operating systems. Interested in building highly efficient systems by leveraging recent advances in hardware technology and domain-specific optimizations. Current projects focus on building software-defined storage system for workflow applications, exploring fundamental reliability and scheduling problems in the Linux I/O stack, and exploiting recent advances in software-defined networks and multicore platforms to accelerate storage systems.
Miscellany
- Teaching courses include CS 754: Advanced Distributed Systems, CS 454/654: Distributed Systems, among others.
