Presenter

Aamir Shafi is currently a Research Scientist at the Ohio State University where he is involved in the High Performance Big Data project. Dr. Shafi was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT where he worked on the award-winning Cilk technology. Dr. Shafi received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2006. Dr. Shafi’s current research interests include architecting robust libraries and tools for Big Data computation with emphasis on Machine and Deep Learning applications. Dr. Shafi co-designed and co-developed a Java-based MPI-like library called MPJ Express. https://people.engineering.osu.edu/people/shafi.16.