Courses Taught
CPE
363
Introduction to Embedded Systems
CPE
445
Operating Systems
ENG
310
Engineering Ethics
CPE
262
Fundamentals of Digital Logic
Selected Publications
- Nannan Zhao, Muhui Lin, Hadeel Albahar, Arnab K. Paul, Zhijie Huan, Subil Abraham, Keren Chen, Vasily Tarasov, Dimitrios Skourtis, Ali Anwar, and Ali Butt. 2024. An End-to-end High-performance Deduplication Scheme for Docker Registries and Docker Container Storage Systems. ACM Trans. Storage 20, 3, Article 18 (August 2024), 35 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643819.
- Peng Xu, Nannan Zhao, Jiguang Wan, Wei Liu, Shuning Chen, Yuanhui Zhou, Hadeel Albahar, Hanyang Liu, Liu Tang, and Zhihu Tan. 2022. Building a Fast and Efficient LSM-tree Store by Integrating Local Storage with Cloud Storage. ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. 19, 3, Article 37 (September 2022), 26 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527452.
- Nannan Zhao, Vasily Tarasov, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Arnab K. Paul, Keren Chen, and Ali R. Butt. Large-Scale Analysis of Docker Images and Performance Implications for Container Storage Systems in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 918-930, 1 April 2021, https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2020.3034517
- Hadeel Albahar, Shruti Dongare, Yanlin Du, Nannan Zhao, Arnab K. Paul, and Ali R. Butt. SchedTune: A Heterogeneity-Aware GPU Scheduler for Deep Learning. 2022 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Taormina, Italy, 2022, pp. 695-705, doi: 10.1109/CCGrid54584.2022.00079
- Peng Xu, Nannan Zhao, Jiguang Wan, Wei Liu, Shuning Chen, Yuanhui Zhou, Hadeel Albahar, Hanyang Liu, Liu Tang, Changsheng Xie. Building A Fast and Efficient LSMtree Store by Integrating Local Storage with Cloud Storage. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Portland, OR, USA, 2021, pp. 125-134, doi.org/10.1109/Cluster48925.2021.00032
- Nannan Zhao, Hadeel Albahar, Subil Abraham, Keren Chen, Vasily Tarasov, Dimitrios Skourtis, Lukas Rupprecht, Ali Anwar, and Ali R. Butt. 2020. DupHunter: flexible highperformance deduplication for docker registries. In Proceedings of the 2020 USENIX Conference on Usenix Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC'20). USENIX Association, USA, Article 53, 769–783. dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3489146.3489199
- Nannan Zhao, Vasily Tarasov, Hadeel Albahar, Ali Anwar, Lukas Rupprecht, Dimitrios Skourtis, Amit S. Warke, Mohamed Mohamed, and Ali R. Butt. Large-Scale Analysis of the Docker Hub Dataset. 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Albuquerque, NM, USA, 2019, pp. 1-10, doi.org/10.1109/CLUSTER.2019.8891000.
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Certifications / professional registrations
- Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) Hands-On HPC Certificate, by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Issued Dec 2022.
Honors and Awards
- 2024, Judge, Hour of Code, programming competition by the Computer Engineering Society (CPES) and Kuwait University AI and Robotics Society (KARS), Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait
- 2023 - Judge, Hour of Code, programming competition by the Computer Engineering Society (CPES) and the Information Science Club (CLICKIT), Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait.
- 2022 - Student Volunteer, SCinet @ SC, Dallas, TX, USA.
- 2022 - Grace Hopper Celebration virtual Hopper (Volunteer).
- 2022 - GHC Student Scholarship to attend the virtual component of the Grace Hopper Celebration.
- 2021 – 2023 Member, I WILL (Inspiring Women in Lifelong Leadership) Institute, Virginia Tech.
- 2015 - Hackathon Volunteer, the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, New York, NY.
- 2014 - Kuwait University Scholarship recipient, Full scholarship to pursue M.S. and Ph.D. degrees.
- 2013 - Graduate of Excellence - One of the top 10 students graduating from College of Engineering and Petroleum – Graduates of Excellence Ceremony Class of 2012/2013 under the patronage and presence of HH the Amir of Kuwait.
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