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Academic
Dr.
Hadeel A. Al-Bahar
Assistant Professor
Office Location:
S02D1160
Education
| Degree | Discipline | Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D | Computer Engineering | Virginia Tech | 2023 |
| M.S. | Computer Engineering | Columbia University | 2016 |
| B.S. | Computer Engineering | Kuwait University | 2012 |
Research Interests
Distributed Systems, HPC, Systems for ML, ML for systems, Containers.
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.
Work Experience
Academic Experience
| Institution | Designation | Year/Period |
|---|---|---|
| Kuwait University | Assistant Professor | 2023-present |
| Virginia Tech | Graduate Teaching Assistant | Fall 2021 |
| Kuwait University | Teaching Assistant | Spring 2012 |
Industry Experience
| Organization | Designation | Year/Period |
|---|---|---|
| Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) | Technical support engineer for the Kuwait e Award | 2012 & 2016 |
| EXP (exp US services Inc.) | Intern | 2012-2013 |
| Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Training Program | Trainee | 2012 |
Community Service
- IEEE
- Technical program committee member: IPDPS’25 and REX-IO’24.
- Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (’21, ’22).
- Sub-Reviewer: IPDPS (’19 – ’23), ICCD (’19), ICDCS (’19 – ’22), BigData (’19, ’21), HPDC (’20 – ’22), IEEE CLUSTER (’20, ’21), ICS (’21), ICMLA (’21), SC (’22), ECML PKDD (’22).
Other
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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