Ali Ahmad
Graduate Student Researcher
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Ahmad is a Graduate Student Researcher and PhD candidate in High Energy Particle Physics at the University of Virginia with a decade of hands-on experience in data analysis, detector electronics, and teaching. He holds a BS in Physics from Texas A&M and has built event selection strategies and signal/background models for CMS Run-3 analyses while also developing image-alignment Python tools for astrophysics research. Beyond academia, Ali applies practical engineering skills to software and DevOps tasks—contributing Docker and fuzzer configuration work to the widely used Google FuzzBench project—bringing reproducible benchmarking practices to research workflows. He balances pedagogy and research as an active teaching assistant for introductory physics labs and has supported experimental instrumentation work in CMS electronics labs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves smoothly between low-level hardware diagnostics and scripting-driven software infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Texas A&M UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Woodlands High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD High Energy Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD High Energy Particle Physics at University of Virginia
Arabic, English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
fuzzing10
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
benchmark9
benchmarking9
git9
linux8
security8
python7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
google/fuzzbench
Mar 2020 - May 2020
FuzzBench - Fuzzer benchmarking as a service.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 12 PRs, 29 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributed to the development and configuration of fuzzing environments within the FuzzBench project. Their work focused on creating and modifying Dockerfiles for different fuzzers, specifically the "fastcgs" fuzzer and its variations, defining build processes, and setting up runner environments. The commits showcase the implementation of AFL++ modifications and updates, including Git checkouts and configuration changes to support fuzzing tasks. The contributions also involve updating and modifying the fuzzer's base configurations.
benchmarkingsecurityevaluationfuzzingbenchmark-framework
alifahmed/shadow
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Memory access profiler
Contributions:1 review, 43 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 9 months
rustmemory
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