Summary
Rizwan Ashraf is a postdoctoral researcher with nine years of experience specializing in fault-tolerant and reliable computing for HPC, combining hardware and software expertise across ASIC/FPGA design, embedded and parallel computing, and system-level modeling. Based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he develops resilient software for large-scale HPC systems and applies Big Data techniques to analyze failure logs and characterize system faults. His Ph.D. work focused on adaptive, energy-aware resilience strategies and he has hands-on experience with transistor aging, soft-error mitigation, and reconfigurable computing. Rizwan’s background spans academia and national labs, including collaborative projects on hardware security and DARPA-related HPC efforts, showing a track record of translating deep research into practical, system-level solutions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida