Ali is a PhD student at Boston University working with Prof. Orran Krieger. His area of interest is Operating Systems and their optimizations. He is leading the UKL project which aims to create a unikernel from Linux and glibc code base. He works also closely with other mentors e.g., Renato Mancuso and Jonathan Appavoo at BU and Ulrich Drepper, Richard Jones and Larry Woodman at Red Hat.