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Mohammad Alian earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran in 2013, a Master's in Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2020. His doctoral work focused on cross-stack, network-centric architectural design for next-generation data centers. After receiving his doctoral degree, Alian spent time as an assistant professor at the University of Kansas before joining the faculty at Cornell in July 2024. In addition, from February 2023 to August 2023, Alian was on a sabbatical visit to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. His research interests include the future computation of data centers, distributed heterogeneous array processing elements, and minimizing data movement through architectural co-design of processing, memory, and network systems. Alian is keenly interested in teaching Computer Architecture, Digital Logic Design, and Datacenter Architecture.
Department of Architecture