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Dr. Ali R. Butt is a Professor of Computer Science (and ECE by courtesy) and Associate Department Head for Faculty Development in CS@Virginia Tech. He is an ACM Distinguished Member. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2006, and B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore in 2000. He is a recipient of a number of awards such as the NSF CAREER Award and IBM Faculty Awards. He has served as the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Transactions on Storage, and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, He is an alumni of the National Academy of Engineering's US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and National Academy of Science's AA Symposium on Sensor Science. Ali's research interests are in: cloud and high-performance computing systems; systems support for machine and deep learning applications; file, I/O, and storage systems; distributed systems; and large-scale experimental computer systems. At Virginia Tech he leads the Distributed Systems & Storage Laboratory (DSSL).