PhD Student
Ali is a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Boston University. He joined CS@BU in Fall’17.
At BU, he is working with Prof. Orran Krieger. His area of interest is Operating Systems, specifically turning the Linux kernel into a unikernel.
Conference Papers
2019
Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance.
Ali Raza, Parul Sohal, James Cadden, Jonathan Appavoo, Ulrich Drepper, Richard Jones, Orran Krieger, Renato Mancuso, and Larry Woodman
Set to appear in Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS ’19), May 13–15, 2019, Bertinoro, Italy.
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2018
Using SGX-Based Virtual Clones for IoT Security
Rashid Tahir, Ali Raza, Fareed Zaffar, Faizan Ul Ghani, Mubeen Zulfiqar
2018 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Boston, MA, USA, Nov 2018
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A Secure Cloud with Minimal Provider Trust
Amin Mosayyebzadeh, Gerardo Ravago, Apoorve Mohan, Ali Raza, Sahil Tikale, Nabil Schear, Trammell Hudson, Jason Hennessey, Naved Ansari, Kyle Hogan, Charles Munson, Larry Rudolph, Gene Cooperman, Peter Desnoyers, Orran Krieger
10th {USENIX} Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 18), Boston, MA, USA, July 2018
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It’s all in the name: Why some urls are more vulnerable to typosquatting
Rashid Tahir, Ali Raza, Faizan Ahmad, Jehangir Kazi, Fareed Zaffar, Chris Kanich, Matthew Caesar
IEEE INFOCOM 2018-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2018
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2017
An Anomaly Detection Fabric for Clouds Based on Collaborative VM Communities
Rashid Tahir, Ali Raza, Mazhar Naqvi, Fareed Zaffar, Matthew Caesar
Proceedings of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 17), Madrid, Spain, May 2017
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