Visiting professor in the Efficient Computing and Storage Group
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Anselm-Franz-von-Bentzel-Weg 12
55128 Mainz, Germany
Phone: +49 6131 3937698
Fax: +49 6131 3926407
Email: hasadi@uni-mainz.de
About
Dr. Hossein Asadi is a visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of JGU since July 2021. He received the BSc and MSc degrees in computer engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the PhD degree in computer engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, in 2007. Prior visiting JGU, he has been a full professor in Department of Computer engineering at SUT. He has been the director of Sharif High-Performance Computing Center from 2015 to 2021. In the past few years, he received several prestigious awards from SUT including "Distinguished Researcher Award" in 2016, "Distinguished Research Institute Award" in 2016, "Distinguished Technology Award" in 2017, and "Distinguished Research Lab Award" in 2019. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Asadi worked at EMC Corporation, headquartered in Hopkinton, MA, as a research scientist and senior hardware engineer. He was also a recipient of the Technical Award for the Best Robot Design from the International RoboCup Rescue Competition, organized by AAAI and RoboCup in 2001, a recipient of Best Paper Award at the 15th CSI International Symposium on Computer Architecture and Digital Systems (CADS) in 2010, and a recipient of Best Paper Award at IEEE/ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) in 2019. His current research interests include data storage systems, solid-state drives, emerging non-volatile memories, operating systems, virtualization, cloud computing, and high-performance computing.