Ali Mashtizadeh

Dr. Mashtizadeh completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in the Secure Computer Systems lab. His advisor was Prof. David Mazieres, and he worked closely with Prof. Dan Boneh and Prof. Mendel Rosenblum.

Before starting his Ph.D. at Stanford, he worked for VMware, Inc. as the technical lead for the Storage vMotion and vMotion products. He  designed and built the memory compression cache used by ESX.

Dr. Mashtizadeh completed my M.Eng. and B.S. in electrical engineering at MIT.  His research interests are in building reliable and easier to manage systems. Often his work spans many layers of the software stack from architecture to the application.