Ali Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UiT, Karachi. His current broader research interests are in computer architecture, IoT, and Information Security. He is especially interested in micro-architecture, with a major current focus on memory and storage systems. He has 10+ year experience in complete Product development Cycle of CoTs (hardware and software). Involved in product development from scratch, hardware designing, middle ware and application level development. Well versed in hardware platforms like FPGA s and Microcontrollers. He obtained his PhD and MS in ECE from the Hanyang University, South Korea where he designed and Implemented memory architecture of SRAM-based Ternary Content Addressable Memory using Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7797247/) He obtained BE degrees in Electronics Engineering from the NED university of Engineering and Technology, Karachi. His industrial experience spans starting the Product development division at Horizon Tech, Islamabad (2008-2012).