Mohammad Alizadeh

Mohammad Alizadeh is a Principal Engineer at Cisco, which he joined through the acquisition of Insieme Networks in 2013. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2013, where he was advised by Balaji Prabhakar. Before that, he completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. He will join the faculty as an assistant professor in September 2015. His research interests are broadly in the areas of networked systems, datacenter networking, and cloud computing. His dissertation work focused on designing high performance packet transport mechanisms for datacenters. His research has garnered significant industry interest: the Data Center TCP (DCTCP) congestion control algorithm has been integrated into the Windows Server 2012 operating system; the QCN algorithm has been standardized as the IEEE 802.1Qau standard; and most recently, the CONGA adaptive load balancing mechanism has been implemented in Cisco’s new flagship Application Centric Infrastructure products. Mohammad is a recipient of a SIGCOMM best paper award, a Stanford Electrical Engineering Departmental Fellowship, the Caroline and Fabian Pease Stanford Graduate Fellowship, and the Numerical Technologies Inc. Prize and Fellowship.