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Hi, I’m Abdelrahman.
CS PhD student

I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, specializing in Systems and Networking. My supervisor is Prof. Samer Al-Kiswany. I am part of the Waterloo Advanced Systems Lab (WASL) and the Systems and Networking Group. I have an extensive background in various areas of computer science, including Web development and Hardware Design verification.

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Publications

  • [NEW!] DROPS: Managing Resource Pools in a Large-Scale Commercial Serverless Platform

    To appear in European Conference on Computer Systems 2026 (EuroSys'26).

  • VectorCDC: Accelerating Data Deduplication with SSE/AVX Instructions

    Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Samer Al-Kiswany
    23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST'25).

  • SeqCDC: Hashless Content-Defined Chunking for Data Deduplication

    Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Samer Al-Kiswany
    Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'24). [pdf]

  • The Impact of Low-Entropy on Chunking Techniques for Data Deduplication

    Mu'men Al-Jarrah, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Samer Al-Kiswany
    IEEE 17th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD'24) [pdf]

  • DedupBench: A Benchmarking Tool for Data Chunking Techniques

    Alan Liu, Abdelrahman Baba, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Samer Al-Kiswany
    IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE'23) [pdf]

Patents

  • Systems and methods for sequence-based data chunking for deduplication

    Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Samer Al-Kiswany, Serg Bell and Stanislav Protasov
    US Patent and Trademark Office, December 2023 [Link]

  • Systems and methods for executing jump-based content-defined chunking

    Abdelrahman Baba, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Samer Al-Kiswany, Serg Bell and Stanislav Protasov
    US Patent and Trademark Office, September 2023 [Link]

  • Systems and methods of secure deduplication for encrypted content

    Samer Al-Kiswany, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Abdelrahman Baba, Serg Bell and Stanislav Protasov
    US Patent and Trademark Office, June 2023 [Link]

Awards

  • Acronis Best Patent Award for 2023.
  • UWaterloo Graduate Student Research Dissemination Award 2023.
  • UWaterloo International Doctoral Student Award (IDSA).

Education

Jan 2023 - Present
University of Waterloo
PhD in Computer Science Specializing in Systems and Networking. Supervised by Prof. Samer Al-Kiswany.
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
An-Najah National University
Bachelor of Computer Engineering (2018 - 2022) Graduated with first class honours and distinction, Dean's List throughout GPA: 3.84/4.00