Ahmed Alquraan

PhD in Computer Science
University of Waterloo

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the Computer Science school at the University of Waterloo. I work with Prof. Samer Al-Kiswany and Prof. Martin Karsten. I am part of the Systems and Networking Group and the Waterloo Advanced Systems Lab. My research interests are in distributed systems with a specialization in consensus protocols and fault tolerance.

ِAwards

Fields Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship 2025 - 2026
IBM PhD Fellowship Recipient 2021 - 2023
Facebook Fellowship Finalist 2021
Huawei Prize for Best Research Paper 2019
David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship - UWaterloo 2019 - 2021
University of Jordan Award for Academic Excellence 2010 - 2015

Publications

[ 1 ] LoLKV: The Logless Linearizable Key-Value Storage System

Ahmed Alquraan, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Virendra Marathe, Bernard Wong, Samer Al-Kiswany

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), 2024 [pdf]

[ 2 ] A Study of Orchestration Approaches for Scientific Workflows in Serverless Computing

Abdallah Elshamy, Ahmed Alquraan, Samer Al-Kiswany

The 1st Workshop on Serverless Systems, Applications and Methodologies (SESAME), 2023 [pdf]

[ 3 ] Partial Network Partitioning

Basil AlKhatib, Sreeharsha Udayashankar, Sara Qunaibi, Ahmed Alquraan, Mohammed Alfatafta, Wael Al-Manasrah, Alex Depoutovitch, Samer Al-Kiswany

ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS), 2022 [pdf]

[ 4 ] Accelerating Reads with In-Network Consistency-Aware Load Balancing

Ibrahim Kettaneh, Ahmed Alquraan, Hatem Takruri, Ali José Mashtizadeh, Samer Al-Kiswany

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2021 [pdf]

[ 5 ] Toward a Generic Fault Tolerance Technique for Partial Network Partitioning

Mohammed Alfatafta, Basil Alkhatib, Ahmed Alquraan, Samer Al-Kiswany

USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2020 [pdf]

[ 6 ] Scalable, Near-Zero Loss Disaster Recovery for Distributed Data Stores

Ahmed Alquraan, Alex Kogan, Virendra Marathe, Samer Al-Kiswany

Proc. VLDB Endowment. Sept. 2020 [pdf][slides]

[ 7 ] FLAIR: Accelerating Reads with Consistency-Aware Network Routing

Hatem Takruri, Ibrahim Kettaneh, Ahmed Alquraan, Samer Al-Kiswany

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Feb. 2020 (acceptance rate: 18%) [pdf]

[ 8 ] Accelerating Reads with In-Network Consistency-Aware Load Balancing

Hatem Takruri, Ibrahim Kettaneh, Ahmed Alquraan, Samer Al-Kiswany

Technical Report, Waterloo Advanced Systems Lab. Jan. 2020 [pdf]

[ 9 ] The Network-Integrated Storage System

Ibrahim Kettaneh, Ahmed Alquraan, Hatem Takruri, Suli Yang, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Samer Al-Kiswany

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). 2019. [pdf]

[ 10 ] An Analysis of Network-Partitioning Failures in Cloud Systems

Ahmed Alquraan, Hatem Takruri, Mohammed Alfatafta, Samer Al-Kiswany

USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), October 2018. (18% acceptance rate) [pdf][slides] (Best UWaterloo CS paper award for 2018)



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