Ali Akoglu

Ali Akoglu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, where he also belongs to the Graduate Faculty. He serves as the site director for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Cooperative Research Center on Cloud and Autonomic Computing, focusing on self-managing cloud systems across multiple layers.

His research spans high-performance, domain-specific, and non-traditional computing architectures, with key interests in resource management from distributed systems to System-on-Chip scale, parallel computing to bridge domain scientists and emerging hardware, and reconfigurable architectures for neuromorphic computing. He actively promotes interdisciplinary collaboration to align programming environments with advanced parallel hardware.

His research has been funded by prestigious organizations including the National Science Foundation, iPlant Collaborative, U.S. Air Force, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Office of Naval Research, and the Army Battle Command Battle Laboratory. He advises graduate students and leads research initiatives in adaptive and reconfigurable computing systems.

Ali Akoglu earned his PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2005 and completed his BS in Computer Engineering at Purdue University in 1998.

He teaches courses in computer architecture, high-performance computing, and reconfigurable computing, contributing significantly to engineering education and research innovation at the University of Arizona.