Muneeb Ali
| Muneeb Ali | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States, Pakistan |
| 🏫 Education | Princeton University (PhD) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Blockstack, Protothread |
Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur.
Muneeb is a co-founder of Blockstack, an open-source decentralized computing platform. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset[1][2] and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Blockstack decentralized network.[3][4] He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer (PoX) consensus.[5]
Career[edit]
Ali studied Computer Science at LUMS[6] and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017.[7] Ali co-founded Blockstack in 2013 with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.[8]
His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing. Ali’s research papers have had hundreds of citations.[9] He also holds a patent which is being used by Blockstack.[10]
In 2016, Ali spoke at a Ted-X conference about challenges of Web 2.0 and goals for Web 3.0 ecosystems.[11] He has also spoken at other conferences such as Token Summit, Digital Asset Summit and Blockstack Summit.[12][13][14]
Ali is a main character in George Gilder's book Life After Google,[15] was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.[16]
Selected Research Papers and Patents[edit]
Research papers:[edit]
- Protothreads: Simplifying Event-Driven Programming of Memory-Constrained Embedded Systems. Published in 2006.[17]
- Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 181-194. Published in 2016.[18]
- MMAC: A Mobility-Adaptive, Collision-Free MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Published in 2005.[19]
- Research paper: Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks. ACM Sigcom Computer Communication Review 36 (2), 33-36. Published in 2006.[20]
Patents:[edit]
Decentralized processing of global naming systems. Worldwide Application 2017.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.
- ↑ "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV.
- ↑ "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". The Wall Street Journal.
- ↑ "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". ZDNet.
- ↑ "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". LUMS News.
- ↑ "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". Princeton University News.
- ↑ "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". Y Combinator Database (YCDB).
- ↑ "Google Scholar - Muneeb Ali". Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Decentralized processing of global naming systems". Google Patents. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ Radocchia, Samantha (December 18, 2019). "Reflections On The State Of Crypto Entrepreneurship In 2019". Forbes. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ Vigna, Paul (October 26, 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ "Blockstack Summit". Blockstack.com. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ "Blockchain Conferences Muneeb Ali". blockchainconferences.io. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ Gilder, George (2018). Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. pp. 159–177. ISBN 9781621575764. Search this book on
- ↑ WIECZNER, JEN (June 8, 2018). "Meet the Blockchain Startup That Inspired HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Season 5". Fortune. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ Ali, Muneeb. "Protothreads: simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedded systems". ACM Digital Library. doi:10.1145/1182807.1182811. Retrieved October 29, 2020. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Ali, Muneeb. "Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains". usenix.com. Usenix. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ↑ Ali, Muneeb (2005). "MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks". PCCC 2005. 24th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2005. ieeexplore. pp. 401–407. doi:10.1109/PCCC.2005.1460597. ISBN 0-7803-8991-3. Retrieved October 28, 2020. Unknown parameter
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- ↑ Ali, Muneeb; Saif, Umar; Dunkels, Adam; Voigt, Thiemo; Römer, Kay; Langendoen, Koen; Polastre, Joseph; Uzmi, Zartash Afzal (2006). "Medium access control issues in sensor networks". ACM Sigcomm Computer Communication Review. ACM Digital Library. 36 (2): 33–36. doi:10.1145/1129582.1129592. Retrieved October 28, 2020. Unknown parameter
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