Ayaz Ali received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 2008. He earned his MS from the same university in 2006. He finished his BS in Computer Systems Engineering from GIK Institute in 2000 and worked for TPS as Systems Consultant till 2003. Since 2004, he has been affiliated with the Texas Learning & Computation Center as a Research Assistant. He has also held internship positions with Hewlett Packard and Intel Corporation during the summer of 2006 and 2007, respectively. Broadly, his research interests lie in the area of high performance and parallel computing. One of the main goals of his current research is to develop new techniques for portable, adaptive high performance libraries and code generators for multi-core/many-core and hybrid architectures.