ALI J. BEN ALI, PH.D.
Lecturer | Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science
The State University of New York at Binghamton
Engineering Building Q06
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I'm a systems researcher focusing on mobile systems running on resource-constrained devices. I'm also interested in edge computing, robotics, autonomous, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. My Ph.D. studies were on enabling efficient, consistent long-term operation of Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (Visual-SLAM) on robots and autonomous systems through a split mobile-edge architecture.
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- Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo), 2021.
- M.S. Computer Science, City College of New York (CUNY City College), 2013.
- B.S. Computer Science, Minor in English Language and Literature, Kuwait University, 2005.
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Binghamton University
- Spring 2024
- CS 120: Programming and Hardware Fundamentals
- CS 428: Computer Networks
- Fall 2023
- CS 120: Programming and Hardware Fundamentals
- CS 428/528: Computer Networks
- Summer 2023
- CS 428/528: Computer Networks
ali@newyork:~$ selected publications_
- Ali J. Ben Ali, Marziye Kouroshli, Sofiya Semenova, Zakieh Sadat Hashemifar, Steven Y. Ko, and Karthik Dantu. 2022. Edge-SLAM: Edge-Assisted Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. ACM Trans. Embed. Comput. Syst. 22, 1, Article 18 (January 2023), 31 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3561972
- T. Chase, A. J. Ben Ali, S. Y. Ko and K. Dantu, "PRE-SLAM: Persistence Reasoning in Edge-assisted Visual SLAM," 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Denver, CO, USA, 2022, pp. 458-466, doi: 10.1109/MASS56207.2022.00071.