Asad Samar
 
Strategist
120 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BB 
London, United Kingdom
 
Email:   asad.samar@gs.com
Phone: +44-207-051-8228

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 2006
M.S.  Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
B.E.  National University of Science & Technology, 1999.
 
Past Positions
 
Graduate Research Assistant.     Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. 2001-2006
Summer Intern.                          Network Security & Cryptography Group, IBM Research Labs, Switzerland. Summer 2003
Research Consultant.                 Department of High Energy Physics, California Institute of Technology, USA. 1999-2001.
Summer Intern.                          European Center for Nuclear Research, Swizterland. Summer 1999.
 
Publications
 
PhD Dissertation: (.pdf, .ps)
 
Self-optimizing distributed trees. Michael K. Reiter, Asad Samar and Chenxi Wang.
22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, April 2008.

Quiver: Consistent object sharing for edge services. Michael K. Reiter and Asad Samar.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, October 2007.

A Self-Service Approach to Scalable Service Deployment. Michael K. Reiter and Asad Samar.
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-06-101, January 2006.

Self-Adjusting Distributed Trees. Michael K. Reiter, Asad Samar and Chenxi Wang.
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science Technical Report CMU-CS-05-171, September 2005.

Distributed Construction of a Fault-Tolerant Network from a Tree. Michael K. Reiter, Asad Samar and Chenxi Wang.
24th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2005.

Secure Distributed DNS. Christian Cachin and Asad Samar.
International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2004.

Design and Implementation of a JCA-Compliant Capture Protection Infrastructure. Michael K. Reiter, Asad Samar and Chenxi Wang.
22nd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS) 2003.
 
In-Car Cell Phone Use: Mitigating Risk by Signaling Remote Callers. Punitha Manalavan, Asad Samar, Mike Schneider, Sara Kiesler and Dan Siewiorek
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2002.

Grid Data Mirroring Package (GDMP). Heinz Stockinger, Asad Samar, Shahzad Mufzaffar, and Flavia Donno.
Scientific Programming Journal - Special Issue: Grid Computing, 2002.

File and Object Replication in Data Grids. Heinz Stockinger, Asad Samar, Bill Allcock, Ian Foster, Koen Holtman, and Brian Tierney.
Journal of Cluster Computing, 2002.
140+ citations (Source: Google Scholar)

File and Object Replication in Data Grids. Bill Allcock, Ian Foster, Koen Holtman , Asad Samar, Heinz Stockinger and Brian Tierney.
10 th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2001.

Models for Replica Synchronization and Consistency in a Data Grid. Dirk Dullmann, Wolfgang Hoschek, Javier Jean-Martinez, Asad Samar, Heinz Stockinger and Kurt Stockinger.
10th IEEE Symposium on High Performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC) 2001.
40+ citations (Source: Google Scholar)

Grid Data Management Pilot (GDMP): A Tool for Wide Area Replication. Asad Samar and Heinz Stockinger.
Applied Informatics (AI) 2001.
40+ citations (Source: Google Scholar)

Data Management in an International Data Grid Project. Wolfgang Hoschek, Javier Jaen-Martinez, Asad Samar, Heinz Stockinger and Kurt Stockinger.
1st IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, Grid 2000.
230+ citations (Source: Google Scholar)

A Data Grid Prototype for Distributed Data Production in CMS. Mehnaz Hafeez, Asad Samar and Heinz Stockinger.
VII International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT) 2000.
 
Personal

I have a beautiful wife and a very naughty son.
Some pictures from our wedding.
I used to be a member of the CERN cricket club, here are some pictures of the prettiest cricket grounds I have ever played in.
My brothers Raza and Sikandar also have web presence.