Ali Jannesari is a research scientist at University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on program analysis, parallelism and software engineering. He is particularly interested in multicore/manycore systems and utilizing parallel computation for different software domains and applications. He is actively working on software engineering for parallel systems including automated testing and debugging, parallelism discovery and parallelization methods, auto-tuning, and parallel programming models. Ali has a PhD in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Contact him at jannesari@eecs.berkeley.edu.