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Our Team

Dr. Othmane Bouhali
Research Associate Professor & 
Director of Research Comput​ing

Dr. Bouhali received a PhD in Science from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1999. Since 1994, he has participated in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment program at the Large Hadron Collider Project (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN). He was also a member of the fixed target experiment HERMES at the Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron (DESY) and a member of the AMANDA/ICECUBE neutrino telescopes at the South Pole. He has served on many national and international committees. He is a member of the Belgian Grid Computing initiative and supervised the national grid deployment in Morocco. His main areas of interest are:​

  • Particle and radiation detectors (medical and non-medical applications)
  • High performance and scientific computing
  • High energy physics

Faisal Chaudhry
Senior Lead Systems Engineer

Faisal Chaudhry provides support for High Performance Computing (HPC) needs within Research Computing.  He joined TAMUQ in January, 2008.  All operational aspects of keeping the HPC systems running optimally are within his purview (including hardware and software maintenance).   He also provides general consulting on the use of HPC resources and assists users in porting their workloads to the cluster, as well as debugging user applications on the system.  He also delivers training short courses on the Linux operating system as well as the computing environment and workload managers employed on the HPC systems.

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Ali Sheharyar
Senior Lead Software Applications Developer

Ali Sheharyar provides support for scientific visualization and advanced programming needs of faculty and researchers. He joined TAMUQ in March 2007. He has more than 20 years of software development experience. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Münster in 2020. He is a NVIDIA DLI (Deep Learning Institute) certified instructor to teach courses on accelerated computing using GPUs. He is also an NVIDIA DLI University Ambassador at Texas A&M University at Qatar.