Jalal Ahmad
( 05 — EDUCATION_LOG )

Academic
Records

:: index: 01pkg: cmsc412

Operating Systems

//Design and implementation of Operating Systems, i.e. The Ground Truth.

:: index: 02pkg: cmsc414

Computer and Network Security

//Introduction to software security, network security, web security, cryptography, and several types of attacks and defenses

:: index: 03pkg: cmsc416

High Performance Computing

//Introduction to parallel computing, parallel architectures and networks, distributed memory programming (MPI), shared-memory programming (OpenMP) and GPU programming (CUDA).

:: index: 04pkg: cmsc417

Computer Networks

//Introduction to Internet architecture, HTTP, DNS, P2P, Sockets, TCP/IP, BGP, Routing protocols, wireless and sensor networking, WiFi, cellular and satellite networks, and security.

:: index: 05pkg: cmsc435

Software Engineering

//State-of-the-art techniques in software design and development. The development of a capstone software project.

:: index: 06pkg: cmsc498b

Distributed Systems & Cloud Computing

//Exploration of cloud and distributed systems, including IaaS (e.g., Open Stack, Kubernetes), key big data platforms (e.g., Apache Spark, Ceph), data center networking (e.g., DCTCP, Fat-Tree), and ML-Systems (e.g., vLLM, SGLang).

:: index: 07pkg: cmsc498k

Multimodal Deep Learning

//Introduction to fundamental concepts of key modalities and algorithms for multimodal representation learning, alignment, and fusion.

:: index: 08pkg: cmsc818q

Advanced Cloud & ML-Systems

//Graduate seminar on large-scale ML systems, covering distributed training, LLM serving, speculative decoding, RLHF, and modern ML infrastructure.

:: index: 09pkg: enai606

Large Language Models in Engineering AI

//Foundations and frontiers of Large Language Models (LLMs) and extensions like Vision-Language Models (VLMs), exploring the full LLM pipeline—from training to deployment.

:: index: 010pkg: enpm818n

Cloud Computing

//In-depth exploration of the fundamentals of cloud computing, its architecture, deployment models, and various services offered by major cloud providers with a focus on AWS training.

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Total_Credits120+
Major_GPA3.5
Current_StatusACTIVE
Host_InstUMD