Muneeb Ali

Muneeb Ali is a Pakistani-American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Blockstack, an open-source decentralized computing platform. He is known for the regulatory framework that resulted in the first SEC-qualified offering for a crypto asset[1][2] and for his doctoral dissertation which formed the basis of the Blockstack decentralized network.[3][4] He is a co-author of Protothread and Proof-of-Transfer (PoX) consensus.[5]

Muneeb Ali
NationalityUnited States, Pakistan
EducationPrinceton University (PhD)
Known forBlockstack, Protothread
Scientific career
FieldsDistributed Computing
ThesisTrust-to-Trust Design of a New Internet (2017)

Career

Ali studied Computer Science at LUMS[6] and received his PhD in Computer Science from Princeton University in 2017.[7] Ali co-founded Blockstack in 2013 with Ryan Shea and went through Y Combinator in 2014.[8]

His work mainly focused on sensor networks, blockchains, and cloud computing. He also holds a patent which is being used by Blockstack.[9]

In 2016, Ali spoke at a Ted-X conference about challenges of Web 2.0 and goals for Web 3.0 ecosystems.[10] He has also spoken at other conferences such as Token Summit, Digital Asset Summit and Blockstack Summit.[11][12][13]

Ali is a main character in George Gilder's book Life After Google,[14] was a technical advisor to the HBO Silicon Valley show, and appeared in the Prime Video Rizqi Presents: Blockchain show.[15]

In 2019, he convinced the SEC regulators to allow his company to start a token offering under Reg A+ exemption, becoming the first to do so.[1][2]

Selected Research Papers and Patents

According to Google Scholar Ali has written 18 research papers, which have been cited over 1600 times.[16]

Research papers
  • Protothreads: Simplifying Event-Driven Programming of Memory-Constrained Embedded Systems. Published in 2006.[17]
  • Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains. USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 181-194. Published in 2016.[18]
  • MMAC: A Mobility-Adaptive, Collision-Free MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. Published in 2005.[19]
  • Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks. ACM Sigcom Computer Communication Review 36 (2), 33-36. Published in 2006.[20]
  • An Energy-Efficient Node Address Naming Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, M Ali, ZA Uzmi, Proc. IEEE Int'l Networking and Communications Conference (INCC'04), 25-30[21]

Patents

Decentralized processing of global naming systems. Worldwide Application 2017.[9]

References
  1. "SEC Clears Blockstack to Hold First Regulated Token Offering". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. "Squawk Box on SEC's work to regulate crypto". CNBC Television.
  3. "Princeton-Trained Computer Scientists Are Building a New Internet That Brings Privacy and Property Rights to Cyberspace". Reason TV.
  4. "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". The Wall Street Journal.
  5. "Blockstack anchors to Bitcoin network with new mining algorithm". ZDNet.
  6. "LUMS Graduate, Muneeb Ali Featured at TEDX New York". LUMS News.
  7. "Researchers link realism to blockchain's promise". Princeton University News.
  8. "Top 100 Y Combinator Companies". Y Combinator Database (YCDB).
  9. "Decentralized processing of global naming systems". Google Patents. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  10. Radocchia, Samantha (December 18, 2019). "Reflections On The State Of Crypto Entrepreneurship In 2019". Forbes. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  11. Vigna, Paul (October 26, 2019). "Tech Giants Have Hijacked the Web. It's Time for a Reboot". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  12. "Blockstack Summit". Blockstack.com. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  13. "Blockchain Conferences Muneeb Ali". blockchainconferences.io. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  14. Gilder, George (2018). Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. pp. 159–177. ISBN 9781621575764.
  15. WIECZNER, JEN (June 8, 2018). "Meet the Blockchain Startup That Inspired HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Season 5". Fortune. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  16. "Google Scholar - Muneeb Ali". Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  17. Ali, Muneeb. "Protothreads: simplifying event-driven programming of memory-constrained embedded systems". ACM Digital Library. doi:10.1145/1182807.1182811. S2CID 983128. Retrieved October 29, 2020. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  18. Ali, Muneeb. "Blockstack: A Global Naming and Storage System Secured by Blockchains". usenix.com. Usenix. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  19. Ali, Muneeb (2005). "MMAC: a mobility-adaptive, collision-free MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks". PCCC 2005. 24th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, 2005. ieeexplore. pp. 401–407. doi:10.1109/PCCC.2005.1460597. ISBN 0-7803-8991-3. S2CID 7859339. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  20. Ali, Muneeb; Saif, Umar; Dunkels, Adam; Voigt, Thiemo; Römer, Kay; Langendoen, Koen; Polastre, Joseph; Uzmi, Zartash Afzal (2006). "Medium access control issues in sensor networks". ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. ACM Digital Library. 36 (2): 33–36. doi:10.1145/1129582.1129592. S2CID 109258. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  21. Ali, M.; Uzmi, Z. A. (2004-06-01). "An energy-efficient node address naming scheme for wireless sensor networks". 2004 International Networking and Communication Conference: 25–30. doi:10.1109/INCC.2004.1366571.


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