Dr. Mostafa Ammar

Biography

Mostafa Ammar is a Regents' Professor in the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he previously served as Associate Chair from 2006 to 2012. He obtained his S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His research areas focus on networking, including network architectures, protocols, and services. Ammar has made significant contributions in multicast communication services, multimedia streaming, content distribution networks, network simulation, disruption-tolerant networks, mobile cloud computing, and network virtualization. Over the years, he has received funding for his research from federal and defense agencies, as well as from prominent industries such as NSF, DARPA, IBM, and Intel. He has successfully guided 35 PhD students to completion, many of whom have pursued distinguished careers in academia and industry. Ammar co-authored the textbook "Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks" published by Wiley-Interscience in 1994. He has held several influential roles within the networking research community, including Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 1999 to 2003. His accolades include the IBM Faculty Partnership Award and being elected as a Fellow of IEEE and ACM.

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