Mostafa Ammar
Computer scientist and academic
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Mostafa Ammar is a computer scientist and academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is a Regents' Professor in the School of Computer Science and has served as interim chair of the school.[1][2] He is known for contributions to the design of scalable network services and scalable multimedia services and their network support, for which he was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2003 and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2002.[3][4]
IEEE Fellow (2002)
Academia Europaea member (2020)
University of Waterloo (PhD 1985)
Mostafa Ammar | |
|---|---|
| Known for | Scalable network and multimedia services |
| Title | Regents' Professor |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (2003) IEEE Fellow (2002) Academia Europaea member (2020) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SB 1978, SM 1980) University of Waterloo (PhD 1985) |
Education and career
Ammar received S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo.[1] At Georgia Tech, he served as associate chair of the School of Computer Science from 2006 to 2012 and as interim chair from 2019 to 2020; in 2024 he was appointed interim chair for a second time.[2][1] He also served as editor-in-chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking from 1999 to 2003.[1]
Research
Ammar's research has focused on network architectures, protocols, and services, including multicast communication, multimedia streaming, content distribution networks, network simulation, disruption-tolerant networking, mobile cloud computing, and network virtualization.[1] His published work includes studies on message ferrying in sparse mobile ad hoc networks and on prefix-preserving IP address anonymization.[5][6] He also co-authored the textbook Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks.[7]
Honors and recognition
Ammar was elected an ACM Fellow in 2003, for contributions to the design of systems and protocols for scalable network service".[3] He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 2002 for contributions to the design of scalable multimedia services and their network support.[4] He is also a member of Academia Europaea.[8] In 2012, a paper co-authored by Ammar won the best paper award at ACM MobiHoc.[9] In 2018, he received the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering's Alumni Achievement Medal for Academic Excellence.[8]