Biography:Mostafa Ammar
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) |
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]
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]
Selected publications
- Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks (with Tarek N. Saadawi and Ahmed El Hakeem, 1994)[7]
- A Message Ferrying Approach for Data Delivery in Sparse Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2004)[5]
- Prefix-preserving IP address anonymization (2004)[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Mostafa Ammar". https://www.cc.gatech.edu/people/mostafa-ammar.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Regents’ Professor Steps Up for Second Stint as Interim School Chair". 12 July 2024. https://www.cc.gatech.edu/news/regents-professor-steps-second-stint-interim-school-chair.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mostafa Ammar". https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/ammar_2417426.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "IEEE Fellows 2000–2009". https://www.comsoc.org/engagement-community/ieee-fellows/2000-2009.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "A Message Ferrying Approach for Data Delivery in Sparse Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". MobiHoc '04. 2004. pp. 187–198. https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2004/presentations/p187-zhao.pdf. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Prefix-preserving IP address anonymization". Computer Networks. 2004. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389128604001197. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Fundamentals of telecommunication networks". https://search.worldcat.org/title/29877317.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Mostafa Ammar". https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Ammar_Mostafa.
- ↑ "ACM MobiHoc 2012". https://www.sigmobile.org/mobihoc/2012/.
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