Mostafa H. Ammar
Regents' Professor
Networking
and Telecommunications Group
School of Computer Science
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of
Technology
Atlanta,
Georgia, 30332-0280
ammar AT cc.gatech.edu
What's New and Hot?
"New occasions teach new duties; time
makes ancient good uncouth;
They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth."
--- James Lowell
Biography
"The ablest man I ever met is the man
you think you are." --- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Full CV
Mostafa Ammar is a Regents' Professor with the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has been with Georgia Tech since 1985 and has served as Associate Chair of the School of Computer Science since 2006. Dr. Ammar received the S.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and 1980, respectively and the Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1985. For the years 1980-82 he worked at Bell-Northern Research (BNR) in Ottawa, Canada, first as a Member of Technical Staff and then as Manager of Data Network Planning.
Dr. Ammar's research interests are in network architectures, protocols and services. He has contributions in the areas of multicast communication and services, multimedia streaming, content distribution networks, network simulation and, most recently, in disruption-tolerant networks and overlay network design. He has published extensively in these areas. Over the years he has received funding for his research from federal and defense agencies and national and local industries including NSF, DARPA, AFOSR, ARL, CISCO, IBM, Intel, BellSouth and Sprint. To date, 29 PhD students have completed their degrees under his supervision; many have gone on to distinguished careers in academia and industry. He is the co-author of the textbook "Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks" published by Wiley-Interscience in 1994.
Dr. Ammar has served the networking research community in multiple roles. Most notably, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) from 1999 to 2003, and he was the co-TPC Chair for the IEEE ICNP 1997, ACM CoNEXT 2006 and ACM SIGMETRICS 2007 conferences. He currently serves on the steering committees of ToN and CoNEXT. His awards include the IBM Faculty Partnership Award (1996), Best Paper Award at the 7th WWW conference (1998), the GT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (2006) and the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (2010).
Dr. Ammar was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 and Fellow of the ACM in 2003.
Current Research and Publications
"Oh the thinks you can think up if only
you try." --- Dr. Seuss
Current Research Projects (under construction)
Some Older Projects
SØREN
Project (Server Selection in Emerging Network Environments)
COMPASS: COMposable and PArallel Simulation of internetworkS
Software and Systems Available
I acknowledge the following (Past and Present) sources of research support:
The National Science Foundation, AFOSR, DARPA, Sprint, BellSouth, Intel, IBM,
The Georgia Research Alliance, Bellcore, and Synchrologic.
Presentations and Tutorials
Patents
" Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all
wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or
beauty or form, we are borrowers. " -- Wendell Phillips
- M. Ammar, X. Li, P. Pancha, S. Paul,
transmitting layered video multicast data with retransmission (LVMR)",
U.S. Patent 6,215,766, Filed: January 1998, Awarded: April 2001.
- S. Mahajan, M. J. Donahoo, S. Navathe, M. Ammar, F. McGeough, S. Malik,
"Database synchronization and organization system and method ,"
U.S. Patent 6,226,650, Filed: September 1998, Awarded: May 2001.
Courses
"To teach is to learn twice." --
Asian aphorism
Current Graduate Students:
"Education is an admirable thing, but
it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing
can be taught." --- Oscar Wilde
Former Ph.D. Students:
"Disciples do owe their masters only a
temporary belief, a suspension of judgement till they be fully instructed,
and not an absolute resignation nor perpetual captivity." --- Francis
Bacon
-
Kevin
Almeroth (1997), Professor and Associate Dean, Department
of Computer Science, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
- Jose Bernabeau-Auban (1988), Associate Professor, Polytechnic University
of Valencia, Dept. of
Information Systems and Computing , Valencia, Spain.
-
Shun Yan Cheung (1990), Associate Professor, Dept. of Math. and Computer
Science, Emory University,
Atlanta, GA.
-
Russell
Clark (1995),
Research Scientist, College of Computing, Georgia Tech.
-
Lenitra
Clay (2002), Research Scientist, Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon.
-
Jeff Donahoo
(1998),
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering
and Computer Science
, Baylor University
, Waco, Texas.
Note: Jeff was officially advised by Ellen Zegura.
- Jinliang Fan (2006), Micorsoft. Seattle, WA.
-
Zongming
Fei(2000), Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY.
- Meng Guo
(2005)
Google, Mountain View, CA.
- Minaxi Gupta (2004), Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
- Qi He (2005),
Yahoo.
-
Tianji
Jiang(2000), Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
-
Paul Judge (2002), Chief Technology Officer, CipherTrust, Atlanta, GA.
- Hyewon Jun (2007), Google, New York.
- Pradnya Karbhari
(2005)
Google, Mountain View, CA.
- Taehyun Kim (2005),
Senior Engineer, Freescale Semiconductor , Austin, TX.
-
Bobby Krupczak (1997), Chief Scientist,
Empire
Technologies, Inc.
- Chung-Ki Lee (1994), Professor, Department of Computer Software, Myongji
University, Yongin, Korea.
- Xue Li
(1998), Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories , Lucent
Technologies, Holmdel, N.J.
- George Riley
(2001), Asscoiate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Enginering,
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA.
-
George
Rouskas(1994), Professor, Dept.
of Computer Science , North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
- Srini Seetharaman ,
Research Scientist, Deutsche Telekom Lab, San Francisco, CA.
-
David Stevens(1992), (Last known position -- would appreciate an update!) Group Manager, Booz, Allen
and Hamilton , Atlanta, GA.
-
Rajesh
Talpade (1997), Director, Network Security Research Group, Telcordia.
- Mukarram Bin-Tariq, (2010). Google, Mountain view, CA
- Donghua Xu (2005), Ask.com, Piscataway, NJ.
- Wenrui Zhao (2006), Research Scientist, Facebook, CA.
- Li Zou
(2003), Google, Mountain View, CA.
- Yong Zhu , (2006), Google, Kirkland, WA.
TRIVIA: My Former Ph.D. students are part
of the Kleinrock family
tree. For (an outdated) text version of the tree click
here
.
Contact information:
College of Computing, 801 Atlantic Drive
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280
Telephone: +1 404 894 3292
Email: "Last Name" AT cc dot gatech dot edu