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--- James Lowell
Biography
"The ablest man I ever met is the man
you think you are." --- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mostafa Ammar received the S.B. and S.M. degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1978 and 1980, respectively and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Waterloo,
Ontario, Canada in 1985. For the years 1980-82 he worked at Bell-Northern
Research (BNR), first as a Member of Technical Staff and then as Manager
of Data Network Planning.
Dr. Ammar's research interests are in the areas
of computer network architectures and protocols, distributed computing
systems, and performance evaluation.
He is the co-author of the textbook "Fundamentals
of Telecommunication Networks," published by John Wiley and Sons.
He is also the co-guest editor of April 1997 issue of the IEEE Journal
on Selected Areas in Communications on ``Network
Support for Multipoint Communication." He also was the Technical
Program Co-Chair for the 1997
IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols,
2002 Networked Group Communication
Workshop, 2006 Co-Next Conference, and 2007 ACM SIGMETRICSConference.
Dr. Ammar is the holder of a 1990-1991 Lilly Teaching
Fellowship and received the 1993 Outstanding Faculty Research Award from
the College of Computing. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Networking (1999-2003) and served on the editorial board
of Computer
Networks (1992-1999).
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and
a Fellow of the ACM.
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 , 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.
- Donghua Xu (2005), Ask.com, Piscataway, NJ.
- Wenrui Zhao (2006), Google, Mountain View, CA.
- Li Zou
(2003), Google, Mountain View, CA.
- Yong Zhu , (2006), Amazon, Seatle, 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
MASS 2007 -- Pisa, Italy, Keynote talk:
Message Ferrying and Other Short Stories