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Ahmed Saeed is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science and a fellow of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) at Georgia Tech. His research interests span the theory, design, and implementation of scalable computer networks and computer systems, including resource scheduling, congestion control, operating systems, and formal methods.
Saeed teaching classes on computer networks and systems including Computer Networking I (CS3251) and Datacenter Networks and Systems (CS8803 - DNS).
Vaibhav Bhosale, Ying Zhang, Sameer Kapoor, Robin Kim, Miguel Schlicht, Muskaan Gupta, Ekaterina Tumanova, Zachary S. Bischof, Fabián E. Bustamante, Alberto Dainotti, and Ahmed Saeed. 2025. Assessing LEO Satellite Networks for National Emergency Failover. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 274–293. https://doi.org/10.1145/3730567.3764482
B. Pardeshi, E. Stuhr and A. Saeed, "CoreSync: A Protocol for Joint Core Scheduling and Overload Control of µs-Scale Tasks," 2025 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 2025, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1109/ICNP65844.2025.11192365.
Bhosale, Vaibhav and Zhang, Ying and Kapoor, Sameer and Kim, Robin and Schlicht, Miguel and Gupta, Muskaan and Tumanova, Ekaterina and Bischof, Zachary and Bustamante, Fabian and Dainotti, Alberto and Saeed, Ahmed, Are Leo Networks the Future of National Emergency Failover? – A Quantitative Study and Policy Blueprint (July 3, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5337566 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5337566
J. Hussien, P. Sahu, E. Stuhr and A. Saeed, "Modeling the Interactions between Core Allocation and Overload Control in μs-Scale Network Stacks," 2025 33rd International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Paris, France, 2025, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/MASCOTS67699.2025.11283398.
Cho, I., Park, S.J., Saeed, A., Alizadeh, M. and Belay, A., 2024. {LDB}: An Efficient Latency Profiling Tool for Multithreaded Applications. In 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 24) (pp. 1497-1510).
Bhosale, V., Saeed, A., Bhardwaj, K., Gavrilovska, A. (2023). A Characterization of Route Variability in LEO Satellite Networks. In: Brunstrom, A., Flores, M., Fiore, M. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13882. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28486-1_14
Cho, I., Saeed, A., Park, S.J., Alizadeh, M. and Belay, A., 2023. Protego: Overload control for applications with unpredictable lock contention. In 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 23) (pp. 725-738).
Venkat Arun, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Ahmed Saeed, Mohammad Alizadeh, and Hari Balakrishnan. 2021. Toward formally verifying congestion control behavior. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (SIGCOMM '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472912
Arjun Balasingam, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Radhika Mittal, Venkat Arun, Ahmed Saeed, Mohammad Alizadeh, Hamsa Balakrishnan, and Hari Balakrishnan. 2021. Throughput-fairness tradeoffs in mobility platforms. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 363–375. https://doi.org/10.1145/3458864.3467881