Mostafa Ammar#
| Membership Number: | 5272 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Mostafa.Ammar |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2803-300X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019, 08 - 2020, 08 Interim Chair, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 1985 - present Regents' Professor, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2015, 02 - 2015, 05 Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6
- 2006 - 2012), Associate Chair, School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 1999, 01 - 1999, 12 Visiting Senior Member of Technical Staff, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc., Advanced Data Networking Group, Atlanta, GA
- 1998, 05 - 1998, 07 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- 1980 - 1982 Member of Scientific Staff and Manager Data Network Planning, Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer network architectures and protocols
- Mobile cloud computing
- Overlay networks
- Network virtualization
- Video streaming
- Mobile wireless networks
- Disruption tolerant networks
Honours and Awards
- November 2018 Alumni Achievement Medal for Academic Excellence – University of Waterloo, Faculty of Engineering
- Best Paper Award, 2018 IFIP/IEEE Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA) Conference. For paper entitled: “eMIMIC: Estimating HTTP-based Video QoE Metrics from Encrypted Network Traffic.” Coauthored with Mangla, Halepovic, and Zegura
- April 2018 College of Computing Dean’s Award, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- April 2015 College of Computing Faculty Mentor Award, College of Computing, Georgia Tech
- Class of 1940 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award, Georgia Tech, for 5 consecutive years (AYs 2012/13, 2013,14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17)
- 2012 Best Paper Award, ACM Mobihoc Conference. For paper entitled “Serendipity: Enabling Remote Computing among Intermittently Connected Mobile Devices,” co-authored with Shi, Lafakosis and Zegura
- 2010 Outstanding Service Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications, “For Outstanding service to the computer communications community over a long period of time.”
- 2007 ACM Recognition of Service Award (2007) for Service as Program Co-Chair of ACM Sigmetrics
- Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor Award (2006), Georgia Tech Institute Award
- Appointed ”Regents’ Professor” - one of only two such appointments made in 2003 at Georgia Tech
- 2003 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2002 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Best Paper Award at the Conference on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS), 2002, for paper entitled “Updateable Network Simulations”. (co-recipient, Ferenci, Riley, Fujimoto, Perumalla)
- Best Paper Award at the 7th WWW Conference, Brisbane Australia, April 1998 for paper entitled “Interactive Multimedia Jukebox.” (co-recipient with Kevin Almeroth)
- IBM Faculty Partnership Award, May 1996. ($40,000 Award)
- Edenfield Faculty Fellowship Award, College of Computing, June 1996. For project entitled: ”Providing Entertainment Content with an Interactive Multimedia Jukebox”, (co-authored with Ann Chervenak)
- 1993 Outstanding Faculty Research Award, College of Computing
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada’s Postgraduate Scholarship, Sept. 1982 - Aug. 1985. $10,000 per year
- Bell-Northern Research’s Postgraduate Award, Sept. 1982 - Aug. 1985. $10,000 per year
- Second Place Paper Award in the Operations Research Society of America’s Nicholson Student Paper Competition for paper entitled “Equivalence Relations in Queueing Models of Manufacturing Networks,” May 1981. $200 ($10,000 Award)
