Ibrahim Matta
Ibrahim Matta
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Boston University
Bio
Abraham Matta received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1995. He is an associate professor at theComputer Science Department of Boston University. His research is in transport and routing protocols for the Internet and wireless networks; feedback-based control design and analysis; architectures for protocol design and large-scale traffic management; modeling and performance evaluation.
Dr. Matta published over 80 refereed technical papers, and his former PhD students hold academic and research positions in BBN Technologies, Motorola Labs, Cisco Systems, Texas State University, among others. His research has been funded by both government agencies and the industry such as NSF, Motorola, and Sprint Labs. He was a Visiting Scientist in the Mobile Networking Systems of BBN Technologies from January 2006 to December 2007, where he had contributed to the development of a transport protocol for a low-energy radio network (called JAVeLEN) and to aspects of media-access and routing adaptations.
Dr. Matta received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1997 for his quality-of-service routing work. He was the principal investigator of an NSF special project in networking on edge traffic management. His current projects include typed specification of network compositions, and defenses against reduction-of-quality attacks (funded by NSF).
He was guest co-editor of a special issue on Reliable Transport Protocols for Mobile Computing in the Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (February 2002), guest co-editor of a special issue on Quality of Service Routing in the IEEE Communications Magazine (June 2002), and guest co-editor of a special issue on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks in the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (September 2005). He served on the Editorial Board of the Elsevier Computer Networks Journal (COMNET) 2003-2007. He is on the Advisory Council of the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications. He was the Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE ICNP 2005, and the General Chair of WiOpt 2006.
Dr. Matta served on the technical program committees of many conferences, including INFOCOM, ICNP, MobiCom, MobiHoc, GLOBECOM, and ICDCS. He was co-organizer and Technical Program Co-chair of NeXtworking 2003, a COST-IST (EU) and NSF-ANIR (USA) funded workshop in Crete, Greece. He was co-organizer and Technical Program Chair of IEEE ASWN 2004, and was on the steering committee of ASWN 2004-06. He was Technical Program Co-chair of the First International Workshop on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2002), General Co-chair of WWIC 2004, and currently on the steering committee of WWIC. He was the Technical Program Co-chair of SenMetrics 2005, Internet Co-chair of IEEE Infocom 2005, Publication Chair of IEEE Infocom 2003, and Tutorial and Panel Chair of the 9th Hot Interconnects Symposium 2001. He served as session organizer and chair, reviewer, and panelist for NSF networking grant proposals, and was the representative of the IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) for GLOBECOM 1999.
Dr. Matta is a senior member of both the ACM and the IEEE.
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