Researchers

Ahmed Helmy received Ph.D. in Computer Science ’99 from the University of Southern California (USC), M.S. in Electrical Engineering (EE) ’95 from USC, M.S. Eng. Math ’94 & B.S. in EE ’92 from Cairo University. He was a key researcher in the NS- 2 and PIM projects at USC/ISI from ’95-99. Starting ’99 has been on the EE Dept faculty at USC and the director of the wireless networking Lab. Since Fall ’06, he became an associate professor and the director of the mobile networking laboratory in the CISE Dept at the University of Florida. He received the NSF CAREER Award in ’02, in ’00 Zumberge Research Award, and the best paper award at IEEE/IFIP MMNS ’02. In ’04 & ’05, he got the best merit ranking in the EE-USC faculty. In ’08 & ’07, he was a finalist and winner in the ACM MobiCom SRC. In ’10, he was a winner in the ACM MobiCom WiNTech demo competition. He is an area editor of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal Elsevier and IEEE Computer, and the workshop coordination chair for ACM SIGMOBILE. His research interests include design, analysis & measurement of wireless adhoc, sensor & mobile social networks, mobility modeling, multicast protocols, IP mobility & network simulation. [http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~helmy]

Gautam Thakur received Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (CISE) Dec' 2012 from University of Florida, Gainesville. He was advised by Prof. Ahmed Helmy and co-advised by Prof. Pan Hui. His work allows for research in realistic and data-driven activity modeling of entities in large-scale networks. He also studies the structure, function and science of such networks (and OSNs) using a combination of empirical methods and visualization techniques. He closely works with researchers from Deutsche Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-labs), Berlin and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He was also a Lab Associate at Disney Research Laboratory (ETH, Zürich). Recently, he received the prestigious European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Alain Bensoussan Fellowship in Nov' 2012. [http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~gsthakur]

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