Ahmed Helmy's Short Bio:

Dr. Ahmed Helmy received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in '99 with Prof. Deborah Estrin from the University of Southern California (USC), M.S. in Electrical Engineering '95 from USC, MS Eng. Math '94 and B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering in '92 from Cairo University, Egypt. He has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Dept at USC since Fall '99.

Dr. Helmy is conducting research on design and analysis of mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks, in addition to protocol testing techniques. He currently has three active NSF projects (MARS, ACQUIRE and STRESS). In 2002, Dr. Helmy received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award for his research on 'Resource Discovery, Query Resolution, Rendezvous and Mobility Modeling in Large-Scale Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks' (MARS). He received the Zumberge award for individual research (in 2000) from USC to pursue work on power-aware wireless routing protocols. He also founded and is currently directing the Electrical Engineering laboratory for wireless networking (nile.usc.edu). He is currently co-establishing a new wireless networking laboratory at USC.

He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers, 5 book chapters, and 3 IETF RFCs. His work has been funded by several NSF awards, and grants from DARPA, NASA, Intel, Nortel, Pratt & Whitney, and HP.

He has a best paper award from IEEE Int.l Conf on Management of Multimedia Networks & Services (MMNS), Oct 02. He was nominated for the Alfred P Sloan award and the Engineering Jr. faculty research award at USC in '04. He ranked 1st in the merit review for the EE dept of USC for 2004, and had teaching honors (evaluations above 4.5/5) for all 12 courses he taught at USC since Spring 2000. He participated in numerous NSF panels and IEEE/ACM conference committees.

From '95 to '99 he was a key researcher in the PIM project for sparse mode Multicast at USC, and the NS-2 (VINT) project for network simulation at USC/ISI and at USC.

His current research interests lie in the areas of mobility modeling and analysis of mobile networks, protocol design for ad hoc and sensor networks, systematic design and stress testing of networking protocols and IP mobility.

[webpage http://ceng.usc.edu/~helmy]