Ahmed Helmy
Associate Professor
Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department
College of Engineering, University of Florida (UF)
Founder and Director: Mobile Networking Laboratory (NOMADS group)
(Courtesy appointements: ECE Dept, UF and EE - Systems Dept, USC)
email: helmy at ufl.edu
Ahmed Helmy received Ph.D. in Computer Science '99 (with Prof. Deborah Estrin) 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, Egypt. He was a key researcher in the Network Simulator NS-2 and Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) projects at USC/ISI from '95-99. Before joining UF in '06, he was on the EE Dept faculty at USC starting Fall '99, where he founded and directed the Wireless & Sensor Networks Labs.
In '02, he received the NSF CAREER Award for his research on resource discovery and mobility modeling in large-scale wireless networks (MARS). In '00 he received the Zumberge Award, and in '02 he received the best paper award from the IEEE/IFIP MMNS Conference. In '03 he was the EE nominee for the USC Engineering Jr. Faculty Research Award, and a nominee for the Sloan Fellowship. In '04 & '05 he got the best faculty merit ranking at the EE dept, USC. He was a finalist in the ACM MobiCom '07 & '08 SRC. He is a leader of the NSF funded projects: Mars, Stress, Acquire & Aware.
His research interests include design, analysis & measurement of wireless adhoc, sensor & mobile social networks, mobility modeling, multicast protocols, IP mobility & network simulation. He has published over 150 journal articles, conference papers and posters, book chapters & IETF RFCs/IDs. His research is (or has been) supported by grants from NSF, Intel, Cisco, DARPA, NASA, Nortel, HP, Pratt & Whitney, Siemens & Silicon Graphics.
Dr. Helmy is an Area editor of the Adhoc Networks Journal - ElSevier ('04-). He is the co-chair of IFIP/IEEE MMNS '06, IEEE Infocom Global Internet (GI) workshop '08, vice-chair for IEEE ICPADS '06, IEEE HiPC '07, and local & poster chair for IEEE ICNP '08 & '09. He is ACM SIGMOBILE workshop coordination chair (for MobiCom, Mobihoc, Mobisys, Sensys) ('06-). He served on numerous committees of IEEE & ACM conferences on networks. He is a member of ACM & IEEE.
[C.V. (pdf), updated Dec 2008]
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