Biography

Abraham Matta is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. He served as Chair of the Computer Science Department during 2018-2024. He currently serves as a Program Director (IPA) in the CNS Division of the CISE Directorate of the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1995. He works on the design of network protocols and architectures based on a range of computer science principles (such as inter-process communication, decomposition, and recursion), mathematical techniques (such as probabilistic analysis, queuing theory, optimization, and control theory), and performance evaluation tools (such as simulation and emulation). Application domains include the Internet, wireless, mobile, sensor and disruption-tolerant networks, cloud and distributed systems. His current and recent projects involve application management over edge-cloud cyberinfrastructures (see the HEECMA website), clean-slate network architectures (see the RINA website), reliable petabyte-scale file transfer (see the MLED website),  virtual network embedding, configurable protocol design, stability and compositional analysis, data management, and green networking. (See his profiles on Google Scholar and DBLP.)

Abraham Matta has published over 150 peer-reviewed technical papers. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award (1997). He won a patent (2011) and two best-paper awards (2008 and 2010) for his work on wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. He won awards for his experimental work on the GENI testbed (Global Environment for Network Innovations) in 2018 and on the FABRIC testbed in 2023. He also won a best-paper award for his cloud computing work in 2021. He was involved with the GENI project during 2013-2020 as an experimenter and in outreach and education activities, including national and international collaboration meetings on cyberinfrastructure. He has served on the FABRIC Scientific Advisory Board during 2020-2024, and the FOUNT Scientific Advisory Board during 2023-2024. He has served as chair or co-chair of many technical program committees, such as the IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications (2012), IEEE Computer Communications Workshop (2011), and IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (2005). He has served on many organizing committees, including as general chair of the 4th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (2006), and general co-chair of the IFIP International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (2018). He is a senior member of the ACM and IEEE. He leads the Distributed Applications, Systems & Networks (DASNet) Group, and is a member of the Networks Research Group (NRG) at BU CS. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for IEEE Networking Letters.

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