Resume of

Dr. Reda Anwar Ammar
Research Interests | Societies | Graduate Students| Publications | Invited Seminars |

Tutorials & Training Lectures | Recognition | Research Grants | Professional Activities

Work Address:

Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-2155
USA

Office phone: (860)-486-5285

Education:

Ph. D. (Computer Science) 1983 University of Connecticut, USA
M.S. (Computer Science) 1981 University of Connecticut, USA
B.S. (Mathematics) 1975 Ein Shams University, Egypt
B.S. (Electrical Engineering) 1973 Cairo University, Egypt

Work Experience

1998- present     Department Head, the Computer Science and Engineering Dept., University of Connecticut
1998- present     Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut
1992 - 98           Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut
1995 - 96           Visiting Associate Processor, Computer Science Dept., The American University in Cairo, 1995-1996 (on sabbatical leave from the University of Connecticut)
1987 - 92           Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut
1985 - 87           Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engr, University of Connecticut
1984 - 85           Assist. Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
1984 - 85           Systems Division Senior Analyst, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt
1984 - 85           Visiting Assistant Professor, The American University, Department of Public Service, Cairo, Egypt
Fall 1983            Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, USA
1979 - 83           Research Assistant and Lecturer, University of Connecticut, USA
1973 - 77           Assistant Lecturer of Mathematics, Cairo University, Egypt
 

Research Interests:

Software Performance Engineering, High Performance Computing, Real-time Systems, Parallel and Distributed Computing

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Courses Taught:

At Cairo University:
        Descriptive Geometry
       Engineering Mathematics
       Operating Systems (Graduate)
       Numerical Analysis (Graduate)

 At The American University in Cairo:
      Information Organization
      Algorithms & Data Structures
      A Database Project
      Theory of  Computing
      Data Structures
      Performance Modeling and Analysis
      Efficient Algorithms (Graduate)
      Parallel Processing (Graduate)

At University of Connecticut:
     Introduction to Numerical Computation
      Introduction to Non-Numerical Computation
      Computer Systems
      Probabilistic Performance Analysis of  Computer Systems
      Sequential Networks and Digital Systems
      Software Engineering
      Computer Organization

      Computer Architecture and Interface

      Computer Networks
      Fundamental of Automata (Graduate)
      Computational Complexity of Sequential & Parallel Algorithms (Graduate)

                     Parallel Processing (Graduate)
                     Software Performance Engineering (Graduate)
                     Distributed Operating Systems (Graduate)

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Professional Societies:

Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (Senior Member & former chairman of the Technical Committee on Simulation)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) (Voting Member)
International Society on Computers and their Applications (ISCA) (President, former editor-in-chief of IJCA journal and a current member of the board of directors)
American Association of University Professors (AAUP)

Honor Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon and Who is Who
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Graduate Students who I served as a major advisor:

            PhD Students whom I served as a major advisor:

 

Bin Qin    Ph.D.                                     12/31/87

Ping Zhang Ph.D.                              5/31/93

Mohamed Neilforoshan Ph.D.                 8/31/93

Robert Todd Ph.D.                            5/31/94

Carolyn Pe Roisene Ph.D.                       8/31/94

Jasir Alherbish Ph.D.                      12/31/96

Qi Gan Ph.D.                                        12/31/98

Mi-Sook Kim Ph.D.                         5/31/99

Raafat Elfouly  Ph.D.                              5/31/00

Debra Smarkusky, Ph.D.                  8/31/00

Abdelrahaman Alhmdan, Ph.D.           12/31/03

Ahmed Mohamed, Ph.D.                  8/31/04

Alaa Amin, Ph.D.                                 12/31/04

Amal Abdel Raouf, Ph.D.             8/31/05

Sarah Tanseem, Ph.D.                            8/31/05

Ahmed Hussein, Ph.D.                    12/31/06

Kannikar Siriwong, Ph.D.                      5/31/07

 


            Master Students whom I served as a major advisor:

 

Siu-Pang Law M.S. 8/31/87 Plan A

Jianping Wang M.S. 12/31/87 Plan A

Carolyn Pe M.S. 12/31/89 Plan A

Sanjay Ramamurthy M.S. 8/31/91 Plan A

Seva Nanda Adari M.S. 8/31/91 Plan A

Jasir Al-Herbish M.S. 8/31/92 Plan B

Kamal Ayad M.S. 12/31/93 Plan B

Mehernosh Mistry M.S. 12/31/93 Plan B

Li Fang M.S. 8/31/94 Plan A

Sanjay Krala M.S. 8/31/94 Plan A

Anil Rao M.S. 8/31/95 Plan A

Matthew J. Krzych M.S. 5/31/96 Plan B

Sumitha Sri Eranti M.S. 12/31/96 Plan A

Chetan Vora M.S. 5/31/97 Plan A

Nagarajan Kandasamy M.S. 12/31/97 Plan A

Madhuri Ramamurthy M.S. 5/31/98 Plan B

Ishak Farah M.S. 12/31/98 Plan A

Ying He MS 12/31/98 Plan B

John Jones M.S. 5/31/99 Plan B

Chenzhong Wang  M.S.   5/31/99   Plan B

Ming Li   MS.  5/31/99  Plan B

Xu Ma   MS  5/31/2000 Plan B

Robert Weiner  MS  5/31/2000 Plan B

Kun Lu   MS  5/31/2000 Plan B

Prithwis Sett, MS 12/31/2000 Plan B

Mohamed Hefeeda, MS 5/31/2001 Plan B

Mumtaz Lohawala, MS 5/31/2001 Plan B

Ling Wang MS           5/31/2001 Plan B

Yi Fang  MS 12/31/2001 Plan B

Steve Moore, MS 5/31/2003 Plan B

Chadi Kari  MS 5/31/2005 Plan B

Diya Ajith  MS           5/31/2005 Plan B

Osama Khan MS 8/31/2006 Plan A

Shirin Safa MS 5/31/2007 Plan B

 

 

Graduate Students whom I served as an external major advisor:
 

Tarek Hindam Ph.D. 8/31/92 Cairo University

Ehab Abdel Maksoud Ph.D. 12/31/94 Cairo University

Hesham Arafa Ph.D. 4/30/97 Mansoura University

Mohamed Hefeeda M.S. 4/30/97 Mansoura University

Amany Sarhan, PhD, 7/27/2002, Tanta University

Doaa El Zanfally, PhD.            3/11/2004, Helwan University

PhD Graduate Students whom I served as an associate advisor:
 


 

 

 

Lili He, PhD., 5/31/08

Sudha Balla, Ph.D. 5/31/07

Vishual Thapar, PhD., 5/31/08

Gamal Moustafa Ph.D, 5/31/07

 

Ahmed A. Mohamed  Ph.D. 8/31/06

Imad Antonos, Ph.D. 8/31/05

Ahmed Ibrahim, PhD 8/31/04

Gehan Weeasinghe, Ph.D., 8/31/02

Jinzhu Chen Ph.D. 5/31/98

Margaretha Price Ph.D. 5/31/98

Pierri Fiorini PhD 12/31/97

K M. McMahom Ph.D. 12/31/97

Brian Robert Popp PhD. 12/31/97

Karim El-Guemhioui Ph.D 8/31/97

Juliusz Dichter, Ph.D. 5/31/97

Brian Mackay Ph.D. 12/31/96

Lisa Lancor Ph.D. 8/31/96

James J. Moriarty Ph.D. 12/31/93

Sharad Garg Ph.D. 8/31/93

William Adams Ph.D. 8/31/93

William Weiss Ph.D. 5/31/92

Ying Ding Ph.D. 8/31/91

Branimir Gajic Ph.D. 5/31/89

MS Graduate Students whom I served as an associate advisor:

 

Sean Morton, M.S., 5/31/07 Plan B

Haibei Zhang M.S. 5/31/06   Plan B

Mikel Lipton M.S. 8/31/05 Plan A

Haibei Zhang  M.S. 8/31/05   Plan B

Jyoti Ahuja M.S. 5/31/05 Plan A

Rune Sundaram M.S. 5/31/05 Plan B

Guan Zhang, Plan A, 8/31/04

Zhaohui Wei, Plan B, 8/31/04

Tobias Wolfertshofer, Plan A, 8/31/2004

Christian Slamka, Plan B, 8/31/04

Betsy Cherian, Plan A, 5/31/04

Lance Fiondella, Plan A, 8/31/03

Min Ma, Plan B, 12/31/02

Barry Mapen, Plan A, 12/31/02

Shaikat Das, Plan B, 8/31/02

Jin Ma, Plan B, 12/31/02

Shaikat Das, Plan B, 8/31/2002

Rama Tripathi, Plan B, 12/31/01

Dharmesh Pandya, Plan A, 8/31/01

Qi Jin, Plan B, 8/31/2001.

Burkhard Englert, Plan A, 12/31/2000

Tianyun, Plan B, 12/31/99

Richard Crain, Plan A, 12/31/98

Zhiying Zhao, Plan B, 8/31/98

Ramana Kandarpa, Plan A, 5/31/1997

Thomas Bingman, Plan A, 5/31/97

Sulakshana Nath, Plan A, 5/31/97

Thomas Lederer, Plan A, 8/31/95

Alios Bucherl, Plan A, 8/31/95

Xia Mu, Plan A, 8/31/95

Pierri Fiorini, Plan A, 5/31/95

Ge Li, Plan B, 5/31/95

Haicheng Ni, Plan A, 12/31/94

Angela Carrasquero, Plan A, 8/31/94

Sigurd Wathne, Plan A, 5/31/94

Tao Zhang, Plan A, 12/31/93

Sriram M. Chittathoor, Plan A, 8/31/93

Meenakshi Gupta, Plan A, 8/31/93

Paul Womelsdorf, Plan B, 5/31/93

Reza Mahmoud, Plan B, 5/31/93

Karim El-Guemhioui, Plan A, 8/31/92

Brian G. Semprebon, Plan A, 5/31/92

S. Ranganathan, Plan A, 12/31/91

Dilip Tagare, Plan A, 8/31/91

Chunwei Wang, Plan A, 12/31/90

Bruce Stockwell, Plan A, 12/31/90

Haiping Yang, Plan A, 8/31/90

Sharad Garg, Plan A, 5/31/89

Cien Xu, Plan A, 8/31/90

Brian Mackey, Plan A, 5/31/89

Clarence Rathbone, Plan A, 12/31/88

Venna Bansal, Plan A, 8/31/87

P. Lynch, Plan A, 5/31/87

 


 

Current Graduate Students whom I am serving as a major advisor:
 

Sahar Elsisi, Ph.D. Expected 5/31/2009

 Rehab Elkharboutly   Ph.D. Expected 8/31/2008

Mai  Hamdallah  PhD  Expected 5/31/2010

 Saleh Ibrahim, Ph.D. Expected 5/31/2009

Samir Mohamed PhD Expected 5/31/2010

 Rania Killany PhD Expected 5/31/2010

Mohamed Ahmed PhD Expected 5/31/2010

Ahmed Ebaid, PhD, Expected 5/31/ 2011

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Publications

Journal Editorial Board
 

  • Editor-in-Chief, the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, 2001-2007
  • Associate Editor, Internal Journal on Software Engineering, 2007-present
  •  Associate Editor of the Computing Letters, 2004-present.
  • Associate Editor of the International Journal on Computers and Their Applications. March 1994-2001.
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Proceeding Editorial and Dissertation

1.       Editor of the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems Conference, Las Vegas, September 2005.

  1. Editor of the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems Conference, Orlando, Florida, October 1995.
  2. Editor of the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems Conference, Washington, D.C., October 1991.
  3. An associate editor of the proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual  Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, May 1991.
  4. Editor of the proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems Conference, New York, October 1990.
  5. An associate editor of the proceedings of the Twenty First Annual  Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, May 1990.
  6. Editor of the proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Distributed Processing, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, December 1989.
  7. An associate editor of the proceedings of the Twentieth Annual  Pittsburgh Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Pittsburgh, May 1989.
  8. "Software Optimization Using User Models", Ph. D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, December 1983.
  9. "Interactive Grammatical Inference", M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Connecticut,  May 1981.


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Book Chapters

 

  • Ammar, Reda “Hierarchical Performance Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Software”, Chapter 12, Handbook of Parallel Computing: Models, Algorithms, and Applications, edited by S. Rajasekaran and J.H. Reif, Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, December 2007.

·         R. Ammar, S. Demurjian, I. Greenshields, K. Pattipati, and S. Rajasekaran, “Analysis of Heterogeneous Data in Ultrahigh Dimensions,” to appear in Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter Terrorism. R. Popp and J. Yen (eds.), IEEE Press, April 2006.

  • Howard Sholl, Reda Ammar and Dominic Pagano "Real-Time Recognition of Rail Structures in the Presence of Interference." Volume 5 of the TONE book series on Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation for the Railroad Industry, page 61-73, ASNT, 2002.

 

 

 

Refereed Journal Papers


 

1.       El Kharboutly, Rehab, Ammar, Reda and  Gokhale, Swapna  “ Architecture-based reliability analysis of continuously running concurrent software applications”,  International Journal of Software Engineering, Vol. 1, No.1, January 2008, PP 43-65.

2.       El Kharboutly, Rehab, Ammar, Reda and Gokhale, Swapna, “UML-based Methodology for Reliability Analysis of Concurrent Software Applications”, the International Journal of Computers and Their applications, December 2007, Vol. 14, No.4, PP. 250-259.

3.       El Kharboutly, Rehab, Gokhale, Swapna and  Ammar, Reda, “ Architecture- based software reliability analysis incorporating concurrency“, accepted by the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 479-499, October 2007

4.       Amal Abdel-raouf, Reda Ammar and Tahany Fergany, “Performance-Based Modeling and Restructuring of Object Oriented Software For Pipeline Architecture”, Journal Computational Methods in Science and engineering (JCMSE), April 2007.

5.       Hanan H. Elazhary, Swapna S. Gokhale and Reda Ammar, ”An Efficient QoS Monitoring Scheme for Inter-Domain Connections”, International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 14, No.1, March 2007.

6.       Debra Smarkusky and Reda Ammar, “Healthcare Management System: An Application of Component-Based Software Architectures with Performance”, International Journal on Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 13, No.4, PP. 182-210, December 200

7.       Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Reda A. Ammar, Betsy Cheriyan and Leslie Loew, “Parallel Techniques for the Virtual Cell”, Computing Letters, CoLe, Vol. 2, pp. 71-76, 2005.

8.       Reda A. Ammar and Abdulrahman Alhamdan, “Scheduling Real-Time Fork-Join Structures in Cluster Computing”,  International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networks, to appear, 2005.

9.       Ehab Abdel Maksoud* and Reda A. Ammar, “Heuristic Scheduling Algorithms for Stochastic Tasks in a Distributed Multiprocessor Environments”, Lecture Series on Computer and Computational Sciences, Volume 2, 2005, pp. 1-5

10.    Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Reda Ammar, Reifsnider, Kenneth, Luke Achenie, Ahmed Mohamed, Guan Zhang, Mohamed Ahmed, Efficient Parallel Simulation of Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Models”, Journal of Fuel Cell Science and technology, to appear, May 2005.

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