{"51984":{"#nid":"51984","#data":{"type":"news","title":"College\u2019s Ammar Receives Prestigious Regents\u2019 Professor Designation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing Professor Mostafa Ammar has been named Regents\u2019 Professor, effective July 1. A committee of Regents\u0027 and chaired professors recommended him for this honor, and their recommendation has been confirmed by Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith this recognition Georgia Tech celebrates your long-term accomplishments in the field of networking and your exemplary teaching and educational leadership, and your service to the profession and to the Institute,\u201d said Dr. Bob McMath, professor of history and vice provost for undergraduate studies. \u201cThis elevation to the rank of Regents\u0027 Professor brings with it universal recognition on the Georgia Tech campus as an intellectual and educational leader of the highest order,\u201d he said.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech is allowed to nominate up to two individuals per year for appointment as Regents\u0027 Professors. Those considered already hold the rank of (full) professor and are nominated by their colleges based on excellence in research and teaching and contributions to their profession and to Georgia Tech over a considerable period of time. A committee made up of Regents\u0027 Professors and other chaired professors representing all six of the colleges considers the nominations and makes a recommendation to the Provost.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMostafa is very deserving of this prestigious award for his years of world-class research, teaching and leadership in networking,\u201d said Dick Lipton, professor and Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing who represented the College on the Institute\u2019s selection committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmar joined the College of Computing in September 1985 (then the School of Information and Computer Science) as an assistant professor. He is a member of the College\u2019s Networking and Telecommunications Group and is also a faculty member of the Georgia Tech Information Security Center. His research is in the area of computer networks architectures, protocols and services with specific interests and contributions in multimedia and multicast communication, scalable content distribution services, large-scale network simulation and peer-to-peer networks.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAmmar became an IEEE Fellow in 2002, cited \u201cfor contributions to the design of scalable multimedia services and their network support.\u201d He has served as Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking journal since 1999.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech College of Computing houses one of the largest computer science programs in the country with 68 academic faculty and 39 research faculty. The College strives to provide high quality instruction and to integrate computing knowledge into other academic disciplines as well as aspects of daily life. Approximately 1900 students are enrolled in the college, including approximately 1500 undergraduates and more than 400 graduate students, some 260 of which are Ph.D. students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech College of Computing Professor Mostafa Ammar has been named Regents\u2019 Professor, effective July 1.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:53:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:29","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2003-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2003-04-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}