Azer Bestavros (PhD'92, Harvard U) is
Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston
University, which he joined in 1991.
Prof. Bestavros' research
interests are in the general areas of networking and real-time
systems.
Prof. Bestavros' networking research aims at improving
the scalability of Web and Internet services as reflected in his
pioneering of the content distribution model adopted years later by
CDNs, his work on traffic self similarity and reference locality
characterization, his work on various caching and streaming media
delivery protocols, his work on end-to-end inference of network
caricatures, and his work on identifying and countering adversarial
exploits of system and network dynamics.
Prof. Bestavros' real-time
systems research revolves around improving service predictability
and QoS as exemplified in his generalization of classical
rate-monotonic analysis to accommodate uncertainties in resource
availability/usage, his use of redundancy-injecting codes for
timely access to periodic broadcasts, and his work on
virtualization services for embedded sensor
networks.
Prof. Bestavros is Chair
of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee (TC) on the
Internet, and received excellence awards from both the ACM and the
IEEE for his service to the CS community. His publication record of
more than 100 journal and conference papers is cited widely.
His
research has been funded by NSF, ARO, GTE, Microsoft, Sprint, and
Fortress Tech. Prof. Bestavros' professional activities include
engagements as a consultant with a number of technology companies
and startups, and as an expert witness with various law firms.
Fundamentals of computing systems, sensor networks,
large-scaled networked information systems,
real-time systems, computer architecture, parallel computing.
