Joined department: 1999

Professor Fahmy's research interests lie in the design and evaluation of network architectures and protocols. Her work is published in over 100 refereed papers, including publications in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, and ICDCS. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2003, and the Schlumberger foundation technical merit award in 2000. Some of the results of her work were incorporated into the ATM Forum traffic management specifications, and a patent was awarded for her work on the ERICA algorithm for network congestion control. Her research has been supported by grants from the government and industry including NSF, DHS, Cisco Systems, HP, Northrop Grumman, Schlumberger, and Raytheon/BBN. Fahmy has served on the organizing or technical program committees of several conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, and CoNEXT, and IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, and ICDCS, and serves on the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. She is a member of the ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE.