Title
Professor & Associate Department Head
Office Phone
(765) 494-6183
Education
B.S. in Computer Science from The American University (Cairo), M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Ohio University
Research Areas
Research interests span several areas in the design, implementation, and evaluation of network architectures and protocols. Current or recent research projects focus on the topics of network support for virtual reality applications, network measurement and management, cellular networks, and network security.
Key Areas
Enclave and Nework Security
Notable Experience
Served on the program or organizing committees of a number of conferences, including ACM SIGCOMM, SIGMETRICS, MOBICOM, CoNEXT, and SOSR, and IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, and ICDCS, and on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computers.
Notable Affiliations
ACM, IEEE
Publications
Umakant Kulkarni, Khaled Diab, Lianjie Cao, Faraz Ahmed, Shivang Aggarwal, Puneet Sharma, Sonia Fahmy. "Maestro: QoE-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation in Wi-Fi Networks.'' Proc. ACM Netw. 3, CoNEXT1, Article 4 (March 2025), 24 pages.
Amit Sheoran, Sonia Fahmy, Matthew Osinski, Chunyi Peng, Bruno Ribeiro, Jia Wang. "Experience: Towards Automated Customer Issue Resolution in Cellular Networks,'' In Proceedings of ACM MOBICOM, pp. 610-622, September 2020.
Amit Sheoran, Sonia Fahmy, Chunyi Peng, Navin Modi. "NASCENT: Tackling caller-ID spoofing in 4G networks via efficient network-assisted validation,'' In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM (the conference on computer communications), 9 pp., April 2019.
Biography
Sonia 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, and ACM MOBICOM and CoNEXT. She received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2003. Her research has been supported by grants from the government and industry including NSF, DHS, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Juniper Networks, Meta, Northrop Grumman, Schlumberger, and BBN. Fahmy has served on the organizing or technical program committees of several conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, MOBICOM, SIGMETRICS, and CoNEXT, and IEEE INFOCOM, ICNP, and ICDCS, and on the editorial boards of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. She is a member of the ACM, and a fellow of the IEEE.
