The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Sonia Fahmy

 Sonia Fahmy

Title

Professor & Associate Department Head 

Department

Office

LWSN 2142H 

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.