Azer Bestavros Biographical Sketch
Azer Bestavros Biographical Sketch Azer Bestavros is Warren Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Hariri Institute for Comput- ing at Boston University (BU), which was set up in 2011 as an incu- bator for high-risk, high-reward multidisciplinary collaborations. Notable efforts that he incubated at the Institute, which matured into multi-million-dollar projects, include the $25M+ Mass Open Cloud, $10M NSF Cloud Security Frontier project, $5M Red Hat Collaboratory for open-source innovation, and the $1M+ SCOPE cloud platform for smart-city applications. Under his leadership, the Institute served as an anchor for a number of university pro- grams, including the Data Science Initiative (DSI), the Digital Health Initiative, the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI), the AI Research Initiative (AIR), the Cyber Security, Law, and Society Alliance, the Software & Application Innovation Lab (SAIL), and BU Spark! for student-driven innovation. Prior to his inaugural role at the Hariri Institute, Professor Bestavros chaired the BU Computer Science Department from 2000 to 2007, having joined it in 1991 after completing his PhD in Computer Science at Harvard University. He holds affiliated appointments in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Division of Systems Engineering, and a number of research centers at BU. He held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Institut Eur´ecomin France, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and the American University in Cairo. A distinguished educator and scholar, Professor Bestavros teaches and pursues research in networking, distributed computing, cybersecurity, and high-assurance systems. His semi- nal contributions include pioneering studies of web push caching through content distribution networks, self-similar Internet traffic characterization, game-theoretic cloud resource manage- ment, and safety certification of networked systems and software.
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