Ahmed Amer

 

Brief Bio

Ahmed Amer is an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He joined the department in Fall 2002/3 after receiving his PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was a member of the Storage Systems Research Center.

Research Interests

His research areas are systems, particularly storage and file systems, operating systems, and distributed systems. His work focuses on the predictive management of data and storage.  His recent work involves automated data grouping with applications to data placement, caching, energy management and reliability He is especially interested in storage technologies, and their most practical and automated use.

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Contact Information


Office: 6115 Sennott Square Bldg. 

Office Hours: TBA.

E-mail: amer (at) cs (dot) pitt (dot) edu

Tel. (412) 624-8454

Fax. (412) 624-8854

Mailing Address

(regular mail)


Dr. A. Amer

Department of Computer Science,

University of Pittsburgh

Sennott Square Bldg.

210 S. Bouquet St.

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Reception Address

(use for courier mail)


6135 Sennott Square Bldg.

Tel. (412) 624-8490

Recent Service Activities

Program Committee Service:

  1. •NAS 2008, Vice-Chair for Storage

  2. •MSST 2007, Publications Chair


Technical Program Committees:

  1. •IPCCC 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

  2. •MSST 2006, 2005, 2004

  3. •WDAS 2006

  4. •IWSSPS 2006, 2005


Current University Committees:

  1. •Council on Academic Computing

  2. •CoE Graduate Admissions Committee