Prof. Dr. Amr Rizk

Vita

• Full Professor - Leibniz University Hannover (since 2024)
• Tenured Professor - University of Duisburg-Essen (2021-2024)
• Assistant Professor - Ulm University (2019- 2021)
• Habilitation -  TU Darmstadt (2019)
• Research Group Leader - Multimedia Communications Lab - TU Darmstadt (2016 - 2019)
• Post-Doc - University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA (2015)
• Post-Doc - University of Warwick, UK (2014)
• Doctorate with distinction - Leibniz University Hannover (2013)

Research Interests

• Statistical Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems
• Design and Hardware-acceleration of Real-time Distributed Systems
• Coding and Transport of Immersive Multimedia

Selected Publications 

• F. Ciucu, S.  Mehri, A. Rizk: On Ultra-Sharp Queueing Bounds. IEEE INFOCOM (2024)
• A. Rizk, JY. Le Boudec, "A Palm Calculus Approach to the Distribution of the Age of Information", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2023)
• K. Elsayed, A. Rizk, “Time-to-Live Caching With Network Delays: Exact Analysis and Computable Approximations,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2022)
• S. Kar, R. Rehrmann, A. Mukhopadhyay, B. Alt, F. Ciucu, H. Koeppl, C. Binnig, and A. Rizk, “On the Throughput Optimization in Large-Scale Batch-Processing Systems,” Performance Evaluation, vol. 144, pp. 102–142 (2020)
• F. Ciucu, F.  Poloczek, A. Rizk: Queue and Loss Distributions in Finite-buffer Queues. ACM SIGMETRICS (2019)
• B. Alt, T. Ballard, R. Steinmetz, H. Koeppl, and A. Rizk, “CBA: Contextual Quality Adaptation for Adaptive Bitrate Video Streaming,” IEEE INFOCOM (2019)
• A. Frömmgen, D. Stohr, B. Koldehofe, and A. Rizk, “Don’t Repeat Yourself: Seamless Execution and Analysis of Extensive Network Experiments,” ACM CoNEXT (2018)
• W. R. KhudaBukhsh, B. Alt, S. Kar, A. Rizk, H. Koeppl: Collaborative Uploading in Heterogeneous Networks: Optimal and Adaptive Strategies. IEEE INFOCOM (2018)
• A. Frömmgen, A. Rizk, T. Erbshäußer, M. Weller, B. Koldehofe, A. Buchmann, R. Steinmetz: A Programming Model for Application-defined Multipath TCP Scheduling, ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2017 - Best paper award
• W. R. KhudaBukhsh, A. Rizk, A. Frömmgen, H. Koeppl: Optimizing Stochastic Scheduling in Fork-Join Queuing Models: Bounds and Applications. IEEE INFOCOM (2017)
• Z. Bozakov, A. Rizk, D. Bhat, M. Zink: Measurement-based Flow Characterization in Centrally Controlled Networks. IEEE INFOCOM (2016)
• A. Rizk, F.  Poloczek, F. Ciucu: Computable Bounds in Fork-Join Queueing Systems. ACM SIGMETRICS (2015)

Awards

• Best Paper Awards: IEEE QCNC (2024), ACM MMSys (2023), ACM/USENIX Middleware (2017)
• Distinguished TPC Member, IEEE INFOCOM, 2020, 2022
• Athene Young Investigator Award, TU Darmstadt 2017
• Excellence in DASH - Paper Award at the ACM MMSys Conference 2016

Editorships:

• Associate Editor, Elsevier Computer Communications (Q1), since 2021

Conference Organization:

• Steering Committee, Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV), 2024-
• PC Co-Chair, IEEE MIPR (Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval), 2023
• Co-Chair, GI KuVS Summer School “AI in Networking”, 2022
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Network Calculus (WoNeCa), 2020
• Demo Track Chair, ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), Amherst, MA, USA, 2019
• Area Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2018, 2019
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Network Calculus (WoNeCa) co-located with the 19th International GI/ITG Conference on “Measurement, Modelling and Evaluation of Computing Systems”, (MMB) Erlangen Germany, 2018

Memberships in Technical Program Committees:

•  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) - Flagship of IEEE ComSoc, 2019, 2020 (Regular TPC), 2021 - 2025 (Advisory TPC)
• ACM SIGMETRICS, 2024-2025
• ACM International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), 2023-2025
• IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
• IFIP Networking, 2022-2024
• IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN), 2018, 2020 - 2023
• ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) - Flagship of ACM SIGMM, 2019, 2021-2024
• International Teletraffic Congress (ITC), 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2021
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2018 - 2021
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2020 - 2022
• ACM Conference on Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys), 2017 - 2020, 2023-2024
• ACM Conference on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio an Video (NOSSDAV), 2020, 2022
• IEEE International Workshop on Network Calculus and Applications, 2018
• International Conference on Wired & Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC), 2016 - 2018
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016 - 2018
• IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2015- 2017
• IEEE Global Communications Conference: Communication QoS & Reliability & Modeling (Globecom: CQRM), 2015 - 2018

Services

• Member of the Selection Committee for Scholarship Programs - DAAD, Germany
• Accreditation reviewer

Current & Previous Research Projects as PI

• ENVELOPE: Evaluation and validation of connected mobility in real open systems beyond 5GS, SNS/EU Horizon Europe, 2023
• FlexShield: Resilient 5G Networking for Industrial Real-time Applications, BSI, 2023
• PODIUM: PDI connectivity and cooperation enablers building trust and sustainability for CCAM, EU Horizon Europe, 2022
• Model-based Transition Planning and Prediction, DFG, (subproject B04 in SFB MAKI), 2021
• 5G-IANA: 5G Intelligent Automotive Network Applications, EU H2020, 2021
• DynSDN: Dynamisches Management von rekonfigurierbaren Industrie 4.0 Echtzeit-Kommunikationsnetzen mittels Software-definierter Infrastruktur, DFG (subproject T03 in SFB MAKI), 2020
• SPINE: Stochastic Performance Bounds for Information-Centric Communication Networks, DFG, 2018
• Model-based Transition Planning and Prediction, DFG, (subproject B04 in SFB MAKI), 2017
• PathSense: Industrial Edge-Device Optimization und Knowledge Distillation, Industry funded, 2022