Karim Mattar

Karim Mattar’s main research interests lie in the field of computer networks. At Akamai Technologies, ’10-present, his focus has been on performance monitoring, and large-scale data analytics, among many other projects related to the operation of a high-performance, high-availability, global CDN.

His PhD thesis, supervised by Dr. Ibrahim Matta, focused primarily on understanding the dynamics of policy routing protocols. I’ve also worked on problems related to Internet measurement, transport protocols and clean-slate Internet architectures. While at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs,’05-’06, and Movik Inc., ’08-’09, he worked on transport, scheduling and resource allocation problems in cellular data networks (more specifically 1xRTT, EV-DO and HSDPA).