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Azer Bestavros

Professor of Computer Science at Boston University

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Azer Bestavros is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Boston University, which he joined in 1991 and chaired from 2000 to 2007. He is the Founding Director of the BU Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, which was set up in 2010 to “create and sustain a community of scholars who believe in the transformative potential of computational perspectives in research and education.” He is the Co-Chair of the Council on Educational Technology & Learning Innovation, which was set up in 2012 to develop BU’s strategy as it relates to leveraging on-line technology in on-campus, residential programs.

Professor Bestavros pursues research in the broad areas of networking and real-time embedded systems. His contributions include pioneering the push web content distribution model adopted years later by CDNs, seminal work on Internet and web characterization, and work on formal verification of networks and systems. As of January 2013, funded by over $18M of grants from government agencies and industrial labs, his research work yielded 16 PhD theses, 4 issued patents, 2 startup companies, and hundreds of refereed papers that are cited over 12,500 times according to Google Scholar.

Professor Bestavros is the former chair of the IEEE Computer Society TC on the Internet, served on the program committees and editorial boards of major conferences and journals in networking and real-time systems, and received a number of distinguished service awards and best papers awards from both the ACM and the IEEE. In 2010, he received the United Methodist Scholar Teacher Award in recognition of “outstanding dedication and contributions to the learning arts and to the institution” at Boston University, and the ACM Sigmetrics Inaugural Test of Time Award for his 1996 paper (with M. Crovella) on the self similarity of Internet traffic “whose impact is still felt 10-15 years after its initial publication.”

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More Boston businesses join drive to end gender wage gap

March 28, 2016

Boston Globe (subscription required) Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences Mayor Martin J. Walsh is scheduled to announce Monday that he has doubled the number of businesses that have agreed to share payroll data as part of a unique initiative to tackle the gender wage gap in Boston… View full article quoting expert Azer […]

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Mayor Walsh pushes to gather data on gender wage gap

April 8, 2015

Boston Globe (subscription required) Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences Mayor Martin J. Walsh waded into the controversy surrounding the gender wage gap Tuesday, announcing that he was set to launch an unparalleled effort to collect salary data from businesses throughout Boston, and that he had boosted the salaries of two top women on […]

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Why the Massachusetts Open-Cloud Project Is a Big Deal

December 1, 2014

State Tech Magazine Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering A project team of academia and industry experts is making headway on a multimillion-dollar cloud computing initiative announced by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick in April… Expert quote: “We have commitments of up to $20 million […]

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TripAdvisor to personalize data for travelers

October 28, 2014

Boston Globe (subscription required) Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering For years, TripAdvisor has tracked all those clicks you’ve made on its site, the search for hotels in Bar Harbor with sea views or all-inclusive resorts in Aruba with swim-up bars, and it has […]

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A New Smart City Cloud Platform Is Coming to Boston

October 15, 2014

StateTech Magazine Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering A new cloud-based smart city system being developed in Boston could be a model for other state and local governments… Expert quote: “Today’s cities are increasingly being challenged to respond to diverse needs of their citizens, […]

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Cloud security

September 2, 2014

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Governor announces creation of open cloud for information

April 26, 2014

WSHM Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences Friday, Gov. Deval Patrick announced a $3 million investment into an open cloud project, which he said will spur on big data innovation. Patrick was one of several speakers on hand at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center… Expert quote: “An individual innovator can not do this in a garage. […]

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Gov. Patrick Launches Open Cloud Computing Project In Holyoke

April 25, 2014

WAMC Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences A new public cloud computing infrastructure is going to be developed in Massachusetts, as the state looks to position itself as a leader in the new sector known as “big data.”… Expert quote: “Cloud computing is offered today in a wholesale approach. The MOC is more like […]

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Password protection becomes a not-so-secret frustration

April 22, 2014

Boston Globe (subscription required) Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences After Daphne Strassmann’s credit card number and other personal information were stolen in the Target data breach last fall, she diligently went about changing 10 online passwords. The process involved channeling nonsense words inspired by the view from her couch: a banana, a squirrel, […]

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Should Mass. Public School Students Be Required To Study Computer Science?

June 25, 2013

BostInno Azer Bestavros, College of Arts & Sciences Stan Sclaroff, College of Arts & Sciences Over the last two weeks, Massachusetts lawmakers have been contemplating a pitch to incorporate computer science into the public school curriculum, making the subject a mandatory part of students’ education beginning as early as the eighth grade… Expert quotes: Bestavros: […]

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