Tag: Ahmed Helmy

The Herbert Wertheim College Awards recognize faculty, staff, and students receiving UF and/or college awards in the 2020-2021 academic year and celebrate the excellence of Gator Engineering and the fundamental values of our college. The International Educator of the Year recognizes the outstanding contributions of faculty and staff to the internationalization of the University of […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., a professor and graduate coordinator at the UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, has been named a 2019 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Helmy was recognized for his contributions to routing protocol design and mobility modeling. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE […]

Roozbeh Ketabi and Babak Alipour, both Ph.D. students from the University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), and Ahmed Helmy, a CISE professor, won best poster at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM). Ketabi and Alipour are Helmy’s research assistants on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project called “MobiBench.” The poster, En […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., and his former Ph.D. student (Dr. Gautam Thakur, UF graduate, now at Oakridge National Labs) received the InternetTC Best Paper 2013 award from the Internet Technical Committee (ITC), in coordination with IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). The announcement was made on Jun 21, 2015. The paper — “COBRA: A Framework for the Analysis […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., was selected by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as an inductee honored with the designation of “Distinguished Scientist”. Dr. Helmy’s main contributions include research in the fields of mobile networks design, mobility modeling, wireless measurements, network simulation and multicast routing. The ACM Distinguished Member program recognizes the Top 10 percent of […]

Ahmed Helmy, Ph.D., CISE professor, and his son, Amir Helmy (13 yrs), Eastside High School, developed two award-winning mobile apps for healthcare called Seizario and HeartEra. Seizario detects epileptic seizures and falls and automatically alerts emergency contacts. Heartera captures heart movement patterns and beats per minute. Heartera took first place in the Mobile App Competition […]