Azer Bestavros is Associate Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at Boston University. His research interests are in the general areas of Networking, Internet Systems and Services, and Real-Time Systems.
The Internet and Web related research work of Professor Bestavros and his collaborators aims at improving the scalability of Web and Internet services based on measurement, analysis, and careful redesign. These goals have been fleshed out in a series of projects that include his pioneering work on eager content dissemination, which advanced the content distribution model adopted years later by CDNs, and work on Web traffic self similarity and reference locality characterization.
Professor Bestavros has an extensive list of publications, including four edited books, dozens of book chapters, and over 90 technical papers. He has delivered over 40 presentations and speeches at universities, research laboratories, and standards committees. He served as chair and member of many program committees, including WCW, Sigmetrics, Globecom, Sigmod, RTSS, RTAS, ICDE, LCTES, and others.
Professor Bestavros obtained his BS degree from Alexandria University in 1984 and his PhD degree from Harvard University in 1992.