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The Dean's Distinguished Visiting Professorship (DDVP) is a programÌýat the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. Each calendar year a leading international researcher in Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science will be selected and invited to be resident for one academic term.ÌýDuring this term the DDVP shall give a public lecture and a full-term course in any area of interest within the Faculty. The course may be taken for credit by graduate or senior undergraduate students.Ìý

The Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Professorship provides a stipend of $75,000 CAN for visitors to be a resident throughout a term.ÌýThe DDVP is selected by a committee representing the Faculty of Mathematics.

Candidates may be nominated by any faculty memberÌýat the Faculty of Mathematics. Nominations can be made to theÌýChair of the selection committee.

Past DDVPs

Sanjeev Khanna (Winter 2024)

is a Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Khanna received his undergraduate degrees in computer science and eceonomics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, his M.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his PhD in computer science from Stanford University.Ìý

Dr. Khanna has contributed to the fields of approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, combinatorial optimization, and sublinear algorithms. His doctoral work, "A Structural View of Approximation," was the recipient of the 1996 Arthur Samuel prize for the best PhD dissertation in the Computer Science department at Stanford. Dr. Khanna is a Guggenheim Fellow (2007) and a Sloan Fellow (2000). He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1999, where he has received the S. Reid Warren Jr. Award and Lindback Award for distinguished teaching.Ìý

Dr. Khanna serves on the editorial board ofÌý, and has previously served on the editorial boards of , , , , and as an area editor for the . In 2018 the Association for Computing Machinery named him an ACM Fellow for his contributions to approximation algorithms, hardness of approximation, and sublinear algorithms.Ìý

Mostafa H. Ammar (Fall 2022)

is a Regents' Professor with the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Ammar receivedÌýS.B. and S.M. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and hisÌýPh.D from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.Ìý

Dr. Ammar's research interests are in network architectures, protocols and services. He has contributions in many areas within networking research, most recently in disruption-tolerant networks, mobile cloud computing, network virtualization, packet scheduling in modern networks, and adaptive video streaming. He has supervised dozens of PhD students; many have gone on to distinguished careers in academia and industry.Ìý

Dr. Ammar has served the networking research community in multiple roles. Most notably, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of theÌýÌý(ToN) from 1999 to 2003, and he was the co-TPC Chair for the IEEE ICNP 1997, ACM CoNEXT 2006 and ACM SIGMETRICS 2007 conferences. He received many awards throughout his career. He is most proud of receiving the 2018 Alumni Achievement Award for Academic Excellence for the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. Dr. Ammar is Fellow of the ACM and Fellow of the IEEE.Ìý

DDVP Lecture: Riding Along with the Time-Traveling Network Researcher