Mark Allman

Biography

Mark Allman is a Research Affiliate at ICSI and Adjunct Faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Case Western Reserve University. 

His research focuses on network measurement, security, transport protocols, congestion control, and network architecture. Previously, he conducted research on internetworking in satellite networks for BBN Technologies at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. 

Allman holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from Ohio University.

Publications

Selected Leadership Activities

• Steering committee, Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
• Program committees, SIGCOMM 2019, WWW 2019, PAM 2019, IMC 2018
• Applied Networking Research Prize nomination committee
• Member, Association for Computing Machinery
• Editorial board, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• Editorial board, International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
• Steering committee, Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM) g committee (2005-2008)
• PC chair,  IMC 2010 and PAM 2006
• Numerous leadership roles, Internet Engineering Task Force and Internet Research Task Force 
• Event program committees, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM’s Internet Measurement Conference, ACM SIGMETRICS, ACM HotNets, PAM
• Numerous advisory and organizational roles, such as advisory panels for Ohio University’s EECS department and NASA GRC’s space communication program

Areas of Expertise

• Operating Systems, Cloud Platforms, and Distributed Computing
• Computer Networks, Internet Protocols, and Web Infrastructure
• Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, and Fog Computing
• Network Security, Reliability, and Resilient Architectures
• Distributed Systems and Decentralized Computing

ICSI Activity