Amy Babay
School of Computing and Information
135 N Bellefield Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
I am an Assistant Professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. I'm looking for PhD, masters, and/or undergrad students interested in distributed systems and networks in general, and next-generation Internet services, resilient critical infrastructure, and resilient communities in particular. If you think the kind of work I do is interesting, feel free to send me an email!
I completed my PhD in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University in September 2018. My thesis is titled "Timely, Reliable, and Cost-Effective Internet Transport Service using Structured Overlay Networks" and my advisor was Yair Amir. As a PhD student, I was a member of the Distributed Systems and Networks lab. I completed my Masters in Computer Science in May 2014 at Johns Hopkins and worked at LTN Global Communications before starting my PhD. I received my B.A. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins in May 2012.
RESEARCH
For the latest information on active projects I'm working on with students at Pitt, see our lab website: www.rsslab.io.
We are generally interested in creating intrusion-tolerant critical infrastructure systems that can withstand emerging threats (e.g. SRDS24, TNSM25) while being feasible to deploy (e.g. DSN21, SRDS23, DSN-W25), and designing resilient, performant systems and protocols in emerging network paradigms including dynamic spectrum sharing systems (DSN-S26, TPRC25), quantum networks (NetQSA26), and community-based sensor networks (C&T25).
TEACHING
University of Pittsburgh- Wide-Area Networks (CS 2520 / TELCOM 2321): Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2025, Fall 2026.
- Communication Networks / Applications of Networks (INFSCI 1630 / TELCOM 2310): Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026.
- Data Communication and Computer Networks (CS 1652): Spring 2022, Spring 2025, Spring 2026.
- Advanced Topics in Distributed Information Systems (CS 3551): Spring 2020, Fall 2024.
- Fundamentals of Object-Oriented Programming (INFSCI 0017): Fall 2019.