Education

• B.Sc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering - University of Khartoum,  Sudan (2003)
• M.Sc in Electrical Engineering (Specialization in Telecommunication) -  Blekinge Institute of  technology, Sweden(2007)
• Ph.D in Computer science - University of Oslo, Norway (2011)

Awards

 The Outstanding High School Sudanese Certificate Award nation wide.(1997) 

Professional Experience

• Simula Research Laboratory                                                                                                                           May 2011 - Present
As a Postdoctoral fellow. 
• Simula Research Laboratory                                                                                                                           Jan 2007 - May 2011

• Autonomic Networks competence center (ANTS) , Fokus , Fraunhofer Research Institute, Berlin ,Germany      Jul 2006 - Dec 2006

• The Elie Group, Khartoum, Sudan                                                                                                                   Jan 2004 - Jul 2005

• Ashraf Telecom, Khartoum, Sudan                                                                                                                 Aug. 2003-Jan. 2004
  

Research Interests

The focus of my Ph.D. thesis has been on the scalability of BGP inter domain routing with respect to churn. In particular, I have worked on how the Internet topology and different protocol mechanisms and implementations influence the observed update rate. My current research research interests include IP routing, routing scalability, measurements, and network science.