Bio

I’m a third year PhD student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign advised by Prof. Radhika Mittal. Previously, I got my Bachelors in Computer Science from LUMS, Pakistan where I worked with Prof. Ihsan Ayyub Qazi and Prof. Zafar Ayyub Qazi on web transcoding and video ABR algorithms. I am broadly interested in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems. My recent research focuses on congestion control and network resource management.

News!

  • May’23: Excited to start my summer internship at Microsoft Research!
  • October’22: CRAB’s code is now available at the project website.
  • July’22: Our paper titled “Enabling Users to Control Their Internet” got accepted at NSDI’23! We highlight challenges in controlling the downlink bandwidth after the bottleneck and present a control loop to address it.
  • April’22: Passed my qualifying exam!

Publications

Enabling Users to Control Their Internet
Ammar Tahir, Radhika Mittal
NSDI’23
website | paper | code | talk

Octopus: In-Network Content Adaptation to Control Congestion on 5G Links
Yongzhou Chen, Ammar Tahir, Francis Y. Yan, Radhika Mittal
IEEE SEC'23
paper

FedSS: Federated Learning with Smart Selection of clients
Ammar Tahir* , Yongzhou Chen*, Prashanti Nilayam [*Equal Contributors]
FLSys @ MLSys'23
paper | code

Fast and efficient look-ups via data-driven FIB designs
Sachin Ashok*, Aditi Partap*, Ammar Tahir* [*Equal Contributors]
FIRA @ Sigcomm’22
paper

Deconstructing Google’s Web Light Service
Ammar Tahir, Muhammad Tahir Munir, Shaiq Munir Malik, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi
WWW’20
paper