Amr Rizk

Prof. Dr. Amr Rizk is a Full Professor at Leibniz University Hannover since 2024, affiliated with the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Institute of Communications Technology. Previously, he served as Tenured Professor at University of Duisburg-Essen (2021-2024) and Assistant Professor at Ulm University (2019-2021). His academic journey includes a Habilitation at TU Darmstadt (2019) and a doctorate with distinction (2013) from Leibniz University Hannover.

• Education: Doctorate (Leibniz University Hannover, 2013); Habilitation (TU Darmstadt, 2019)

Prof. Rizk's research focuses on Statistical Performance Evaluation of Communication Systems, Design and Hardware-acceleration of Real-time Distributed Systems, and Coding and Transport of Immersive Multimedia. His work bridges theoretical analysis with practical implementations in network performance and real-time systems.

His recent publications analyze stochastic scheduling, network calculus, and queuing models, with applications in 5G networks and distributed computing. Notable awards include multiple best paper recognitions (IEEE QCNC 2024, ACM MMSys 2023, ACM/USENIX Middleware 2017) and the Athene Young Investigator Award (2017).

• Scientific Awards: IEEE QCNC Best Paper (2024), ACM MMSys Best Paper (2023), ACM/USENIX Middleware Best Paper (2017), Athene Young Investigator Award (2017), ACM MMSys Excellence in DASH Paper Award (2016)

Prof. Rizk has served as Associate Editor for Elsevier Computer Communications (Q1) since 2021 and organized key conferences including IEEE MIPR (2023), Workshop on Network Calculus (2020), and ACM MMSys (2019). His leadership extends to projects like ENVELOPE (Horizon Europe, 2023), FlexShield (BSI, 2023), and SPINE (DFG, 2018).

He currently resides at Appelstr. 11/11A, 5th floor, building 3403, room A528 (Hanover, Germany) due to construction work at his primary address (Appelstraße 9a, 30167 Hanover; building 3408, room 1421).