Tamer Refaei
Program Manager
Strategic Technology Office
Dr. Tamer Refaei joined DARPA in April 2024 as a program manager in the Strategic Technology office. His research interests include resilience in tactical networks using principles of software-defined networking, programmable data planes, traffic engineering, and generative AI.
Prior to DARPA, Dr. Refaei was the head of research and development within the Infrastructure & Networking Innovation Center at the MITRE Corporation. He led and shaped multiple government-sponsored and independent research and development (IR&D) projects that explored the application of cutting-edge technologies to enhance network resilience under disrupted, denied, intermittently-connected, and low-bandwidth (D-DIL) conditions. Dr. Refaei also supported the NASA Disruption Tolerant Networking project.
Dr. Refaei received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland College Park, a Master of Science in Computer Science from the George Washington University, and a Doctorate in Computer Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF IGERT) scholar.