Program Manager
Strategic Technology Office
Tamer Refaei, PhD, 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, 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.
Refaei also supported the NASA Disruption Tolerant Networking project. Refaei was a National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF IGERT) scholar.
Education
- PhD, Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (NSF IGERT) scholar)
- MS, Computer Science, George Washington University
- BS, Computer Science, University of Maryland College Park