Research Manager
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Marwan is a technical lead and manager at Cloudflare Research, and Visiting Professor at the University of St Andrews, UK.
Before joining Cloudflare, Marwan was a member of faculty at the University of St Andrews, where he was also the Director of Post-graduate Studies, and recipient of multiple teaching and supervisorial honours. In 2011, Marwan co-founded HUBS c.i.c., a community cooperative backhaul ISP honoured at national and European levels for technical innovation and advocacy, and that continues to operate today. He previously held the appointment of ‘Theme Leader’ (2014-2016) for networking research at SICSA, a computer science alliance among Scottish universities. His current research interests lie in secure, private, and reliable network protocols, and measurement in next generation edge networks.
He is an author on numerous peer-review publications, the recipient of an IEEE best paper award, and a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM.
Research Areas
Internet Measurement, Network Security, Network Privacy
Projects (incomplete)
- Oblivious DNS over HTTPS
- CAP
- ECH
Publications
- Fayed, Marwan, Lorenz Bauer, Vasileios Giotsas, Sami Kerola, Marek Ma- jkowski, Pavel Odinstov, Jakub Sitnicki, Taejoong Chung, Dave Levin, Alan Mislove, Christopher A. Wood, Nick Sullivan. "The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale." In ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (SIGCOMM ’21), August 23–28, 2021, Virtual Event, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 14 pages. 2021. To appear.
- Singanamalla, Sudheesh, Suphanat Chunhapanya, Jonathan Hoyland, Marek Vavruša, Tanya Verma, Peter Wu, Marwan Fayed, Kurtis Heimerl, Nick Sullivan, and Christopher Wood. "Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODoH): A Practical Privacy Enhancement to DNS." In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021, (4):pp. 575–592. 2021
- Li, Wenjie, Sharief MA Oteafy, Marwan Fayed, and Hossam S. Hassanein. "Quality of Experience in ICN: Keep Your Low-Bitrate Close and High-Bitrate Closer." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 29, no. 2 (2020): 557-570.