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Abdella Battou (Fed)

Division Chief

Abdella Battou is Chief, Smart Connected Systems, in the Communication Technology Laboratory (CTL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He also leads the NIST Cloud Computing Program. Prior to joining CTL, he served as the Division Chief of the Advanced Network Technologies Division from 2012 to 2021 in NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory.

From 2009 to 2012, Abdella served as the Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) GigaPop founded by University of Maryland, George Washington University, Georgetown University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. From 2000 to 2009, he was Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development for Lambda OpticalSystems, where he was responsible for overseeing the company's system architectures, hardware design and software development teams. Additionally, he served as senior research scientist for the Naval Research Laboratory's high speed networking group, Center for Computational Sciences from 1992 to 2000.

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Publications

Clock synchronization characterization of the Washington DC metropolitan quantum network (DC-QNet)

Author(s)
Wayne McKenzie, Anne Marie Richards, Shirali Patel, Thomas Gerrits, T. G., Steven Peil, Adam Black, David Tulchinsky, Alexander Hastings, YaShian Li-Baboud, Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Alan Mink, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Matthew Diaz, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Mheni Merzouki, Pranish Shrestha, Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, Eleanya Onuma, Daniel Jones, Atiyya Davis, Thomas A. Searles, J.D. Whalen, Kate Collins, Qudsia Quraishi, La Vida Cooper, Harry Shaw, Bruce Crabill, Oliver Slattery, Abdella Battou
Quantum networking protocols relying on interference and precise time-of-flight measurements require high-precision clock synchronization. This study describes

100-km entanglement distribution with coexisting quantum and classical signals in a single fiber

Author(s)
Anouar Rahmouni, Paulina Kuo, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Ivan Burenkov, Yicheng Shi, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Nijil Lal Cheriya Koyyottummal, Dileep Reddy, Mheni Merzouki, Lijun Ma, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov, Oliver T. Slattery, Thomas Gerrits
The development of prototype metropolitan-scale quantum networks is underway and entails transmitting quantum information via single photons through deployed

An Adaptable AI Assistant for Network Management

Author(s)
Amar Abane, Abdella Battou, Mheni Merzouki
This paper presents a network management AI assistant built with Large Language Models. It adapts at runtime to the network state and specific platform
Created May 31, 2018, Updated December 8, 2022