Education
PhD, Johns Hopkins University
Amy Babay
University of Pittsburgh
Informatics and Networked Systems
Profile
Amy Babay joined the School of Computing at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor in 2019. She leads the Resilient Systems and Societies Laboratory, conducting research on dependable computer systems and network infrastructure, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in computer networks and distributed systems. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2018.
Students:
Huzaifah Nadeem, h.nadeem@pitt.edu
Aren Alyahya, ara128@pitt.edu
Anthony Gatti, amg671@pitt.edu
Research
Fault-tolerant and intrusion-tolerant systems, overlay networks, resilience and security, quantum communications (including entanglement routing and the interplay between quantum and classical network requirements)
Most Cited Publications
"Deploying Intrusion-Tolerant SCADA for the Power Grid", Amy Babay, John Schultz, Thomas Tantillo, Samuel Beckley, Eamon Jordan, Kevin Ruddell, Kevin Jordan, and Yair Amir, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Portland, OR, June 2019, pp. 328-335.
"Network-Attack-Resilient Intrusion-Tolerant SCADA for the Power Grid", Amy Babay, Thomas Tantillo, Trevor Aron, Marco Platania, and Yair Amir, in Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, June 2018, pp. 255-266.
"Spotting anomalous trades in NFT markets: The case of NBA Topshot", Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Xin Liu, Prashant Krishnamurthy, and Amy Babay, PLoS ONE 18(6):e0287262, June 2023.
"Practical Intrusion-Tolerant Networks", Daniel Obenshain, Thomas Tantillo, Amy Babay, John Schultz, Andrew Newell, Md. Endadul Hoque, Yair Amir, and Cristina Nita-Rotaru, in Proceedings of the 36th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Nara, Japan, June 2016, pp. 45-56.
"Timely, Reliable, and Cost-Effective Internet Transport Service using Dissemination Graphs", Amy Babay, Emily Wagner, Michael Dinitz, and Yair Amir, in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Atlanta, GA, June 2017, pp. 1-12.
Recent Publications
"Availability and Cost Analysis of Network-Attack-Resilient Byzantine Fault Tolerant Systems", Aren Alyahya, David Tipper, Amy Babay, in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 3895-3908, October 2025.
"On Selecting Paths for End-to-End Entanglement Creation in Quantum Networks", Anoosha Fayyaz, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Kaushik Seshadreesan, David Tipper and Amy Babay, in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 2025, pp. 1225-1236.
"Multi-dimensional Engagement for Richer Hyperlocal Citizen Science Data", Abhishek Viswanathan, Vasco Xu, Amy Babay, Rosta Farzan, Aaron Birdy, in Communities & Technologies (C&T), Siegen, Germany, July 2025, pp. 116-129.
"Service Availability for MEC Location in Radio Access Network", David Tipper, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Amy Babay, Victor Yu Liu, in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Ningbo, China, May 2025, pp. 1-8.
"Tolerating Compound Threats in Critical Infrastructure Control Systems", Sahiti Bommareddy, Maher Khan, Huzaifah Nadeem, Benjamin Gilby, Imes Chiu, John W. van de Lindt, Omar Nofal, Mathaios Panteli, Linton Wells II, Yair Amir, Amy Babay, in Proceedings of the 43rd International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), Charlotte, North Carolina, September 2024, pp. 66-79.