Amreesh D. Phokeer
Internet Measurement and Data Expert at The Internet Society

Get in touch!
phokeer_at_isoc_dot_org
Located in Mauritius
Bored islander, always trying to find a excuse to step on a plane in a perpetual quest for newness. Dad x3, trail runner, scuba diver and watercolour enthusiast in a past life…will get back to these one day.
Currently working as an Internet Measurement Expert at ISOC to untangle this giant web. My areas of interest are Interdomain routing, network security, Internet measurements, content delivery and QoE, with a particular emphasis on African networks. I am a co-chair of the AFRINIC Measurement Working Group. On the side, I am a Research Committee member of the GFCE and I am a frequent speaker at NOG meetings in Africa. I enjoy reviewing papers as a TPC member of several academic and technical conferences including ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Traffic Measurement and Analysis (TMA), AFRICOMM, AFPIF, AIS, SAFNOG, etc.
I completed a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa in 2021 and I obtained an M.Eng in Computer Engineering at Telecom Nancy, France (2008) as well as an MSc in Information Security at the University of London, UK (2013). Between 2008 and 2010, I worked as a Guest Researcher at NIST in the Information Discovery, Use and Sharing division.
Thesis
- PHD THESISImproving content delivery in low-resource networks: A case study of the African Internet Ecosystem2021
Selected publications
- ACM IMC
- ACM IMCOn the free bridge across the digital divide: Assessing the quality of facebook s free basics service2016
- ACMDEV
- SIGCOMM CCRInside the walled garden: Deconstructing facebook s free basics program [BEST CCR]ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2017
- IEEE Africon
- IEEE INFOCOM
- IEEE COMSNETS