About

Hi there nice to see you around here, my name is Mheni i know what an unusual name beleive me i get all kinds of spellings on my starbucks coffe.

I grew up in Algeria where i started playing with computers since very little, playing in this context means video games but that’s how i got interested in computers and programming, of course five years spent in college learning more in depth computer science helped. during which i loved getting my hands dirty with school and side projects and that’s what this blog is all about, me sharing and documenting my projects.

Nowadays i am a network engineer/researcher at NIST where i get to work with outstanding people on new and exciting technologies, my works revolves around network performace and innovation, and that includes Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Named Data Networking (NDN), Blockchain and many more topics.

Other than my technolgy obsessions i like going for outdoor runs, exploring new places and taking my DSLR camera for a landscape photo shoot whenever i can.

Latest Blog Post

12 Sep 2026 . networking . The fourth plane : what a quantum testbed runs instead of a script Comments

disclosure first, same as the aerial fiber post: i am on this one. Amlou et al., “A Measurement Plane for Quantum Networking,” arXiv:2607.13291, NIST and Université Grenoble Alpes. i am one of nine authors and not the first, so most of the design credit belongs elsewhere, but i am inside it and cannot review it from outside. what does not change is the format. there is still a section at the end about what i would push on, and this time most of it is aimed at my own paper.

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Archive

Timeline

  • October 2016 - Today

    Guest Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • September 2014 - July 2016

    Masters in computer networks and distributed systems

  • September 2011 - July 2016

    Studying for Bachelors in computer science



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