Amr El-Abbadi | |
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 Amr El-Abbadi in 2019 | |
| Born | 3 November 1958 |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | Cornell University, Alexandria University |
| Known for | databases, distributed systems |
| Awards | ACM Fellow, NSF CAREER Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Distributed Systems, Databases |
| Institutions | UCSB, Harold Frank Hall, |
Amr El Abbadi is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Alexandria and Cornell universities respectively. He is an editor of the VLDB Journal and IEEE Transactions on Computers.[1] He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014[2] for contributions to the design of fault-tolerant large-scale data management systems.
Research
El Abbadi's research addresses the scalability and management of data. It has applications in astronomy, biology, physics, as well as network analysis and data mining. At the same time, as people and enterprises depend increasingly on storing private data in databases on computers, issues of privacy and security become of paramount importance.
The focus of El Abbadi's research is to explore novel methods to solve these scalability problems in a reliable, efficient, and privacy-preserving manner. His approach uses novel techniques and can be categorized as methods using novel hardware solutions, methods using efficient mathematical tools, and methods using good old software solutions for storage management.
Family
El Abbadi is the son of the historian Mostafa El Abbadi.
References
- ↑ "Amr El Abbadi". UC Santa Barbara. Archived from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
- ↑ "Profs. El Abbadi, Almeroth, and Belding become IEEE Fellows". University of California, Santa Barbara. November 25, 2013. Archived from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
External links
- Amr El Abbadi publications indexed by Google Scholar