Abbas El Gamal
Abbas El Gamal (* 1950 ) is an Egyptian - American mathematician and electrical engineer.
El Gamal graduated from Cairo University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1972 and from Stanford University with a master's degree in statistics in 1977 and a doctorate in 1978. He was then assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California and since 1981 Stanford University, where he became a professor ( Hitachi North America Professor ). From 2004 to 2009 he headed the Information Systems Laboratory there . In 2012 he was head of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
He was visiting professor and MacKay Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and visiting professor at Tsinghua University in 2009/2010 . Among other things, he dealt with information theory in networks, digital imaging processes and imaging systems (from 1997 to 2002 he was a senior scientist in the Stanford Programmable Digital Camera Project ) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA).
El Gamal is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and received the Claude E. Shannon Award in 2012 . For 2016 he was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal .
He was involved in several company foundings in Silicon Valley . In 1984 he founded LSI Logic Research Lab. In 1986 he was one of the founders (and chief scientists) of Actel (which commercialize FPGAs) and in 1999 co-founded and CTO of Silicon Architects, which was acquired by Synopsys in 1995 and was vice-president from 1995 to 1997. Also in 1999 he was one of the founders of Pixim, which was supposed to market results from the Programmable Digital Camera Project in Stanford.
He is not to be confused with the Egyptian computer scientist Taher Elgamal (inventor of a public key cryptosystem).
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| SURNAME | El Gamal, Abbas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian-American electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |