Abbas El Gamal

Abbas El Gamal ( born 1950 ) is an Egyptian- American mathematician and electrical engineer.

El Gamal studied at 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 his doctorate in 1978. Afterwards, he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California since 1981 Stanford University, where he was (Hitachi North America Professor ) Professor. From 2004 to 2009 he was head of the Information Systems Laboratory. In 2012 he was on the board of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

He was 2009/2010 Visiting Professor MacKay and fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University. It dealt, inter alia, information theory in networks, digital imaging techniques and image systems (1997 to 2002 he was a senior scientist at 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 has received the 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award. He was involved in several start-ups in Silicon Valley. In 1984 he founded LSI Logic Research Lab. In 1986 he was a founder ( and Chief Scientist ) of Actel ( the FPGA market ) and 1999 co-founder and CTO of Silicon Architects, which was acquired by Synopsys in 1995 as Vice President, he was from 1995 to 1997. Also in 1999 he was one of the founders of Pixim, which should commercialize results from the Programmable Digital Camera Project at Stanford.

He is not to be confused with the Egyptian Taher Elgamal computer scientist ( inventor of a public-key cryptosystem ).