Ahmed I. Zayed is an Egyptian American mathematician focusing on mathematical analysis and its applications. He is a professor at DePaul University of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in the DePaul College of Science and Health.
Zayed earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Cairo University in 1970 and 1974. He completed a PhD at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1979. His dissertation, Generalized Functions and Boundary Value Problems, was jointly supervised by Gilbert G. Walter and Marya Alin Ziko.
He was on the faculty of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, joining the university as an assistant professor in 1980 and subsequently promoted to associate and full professor. He moved to the University of Central Florida in 1990, and to his current position as professor at DePaul in 2001.
Zayed is the author of books including:
His edited volumes include: