Amr El Abbadi Explained

Amr El-Abbadi
Birth Date:	3 November 1958
Birth Place:	Alexandria, United Arab Republic
Nationality:	Egyptian
Field:	Distributed Systems, Databases
Work Institution:	UCSB, Harold Frank Hall,
Alma Mater:	Cornell University, Alexandria University
Known For:	Databases, distributed systems
Prizes:	ACM Fellow, NSF CAREER Award

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.

Family

El Abbadi is the son of the historian Mostafa El Abbadi.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Amr El Abbadi. UC Santa Barbara. 2019-12-30. 2019-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20191230233114/https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/el-abbadi. dead.
2. News: Profs. El Abbadi, Almeroth, and Belding become IEEE Fellows. University of California, Santa Barbara. November 25, 2013. 2019-12-30. 2019-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20191230233112/https://www.cs.ucsb.edu/news/377. dead.
3. Web site: Morris . Seren . 2022-10-10 . Google Doodle celebrates Egyptian historian Mostafa El-Abbadi . 2024-09-03 . Evening Standard . en.