Dr. Abbas El Gamal – Electrical engineer wins several awards and one of amongst them listed above.
Best known for his works on network information theory, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and CMOS imaging sensors and systems.
Work :
- Chair – Department of Electrical Engineering , Stanford University
- Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
- Director – Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
- Assistant Professor – Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Education :
- Ph.D :
- M.S : Statistics
- M.S: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- B.S (Hons) : Cairo University, Egypt
Awards :
- 2016 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
- 2014 Viterbi Lecture, University of Southern California
- 2013 Shannon Memorial Lecture, UCSD
- 2013 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
- 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award , IEEE Information Theory Society
- 2000 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Books :
Network Information Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 2011) – with Young-Han Kim
Business :
- LSI Corporation – Director – 1984
- Actel Corporation – Co-Founder – 1986
- Silicon Architects – Founder – 1990
- Pixim Inc – Co-Founder – 1998
- InscoPix – Co-Founder – 2011
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American / American-Arab / Egyptian-American