Amr El Abbadi

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.

Amr El-Abbadi
Professor Amr El-Abbadi in 2019
BornNovember 3, 1958
Alexandria, Egypt
NationalityEgyptian
Alma materCornell University,
Alexandria University
Known fordatabases, distributed systems
AwardsACM Fellow, NSF CAREER Award
Scientific career
FieldsDistributed Systems,
Databases
InstitutionsUCSB,
Harold Frank Hall,

Prof. El Abbadi's research addresses some of the most fundamental problems facing us at the beginning of the twenty-first century, namely, how to manage the ever-increasing amount of data humanity is generating and studying. The issue of scalability of data is encountered in a wide variety of applications, including astronomy, biology, physics, as well as network analysis and data mining. At the same time, as people and enterprises depend increasingly on storing private data in databases and computers, issues of privacy and security become of paramount importance.

The main challenge is to efficiently manage this large amount of growing data so as to respond in a timely and secure manner to the queries posed by scientists, biologists, engineers, analysts, etc. The focus of Prof. El Abbadi's research is to explore novel methods to solve these scalability problems in a reliable, efficient, and privacy-preserving manner. His approach uses novel techniques and can be categorized as methods using novel hardware solutions, methods using efficient mathematical tools, and methods using good old software solutions for storage management. Prof. El Abbadi's research is grounded in specific applications that ensure that his results are practical and can have the strongest impact on the real world.

El Abbadi is the son of famed Egyptian historian Mostafa El Abbadi.

References
  1. "Amr El Abbadi". UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  2. "Profs. El Abbadi, Almeroth, and Belding become IEEE Fellows". University of California, Santa Barbara. November 25, 2013. Retrieved 2019-12-30.


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