Amr El Abbadi is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduate ...
. He obtained B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
and
Cornell universities respectively. He is an editor of the ''VLDB Journal'' and ''IEEE Transactions on Computers''. He was named
(IEEE) in 2014
''for contributions to the design of fault-tolerant large-scale data management systems.
Prof. El Abbadi's research addresses the scalability and management of data. It has applications in 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 on computers, issues of privacy and security become of paramount importance.
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.
El Abbadi is the son of the historian
Mostafa El Abbadi.
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1958 births
Living people
Egyptian computer scientists
Alexandria University alumni
Cornell University alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Place of birth missing (living people)
Egyptian expatriates in the United States
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