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

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(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 {{Egypt-bio-stub