Jacob A. Abraham is an American

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and

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who is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. He is a member 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 ...

and the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

Early life and education

He received a bachelor's degree in

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from the University of Kerala in 1970. He received an M.S. degree, also in electrical engineering, and Ph.D., in electrical engineering and computer science, from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

Awards and recognition

Abraham is a recipient of numerous awards including the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, the Jean-Claude Laprie Award, and the IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal. He also was a fellow of both IEEE and ACM.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists Indian computer scientists Stanford University School of Engineering alumni University of Kerala alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE {{US-compu-bio-stub