Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher is an Egyptian-born computer scientist. Abdelzaher earned bachelor's and master's degrees in at computer and electrical engineering at

Ain Shams University Ain Shams University ( ar, جامعة عين شمس) is a public university located in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1950, the university provides education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels. History Ain Shams University was fou ...

, followed by a doctorate from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1999, advised by

Kang G. Shin Kang Geun Shin is a South Korean-born computer scientist and the Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan. He is also the founding director o ...

. He is the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science at the

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. Abdelzaher was chief editor of the ''Journal of Real-Time Systems'' for twenty years. In 2019, Abdelzaher was awarded

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status by the

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. He was granted an equivalent honor by the

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in 2021, "for contributions to cyber-physical systems and real-time computing."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Abdelzaher, Tarek Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Egyptian computer scientists Egyptian expatriates in the United States Ain Shams University alumni Academic journal editors University of Michigan alumni 2019 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE Grainger College of Engineering faculty