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Amr El Abbadi

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Amr El Abbadi
EducationBachelor of Engineering from Alexandria; PhD from Cornell University
Occupation(s)Computer scientist, Distinguished Professor
Employer(s)University of California, Santa Barbara
Known forFault-tolerant, large-scale data management architectures
RelativesMostafa El Abbadi (father)
AwardsIEEE Fellow (2014)

Amr El Abbadi holds the position of Distinguished Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from Alexandria and completed his doctoral studies at Cornell University. El Abbadi contributes as an editor to both the VLDB Journal and IEEE Transactions on Computers. In recognition of his work on fault-tolerant, large-scale data management architectures, he was honored as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014.

Family

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