Amr El Abbadi

Amr El Abbadi is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He obtained B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from 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 (IEEE) in 2014 ''for contributions to the design of fault-tolerant large-scale data management systems.

Research
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.

The focus of 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.

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