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{{Infobox scientist American }}
 * name        = Mootaz Elnozahy
 * native_name = 'المعتزبالله نبيل النزهي
 * native_name_lang = lang-ar
 * image       = mootaz.jpg
 * image_size  = 185
 * caption     = Mootaz Elnozahy in 2013
 * birth_name  = Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy
 * birth_date  = {{birth date|mf=yes|1962|3|21}}
 * birth_place = Cairo, Egypt
 * nationality = Egyptian
 * alma_mater  = {{Plainlist|
 * {{nowrap|Cairo University (B.S., M.S.) }}
 * Rice University (M.S., Ph.D.) }}
 * thesis_title = Manetho: Fault tolerance in distributed systems using rollback-recovery and process replication
 * thesis_year = 1993
 * website     = {{URL|http://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/mootaz-elnozahy}}
 * field       = {{Plainlist|
 * Computer Science
 * }}
 * work_institutions = {{Plainlist|
 * King Abdallah's University Of Science and Technology
 * Carnegie Mellon University
 * IBM Research Division

Mootaz Elnozahy
Mootaz Elnozahy is an Egyptian-American Scientist. He is currently a professor of computer science and the dean of computer, electrical and mathematical sciences, and engineering at King Abdallah’s University of Science and technology. His areas of expertise are concentrated in high-performance computing, parallel processing, systems architecture, power-aware computing, reliability, distributed systems, and operating systems.

Early life and education
Born Elmootazbellah Nabil Elnozahy ( المعتزبالله نبيل النزهي ) on March 21st, 1962 in Cairo, Egypt where he attended the Lycee Francais du Caire from 1966 to 1979. He obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1984), M.S. in Computer Engineering (1987) - both from Cairo University. He moved to Houston, Texas to attend Rice University where he earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science (1990 and 1993).

In 1994, he earned the Ralf Budd Award for the best Ph.D. thesis in Engineering from Rice University. For 3 years, he was holder of IBM graduate fellowship while a graduate student at Rice. Mootaz won a Research Division Award at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (1992) for his contributions to the Highly Available Network File Server (HANFS) Project.

Career
In 1993, he joined Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor of Computer Science until he accepted a Staff Research Member position at IBM Research division in 1997. From 1994 to 1997, he was a Visiting Research Scientist at Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) as well as a consultant at Bell Laboratories Research (Lucent Technologies).

In 2005, he transferred to the Systems and Technology division at IBM as a Senior technical staff, then, later, assumed a Senior Management position at IBM research in 2007 until 2012. In 2006, IBM awarded him the Master Inventor for life title, in recognition of his 56 U.S. Patents. Dr. Elnozahy collected various other IBM awards including the Outstanding Invention Award, for innovative solutions in the Bureau of Census project in 2002, the President’s Award in 2003, and the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2008.

In 1998, he accepted an Adjunct assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of Texas-Austin and became an adjunct professor in the same department and University in 2012 before accepting his current position at King Abdallah’s University of Science and Technology.

Awards
Professor Elnozahy was elected Member, IFIP 10.4 Working Group in 2013 and before that he became an IEEE Fellow in 2010. Twice, he earned the Best Paper Award, in 2005 at the 8th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, then, in 2011, at the 2nd International Green Computing Conference. In 2003, he earned the Trailblazer Award from the University of Texas at Austin. The National Science Foundation presented him with the CAREER award in 1995.

Academic Activities
For the past 2 decades, Dr. Elnozahy served as a member in various technical program committees. He also was invited as a keynote speaker, distinguished lecturer, and panelist in numerous forums and events around the world.

Personal life
He is married to Hanaa Youssef and they have two daughters: Mariam and Sarah.