Tarek Abdelzaher
Egyptian computer scientist
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Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher is an Egyptian-born computer scientist.
- Ain Shams University (B.Sc., M.Sc., Electrical & Computer Engineering)
- University of Michigan (Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, 1999)
Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher | |
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| Born | Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher |
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| Occupations | Computer scientist, professor |
| Employer | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
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| Notable work | Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Real-Time Systems (20 years) |
| Title | Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science; Willett Faculty Scholar |
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| Doctoral advisor | Kang G. Shin |
| Website | https://abdelzaher.cs.illinois.edu |
Abdelzaher earned bachelor's and master's degrees in at computer and electrical engineering at Ain Shams University,[1] followed by a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1999, advised by Kang G. Shin.[2] He is the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.[3] Abdelzaher was chief editor of the Journal of Real-Time Systems for twenty years.[4] In 2019, Abdelzaher was awarded fellow status by the Association for Computing Machinery.[5] He was granted an equivalent honor by the IEEE in 2021,[6] "for contributions to cyber-physical systems and real-time computing."[7]
