Abbas El Gamal
Abbas El Gamal | |
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عباس الجمل | |
| Born | May 30, 1950 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Cairo University Stanford University |
| Known for | Network information theory, FPGA, digital imaging devices and systems |
| Awards | 2016 IEEE Hamming Medal, 2012 Shannon Award, Member of the NAE, IEEE Life Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering, information theory, integrated circuits |
| Thesis | Results in multiple user channel capacity (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas M. Cover |
| Doctoral students | Elif Uysal Alon Orlitsky |
| Website | isl |
Abbas Ahmed Amin El Gamal (born May 30, 1950), or simply Abbas El Gamal is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to network information theory, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and CMOS imaging sensors and systems. He is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. He has founded, co-founded and served on the board of directors and technical advisory boards of several semiconductor, EDA, and biotechnology startup companies.