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Abbas El Gamal

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

Director, Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University


Contact Information

Professor Abbas El Gamal
Room 262, Packard Electrical Engineering Building,
350 Serra Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305
ph : (650)723-3473
fax : (650)724-3648
email : abbas@ee.stanford.edu

    

Administrative Assistant: Kelly Yilmaz
Room 259, Packard Electrical Engineering Building,
350 Serra Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305
ph : (650)723-4539
fax : (650)724-3648
email : yilmaz@stanford.edu

    

ISL Administrator: Denise Murphy
Room 267, Packard Electrical Engineering Building,
350 Serra Mall,
Stanford, CA 94305
ph : (650)723-4731
fax : (650)723-8473
email : denise@ee.stanford.edu

Biography

Abbas El Gamal received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1972, the M.S. in Statistics and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1977 and 1978, respectively. From 1978 to 1980 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at USC . He has been on the faculty of of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford since 1981. He was on leave from Stanford from 1984 to 1988 first as Director of LSI Logic Research Lab, then as cofounder and Chief Scientist of Actel corporation. In 1990 he cofounded Silicon Architects, which is currently part of Synopsys. His research has spanned several areas including digital imaging, network information theory, and integrated circuit design. He has authored or coauthored 150 papers and 25 patents in these areas. He has served on the board of directors and advisory boards of several IC and EDA companies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.


Research

El Gamal research group is currently involved in projects in the areas of digital imaging, network information theory, and FPGA architectures. Several of these projects are joint with faculty from other labs in EE and other departments and centers including Computer Science, Psychology, and Stanford Genome Technology Center.

List of Publications

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Classes 2007-2008

Classes 2006-2007

Classes 2005-2006

Classes 2004-2005


Adventure


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