Amr El Abbadi is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the

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. He obtained B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from

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and Cornell universities, respectively. He is an editor of the ''VLDB Journal'' and ''

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''. He was named

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(IEEE) in 2014 for contributions to the design of fault-tolerant large-scale data management systems''.''

Family

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

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* 1958 births Living people Egyptian computer scientists Alexandria University alumni Cornell University alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty Fellows of the IEEE Egyptian expatriates in the United States {{Egypt-bio-stub