Jacob A. Abraham is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

and

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who is a professor emeritus and currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...

. He is a Fellow of the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office ...

and the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...

Early life and education

He was born in Kerala, India on December 8, 1948. He received a bachelor's degree in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from the

University of Kerala University of Kerala (formerly known as University of Travancore) is a state-run public university in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital of Kerala, India. It was established in 1937 by a promulgation of the Maharajah of Travancore, Chithi ...

in 1970. He received an M.S. degree, also in electrical engineering, and Ph.D., in electrical engineering and computer science, from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1971 and 1974 respectively. His PhD advisor was

Edward J. McCluskey Edward Joseph McCluskey (October 16, 1929 – February 13, 2016) was a professor at Stanford University. He was a pioneer in the field of Electrical Engineering. Biography McCluskey was born Oct 16, 1929, in New York City. He graduated fro ...

Scholarly Contributions

He was at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during 1975 - 1988. He has been at University of Texas at Austin since 1988. His research interests include VLSI design and test, formal verification, and fault-tolerant computing. He has supervised more than 60 Ph.D. students. His former students include W. Kent Fuchs,

Prithviraj Banerjee Prithviraj "Prith" Banerjee (born 1960) is an Indian American academic and computer scientist and is currently the Chief Technology Officer at ANSYS and board member at Cray and CUBIC. Previously, he was a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry w ...

and

Kaushik Roy Kaushik Roy is a researcher and educator in the area of electrical and computer engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds the position of Edward G. Tiedemann, Jr., Distinguished Professor of El ...

. He has served as an associate editor of several IEEE Transactions, and as a chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing.

Awards and recognition

Abraham is a recipient of numerous awards including the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, the Jean-Claude Laprie Award, and the IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal. He also was a fellow of both IEEE and ACM.

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* * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists Indian computer scientists Stanford University School of Engineering alumni University of Kerala alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty 2001 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellows of the IEEE {{US-compu-bio-stub