Biography
Tarek El-Ghazawi is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Washington University, where he directs the University’s Strategic Academic Program in High-Performance Computing. He is the founding director of The GW Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies (IMPACT) and was co-founding director of the NSF Industry / University Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC), established with funding from NSF, government and industry. El-Ghazawi’s research interests include high-performance computing, computing architectures, reconfigurable and integrated computing, nanophoton-based computing, computer vision, and remote sensing. He is one of the main co-authors of the UPC parallel programming language and the first author of the UPC book by John Wiley and Sons.
El-Ghazawi is also one of the pioneers in the area of high-performance reconfigurable computing (HPRC). Dr. El-Ghazawi was also one of the first researchers in Cluster Computing and has built the first GW cluster in 1995. He is currently leading efforts to restart computing based on new paradigms, including analog, nanophoton, and neuromorphic. He has served on many boards and served as a consultant to organizations such as CESDIS and RIACS at NASA GSFC and NASA ARC, IBM and ARSC. He has received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988. El-Ghazawi has published more than 250 refereed research publications in his area and his work was funded by government and industry. His research was extensively funded by government organizations like DARPA, NSF, AFOSR, NASA, DoD, and industry organizations like Intel, AMD, HP, SGI. Dr. El-Ghazawi has held many editorial roles, including an Associate Editor for IEEE Parallel and Distributed Computer Transactions and the IEEE Computer Transaction. He has chaired and co-chaired many IEEE international conferences and symposia, including IEEE PGAS 2015, IEEE / ACM CCGrid2018, IEEE HPCC / SmartCity / DSS 2017, to name a few. Professor El-Ghazawi is a member of the IEEE and selected as a member of the Research Faculty of the IBM Center for Advanced Studies, Toronto. He was also awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany (awarded annually to 100 scientists in all areas around the world), the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technical Innovation, and the Gw SEAS Distinguished Researcher Award. El-Ghazawi has served as a Senior Fullbright Fellow from the United States. George Washington University Email: tarek@gwu.edu DVP term expires December 2020