Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi is a tenured Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The George Washington University. He is the founding director of the GWU High Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCL), in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at GWU.  More recently, Dr. El-Ghazawi has co-founded the NSF Industry/University Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) for which he is a Co-Director.   CHREC is a national center with two operational sites at University of Florida, GWU, VaTech and BYU.  Dr. El-Ghazawi has been also elected to the director of IMPACT: The Institute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technologies, which has resulted from a GWU wide competition for academic excellence.

Dr. El-Ghazawi’s research interests include high-performance computing, computer architectures, reconfigurable and embedded computing, and applications to remote sensing and image processing.  He has received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from New Mexico State University in 1988.  Tarek El-Ghazawi is one of the principal co-authors of the UPC programming language.  He was the first author of the first formal specifications of the language (UPC V1.0) and the first author of the UPC book that interprets the language, from John Wiley and Sons.  Since its inception, Tarek El-Ghazawi has been the convener of the UPC consortium. UPC is a locality aware parallel extension of ISO C which is known to provide high-productivity.  In 2005, IBM has won the HPCC Challenge Award by using UPC on its Blue Gene L, the fastest computer in the world.  UPC runs ubiquitously on nearly all clusters and parallel computers.  It has enabled many difficult-to-program irregular applications due to its shared space, while providing good performance due to its locality awareness and low overhead.

El-Ghazawi has published over a 150 refereed research publications in these areas.  Dr.  El-Ghazawi is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computers and has been a guest editor for IEEE Computer and the IEEE Concurrency magazines.  Dr. El-Ghazawi’s research has been supported by government and industry including NSF, NASA, DARPA/DoD, IBM, SGI, and Microsoft.  Dr. El-Ghazawi has received the IBM faculty award in 2004.  He has served as the Prinicpal Investigator for over 30 research grant/contract.  He has served on the Science Advisory Board of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, the Technical Advisory Board of DSPLogic, and on the Advisory Board for the IEEE Task force for Cluster Computing.  He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the ACM, IFIP WG 10.3, and Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society. 

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