Prof. Dr. Tarek El-Ghazawi

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsComputer Architecture, Embedded and Massively Parallel Systems,Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Keywordshigh-performance computing, parallel computer architecture, reconfigurable cumputing, parallel programming

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityWashington
InstitutionGeorge Washington University
InstituteInstitute for Massively Parallel Applications and Computing Technology (IMPACT)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen BeckerInstitut für Technik der Informationsverarbeitung (ITIV), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Karlsruhe
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2013

Programme(s)

2013Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor El-Ghazawi is an international authority in the field of high-performance computing. His research interests include reconfigurable computing systems, manycore and heterogeneous architectures and partitioned global address space (PGAS) parallel programming. In Germany, Professor El-Ghazawi focuses on improving performance, power consumption and usability of large scale high-performance computing systems as well as small embedded computer devices used for control through intelligent hardware-software co-design.