Tarek Abdelzaher

Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher
Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher
Born	Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher; Egypt
Alma mater	Ain Shams University (B.Sc., M.Sc., Electrical & Computer Engineering); University of Michigan (Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, 1999);
Occupations	Computer scientist, professor
Employer	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Known for	Real-time computing; Cyber-physical systems (CPS); Social sensing and IoT;
Notable work	Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Real-Time Systems (20 years)
Title	Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science; Willett Faculty Scholar
Awards	Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award in Real-Time Systems (IEEE, 2012); Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2011); ACM Fellow (2019); IEEE Fellow (2021);
	Scientific career
Doctoral advisor	Kang G. Shin
Website	https://abdelzaher.cs.illinois.edu

Tarek Farouk A. Abdelzaher is an Egyptian-born computer scientist.

Abdelzaher earned bachelor's and master's degrees in at computer and electrical engineering at Ain Shams University, followed by a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1999, advised by Kang G. Shin. He is the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Abdelzaher was chief editor of the Journal of Real-Time Systems for twenty years. In 2019, Abdelzaher was awarded fellow status by the Association for Computing Machinery. He was granted an equivalent honor by the IEEE in 2021, "for contributions to cyber-physical systems and real-time computing."