Tarek A. El-Ghazawi

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Tarek A. El-Ghazawi

Professor and Department Chair


Contact:

Office Phone: 202-994-2607
SEH 6560 | Office hours: W: 4:00 – 5:00 pm; Or By Appointment

Professor Tarek El-Ghazawi conducts research in High-Performance Computing, Reconfigurable Computing, Parallel and Distributed Systems, Advanced Processors, Parallel Computer Architecture, Parallel Input/Output, Experimental Computer Performance Evaluations.


  • B.S., Helwan University, Cario, Egypt, 1980
  • M.S., New Mexico State University, 1984
  • Ph.D., New Mexico State University, 1988
  • Computer engineering
  • Computer architecture
  • High-performance computing
  • A. Anbar, O. Serres, E. Kayraklioglu, A. Badawy, T. El-Ghazawi, “Exploiting Hierarchical Locality in Deep Parallel Architectures,” ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimizations, vol. 13, issue 2, 2016.
  • O. Serres, A. Kayi, A. Anbar, T. El-Ghazawi, “Enabling PGAS Productivity with Hardware Support for Shared Address Mapping: A UPC Case Study,” ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimizations, vol. 12, issue 4, 2016.
  • S. Sun, A. Badawy, T. El-Ghazawi, V. Sorger, "The Case for Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Interconnects (HyPPI): A low Latency, Energy and Area Efficient On-chip Interconnects," The IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 7, no. 6, 2015.
  • A. Kayi, O. Serres, T. El-Ghazawi, "Adaptive Cache Coherence Mechanisms with Producer-Consumer Sharing Optimization for Chip Multiprocessors," IEEE Transactions on Computers. vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 316-328, 2015.
  • A. Kayi, O. Serres, T. El-Ghazawi, “Bandwidth Adaptive Cache Coherence Optimizations for Chip Multiprocessors,” International Journal of Parallel Programming, vol. 42, no.3, pp. 433–455, 2014.
  • A. Kayi, T. El-Ghazawi, and G. Newby: Performance Issues in Emerging Homogeneous Multicore Architectures. Advances in System Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Enhancement. Elsevier Journal: Simulation, Modeling Practice and Theory, Vol 17, Issue 9, pp 1485-1499, October 2009.
  • El-Araby, El-Ghazawi, LeMoigne, and Irish: Reconfigurable Processing for Satellite On-Board Automatic Cloud Cover Assessment (ACCA). Journal of Real-Time Image Processing. Springer. Vol4 No3, August 2009 ISSN 1861-8200.
  • Esam El-Araby, Ivan Gonzalez, Tarek A. El-Ghazawi: Exploiting Partial Runtime Reconfiguration for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) 1(4): (2009)
  • Hyperspectral Image Assessment of Oil Contaminated Land Foudan Salem, Menas Kafatos, Tarek El_Ghazawi, Richard Gomez, Ruixin Yang. International Journal of Remote Sensing (In Press) Esam El-Araby, Ivan Gonzalez, Tarek A. El-Ghazawi: Exploiting Partial Runtime Reconfiguration for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing. ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS) 1(4): (2009)
  • Proshanta Saha, Esam El-Araby, Miaoqing Huang, Mohamed Taher, Sergio López- Buedo, Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, Chang Shu, Kris Gaj, Alan Michalski, Duncan A. Buell: Portable library development for reconfigurable computing systems: A case study. Parallel Computing 34(4-5): 245-260 (2008)
  • Suboh A. Suboh, Mohamed Bakhouya, Jaafar Gaber, Tarek A. El-Ghazawi: An interconnection architecture for network-on-chip systems. Telecommunication Systems 37(1-3): 137-144 (2008)
  • Tarek El-Ghazawi, Esam El-Araby, Miaoqing Huang, Kris Gaj, Volodymyr Kindratenko, and Duncan Buell, "The Promise of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 69-76, February 2008
  • Buell, El-Ghazawi, Gaj, and Kindratenko, High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing" IEEE Computer (Guest Editors Intro), March 2007 (Vol. 40, No. 3).
  • Tarek A. El-Ghazawi, Francois Cantonnet, Yiyi Yao, Smita Annareddy, Ahmed S. Mohamed: Benchmarking parallel compilers: A UPC case study. Future Generation Comp. Syst. 22(7): 764-775 (2006)
  • T. El-Ghazawi, W. Carlson, T. Sterling, and K. Yelick, UPC: Distributed Shared Memory Programming. John Wiley &Sons Inc., New York, 2005. ISBN: 0-471-22048-5. (May 2005)
  • T.El-Ghazawi, K.Gaj, N. Alexandridis, F. Vroman, N. Nguyen, J. Radzikowski, P. Samipagdi, and S. Suboh, Performance Study of Job Management Systems,. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Vol. 16 Issue 13, October 2004.
  • El-Askary, H.M.; Sarkar, S.; Kafatos, M.; El-Ghazawi, T.A. A multisensor approach to dust storm monitoring over the Nile delta. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing (TGARS) Volume 41 No. 10, Oct. 2003.
  • S. Kaewpijit, J. Le Moigne, and T. El-Ghazawi, "Automatic Reduction of Hyperspectral Imagery Using Wavelet Spectral Analysis," IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing (TGARS), Vol. 41 No. 4, April 2003, pp 863-871.
  • S. Nastea, O. Frieder, and T. El-Ghazawi, "Load-Balanced Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplications on Highly Parallel Computers," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 46, No. 2, Nov. 1997.