Tarek Abdelzaher

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,^[1] followed by a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1999, advised by Kang G. Shin.^[2] He is the Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.^[3] Abdelzaher was chief editor of the Journal of Real-Time Systems for twenty years.^[4] In 2019, Abdelzaher was awarded fellow status by the Association for Computing Machinery.^[5] He was granted an equivalent honor by the IEEE in 2021,^[6] "for contributions to cyber-physical systems and real-time computing."^[7]