Ahmed Eltawil
Ahmed M. Eltawil is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean of Research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he joined the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division (CEMSE) in 2019. At KAUST, he is the founder and director of the Communication and Computing Systems Laboratory (CCSL). Prior to that he was with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) from 2005-2021, where he was the founder of the Wireless Systems and Circuits Laboratory (WSCL). Professor Eltawil’s research is in the area of efficient architectures for computing and communications systems in general, and wireless systems in particular, spanning the application domains of low-power mobile systems, machine learning platforms, sensor networks, body area networks and critical infrastructure networks. He received the Doctorate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003 and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (with honors) from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1999 and 1997, respectively. Professor Eltawil has been on the technical program committees and steering committees for numerous workshops, symposia, and conferences in the areas of low power computing and wireless communication system design. He received several meritorious awards and grants, including the NSF CAREER grant supporting his research in low power computing and communication systems. He is a senior member and a distinguished lecture (2023/24) of the IEEE and a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, USA. In 2021, he was selected as “Innovator of the Year” by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He received two US congressional recognition awards for his contributions to innovations in wireless systems in 2021. Professor Eltawil is a veteran of multiple startups in the area of communication technology, all of which have had significant translational research impact.