Ahmed El-Amawy obtained his Ph.D in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983. His current research interest include parallel processing, computer architecture, clock distribution in very large systems, fault tolerant computing and theoretical aspects of interconnection networks. He invented the first clock distribution scheme for large systems that guarantees constant skew upper bound irrespective of network size. He owns two US patents and was listed in Who's Who of American Inventors. Dr. El-Amawy has servrd on several program committees of national and International conferences. He served as the program Co_chair for the 1997 International conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems. He is also serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Computing and Information. He is currently a professor of Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University. He was recently awarded a Chevron Professorship by LSU. Dr. El-Amawy is a senior member of the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society and is a member of the honor society of Phi kappa Phi. Following are some of Dr. El-Amawy's publications:

• A. El-Amawy and S. Latifi. Properties and performance of folded hypercubes. IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 31-42, January 1991.
• A. El-Amawy. Clocking arbitrarily large computing structure under constant skew bound. IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 241-255, March 1993.
• H. Barada and A. El-Amawy. A methodology for algorithm regularization and mapping into optimal VLSI arrays. Parallel Computing, vol. 19, pp. 33-61, 1993.
• A. El-Amawy, M. Naraghi-Pour, and M. Hegde. Noise modeling effects on redundant synchronizers. IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 1487-1494, Dec. 1993.
• M.A. Osman and A. El-Amawy, "Fault-tolerant routing in generalized deBruijn networks," J. of Computing and Information, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 951-970, 1994.
• A. El-Amawy and P. Kulasinghe, "Properties of generalized branch and combine clock networks," IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 541-546, 1995.
• A. Nanavati, S. Iyengar and A. El-Amawy, "Topological properties of the recursive Petersen architecture," J. Math. and Computer Modeling, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 23-33, 1995.
• A. El-Amawy and U. Maheshwar, "A comparative study of synchronous clocking schemes for VLSI systems," J. VLSI Design, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 81-92, 1995.
• A. El-Amawy and Y. Chang Tseng, "Maximum performance pipelines with switchable reservation tables," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 1066-1069, August 1995.
• P. Kulasinghe and A, El-Amawy, "On the complexity of optimal bused interconnections," IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol. 44, no. 10, pp. 1248-1251, October 1995.
• P. Kulasinghe and A. El-Amawy, "On achieving maximum performance in time varying arrays," J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 31, pp. 101-111, 1995.
• U. Maheshwar and A. El-Amawy, "Generalized algorithms for systematic synthesis of branch and-combine clock networks for meshes, tori and hypercubes," IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 1283-1300, Dec. 1995.
• P. Kulasinghe and A. El-Amawy, "Optimal realization of sets of interconnection functions on multiple bus systems," IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 45, no. 8, pp. 964-969, Aug. 1996.
• A. El-Amawy and P. Kulasinghe, "Algorithmic mapping of feedforward neural networks onto multiple bus systems," IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 130-136, Feb. 1997.
• B. Arad and A. El-Amawy, "On fault tolerant training of feedforward neural networks," Neural Networks, vol. 10, no.3, pp. 539-553, 1997.
• A. El-Amawy and P. Kulasinghe, "On complexity of designing minimal cost branch-and-combine clock networks," IEEE Trans. on Computers, vol. 47, no.2, pp. 264-269, Feb. 1998.
• B. Arad and A. El-Amawy, "Mapping a class of Neural Networks on k-ary Cubes," Int. Journal of Telecom. Systems, Special Issue on High Performance Computing, to appear.
• A. El-Amawy, B. Arad and P. Kulasinghe, "Optimal implementation of backpropagation algorithm on k-ary cubes and multiple bus systems," J. of Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing, to appear.