Ph.D.Professor, Department of Computer Science
Abdou Youssef received the B.S. degree in Mathematics from The Lebanese University, Lebanon, in 1981, the M.A. and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. He taught for a year in 1982 at the Institute of Applied Sciences, The Lebanese University. He has been with the Department of Computer Scince Computer Science (formerly Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at The George Washington University, Washington DC, since 1987, serving as Assistant Professor from 1987 to 1993, Associate Professor starting from 1993 to 1999, and Professor since 1999. In 1994-95 he spent his Sabbatical at the National Institute of Science and Technology and, partly, at the Johns Hopkins University. He has published numerous papers in the areas of interconnection networks and computer architecture, parallel processing, fault tolerance, parallel algorithms, data compression, image processing, multimedia indexing, video processing and transmission, and watermarking. He co-edited a book titled "Interconnection Networks for High-Performance Parallel Computers", published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. He is the recepient of four Teacher of the Year Awards from the the Department and the School on Engineering and Applied Science at GWU. He is listed in the Who is Who Among America's Teachers. Professor Youssef is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
E-mail: ayoussef@gwu.edu