• Office Address: Claxton 320
• Phone: 865-974-9305
• E-mail: ahmad@icl.utk.edu

Education

• PhD in Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2015
• MS in Computer Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt, 2010
• BS in Computer Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt, 2006

Ahmad Abdelfattah, research assistant professor at the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, received his PhD in computer science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2015, where he was a member of the Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC). His research interests span high performance computing, parallel numerical algorithms, and general purpose GPU computing. He currently serves as the principal investigator of the MAGMA library. Abdelfattah has been acknowledged by NVIDIA and AMD for contributing to their numerical BLAS libraries, cuBLAS and rocBLAS, respectively.