# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abbas-el-gamal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:43.774Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abbas-el-gamal"
name: "Abbas El Gamal"
slug: "abbas-el-gamal"
description: "Abbas Ahmed Amin El Gamal, or simply Abbas El Gamal is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to network information theory, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and CMOS imaging sensors and systems. He is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. He has founded, co-founded and served on the board of directors and technical advisory boards of several semiconductor, EDA, and biotechnology startup companies."
tagline: "Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stanford2010AbbasElGamal.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1950-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.148957333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://profiles.stanford.edu/abbas-el-gamal"
sources:
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    title: "আব্বাস এল গামাল"
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    title: "Abbas El Gamal"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump