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Chaouki T. Abdallah
Dr. Chaouki Abdallah is the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Abdallah serves as chief research officer for the institute, providing overall leadership for the research, economic development and related support units within Georgia Tech. As a direct report to President Ángel Cabrera and a member of the president’s cabinet, he serves as chief research officer for the institute, providing overall leadership for the more than $1 billion annual research enterprise that includes the Georgia Tech Research Enterprise (GTRI), as well as economic development, and related support units within Georgia Tech.
He also serves on the executive committee of the Council on Research for the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), the executive committee for the Government- University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR), and the advisory committee for the Center on Measuring University Performance (MUP).
Dr. Abdallah came to Georgia Tech from the University of New Mexico, where he served as the university’s 22nd president, as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, and department chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department.
Dr. Abdallah oversaw long-range academic planning and efforts to improve student success and retention-achievement and graduation achievement rates during his tenure. He conducts research and teaches systems theory courses focusing on control, communications, and computing systems. The National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the US Naval Research Laboratory, national laboratories, and various companies have funded his research. Dr. Abdallah, fluent in English, French, and Arabic, is a senior member of IEEE and a recipient of that organization’s Millennium Medal.
Dr. Abdallah began his college career at the Faculté d’ingénierie of the Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon, then obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree from Youngstown State University in 1981 and an MS and PhD in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech in 1982 and 1988, respectively. He has published eight books (three as co-editor and five as co-author) and more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and provided expert testimony to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology.