Abdallah Ougazzaden | |
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President of Georgia Tech Europe, the European Campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology | |
Personal details | |
Born | Casablanca, Morocco | March 15, 1960
Honours | French Legion of Honour Medal of City of Metz, France France telecom best research award |
Alma mater | Ph.D., MS, HDR University Paris VII BS University of Hassan II |
Known for | Contributions to fiber optic telecommunications, semiconductor optoelectronic materials and components, solar cells and sensors |
Awards | French Legion D'Honneur Medal of City of Metz, France France telecom best research award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Institutions | Georgia Institute of Technology University of Lorraine TriQuint Semiconductor Agere Systems Bell Labs - Lucent Technologies France telecom |
Thesis | Contribution a la technologie d'epitaxie en phase vapeur aux organometalliques appliquee aux composants optoelectroniques classiques et quantiques a base de gainasp (1990) |
Abdallah Ougazzaden is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and President of Georgia Tech Europe, the European campus of Georgia Tech. He is the co-founder and co-president of Institut Lafayette,[1] an innovation platform in advanced semiconductor materials/devices. In addition, he previously served for 3 terms as Director of the joint international lab UMI between Georgia Tech and the French CNRS.[2] Ougazzaden's specific research areas of expertise cover the fields of semiconductor materials, photonics, and optoelectronics. He has published over 450 papers and generated 26 patents in these areas.[3][4]