Abdallah Al Magal
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Abdallah Al Magal (Arabic: عبد الله المعجل) is a Saudi writer and university professor. He was born in Saudi Arabia. He is the vice president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology for university development, and he started his job in December 2009. He is directly responsible to the Executive Vice President, for Administration and Finance.[1][2]
His biography[edit]
Abdallah Al Magal is a Saudi writer and university professor. He was born in Saudi Arabia. He is the vice president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology for university development, and he started his job in December 2009. He is directly responsible to the Executive Vice President, for Administration and Finance. He is an engineer and university professor with eleven years of experience as a cultural ambassador and director of international students. He has taught at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where he held the position of Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. Before that, he was the head of the department.
Al Magal joined King Abdullah University from the Ministry of Higher Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he worked for eight years as the Undersecretary for Cultural Relations. During his work in this position, he organized scientific and cultural relations between Saudi universities and institutions, including the most prominent International Book exhibitions and markets. In addition, he was the general supervisor of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Al Magal also managed dozens of delegations and cultural attachés of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia abroad, which supervise the affairs of Saudi students abroad.
He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from George Washington University (1997), USA, where he specialized in computer architecture and software design and architecture, and his thesis was partially supported by the Center of Excellence in Space Information and Data Science at Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Denver (1991), Colorado, USA, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from King Saud University (1987) in Saudi Arabia. He was a visiting research scientist at the Laboratory for Advanced Parallel Computing at George Washington University (May 1997 - June 1998).
He has published more than 40 research papers and technical research reports in scientific journals, given more than 80 technical and professional presentations[3], lectures, and seminars, and has been invited to speak at many prestigious international and regional conferences, symposia, workshops and forums. His research interests are similar to King Abdullah University's research fields, including high performance computing, parallel processing and designs, performance evaluation and workload characterization, the great challenge of celestial problems, interdisciplinary information systems, intelligent multimedia database systems, and Internet computing, e-government applications and technologies. He has been actively involved in many joint US National Science Foundation-NASA initiatives on evaluation projects under the auspices of the NASA High Performance Computing and Communications Program.
In one research effort, Dr. Al Magal evaluated the performance and architecture of parallel supercomputer architectures such as Cray T3D and C90, Intel Paragon, IBM SP-2, and CM-5 notebook machines. He was a research assistant at the Center of Excellence in Space Information and Data Science and at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (1993-1997). He has received many honors from the academic and scientific community, including a scientific award from the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a member of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the International Seminar in Salzburg, and the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Computer Society, the Association for Computing Equipment, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Saudi Computer Society, and the Saudi Society for Technology Transfer and Development.[4][5]
His works[edit]
- The Second Alienation (Original title: Al Ghorba Al Thanya), Dar Al Saqi for printing and publishing, 2005.[6]
Prizes[edit]
- A scientific award from the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
References[edit]
- ↑ "TimelineEvents - الدكتور عبدالله المعجل". web.archive.org. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ↑ "د. عبد الله المعجل". web.archive.org. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ↑ "بحث أوجه التعاون بين وزارة الدفاع وهيئة تقويم التعليم والتدريب". web.archive.org. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ↑ "TimelineEvents - الدكتور عبدالله المعجل". web.archive.org. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ↑ "الغربة الثانية (كتاب إلكتروني) - عبد الله المعجل | أبجد". web.archive.org. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
- ↑ "عبد الله المعجل | أبجد". web.archive.org. 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-11-20.
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