Amal El-Ghazaly

Amal El-Ghazaly is an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University. Her research combines magnetism and ferroelectricity to create tunable, versatile electronic systems for telecommunications, sensing and actuation. Since joining Cornell, she has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award for research, both the Kenneth A. Goldman Excellence in Teaching Award and the Michael Tien Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award for teaching, and the Zellman Warhaft Faculty Commitment to Diversity Award as well as the Faculty Champion Award for Junior Faculty for service. Prior to joining Cornell in 2019, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California Berkeley, where she was awarded the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017. Her postdoctoral research explored new possibilities for ultrafast all-electrical switching of magnetic nanodots for faster and more energy-efficient computer memories. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where she was funded by both NSF and NDSEG graduate research fellowships as well as the Stanford DARE fellowship until her graduation in 2016. Her Ph.D. research focused on radio frequency devices using magnetic and magnetoelectric thin-film composites for tunable wireless communications. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011.

She has studied and interned not only in the US, but also abroad in Japan, Egypt, and Nigeria over the course of her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Throughout her career, she has been, and continues to be, deeply passionate about empowering students from all backgrounds through higher education and stimulating technology development and science and engineering education across the world.