Abbas El Gamal (born May 30, 1950) 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.