Sheikh Mohammed honours Egyptian professor with 'Great Arab Minds' award

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has congratulated Egyptian professor Abbas El Gamal for winning the Great Arab Minds award in the field of engineering and technology.

Professor El Gamal, Hitachi America Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, has been honoured for his "pioneering scientific contributions in network information theory that laid the foundation for many modern digital networks around the world".

He has lead key developments in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), driving progress in circuit design and computing, and played a leading role in developing CMOS image sensors, the core technology behind smartphone cameras and modern imaging devices.

His work has also helped develop technologies that support digital sensing, computing and communication systems.

Professor El Gamal has published more than 230 research papers and authored influential works, including Network Information Theory, widely used by students and researchers globally.

Sheikh Mohammed congratulated Professor El Gamal... "Egypt and the Arab world for this prodigy who proves to the world that our nation does not just consume technologies, but possesses minds capable of creating them and leading their scientific future".

الإخوة والأخوات،
كما جرت العادة كل عام للاحتفاء بالعقول العربية ضمن جائزة نوابغ العرب وبعد تلقي آلاف الترشيحات…
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— HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) December 10, 2025

Launched by Sheikh Mohammed in 2022, the Great Arab Minds Award aims to celebrate the achievements of outstanding Arab individuals across six categories, including medicine, economics, natural sciences, engineering and technology, architecture and design, and literature and arts.