Fouad Tobagi

Fouad Tobagi is a professor in the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering.

Education

Fouad Tobagi received the Engineering Diploma from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, France, in 1970. He completed MS and PhD in Computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Academic career

Fouad Tobagi joined the Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering faculty in 1977. At that time, he was also part of the .
Fouad Tobagi was the director of the Stanford Computer Forum from 2001 to 2004
In 2019, Professor Tobagi is the Associate Chair of Graduate Education in Electrical Engineering, where he is responsible for curriculum, student progress, teaching assistants and their training.

Research

Professor Tobagi's current interests include voice and video communication over the internet, wireless and mobile networks, network design and provisioning, and network resource management. Past research interests include:

packet radio
satellite networks
local area networks
fast packet switching
multimedia networking
networked video services
multimedia applications

Awards and honors

2016, Inaugural
1998, Kuwait Prize in Applied Sciences, administered by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Science
1985, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to the field of computer communications and local area networks.