Biography:

Professor Said Abdel-Khalik is a 1967 graduate of the University of Alexandria. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973 and remained at Wisconsin as a faculty member rising to the rank of full professor in 1982. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty in 1987 as the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor and was appointed to his current position as the Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor in 1993.

Professor Abdel-Khalik is a world-renowned expert in the area of reactor engineering and thermal-hydraulics. Over the past thirty five years, he has supervised over one hundred graduate theses in both Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, including 36 PhD theses. He has published nearly 300 papers and publications in leading journals and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of both the American Nuclear Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Glenn Murphy Award of the American Society for Engineering Education, the Outstanding Achievement Award of the American Nuclear Society, and the Georgia Tech Outstanding Educator Award. Professor Abdel-Khalik currently serves as Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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