Dr. Magdy is director of The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS), and department head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is also Edmiston Professor of Computer Engineering and Lamson Professor of Computer Science.  He has been a faculty member at CACS since 1985.  He received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in Egypt, Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Windsor in Canada. Dr. Magdy is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 2003 Education Award and he is an IEEE Fellow.  He served on the governor's commission for developing a comprehensive energy policy for the state of Louisiana.  He represented the CAS Society on the IEEE National Committee on Engineering R&D Policy, IEEE National Committee on Communication and Information Policy and IEEE National Committee on Energy Policy.

Dr. Magdy has graduated more than 30 PhD and about 175 graduate students.  He has published over 300 papers in related journals and conferences.  He edited, co-edited and co-authored five books in his research interests.  He was, and has been, guest editor (or co-guest editor) of eight special issues in VLSI Signal Processing, Learning on Silicon, Multimedia Architecture, Digital and Computational Video, Perception on a Chip and Systems on a Chip. He has given numerous invited lectures and talks nationally and internationally and has consulted in industry.

He is the vice president for conferences of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society, where he has served in many editorial, administrative, and leadership capacities, including Vice President for Technical Activities. He was chair and founder of  "Circuits and Systems for Communication" Technical Committee. He was chair of VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA) Technical Committee (TC). He is general chair of the forthcoming ISCAS 2007 to be held in New Orleans. He was general chair of the Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception held in 1993 in New Orleans. He was general chair of the IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS) held in 1994 in Lafayette and co-general chair of MWSCAS held in2003 in Cairo. He served as general chair of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLS) held in 1998 inLafayette, LA; general chair of the VLSI Signal Processing Systems Workshop (SIPS) held in 2000 in Lafayette, LA; general chair of the International Workshop of Digital and Computational Video (DCV) held in 2002 in Clearwater Beach, FL; and general chair of the IEEE Computer Society Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) held in 2004 in Lafayette, LA.

He was associate editor of the Circuits and Devices magazine, Transaction on VLSI Systems, Transaction on Neural Networks and Transaction on Circuits and Systems II.  Dr. Magdy is Associate Editor of INTEGRATION, VLSI Journal and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems.  He was associate editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers.  He is regional editor for the VLSI Design Journal and on the advisory board of the Journal on Microelectronics Systems Integration.  He also served on the Distinguished Visitors Program for IEEE Computer Society, 1991-1994, and Circuits and Systems Distinguished Program, 1999-2001. Dr. Magdy was chair of the ASSP Technical Committee on Signal Processing Systems Design and Implementation. He is faculty advisor for the IEEE Computer Student Chapter at UL Lafayette, the winner of the 2002 Outstanding Chapter Award. He won UL’s 1988 Researcher of the Year award and 1993 Distinguished Professor award at UL.

Dr. Magdy served on the technology panel and advisory board of the U.S. Department of Education project, "Special Education Beyond Year 2010," 1990-1993.  He was vice president of Acadiana Technology Council.  He was on the organizing committee for Acadiana's Third Internet Workshop in 1999.  He gave the keynote speech in "Acadiana Y2K Workshop" in 1999 in Lafayette. He is a member of the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce where he was a member of the Economic Development, Education and Tourism Committees. Dr. Magdy was also a technology columnist and writer for the Lafayette newspaper, The Daily Advertiser.