Abdel-Khalik joined the Georgia Tech faculty as the Georgia Power Distinguished Professor in 1987. He was appointed to his current position as the Southern Nuclear Distinguished Professor in 1993. He served as Associate Director of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering between 1990 and 1992 and as the Georgia Tech Secretary of the Faculty between 2002 and 2006. He served as a member of the USNRC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) between 2006 and 2012, including two years as Chairman (2009-2011).  Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty, Abdel-Khalik served as a faculty member in the Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Department (1976-1987) and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemical Engineering (1973-1975) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abdel-Khalik also served as a Senior Engineer at Babcock and Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Division (1975); as a Guest Research Scientist at the Nuclear Research Center in Karlsruhe, Germany (1979); and as an Invited Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (1982).

Abdel-Khalik currently serves as a member of the External Advisory Boards for the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University and the Mechanical Engineering Department of King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for Badr University in Cairo, Egypt.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing strategic and practical support for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing support for the launch of newly funded research centers and for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing strategic and practical support for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing strategic and practical support for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Primary responsibilities include: Providing strategic and practical support for development of large-scale research funding proposals.

Simon Zhang is a research scientist in the Institute for People and Technology. Zhang graduated with a degree in Industrial Design at Georgia Tech in 2024. As a frontend engineer and UX designer, Zhang currently supports AI-CARING (AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups) and GT Research Connect, a career platform to connect research faculty with funding. They focus on building interfaces gounded in people's needs and crafting robust modern web applications. Outside of work, their interests lie in color systems, typography, and Asian American studies.