Biographical Sketch
I received my B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Bilkent University, Turkey, in Computer Engineering and Information Science, in 1992, 1994, and 2000, respectively. Before joining the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Ohio State University in October 2001, I worked at Johns Hopkins University as a Research Associate and at the University of Maryland as a Visiting Research Scientist. Currently, I also hold a joint appointment in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
My research interests include graph and hypergraph partitioning, workload and data decomposition for irregular domains, scheduling, parallel graph and hypergraph algorithms, high-performance runtime systems for component architectures and data-intensive computing, parallel algorithms for scientific applications. more...
I teach Advanced Topics in Biomedical Data Management (BMI 731) and Advanced Computer Design (ECE 864) courses. more...
I have contributed to the design and implementation of the following software tools and middlewares: PaToH, Zoltan, DataCutter, STORM. more...