Ümit V. Çatalyürek

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. ( Complete Vita )

Research

My research interests broadly includes topics in high performance computing, combinatorial scientific computing and biomedical informatics. In particular, I am interested in graph and hypergraph partitioning, workload and data decomposition for irregular domains, scheduling, parallel graph and hypergraph algorithms, run time systems for high performance computing and data-intensive computing, parallel algorithms for scientific and biomedical applications. More information can be found on my research page or HPC Lab website that I lead.

Recent Funding

• NFS CC-NIE, OCI-1246001, Innovations to Transition a Campus Core Cyberinfrastructure to Serve Diverse and Emerging Researcher Needs, 10/1/12-9/30/14.
• DOE/NEUP, Pathway Aggregation in the Risk Assessment of Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection (PR&PP) of Nuclear Energy Systems, 10/1/11-9/30/13.
• NSF PetaApps, OCI-0904809: Taming the scale explosion in nuclear structure calculations, 9/1/09-8/31/14.
• NSF PetaApps, OCI-0904802: Enabling Breakthrough Kinetic Simulations of the Magnetosphere via Multi-zone Petascale Computing, 8/1/09-7/31/13.
• NIH/NCI R01: Informatics methods for identifying breast cancer control genes and proteins, 6/1/09-4/30/14.
• DOE SciDAC Institute: Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES), 9/15/06-9/30/12.
• NSF CAREER: Scalable Combinatorial Scientific Computing, 3/1/07-2/28/13.

Teaching

I teach Theory and Design of Digital Computers (ECE 662), Scientific Computing on Emerging Architectures (ECE 694), Advanced Topics in Biomedical Data Management (BMI 731) and Advanced Computer Design (ECE 864) courses. more...

Recent Services

• Subject Area Editor, Parallel Computing
• Subject Area Editor, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Associate Editor, SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing
• Associate Editor, Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics
• Awards Committee Co-Chair, ACM SIGBioinformatics Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine, 2012-
• Steering Committee Member, ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, 2012.
• Information Director, ACM SIGHIT Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, 2011-2012.
• Workshops Chair, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010.
• Workshops Chair, ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (ACM-BCB), 2013.
• Poster Chair, ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB), 2012.
• Publicity Co-Chair, 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB), 2013.
• Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2012.
• Program Vice Chair, Biological/Molecular Computing Track, 13th IEEE Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2011)
• Co-Chair, Algorithms Track, 4th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2011)
• General Chair, 1st ACM International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI 2010)
• Workshops Vice-Chair, 23rd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2009)
• Co-Chair, Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing track of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2009)
• Organizing Committee Member:
  • The Sixth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC), Jul 2014.
  • Workshop on Parallel Algorithms and Software for Analysis of Massive Graphs (ParGraph), in conjunction with HiPC 2011, HiPC 2012.
  • Minisymposium on Parallel Algorithms and Software for Massive Graphs, SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing & Scientific Computing (PP10), Seattle, WA, Feb 25, 2010
  • Minisymposium on Combinatorial Scientific Computing and CS&E, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CSE09), Miami, FL, March 2, 2009
  • Minisymposium on Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations and Enabling Algorithms, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CSE09), Miami, FL, March 2, 2009
  • Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing & Petascale Simulations, Santa Fe, NM, June 10-13, 2008
• Program Committee Member:
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Distributed Systems (BDDS) 2013.
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data) 2013.
  • International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP): 2013, 2012, 2010.
  • IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS): 2012, 2011, 2008, 2007
  • IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC): 2012, 2009, 2008 .
  • International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis(SC): Nov 2012.
  • 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Dec 2012.
  • IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2013, 2012.
  • Ninth Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2012), Oct 2012.
  • IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB): 2013, 2012, 2011.
  • Workshop on Data- and Compute-Intensive Clinical and Translational Imaging Applications (DCICTIA-MICCAI), Oct 2012.
  • IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB), Sep 2012, Jul 2011.
  • International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Bio-Medicine and Bioinformatics, Aug 2012.
  • The Fifth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2012), Aug 2012.
  • The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 2012.
  • Workshop on Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA-SDM), 2012.
  • 1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms and Applications, 2012.
  • Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization (PCO), 2012, 2011.
  • ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB), Aug 2011.
  • The Fourth International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC 2011), Jun 2011.
  • The First International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud2011), May 2011.
  • IEEE BIBM Workshop on Computational Issues in Next Generation Sequencing, Dec 2010.
  • IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) 2009, 2008
  • SC Doctoral Research Showcase Committee, 2009
  • IPDPS PhD Forum 2010, 2009
  • IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
  • Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO) 2009, 2008
  • Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004

Software

I have contributed to the design and implementation of the following software tools and middlewares: PaToH, Zoltan, DataCutter, STORM. more...