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

• NSF CAREER: Scalable Combinatorial Scientific Computing, 3/1/07-2/28/12.
• DOE SciDAC Institute: Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES), 9/15/06-9/14/11.
• NIH/NCI R01: Informatics methods for identifying breast cancer control genes and proteins, 6/1/09-4/30/14
• NSF PetaApps, OCI-0904802: Enabling Breakthrough Kinetic Simulations of the Magnetosphere via Multi-zone Petascale Computing, 8/1/09-7/31/13.
• NSF PetaApps, OCI-0904809: Taming the scale explosion in nuclear structure calculations, 9/1/09-8/31/14,

Teaching

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

Recent Services

• Subject Area Editor, Parallel Computing
• Workshops Chair, 24th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 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:
  • 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 High Performance Computing (HiPC) 2009, 2008
  • IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2008, 2007
  • IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) 2009, 2008
  • SC Doctoral Research Showcase Committee, 2009
  • IPDPS PhD Forum 2009, 2010
  • High Performance Computation Conference (HPCC) 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...

GRA Positions at HPC Lab

We are looking for motivated new graduate students in ECE or CSE programs who have interest in algorithms and parallel/high performance computing. Applicants should hold a Master's degree in Computer Engineering or in a related field. Well-qualified students with a Bachelor's degree are also encouraged to apply. Excellent academic record and letters of recommendation attesting to research ability and motivation are required. Successful applicants will be offered yearly stipend and full tuition coverage. Interested applicants can cantact Prof. Catalyurek at catalyurek.1 at osu.edu.