Brief background

·      Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory between Oct 2001-Oct 2008)

·      PhD in Computer science with the option of computational science and engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1997—2001)

·      MS and BS in Computer Science from Bilkent University, Turkey, in 1994 and 1996. 

Research Interests

My research is on combinatorial scientific computing, which deals with combinatorial problems arising in applications and algorithms of scientific computing.  My early work was on traditional applications of combinatorial scientific computing such as sparse matrix computations and parallel computing, where the combinatorial algorithms work on the back stage to play an enabling role. Recently, I have started looking at areas where combinatorial problems are directly associated with scientific and engineering goals. 

My current projects are on graph data mining and interconnection networks.

Announcements

-- I have been recently elected Secretary of SIAM Activity Groups of Supercomputing, for which I will be serving until December 31, 2009.

-- I will be at

·      DOE Workshop on building simulations at NREL, Denver, CO

·      SIAM Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, July 2009.

--I am on the organizing/program committee of

·      CSC 2009, the SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (Oct 29-31), which will be held in Monterey California, in conjunction with the SIAM Linear Algebra Conference.

·      International Conference on Computer and Information Science, North Cyprus,

·      Siam Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, Seattle, WA, March 2010.

Most recent papers

·      S. Kamil, L. Oliker, A. Pinar, and J. Shalf, “Communication Requirements and Interconnect Optimization for High-End Scientific Applications," to appear in IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed Computing. (pdf)

·      V. Donde, V. Lopez, B. Lesieutre, A. Pinar, C. Yang, and J. Meza, “Severe multiple contingency screening in electric power systems," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. (pdf)

·      Pinar, E. Tabak, and C. Aykanat, “One dimensional partitioning for heterogeneous systems,'' in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. (pdf)

·      Pinar, J. Meza, V. Donde, and B. Lesieutre, “Optimization Strategies for the Vulnerability Analysis of the Power Grid," submitted to SIAM Journal on Optimization. (pdf)