Dr. Didem Unat and her team had a new year lunch.

Congrats to Muhammad Aditya Sasongko, a Ph.D. student of Dr. Didem Unat for his paper getting published at ACM Digital Library: ReuseTracker: Fast Yet Accurate Multicore Reuse Distance Analyzer | ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization

“Koç Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Fakültesi’nden Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Didem Unat, “Teknik bilgisayar biliminde yükselen kadın lider ödülü”nün sahibi oldu. Unat, Uluslararası Bilgisayar Bilimleri Topluluğu ACM SIGHPC tarafından verilen ödülü ABD dışında alan ilk bilim insanı oldu. Dr. Unat aynı zamanda Avrupa Araştırma Konseyi’nden Bilgisayar Bilimleri alanında ERC fonu alan Türkiye’den ilk araştırmacı.” https://www.milliyet.com.tr/gundem/bilgisayar-biliminde-yukselen-turk-akademisyen-lider-secildi-6599916

Congrats to Najeeb Ahmad, a Ph.D. student of Dr. Didem Unat for his paper getting accepted to IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems.  His paper proposes a split execution model for Sparse Triangular Solve and presents novel algorithms to split the execution of the solver between CPU and GPU. Paper, presentation and artifacts will be made available here soon.

Didem Unat (Professor, Computer Engineering) is awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her proposal titled “BeyondMoore: Pioneering a New Path in Parallel Programming Beyond Moore’s Law” with a budget of 1.5M EUR. Her project is going to address the post-Moore’s Law crisis in the field of computer programming and proposes a novel programming model for emerging architectures. She is also the first recipient of this grant in Computer Science from Türkiye. We wholeheartedly congratulate her on this big achievement and wish her every success in the project.

Najeeb Ahmad, a Ph.D. student of Dr. Didem Unat received the "Best Artifact" award at Euro-Par 2020 conference (24% acceptance rate) held virtually at Warsaw, Poland. Out of the 39 accepted papers, artifacts for 13 papers were accepted and one was chosen for this award.

Dr. Didem Unat received a new EuroHPC grant - Towards Extreme Scale Technologies and Applications.  The action has a total budget of 2.6M Euros with 6 partners in Europe, where Dr. Unat will be leading the Consortium.

Congrats to Najeeb and Buse for their paper accepted at Europar'20, a major European Parallel Processing conference. Our paper is titled as "A Prediction Framework for Fast Sparse Triangular Solves", which presents a machine learning approach for selecting algorithms for sparse triangular solves. If interested, send us an email to receive a pre-camera-ready version.

The ComDetective tool on detecting inter-thread communication is presented at a major high performance computing conference, Supercomputing 2019. The conference is held in Denver, Colorado, USA in November. The paper is available online and the tool is open source for interested users. If you encounter any issues with the tool, send us an email.

Dr. Unat was awared the Science Academy, Türkiye Young Scientist Award (BAGEP) this year. The award ceremony took place in Hacettepe University on April 26th, 2019. Here is a picture from the ceremony while receiving the award with her dear son, Poyraz.