Members
Head Of The Lab
Assoc. Prof. Didem Unat
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, USA
Contact: dunat@ku.edu.tr
Google Scholar CV (last updated in Jan 2022)
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Tuğba Torun
Contact: ttorun@ku.edu.tr
MS&Ph.D.: CS from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Research Focus: Graph and hypergraph partitioning, scalable deep learning
Dr. Muhammad Aditya Sasongko
Contact: msasongko17@ku.edu.tr
Ph.D.: Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Focus: Performance Models, Profiling Tools
Ph.D. Students
Ilyas Turimbetov
Contact: iturimbetov18@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Research Focus: Quantum Computing, Digital Annealers, Quantum Algorithms.
Doğan Sağbili
Contact: dsagbili17@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
Research Focus: Novel Programming models for emerging architectures.
MS Students
Muhammet Abdullah Soytürk
Contact: msoyturk20@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: B.S. CS from Abdullah Gül University, Turkey
Research Focus: Collective Communication, Profiling Tools
Mandana Bagheri Marzijarani
Contact: mmarzijarani20@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: B.S CS from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran Iran.
Research Focus: Runtime Systems, Task-based Programming Models
Mustafa Orkun Acar
Bachelor: B.S CS from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Research Focus: Performance Optimization of Deep Learning Frameworks
Endi Merkuri
Contact: emerkuri20@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: B.S CS from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Research Focus: Graph Algorithms
Aydın Özcan
Contact: aozcan21@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: Istanbul Technical University
Research Focus: Profiling Tools, Benchmarking
Javid Baydamirli
Contact: jbaydamirli21@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: ADA University, Azerbaijan
Research Focus: Taming heterogeneity, programming models
Ismayil Ismayilov
Contact: iismayilov21@ku.edu.tr
Bachelor: ADA University, Azerbaijan
Research Focus: Graph partitioning, scalable deep learning
Alumni
Erhan Tezcan
MS Thesis Title: Exploring Mixed and Multi-Precision SpMV for GPUs
Najeeb Ahmad
First Position:
Ph.D. Thesis Title: Platform and Data-Aware Execution of Sparse Triangular Solve on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous Systems
Fareed Mohammad Qararyah
First Position: PhD Student at Chalmers University
MS Thesis Title: Training Memory Constrained Deep Learning Models Using Automatic Dataflow-Graph Partitioning
Palwisha Akhtar
MS Thesis Title: ComScribe: A Communication Monitoring Tool for Multi-GPU Platforms
Buse Yılmaz
First Position: Assistant Professor at İstinye University, Turkey
Postdoctoral
Burak Bastem
First Position: Yapı Kredi AR-GE
MS Thesis Title: Tiling-Based Programming Model for GPU Clusters Targeting Structured Grids
Doğa Dikbayır
First Position: PhD student at Michigan State University, USA
MS Thesis Title: Kernel and Launch Time Optimizations For Deep Learning Frameworks
Mohammad Laghari
First Position: PhD student at Virginia Tech, USA
MS Thesis Title: Data Placement on Heterogeneous Memory Architectures
Pirah Noor Soomro
First Position: PhD student at Chalmers University
MS Thesis Title: A Framework for Task Placement on Multicore Architectures
Muhammad Nufail Farooqi
First Position: Postdoc at Chalmers University
PhD Thesis Title: Asynchronous Runtime for AMR Applications on Exascale Systems
Hassan Salehe Matar
First Position: ASML at Netherlands
PhD Thesis Title: Runtime Race Detection for Shared Memory Programming Models
Can Aknesil
Bachelor: Koç University, Turkey
First Position: KTH Royal Institute of Technology – MSc Embedded Systems, Sweden
Collaborators
Anastasiia Butko (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Ann Almgren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Anshu Dubey (Argonne National Laboratory)
Deniz Yüret (Koç University)
John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Mehmet Belviranli (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Metin Muradoğlu (Koç University, Mechanical Engineering)
Milind Chabbi (Uber, USA)
Tan Nguyen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Wahib Attia (AIST, JAPAN)
Xing Cai (Simula Research Laboratory, Norway)