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Who am I?

I am a CNRS senior research scientist (DR2) working at LIP, ENS de Lyon, in the ROMA team. Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Parallel Algorithms Project, CERFACS, Toulouse, France. Before that, I was at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. I have received BSc (1997), MSc (1999), and PhD degrees (2005) from the Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, and HDR (2019) from ENS de Lyon.

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New code and paper Bottled: Algorithms for the bottleneck matching problem in bipartite graphs (June 2023).
Proudly serving in the prize committee of SIAM’s George Polya Prize in Applied Combinatorics (Nominations Opens in May 1, 2023).
Proudly serving in the 2023 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award Committee.
(For convenient access) My schedule for the Comité de suivi individuel of the PhD students at LIP for Spring 2023.
1st ACDA workshop in Aussois, and reflections.
Updated code: Hashing for hyperedge queries (April 2022, originally Feb 2021). See also the updated technical report.
New paper: Parallel hashing for hypergraphs (local copy), with Somesh Singh (March 2022).
Updated code MatchMaker comes with a julia interface (mmaker.jl). (Feb 2022).
Software is our heritage: Started saving...
Homeland project, jointly with Christian Schulz of Heidelberg University, is funded for 2022--2023.
Service recognition: Proud to have received IEEE TPDS Award for Editorial Excellence 2021
Somesh Singh collaborates with the PeachTree project.
Service Serving as the co-chair, with Russ Harmer, of the thesis committee of LIP
Service Serving as the secretary of SIAM Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA).
Filip Pawłowski graduated and is now a post-doc at Huawei Zürich Research Center (Dec 2020).
Ioannis Panagiotas is now a post-doc at LIP6, Sorbonne University (November 2020).
Filip Pawłowski has received an innovation award at the MIT/Amazon/IEEE Graph Challenge for his paper (local copy). (August 2020).
PIKS project has started (Feb 2020).
PeachTree project has started (Feb 2020).
New code: Karp--Sipser-based heuristics for matchings in hypergraphs (May 2020).
New code: Fast almost optimal algorithms for bipartite matching (Feb 2020, updates April 2020).
Ioannis Panagiotas has received a best paper award at SEA^2 for his paper. A local copy is here.
A SIAM News article on discrete algorithms and combinatorial analysis presented at SIAM CSE'19.
Check out SIAM Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA). Students can join for free!
Check out IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP): an international forum to promote parallel processing research and education, and participates in setting up technical standards in this area. Join for free!
CSC Research Blog: Updates, news, and everything about research on Combinatorial Scientific Computing.
Parallel Computing (an international journal): Acting as a subject area editor.
SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications: Acting as an associate editor. A recent update of the editorial policy of SIMAX calls for papers with applications in graph theory and data science.
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC): Acting as an associate editor.
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) : Acting as an associate editor.
Slides from Tensor Decompositions: Applications and Efficient Algorithms minisymposium which took place within SIAM CSE17.
Slides from CSC minimyposia which took place within SIAM PP'16.
Slides from Parallel tensor computations minimyposium which took place within SIAM PP'16.
Slides from Sparse matrix and tensor computations at Parallel Matrix Algorithms and Applications (PMAA16) that took place in Bordeaux, July 6--8, 2016.
Check out the SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing (SIAG/SC), become a member, get informed, and receive additional discounts at SIAM Parallel Processing Conferences.