Presenter

Alex Pothen is a Professor in the department of Computer Science at Purdue. Alex's research interests are in combinatorial scientific computing (CSC), parallel computing, and bioinformatics algorithms. He is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He was the Director of the CSCAPES Institute, a pioneering research center in CSC (2006-2012). He is an editor of the Journal of the ACM, and has served on the editorial boards of SIAM Review, SIAM Books, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and other journals and book series. Alex has advised more than twenty PhD students and post-doctoral scholars, and his research is supported by the DOE, Exasacale Computing Project, NSF, and Intel Corporation.