Mert recently obtained PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research is at the intersection of theory and applications of large-scale high-performance computing and software systems for exascale computing. His work focuses on sparse and unstructured data accesses, communications, and computations on heterogeneous system architectures involving multi-GPU nodes. He was a Givens fellow with Argonne National Laboratory and a member of IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Research. He is a recipient of the SC20 Best Paper Award and HPEC’20 Graph Challenge Champion awards, and ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship in 2021. He will join Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar.

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