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Recent Services

• Board Member, Bilkent University, Board of Trustees, 2019–

• Editor-in-Chief, Parallel Computing, 2017–

• Steering Committee
  • Chair-Elect, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2023–.
  • Member, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2017–.
  • Member, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2020–2023.
  • Member, ACM International Health Informatics Symposium, 2012.
• Editorial Board Member (Associate Editor/Subject Area Editor)
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2014–2018.
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2012–2017.
  • SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 2011–2013.
  • Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics, 2011–2016.
  • Parallel Computing, 2014-2017 (Associate Editor, 1 in 4), 2008–2014 (Subject Area Editor)
• Professional Societies
  • Member, SIAM Fellows Canvassing Committee, 2024–2025.
  • Member, SIAM Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms Early Career Prize, 2023.
  • Member, IEEE Computer Society Committee to Assist in Reporting Ethics and Conduct Violations (CS Assist), 2022, 2023.
  • Member, IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award Committee, 2022, 2023.
  • Chair, 2022 IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) The Nominations Committee, 2021, 2023.
  • Member, IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee, 2021.
  • Member, SIAM SIAG on Supercomputing Election Nominating Committee, 2021.
  • Member, ACM SIGBio Election Nominating Committee, 2021.
  • Member-at-Large, IEEE CS Technical and Conference Activities Board (T&C) Executive Committee, 2019–2021.
  • Chair, IEEE CS’s Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), 2016–2017, and 2018–2019.
  • Vice Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio), 2015–2018, and 2018–2021.
  • Member, SIAM SIAG/Supercomputing Best Paper Prize Committee, 2015–2016.
  • Executive Committee Member, Conference Sponsorships, IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) , 2014–2015
  • Awards Committee Co-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (SIGBio), 2012–2015
  • Information Director, ACM SIGHIT Special Interest Group on Health Informatics, 2011–2012.
• General Chair
  • 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB), 2016
  • 16th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom), 2016
  • 1st ACM International Conference on Health Informatics (IHI 2010)
• Program Chair
  • Technical Papers Co-Chair, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, 2023.
  • Papers Program Co-Chair, The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, Jun-Jul 2020, Zurich, Switzerland, Jun 2019.
  • Vice-Chair, 32nd IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Vancouver, Canada, May 2018.
  • Chair, 24th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC), Jaipur, India, Dec 2017.
  • Co-Chair, ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACM BCB), 2014.
• Workshops Chair
  • IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 (Vice-Chair).
  • ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (ACM-BCB), 2013.
• Program Area/Track-Chair
  • Algorithms Track Chair, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS): 2016
  • Algorithms Area Co-Chair, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2020, 2015.
  • Biological/Molecular Computing Track, 13th IEEE Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2011)
  • 4th International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2011)
  • Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing track of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2009)
• Poster Chair
  • ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB), 2012.
• Publicity (Co-)Chair
  • 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB), 2013.
  • IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2012.
• Organizing Committee Member:
  • Workshops Technical Advisor, IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS): 2016
  • International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Big Data, in conjunction with ICPP, 2015, 2014.
  • The Sixth SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC), Jul 2014.
  • Workshop on Parallel Algorithms and Software for Analysis of Massive Graphs (ParGraph), in conjunction with HiPC 2011, HiPC 2012.
  • Minisymposium on Parallel Algorithms and Software for Massive Graphs, SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing & Scientific Computing (PP10), Seattle, WA, Feb 25, 2010.
  • Minisymposium on Combinatorial Scientific Computing and CS&E, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CSE09), Miami, FL, March 2, 2009.
  • Minisymposium on Parallel Sparse Matrix Computations and Enabling Algorithms, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering (CSE09), Miami, FL, March 2, 2009. -Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing & Petascale Simulations, Santa Fe, NM, June 10-13, 2008.
• Program Committee Member:
  • The 33rd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2024.
  • International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC): 2022, 2019, 2017, 2012.
  • IEEE Cluster Conference, 2022.
  • IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing, Sep 2022.
  • IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS): 2019, 2017, 2012, 2011, 2008, 2007.
  • The First SIAM Conference on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA21) 2021.
  • International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS), 2019.
  • International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP): 2019, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2010.
  • The SIAM Workshop on Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC), Feb 2020.
  • IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) 2015. 2009, 2008.
  • International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD) 2015.
  • SC Workshops Committee, 2015, 2014.
  • International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Biomedical Image Analysis (HPC-MICCAI), 2015.
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Distributed Systems (BDDS) 2013.
  • IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data) 2013.
  • IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC): 2012, 2009, 2008.
  • 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Dec 2012.
  • IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2013 2012.
  • Ninth Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT 2012), Oct 2012.
  • International Workshop on Data Intensive Distributed Computing (DIDC): 2016 2014, 2012, 2011.
  • IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB): 2015 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011.
  • Workshop on Data- and Compute-Intensive Clinical and Translational Imaging Applications (DCICTIA-MICCAI), Oct 2012.
  • IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology (HISB).
  • International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Bio-Medicine and Bioinformatics, Aug 2012, Sep 2012, Jul 2011.
  • The Fifth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2012), Aug 2012.
  • The 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications, 2012.
  • Workshop on Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA-SDM), 2012.
  • 1st International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Algorithms and Applications, 2012.
  • Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization (PCO), 2012 2011,
  • ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM-BCB), Aug 2011.
  • The First International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud2011), May 2011.
  • IEEE BIBM Workshop on Computational Issues in Next Generation Sequencing, Dec 2010./
  • SC Doctoral Research Showcase Committee, 2009
  • IPDPS PhD Forum 2010, 2009
  • IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications 2010 (HPCC), 2009, 2008, 2007
  • Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO) 2009, 2008
  • Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004.