Mert Hidayetoğlu

Bio

Mert is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His research is at the intersection of high-performance computing and software systems for exascale computing. His work focuses on optimizing communications between GPUs, especially on hierarchical systems involving multi-GPU nodes. Mert recently obtained PhD in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a Givens fellow with Argonne National Laboratory and a member of IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Research.

Honors & Awards

• George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, ACM / IEEE-CS (2021)
• Graph Challenge Champion (leading author), MIT / Amazon / IEEE (2020)
• SC20 Best Paper Award (leading author), ACM / IEEE (2020)
• Givens Fellowship, Argonne National Laboratory, DOE (2018)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• PC Member - Programming Models, 37th IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'23) (2022 - Present)

Professional Education

• Master of Science, Bilkent University (2015)
• Bachelor of Science, Bilkent University (2013)
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (2022)
• Master of Science, Bilkent University (2015)
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2022)

Stanford Advisors

• Alex Aiken, Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor