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Alex Pothen

American computer scientist and applied mathematician

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Alex Pothen was a researcher.

Alex Pothen is an Indian-born American computer scientist and applied mathematician who is a professor at Purdue University. His research primarily focuses on combinatorial scientific computing (CSC), graph algorithms, parallel computing, and bioinformatics algorithms.

Pothen was born in Munnar, Kerala, India.

Education

Pothen completed his M.S. Degree in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1978

Career

Pothen held the position of Director at the Institute for Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES), which received funding from the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy between 2006 and 2012. Additionally, Pothen was part of the ExaGraph center, funded by the Exascale Computing Project, a joint venture of the DOE and NNSA. He is recognized as the inaugural Chair of the Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms under SIAM.

Currently, Pothen is an editor of the Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and Optimization Methods and Software.

Honors Received Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi in 2009. Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2018 Awarded the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics in 2021 by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2022 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2024

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Occupation
Education
Cornell University
Employers
Purdue University
Awards
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; George Pólya Prize; ACM Fellow; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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