Umut Acar - Carnegie Mellon University

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Umut A. Acar
Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891

Office: GHC 8205

email: umut@cs.cmu.edu

Tel: (412) 268-6791

Executive assistant: Samantha DiNardo, sdinardo@cs.cmu.edu, (412) 268-7660, GHC 9118

Research

Current Projects

Past Projects

Publications

Books

Principles of Parallel Algorithms and Programming

POP (Principles of Programming) Seminars

I organize POP Seminars.

Teaching

Fall 2013: 15-210: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms
Spring 2013: 15-210: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms
Fall 2012: 15-210: Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms

Students

At Carnegie Mellon

William Duff (undergraduate)
Thomas Marshall (Ph.D. student), jointly advised with Andy Pavlo.
Stefan Muller (Ph.D. student)
Akshay Nanavati (undergraduate), jointly advised with Guy Blelloch.
Ram Raghunathan (Ph.D. student)

At Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Pramod Bhatotia (Ph.D. student), jointly advised with Rodrigo Rodrigues.
Yan Chen (Ph.D. student).
Ezgi Cicek (Ph.D. student), jointly advised with Deepak Garg.

Previous Students and Post-docs

Arthur Chargueraud. Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Joshua Dunfield, Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.
Matthew Hammer. Ph.D. 2012, University of Chicago.
Mike Rainey, Post-doc,, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Ozgur Sumer. Ph.D. 2012, University of Chicago.
Duru Turkoglu. Ph.D. 2012, University of Chicago.
Ruy Ley-Wild. Ph.D. 2010, Carnegie Mellon University.
Jamie Morgenstern. B.S. 2009, University of Chicago.

Recent Professional Activities

Recent Editorial Board and Committee Memberships

BEYONDMR 2015. Program Committee.
ALENEX 2015. Program Committee.
ESOP 2015. Program Committee.
POPL 2015. Program Committee.
FHPC 2013. Program Chair (with Jost Berthold).
PLDI 2013. Program Committee.
FOSSACS 2013. Program Committee.

Recent Public Talks

Work Stealing Unlocked: Thread Scheduling without Synchronization. Bertinoro Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, 2013.
Practical Abstractions for Dynamic Software. Tulane University, 2013.
NSF-CPATH Lecture on Parallelism: Automatic Granularity Control for Efficient Parallelism. University of Puerto RP, 2012.
NSF-CPATH Lecture on Parallelism: Greedy Sharing: Load Balancing on Weakly Consistent Memory. University of Puerto Rico RP, 2012.
Dagstuhl Seminar on Principles of Provenance 2012.

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