Umut Acar | Carnegie Mellon University

Umut A. Acar

Assistant Professor

Computer Science Department

Carnegie Mellon University

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

Broadly construed, I research problems of scalability. Current foci include the design and development of abstractions, algorithms, languages, and systems for scalable parallel, dynamic, and interactive computation.

Current Projects

Past Projects

Publications

POP (Principles of Programming) Seminars

I organize the 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

Advising

Current

At Carnegie Mellon

William Duff (undergraduate)
Nicolas Feltman (Ph.D. student), jointly advised with Kayvon Fatahalian.
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.

Past

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.
Ph.D. Thesis: Adaptive Inference for Graphical Models.
Duru Turkoglu. Ph.D. 2012, University of Chicago.
Ph.D. Thesis: Stable Algorithms and Kinetic Mesh Refinement.
Ruy Ley-Wild. Ph.D. 2010, Carnegie Mellon University.
Ph.D. Thesis: Programmable Self-Adjusting Computation.
Jamie Morgenstern. B.S. 2009, University of Chicago.
B.S. Thesis: Adaptive and Precise Root Solving for Polynomials.

Recent Professional Activities

Recent Editorial Board and Committee Memberships

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.
Journal of Functional Programming (JFP) Special Issue on ICFP 2010. Guest Editor.

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.