Alex Pothen

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.[1]

Education

Pothen completed his M.S. Degree in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1978[2] and earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University in 1984.[3]

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.[4] Additionally, Pothen was part of the ExaGraph center, funded by the Exascale Computing Project, a joint venture of the DOE and NNSA.[5] He is recognized as the inaugural Chair of the Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms under SIAM.[6]

Currently, Pothen is an editor of the Journal of the ACM,[7] SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing,[8] and Optimization Methods and Software.[9]

Honors

• Received Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi in 2009.[2]
• Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2018[10]
• Awarded the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics in 2021 by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.[11][12]
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2022[13]
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2024[14]

References

1. "Biosketch". Purdue University. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
2. "Distinguished Alumni Awards". IIT Delhi.
3. "CAM Alumnus Alex Pothen (PhD '84) wins George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics | Center for Applied Mathematics". Cornell.edu.
4. "ODU COMPUTER SCIENTISTS WILL LEAD MULT-INSTITUTIONAL DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY INSTITUTE". Old Dominion University.
5. "Professor Alex Pothen is one of the principle investigators of the DOE's ExaGraph project. - Department of Computer Science". Purdue University.
6. "SIAM Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms". SIAM.
7. "JOURNAL OF THE ACM Editorial Board | ACM Digital Library". Journal of the ACM.
8. "SISC – Editorial Board". SIAM.
9. "Learn about Optimization Methods and Software".
10. "Class of 2018". SIAM.
11. Vina, Bella (8 March 2021). "Purdue computer scientist wins George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics". The News-Gazette.
12. "Pothen wins George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics - Department of Computer Science". Purdue University.
13. "Global Computing Association Names 57 Fellows for Outstanding Contributions That Propel Technology Today". ACM.
14. "Pothen named 2024 AMS Fellow - Department of Computer Science". Purdue University.

External links

• Alex Pothen publications indexed by Google Scholar