Ahmed Sameh
Ahmed Sameh
Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science

Joined department in 1997

Education:
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1968)

Ahmed Sameh is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science. His current research interests include numerical linear algebra, and the design and performance analysis of parallel numerical algorithms needed in various science and engineering applications. He has served on the editorial boards of: IEEE Transactions on Computers, Computing, SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing, Parallel Computing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Computer Physics Communications, International Journal of High Speed Computing, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering, and International Journal of Parallel Programming.

He joined Purdue in 1997 as Head of Computer Science, after being head of computer science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the holder of the William Norris Chair for Large-Scale Computing. He was also a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from 1968 to 1991, and 1992-93. During his tenure at Illinois, he served as an associate director, and director, of the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development (CSRD).

He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAS, and a member of SIAM. He has also received the IEEE's 1999 Harry Goode Award for "seminal and influential work in parallel numerical algorithms."

Selected Publications
S. Kilic, F. Saied, and A. Sameh, "Efficient iterative solvers for structural dynamics problems", Computers & Structures, Volume 82, No. 28, pp. 2363-2375, 2004.
A. Baggag and A. Sameh, "A nested iterative scheme for indefinite linear systems in particulate flows", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol 193, pp. 1923-1957, 2004.
S. Sambavaram, V. Sarin, A. Sameh, and A. Grama, "Multipole-Based Preconditioners for Large Sparse Linear Systems", Parallel Computing, Volume 29, No. 9, pp. 1261-1273, September 2003.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Ahmed Sameh and Ananth Y. Grama, Collaborative Research: Developing a Robust Parallel Hybrid System Solver, National Science Foundation, 9/15/2006-8/31/2009.
Zhiyuan Li, Ananth Y. Grama, and Ahmed Sameh, AAD: Software Tools for Asynchronous-Algorithm Development, National Science Foundation, 1/1/2005-12/31/2008.
Last Updated: September 18, 2008 05:57pm
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