Alex Pothen

Alex Pothen has moved to Purdue University as a Professor of computer science and Director of the Computing Research Institute. His webpage at Purdue (fairly basic at this time) is here. Alex is also the Director of the CSCAPES Institute funded by the Department of Energy, with Purdue, Old Dominion, Sandia National Labs, Argonne National Lab, Ohio State and Colorado State Universities as member institutions.

Alex's research interests are in combinatorial scientific computing (CSC): aspects of scientific computing that can be formulated as discrete problems and solved by combinatorial algorithms. These interests also include parallel computing, the interaction of architectures with algorithms, bioinformatics, and computational biology.

Alex currently teaches advanced courses on Combinatorial Scientific Computing, High Performance Computing, Approximation Algorithms, Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology, and Computational Systems Biology.