Mustafa Özdal received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Univ. of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Bilkent, he was a research scientist in the Strategic CAD Labs of Intel, Oregon. He has served in the executive and
the technical program committees of several conferences. He is a
recipient of the
IEEE/ACM
William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, ACM SIGDA
Technical Leadership Award, TUBITAK Postdoctoral Reintegration Fellowship, and the
European
Commission MSCA Individual Fellowship.
His current research interests include algorithms for large-scale
problems, high performance computing, parallel and heterogeneous
computing, computer-aided design algorithms, and hardware/FPGA
accelerators for big data applications.