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Dr. Cevdet Aykanat is a Professor of Computer Engineering in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Prof. Aykanat earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, and received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Ohio State University, where he was a Fullbright scholar, He worked at the Intel Supercomputer Systems Division, Beaverton, Oregon, as a research associate. Since 1989, he has been affiliated with the Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University. Research interests of Prof. Aykanat mainly include parallel computing (especially for irregular and unstructured applications), parallel scientific computing and its combinatorial aspects, parallel computer graphics applications, parallel data mining, graph and hypergraph partitioning, load balancing, high-performance information retrieval, parallel and distributed databases, grid computing and high performance computing for big data applications". Prof. Aykanat (co)authored above <color blue>100 articles in prestigious SCI journals</color> such as 
    * //IEEE Transanctions on Computers//, 
    * //IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems//, /*
    * //J. Supercomputing//, */
    * //Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing//, 
    * //Parallel Computing//, 
    * //IEEE Trans. Power Systems//, 
    * //IEEE Trans. Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits//, 
    * //Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery//, 
    * //Information Systems//, 
    * //Neurocomputing//, 
    * //Neural Networks//, 
    * //Computers & Graphics//, 
    * //Computer-Aided Design//, 
    * //Visual Computer//, /*
    * //Computer Journal//, */
    * //Computer Networks//, 
    * //Information Processing & Management//, 
    * //ACM Trans. on the Web//,  
	* //ACM Trans. on Parallel Computing//,
	* //ACM Trans. on Mathematical Software//, 
	* //Future Generation Computing Systems//, 	
    * //IEEE Trans. Knowledge and Data Engineering//, 
    * //Parallel and Distributed Databases//,
    * //Very Large Data Bases//,
    * //IEEE Trans. Biomedical Systems//,
    * //SIAM J. Scientific Computing// and 
    * //SIAM Review//. 
His publications received about <color blue>5500 citations in //Harzing's Publish or Perish Index//</color> and //Google Scholar Citation Database//. He has an <color blue>//H-index of 40//</color>  for all of his citations.

Several of his research projects have been funded by //TUBITAK// (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), //Intel SSD// and European Commission (//ITDC//, //FP6//, //FP7//). Prof. Aykanat has been the principal investigator of 6 //TUBITAK// projects, investigator of 2 //TUBITAK// projects, principal investigator of one //Intel-SSD// project, general co-ordinator of a 2.5-year //EC-funded// ITDC project, and  principal investigator of Bilkent University in the //EC//-funded //SEE-GRID//, //SEE-GRID2//, //PRACE-1IP//, //PRACE-2IP//, //PRACE-3IP//, //PRACE-4IP//, //PRACE-5IP// and //PRACE-6IP// projects.

Prof. Aykanat is the recipient of the <color blue>1996 Investigator Award of TUBITAK</color> and <color blue>2007 //Science Award of METU Parlar//</color> foundation. He was appointed as a member of the //IFIP Working Group 10.3// (Concurrent System Technology) in April 2004 and as a member of the //EU-INTAS Council of Scientists// in June 2005.    
He has participated in the expert panels of //The Research Council of Norway for the research program  eVITA- eScience//.  Prof. Aykanat has served as an <color blue>//Associate Editor// of //IEEE Transactions of Parallel and Distributed Systems//</color> (2008-2013).

Prof. Aykanat has been an Associate Provost of Bilkent University since 2010.