Ayşe Yılmazer MetinView profile
Assistant Professor
Ayşe Yılmazer Metin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Istanbul Technical University's Faculty of Computer and Informatics. Her research focuses on computer architecture, GPU computing, and hardware security, with significant contributions to parallel processing systems and cryptographic implementations. Her educational background includes: PhD from Northeastern University (2010-2013) Degree from University of Rhode Island (2004-2007) Licence from Hacettepe University, Department of Computer Engineering (1991-1998) Dr. Yılmazer Metin's research interests center around GPU architecture and parallel computing systems. Her work addresses critical challenges in synchronization mechanisms for multi-GPU systems, power and energy measurement of embedded GPUs, and efficient implementations of cryptographic algorithms on specialized hardware. She has developed novel approaches to scope promotion in GPU environments, which significantly reduce communication overhead in multiprocessor systems. Her recent work has expanded into healthcare applications, developing privacy-preserving systems for real-time ECG monitoring and exploring homomorphic encryption techniques for secure computation. Her publication record shows a clear trajectory from fundamental GPU architecture research toward security applications and healthcare technology. Early work focused on GPU synchronization and memory management, while more recent publications demonstrate applications in secure medical systems and homomorphic encryption. This evolution reflects a strategic expansion of her core expertise in computer architecture into security-critical domains where hardware-level optimizations can provide significant advantages. Dr. Yılmazer Metin has served as Principal Investigator on multiple research projects: "Time-Critical Job Management in Multi-CPU + Multi-GPU Distributed Heterogeneous Systems" (2018-2019) "A Single-Processor GPU Architecture for More Efficient Graph Algorithms" (2018-2021) "Programmable Synchronization Architecture" (2018-2022) Her laboratory work focuses on GPU architecture and hardware security, with particular emphasis on developing efficient implementations of cryptographic algorithms on GPU platforms and optimizing graph neural network inference on heterogeneous computing systems.





