Mahmut Kandemir

Mahmut Kandemir is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University, where he leads the Microsystems Design Lab. His work bridges compiler design, runtime systems, and hardware-software co-design for energy-efficient computing.

Education:

• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (1988)
• M.S. in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University (1992)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Syracuse University (1999)

Research Interests span optimizing compilers, runtime systems, embedded systems, high-performance storage, power-aware computing, and multi-core architectures. His innovations include compiler-directed techniques to address memory bottlenecks, adaptive runtime systems for dynamic resource allocation, and energy-efficient designs for GPUs and 3D NAND SSDs.

Publication Trends highlight interdisciplinary work integrating machine learning into hardware-software co-design. Key focus areas include graph neural networks (KDD, NeurIPS), GPU-optimized molecular docking (J. Chem. Inf. Model.), 3D NAND SSD resource allocation (HPCA, ASPLOS), and energy-efficient VR streaming (ISCA).

Awards & Honors:

• NSF CAREER Award
• Penn State Premier Research Award
• IEEE Fellow
• Best Paper Award at DATE 2007
• Top Download from ACM Digital Library (2006)

Advising & Grants include mentoring 15 Ph.D. and 5 master’s students, with 32 Ph.D. and 20 master’s graduates. His research is funded by NSF, DOE, DARPA, SRC, Intel, and Microsoft, spanning 11 active projects.

Labs & Collaborations include the Microsystems Design Lab at Penn State and partnerships with Argonne National Lab, Microsoft, HP Labs, Intel, and NVIDIA. His work has transitioned into product file systems for large-scale simulations in astrophysics and computational chemistry.