Vivek Sarin

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-3112

sarin@cse.tamu.edu, (979)458-2214, Fax: (979)847-8578

Education

       Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997

       M.S. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 1993

       B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, 1990

Research Interests

       Numerical algorithms for disciplines in Computational Science

       Parallel computing for large-scale scientific problems

Professional Experience

       Associate Professor of Computer Science, Texas A&M University (2005-present)

       Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Texas A&M University (1999-2005)

       Research Associate, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University (1997-1999)

Awards and Honors

       Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2000-2004

       Special Research Fellow, 2001

       Select Young Faculty, 2002

       Faculty Partnership Award, 2002

Teaching Experience

       Undergraduate:

o    CSCE 222: Discrete Structures in Computing

o    CPSC 311: Analysis of Algorithms

o    CPSC 442: Scientific Programming

o    CPSC 489: Parallel Computing

o    ENGR 111B: Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering

       Graduate

o    CSCE 222: Discrete Structures in Computing

o    CPSC 653: Computer Methods in Applied Sciences

o    CPSC 659: Parallel and Distributed Numerical Algorithms

o    CPSC 660: Computational Linear Algebra

o    CPSC 689: Iterative Methods for Linear Systems

o    CPSC 689: Advanced Topics in Iterative Methods

Significant Professional Publications

1.       George*, T., Gupta, A., and Sarin, V., “A recommendation system for preconditioned iterative solvers,” Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 6 pages, Pisa, Italy, Dec. 2008.

2.       George*, T. Gupta, A., and Sarin, V., “All you wanted to know about iterative solver performance but were afraid to ask,” (Poster), Supercomputing ’08, Austin, TX, Nov. 2008.

3.       Srinivasan*, K. and Sarin, V., “A treecode for potentials of the form r-l,” International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Vol. 84, No. 8, pp. 1249-1260, 2007.

4.       Mahawar*, H. and Sarin, V., “Preconditioned iterative solvers for inductance extraction of VLSI circuits,” SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, Vol 29, No. 1, pp. 182-196, 2007.

5.       Yi, Y., Li, P., Sarin, V., and Shi, W., “,” Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 7-10, San Jose, CA, Nov. 2007.

6.       Yan*, S., Sarin, V., and Shi, W., “Fast 3D capacitance extraction by inexact factorization and reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 25,  No. 10,  pp. 2282-2286, 2006.

7.       Wang*, M. and Sarin, V., “Parallel support graph preconditioners,” Proceedings of the International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 4297, pp. 387-398, Bangalore, India, Dec. 2006.

8.       Saldana*, J. G. B., Anand, N. K., and Sarin V., “Numerical simulation of mixed convective flow over a three-dimensional horizontal backward-facing step,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 127, pp. 1027-1036, 2005.

9.       Yan*, S., Sarin, V., and Shi, W., “Sparse transformations and preconditioners for hierarchical 3D capacitance extraction,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Vol. 24, No. 9, pp. 1420-1426, 2005.

10.    Saldana*, J. G. B., Anand, N. K., and Sarin V., “Forced convection over a three-dimensional horizontal backward facing step,” International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, Vol. 6, pp. 225-234, 2005.

11.    Mahawar*, H. and Sarin, V., “Parallel software for inductance extraction of VLSI circuits,” Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), Rhodes Island, Greece, Apr. 2006.