Scholar
Umut A. Acar
Google Scholar ID: wJ4NywgAAAAJ
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,411
H-index
22
i10-index
44
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Contact
No contact links provided.
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025 Best paper award (QCE 2025 Project on Local Quantum Circuit Optimization); 2025 PC Chair for SPAA 2025; 2024 Best paper award (QCE 2024 Project on Sparse Quantum Simulation); 2024 Distinguished paper award (POPL 2024 paper on Project MPL & Automatic Parallelism Management); Sam Westrick wins ACM SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award; 2022 Distinguished paper award (ICFP 2022 paper on MPL & Disentanglement); 2022 Intel Award (Project MPL & Disentanglement); 2021 JP Morgan Chase AI Award (Project Diderot); 2021 Distinguished paper award (POPL 2021 paper on MPL & Disentanglement); 2020 ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlight (PPOPP 2019 on Heartbeat Scheduling).
Research Experience
- Professor at CSD, Carnegie Mellon University; Amazon Scholar; Supervised multiple PhD students, master's students, and postdoctoral researchers.
Background
- Research interests include formal methods, systems, algorithms, and AI. The primary research goal is to bridge safety and performance, rather than sacrificing one for the other.
Miscellany
- Teaching: Quantum Computing Systems (15-898); Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms (15-210); Parallelism and Concurrency (15897)
