Sahar Azimi

  • Efficient Computing Laboratory (ECL)
  • Department of Computer Science

    I am a post-graduate researcher in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. I received my MS degree from Texas State University under supervision of Dr. Martin Burtscher. My research focuses on GPU computing, the parallelization of complex algorithms, and performance optimization. I have a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Azad University, Iran.

    Research Areas

  • Graph Partitionig
  • Multi-GPU programming
  • GPU execution tracing and compression

    • Publiactions

  • S. Claggett, S. Azimi, and M. Burtscher. SPDP: An Automatically Synthesized Lossless Compression Algorithm for Floating-Point Data. Data Compression Conference. March 2018. DCC'18
  • M. Burtscher, S. Devale, S. Azimi, J. Jaiganesh, and E. Powers. A High-Quality and Fast Maximal Independent Set Implementation for GPUs. ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing. March 2018. TOPC18

    Honors and Awards

  • Graduate Academic Excellence Award - Graduate College, Texas State University (2017)
  • Graduate Research Excellence Award - Graduate College, Texas State University (2017)
  • Graduate Research Excellence Award - Graduate College, Texas State University (2016)
  • Durrenberger Scholarship for Women in Science - College of Science and Engineering ,Texas State University (2016)

    • Email: azimi@txstate.edu