Publications
My research consist of three pillars; data/computation partitioning, algorithm design, and portability. These problems are interrelated, hence effective solutions require attention to all areas.

Data/Computation Partitioning
(P3) A Novel Subgradient-based Method for d-Dimensional Rectilinear Partitioning 
submitted to IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 
M. F. Balin, X. An,  A. Yasar, L. Song and U. V. Catalyurek 
(P2) On Symmetric Rectilinear Matrix Partitioning 
submitted to SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (SISC) 
A. Yasar, M. F. Balin, X. An, K. Sancak and U. V. Catalyurek 
(P1) Distributed block formation and layout for disk-based management of large-scale graphs 
Distributed and Parallel Databases (DPDS) 
A. Yasar, B. Gedik, H. Ferhatosmanoğlu 
Block-based Algorithm Design & Graph Mining
(G4) Scalable Triangle Counting on Distributed-Memory Systems 
 one of the Graph Challenge Innovation Award Winners 
IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) 
S. Acer, A. Yasar, S. Rajamanickam, M. M. Wolf and U. V. Catalyurek 
(G3) An Iterative Global Structure-Assisted Network Aligner 
ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery \& Data Mining (KDD) 
A. Yasar and U. V. Catalyurek 
(G2) Fast Triangle Counting Using Cilk 
 one of the Graph Challenge Champions   
IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) 
A. Yasar, S. Rajamanickam, M. M. Wolf, J. W. Berry, U. V. Catalyurek 
(G1) SiNA: A Scalable Iterative Network Aligner 
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) 
A. Yasar, B. Ucar and U. V. Catalyurek 
Performance Portability
(H3) bbTC: A Block-Based Triangle Counting Algorithm on Heterogeneous Environments 
 submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) 
A. Yasar, S. Rajamanickam, J. W. Berry and U. V. Catalyurek 
(H2) Linear Algebra-Based Triangle Counting via Fine-Grained Tasking on Heterogeneous Environments 
 one of the Graph Challenge Innovation Award Winners   
IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) 
A. Yasar, S. Rajamanickam, M. M. Wolf, J. W. Berry, J. S. Young and U. V. Catalyurek 
(H1) Programming strategies for irregular algorithms on the Emu Chick 
ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC) - to appear 
E. Hein, S. Eswar, A. Yasar, B. Uçar, Ü. Çatalyürek, T. Conte, J. Riedy, R. Vuduc, and J. S. Young