Name Ahmed Sameh | Fields Numerical linear algebra | |
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Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
University of Minnesota
Purdue University Alma mater Alexandria University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Institution University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Minnesota, Purdue University | ||
Doctoral advisor Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang | ||
Ahmed Hamdy Mohamed Sameh is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his contributions to parallel algorithms in numerical linear algebra.
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Biography
Sameh received his BSc in civil engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1961, MS in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964 and PhD in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1968 under the supervision of Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang.
A conference on "High Performance Scientific Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications" was organized on October 11–12, 2010 at the Purdue University in honor of Sameh on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Research
Sameh and Eric Polizzi developed the SPIKE algorithm, a hybrid parallel solver for banded linear systems.