Ahmed Sameh
Ahmed Hamdy Mohamed Sameh is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his work on parallel algorithms in numerical linear algebra, which help solve large mathematical problems faster using multiple computers.
He earned a BSc in civil engineering from the University of Alexandria in 1961, an MS in civil engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964, and a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1968. His doctoral advisor was Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang.
In 2010, Purdue hosted a conference titled “High Performance Scientific Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications” to honor his 70th birthday.
Together with Eric Polizzi, he developed the SPIKE algorithm, a hybrid parallel solver for banded linear systems.
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