Curriculum Vitae for Faisal Saied

Rosen Center for Advanced Computing/ITaP
and
Computing Research Institute
Purdue University
151 S. Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906-3560

Main Research Interests

Ph.D., Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1990
Diplom Mathematik, Göttingen University, West Germany, 1977 (Corresponds to a M.S. in the U.S.), 1977. Main subjects: applied and numerical mathematics. Master's Thesis in the area of constrained optimization
B.A. (Hon.), Trinity College, Cambridge University, England (Maths. Tripos), 1973

Senior Research Scientist, Rosen Center for Advanced Computing at ITaP and the Computing Research Institute, Purdue University, Mar 2003 -- present.
Senior Research Scientist, Performance Engineering & Computational Methods Group, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June. 1997 -- Feb 2003. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1997.
Research Scientist, NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996.
Visiting Faculty Appointment at the Center for Computational Science, Oak Ridge National Lab, Summer, 1995 and 1996 (6 weeks).
1992 Navy-ASEE Summer Faculty Research Program, May--July, 1992.
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug. 1989 -- Jul. 1990.

(Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-1997)

CS/Math 358: Numerical Linear Algebra. Level of course: Seniors and first year graduate students
CS/Math 359: Numerical Approximation and Ordinary Differential Equations
CS/Math 350, CSE 301. Numerical Analysis: A Comprehensive Introduction. This is a core requirement in the Computational Science & Engineering Program at the University of Illinois
CS 497: Special topics courses for graduate students
- Spectral Techniques for the Design and Analysis of Numerical Methods
- Elliptic Problem Solvers

James S. Hammonds, Faisal Saied, Mark A. Shannon, "Solving coupled 3-D paraxial wave and thermal diffusion equations with mixed-mode parallel computations". Parallel Computing 33(1), pp. 43-53, 2007.
Dennis C. Smolarski, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Eduardo F. D'Azevedo, John W. Fettig, Bronson Messer, Anthony Mezzacappa, Faisal Saied, Paul E. Saylor, and F. Douglas Swesty, "On the Performance of SPAI and ADI-like Preconditioners for Core Collapse Supernova Simulations in One Spatial Dimension." Computer Physics Communications, 175, pp. 330--338, 2006.
Brian Armstrong, Hansang Bae, Rudolf Eigenmann, Faisal Saied, Mohamed Sayeed and Yili Zheng, HPC Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation With Realistic Applications, Proceedings of Benchmarking Workshop 2006, Austin, Texas, January 2006.
Lin Sun, Chinh Le, Faisal Saied, and Jayathi Y. Murthy, A Highly Scalable Simulation Model for Atomistic Calculation of Thermal Properties of Silicon, PDPTA'06 / RTCOMP'06: June 26-29, 2006
Shaikh S. Ahmed, Marek Korkusinski, Faisal Saied, Haiying Xu, Seungwon Lee, Mohamed Sayeed, Sebastien Goasguen and Gerhard Klimeck, “Large Scale Simulation in Nanostructures with NEMO3-D on Linux Clusters”, The 6th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution 2005, April 26-28, 2005, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
S. Kilic, F. Saied and A. Sameh, Efficient iterative solvers for structural dynamics problems, Computers and Structures, vol. 82, pp. 2363--2375, 2004.

Y. Liu, B. S. Minsker, and F. Saied, "A one-way spatial multiscale method for optimal bioremediation design." Journal of Water Resources and Planning Management, 127(2), 130-139, 2001.
G. Mahinthakumar and F. Saied. Distributed memory implementation of multigrid methods for groundwater flow problems with rough coefficients. In Proceedings of the 1996 High Performance Computing Symposium as part of the 1996 SCS Simulation Multiconference (April 8-11, 96, New Orleans, LA.), 1996.
J. Bordner and F. Saied. MGLab: An interactive multigrid environment. In S. McCormick, editor, Proceedings of the 1995 Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods, 1996.
M. J. Holst and F. Saied. Multigrid and Domain Decomposition Methods for Electrostatics Problems, in Domain Decomposition Methods in Scientific and Engineering Computing. Contemporary Mathematics 180, pp 231--238. Editors: D. E. Keyes and J. Xu, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1995.
M. Holst, R. Kozack, F. Saied, and S. Subramaniam. Treatment of electrostatic effects in proteins: Multigrid-based Newton iterative method for solution of the full nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann equation. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Genetics, 18(3):231--245, 1994.

Five years experience (1997-2003) managing the Performance Engineering & Computational Methods group at the NSF-funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications. In this role, directed NCSA’s high end support for the most advanced users of their largest platforms. Required in-depth knowledge of HPC technologies such as parallel architectures, parallel programming, performance analysis and enhancement, parallel scientific libraries, performance tools, debuggers.
Bridging the gap between computer scientists (my background is in Computer Science, Scientific Computing, Parallel Algorithms) and applications computational scientist. Worked on interdisciplinary research projects, and have been a co-author on research papers in the following areas: Computational Acoustics, Bio-physics, Groundwater modeling, Numerical relativity, Astrophysics, Structural Analysis, nanotechnology.

M. J. Holst, former UIUC Ph.D. student, currently at UC, San Diego
C. Huang, former UIUC Masters’ student
J. Bordner, former UIUC Ph.D. student, in Mike Norman’s Cosmology group at UC San Diego

Prof. Martin Schultz, Computer Science Department, Yale University

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics