Nihat Altiparmak received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University in May 2007 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio in May 2013. He joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Louisville as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in August 2013 and has been an Associate Professor with tenure since July 2019. His research spans computer systems, with a focus on file and storage systems, operating systems, and parallel and distributed systems. His work has appeared in leading journals, including ACM Transactions on Storage, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He has received multiple National Science Foundation awards: a CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) grant in 2017 on automatic storage system optimization, a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant in 2018 to build a high-performance big data analysis platform, a Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*‑Storage) award in 2023 to establish the Cardinal Academic Research Data Storage (CARDS), and a Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*‑Compute) award in 2024 to establish the Louisville Academic Research Compute Cluster (LARCC). He also received the Best Research Paper Runner‑Up Award at the CloudCom 2019 conference. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and the founding director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at the University of Louisville.
CC* Data Storage: Cardinal Academic Research Data Storage (CARDS).
National Science Foundation (NSF), OAC Division (2322248). Nihat Altiparmak (PI), 9/1/2023 - 8/31/2025, $500,000. *In collaboration with Co-PIs Sabur Hassan Baidya, Dibson Dibe Gondim, Melissa Smith, Lee Thompson, and Senior Personnel Robert Berson, Aly Farag, Hermann Frieboes, Hichem Frigui, Jeremy Gaskins, Lutz Haberzettl, Benne Holwerda, Vance Jaeger, Badri Narayanan, Juw Won Park, Christina Ralph-Nearman, Eric Rouchka, Corey Watson, Hui Zhang at the University of Louisville.
MRI: Acquisition of a High Performance Big Data Analysis Platform.
National Science Foundation (NSF), CNS Division (1828521). Nihat Altiparmak (PI), 10/1/2018 - 9/30/2020, $478,727. *In collaboration with Co-PIs Olfa Nasraoui, Ayman El-baz, Bert Little, Nejat Egilmez, and Senior Personnel Robert Keynton, Hichem Frigui, Richard Kerber, and Karunarathna Kulasekera at the University of Louisville.
CC* Compute-Campus: Louisville Academic Research Compute Cluster (LARCC).
National Science Foundation (NSF), OAC Division (2430270). Nihat Altiparmak (PI), 12/1/2024 - 11/30/2026, $700,000. *In collaboration with Co-PIs Rui Yu, Sabur Baidya, Badri Narayanan, Lee Thompson and Senior Personnel Hichem Frigui, Robert Berson, Hermann Frieboes, Jeremy Gaskins, Vance Jaeger, Juw Won Park, Dibson Gondim, Christina Ralph-Nearman at the University of Louisville.
Current Students:
Samir Banjanovic (PhD)
Wendell Richmond (PhD)
Rinku Deuja (PhD)
Stephaine Sithu (UG)
Preet Patel (UG)
Selected Past Students:
Everett N. Rush (UG, MS). Next Position: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
Bryan Harris (UG, MS, PhD). Next Position: Postdoc at the University of Louisville.
Erica Tomes (UG, MS). Next Position: Citrix Systems.
Jared Gillespie (UG, MS). Next Position: Google.
Logan Hall (UG). Next Position: Graduate student at UT Austin.
Sidharth Sundar (UG). Next Position: Graduate student at EPFL.
Caeden Whitaker (UG). Next Position: Graduate student at Winsonsin-Madison (received NSF GRFP).
CRII: CSR: Online Analysis of Disk IO for Automatic Storage System Optimization.