Alex Pothen

Alex Pothen is an Indian-born American computer scientist and applied mathematician who is a professor at Purdue University.

Degree in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1978[2] and earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University in 1984.

[3] Pothen held the position of Director at the Institute for Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES), which received funding from the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy between 2006 and 2012.

[4] Additionally, Pothen was part of the ExaGraph center, funded by the Exascale Computing Project, a joint venture of the DOE and NNSA.

[5] He is recognized as the inaugural Chair of the Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms under SIAM.