He was the director of the High Performance Computing Lab at the Ohio State University.

in Computer Engineering and Information Science at the Bilkent University in the year 1992 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Information Science from the Bilkent University in 2000, under the supervision of Cevdet Aykanat.

His dissertation was published by the Bilkent University as Hypergraph Models for Sparse Matrix Partitioning and Reordering.

[2] Çatalyürek began his career in 1992 as a research associate for Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University, Turkey.

He served different positions at The Ohio State University before joining as a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016, where he later became Associate Chair for Academic Programs at the Georgia Institute of Technology.