Biography

Muhammad Abdelghaffar Awad (he/him) is a Member of Technical Staff at AMD Research. At AMD Research, he is working in different research areas, including heterogeneous computing; performance analysis and instrumentation of GPU applications; and graph analytics frameworks for large-scale novel architectures. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Davis. At UC Davis, he was working under the supervision of Professor John D. Owens and his dissertation focused on fully concurrent GPU data structures. He received his B.Sc. degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt in 2013. His current research interests include parallel computing, heterogeneous computing, performance analysis, dynamic GPU data structures, and computer graphics.

Most of my papers and grad school projects' source code are available on GitHub. Here are links to the source code of the data structures that I designed and built:

• Dynamic GPU B-Tree optimized for updates
• Multiversion GPU B-Tree
• GPU (on-device) epoch-based memory reclamation scheme to safely reclaim memory for concurrent GPU data structures
• Dynamic hash-based GPU graph data structure (integrated into Gunrock)
• High-performance static GPU hash tables
• Bucketed Cuckoo hash set written in PTX and JIT-compiled.

Dissertation

Refereed Publications

Non-refereed Publications