Introduction

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. I joined Texas State in Fall of 2007 after finishing my Ph.D. at Rice University. I was a member of the parallel compilers group at Rice and was fortunate to have the late Ken Kennedy as my doctoral advisor.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the areas of compilers and computer architecture. My research seeks to develop software technology for increasing programmer productivity, improving application performance and reducing power consumption on both current and next-generation computer systems. Much of my research effort is spent exploring the complex interaction between optimizing compilers and architectural components and exploiting opportunities for performance improvement that arise from this interaction.

I lead the HPC research group at Texas State. For information on our current research projects, please visit the group's website.

Teaching Interests

I regularly teach the undergraduate and graduate compilers course. I also serve as the coordinator for the foundations course.

News and Activity

06/2010

SRC to fund proposal on power-performance scheduling for multicore and manycore architectures

06/2010

Dr. Abid Malik joins the HPC group as post-doctoral felllow

05/2010

Paper on autotuning at iWAPT10

05/2010

Paper on search space exploration accepted at NPC10

03/2010

Paper on parallel knapsack algorithm accepted at CSC10

07/2009

IBM donates P6 machine to the HPC research group

Teaching Fall 2010

CS1428: Foundations of Computer Science (Honors)
Lectures: T, H : 9:30-10:50

CS4350 : Unix Systems Programming
Lectures: T, H : 11:00-12:20

Contact

Apan Qasem
Department of Computer Science
Texas State University
601 University Dr
San Marcos, TX 78666

Office: Nueces 218
Phone: (512) 245-0347
Fax: (512) 245-8750
E-mail: apan "AT" txstate · edu