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Alex Pothen is a computer scientist and applied mathematician. He is a professor at Purdue University. His research primarily focuses on combinatorial scientific computing (CSC), graph algorithms, parallel computing, and bioinformatics algorithms.

Education
Pothen completed his M.S. Degree in Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1978 and earn a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Cornell University in 1984.

Career
Pothen served as the Director of the Combinatorial Scientific Computing and Petascale Simulations (CSCAPES) Institute, a pioneering research project in CSC funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science from 2006-2012. Pothen was also a member of the ExaGraph center, funded by the Exascale Computing Project of the DOE and NNSA. He is the founding Chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Applied and Computational Discrete Algorithms.

Currently, Pothen is an editor of the Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, SIAM Fundamentals of Algorithms (books), SIAM Classics (books), and Optimization Methods and Software.

Honors

 * Received Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi in 2009.
 * Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2018
 * Awarded the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics in 2021 by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
 * Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2022
 * Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in 2024