1. Ilkay Altintas is a Turkish-American data and computer scientist, and researcher in the domain of supercomputing and high-performance computing applications.
15 Facts About Ilkay Altintas
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Since 2015, Altintas has served as chief data science officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, at the University of California, San Diego, where she has served as founder and director of the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence since 2014, as well as founder and director of the WIFIRE lab.
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Ilkay Altintas is the co-initiator of the Kepler scientific workflow system, an open-source platform that endows research scientists with the ability to readily collaborate, share, and design scientific workflows.
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Ilkay Altintas is a co-founder and board member of the Data Science Alliance nonprofit.
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Ilkay Altintas serves on the advisory board of several national agencies and companies, and as an editor of peer-reviewed scientific journals.
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Ilkay Altintas graduated from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey with a bachelor's degree in computer engineering in 1999, and a master's degree in computer engineering in 2001.
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Ilkay Altintas went on to serve SDSC as the assistant director of the National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research, the founder and director of the Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Laboratory, and deputy coordinator for research.
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On October 26,2003, Ilkay Altintas experienced California wildfires for the first time, after witnessing the Cedar Fire in San Diego County.
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The environmental and economic toll that this natural disaster had on the residents of San Diego County inspired Ilkay Altintas to contribute to improving the then-current systems of managing and predicting wildfires.
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Ilkay Altintas allotted much of her time thereafter to learning about California's fire-adapted ecosystem, and the two factors, weather and fuel, that contribute significantly to the spread and dynamic behavior of wildfires.
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Ilkay Altintas has presented on past and ongoing WIFIRE research to a variety of audiences, ranging from stakeholders and policymakers at the California State Capitol to UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy Science Policy Fellows Program graduate students.
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Ilkay Altintas has been featured on TIME magazine, the National Public Radio, The New York Times, and Voice of America, along with research scientists whom she has collaborated with.
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Ilkay Altintas has been featured on the University of California Television channel for her WIFIRE research.
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Ilkay Altintas is the co-initiator of the Kepler scientific workflow system, an open source platform that allows its users to share and collaborate on workflows for a variety of applications.
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Ilkay Altintas currently serves as the faculty co-director of the Master of Advanced Studies in Data Science and Engineering, and as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at UC San Diego.