• Research

Alan Ayala-Obregon

Computer Scientist
Mathematician - Engineer

Interests

  • Supercomputers
  • Exascale Fast Fourier Transform
  • GPU programming
  • MPI and GPU networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Quantum Computing
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Automation, Drone Technology and Robotics
  • Numerical Methods for PDEs

Education

  • Ph.D.

    Computational Mathematics

    Sorbonne Université, Paris-France

  • M.Sc.

    Numerical Analysis and Computational Modelling

    Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, France

  • M.Sc.

    Applied Mathematics

    Instituto de Matemáticas y Ciencias Afines, Perú

  • B.S.

    Civil Engineering

    Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Perú

Software Development

  • ROCm libraries: rocFFT and hipFFT .

  • Main developer of the Highly Efficient FFT for Exascale library, heFFTe.

  • Main developer of the FFT Infrastructure Benchmarking for Exascale Research, FIBER.

  • Developer of MAGMA_Alltoallv, an optimization of MPI_Alltoallv for supercomputers based on NVIDIA GPUs.

  • Co-developer of OSC_Alltoall, an optimization of MPI_Alltoall using one-sided MPI communication and compression techniques for mixed-precision FFT computation.

Awards and Recognitions

  • First place at the IBM International Hackathon on Quantum Computing with Qiskit, 10/2022.

    Certificate available here.
  • Invited speaker at the American Chemical Society, Chicago, USA, 8/2022.

    Session: Artificial Intelligence Applications in Nuclear and Radiochemistry
    Certificate available here.
  • First place trophy at the International School of Supercomputing, Athens-Greece, 6/2022.

    Media coverage and publication.
  • Invited speaker at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. Denver (SC 2019) and St. Louis (SC 2021).

  • Best poster award at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, USA, 2020.

  • Commemorative medal and honor plaque for best faculty student, first to receive award in faculty history, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima-Peru, 2014. Publication.

  • Fully funded M.Sc. in Mathematics from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ICTP - Italy, 2013.

Former Teaching Duties

  • Universidad Pacífico, school of Economics (Undergrad program).
  • Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, school of Civil Engineering (Master and Ph.D. programs).
  • Instituto de Matemáticas y Ciencias Afines, school of Mathematics (Master and Ph.D. programs).

Former Consulting Activities

  • Led a team to develop Autonomous Vehicle Technology using a Deep Neural Network and NVIDIA Jetson Nano. Paper available here.
  • Projects on structural engineering design and analysis. Projects on artificial intelligence for structural health monitoring. List of consulting projects.

Hobbies

Soccer, Tennis, Bicycle, Jogging.

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