• Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
  • Undergraduate Advisor
Vivek Sarin

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
  • M.S. Computer Science, University of Minnesota, 1993
  • B.Tech. Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, 1990

Research Interests

    • Numerical methods
    • parallel algorithms
    • computational science

Awards & Honors

  • NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 2000-2004
  • IBM Faculty Partnership Award, 2002
  • TEES Select Young Faculty, 2002
  • TEES Special Research Fellow, 2001

Selected Publications

  • Yan*, S., Sarin, V., and Shi, W., “Fast 3D capacitance extraction by inexact factorization and reduction,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, accepted for publication. (In press)
  • Saldana*, J. G. B., Anand, N. K., and Sarin V., “Numerical simulation of mixed convective flow over a three-dimensional horizontal backward-facing step,” Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 127, pp. 1027-1036, 2005. (Paper)
  • Yan*, S., Sarin, V., and Shi, W., “Sparse transformations and preconditioners for hierarchical 3D capacitance extraction,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, accepted for publication. (Paper)
  • Saldana*, J. G. B., Anand, N. K., and Sarin V., “Forced convection over a three-dimensional horizontal backward facing step,” International Journal of Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics, accepted for publication. (Paper)
  • Mahawar*, H. and Sarin, V., “Parallel iterative methods for dense linear systems in inductance extraction,” Parallel Computing, Vol. 29, pp. 1219-1235, 2003. (Paper)
  • Sambavaram*, S. R., Sarin, V., Grama, A., and Sameh, A. H., “Multipole-based preconditioners for large sparse linear systems,” Parallel Computing, Vol. 29, pp. 1261-1273, 2003. (Paper)
  • Sarin, V. and Sameh, A. H., “Hierarchical divergence-free bases and their application to particulate flows,” Journal of Applied Mechanics Vol. 70, pp. 44-49, 2003. (Paper)
  • Sameh, A. H. and Sarin, V., “Parallel algorithms for indefinite linear systems,” Parallel Computing, Vol. 28, pp. 285-299, 2002. (Paper)
  • Pan, T.-W., Joseph, D. D., Bai, R., Glowinski, R., and Sarin, V., “Fluidization of 1204 spheres: simulation and experiment,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 451, pp. 169-191, 2002. (Paper)
  • Yang, D.-Y., Grama, A., Sarin, V., and Ramakrishnan, N., “Compression of particle data from hierarchical approximate methods,” ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2001. (Paper)