Faculty Profile for Dr. Apan Muhammad Qasem

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Dr. Apan Muhammad Qasem
Professor — Computer Science
CMAL 307D.2
phone: (512) 245-0347
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Hope, J., Gjergji, M., DiGirolamo, J., Alvarez, M., & Qasem, A. (2021). Characterizing Input-sensitivity in Tightly-Coupled Collaborative Graph Algorithms (pp. 287–296). https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid51090.2021.00038
  • Sultana, T., Allen, B., & Qasem, A. M. (2020). Intelligent Data Placement on Discrete GPU Nodes with Unified Memory (PACT20) (pp. 139–151). New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3410463.3414651
  • Ali, M., & Qasem, A. M. (2024). Alleviating dataset constraints through synthetic data generation in machine learning driven power modeling (pp. 52–58).
  • Novoa Ramirez, C. M., & Qasem, A. M. (2023). GPU-accelerated Parallel Solutions to the Quadratic Assignment Problem. ArXiv, 1–25. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11248
  • Bunde, D., Ahmed, K., Ayloo, S., Brown-Gaines, T., Fuentes, J., Jatala, V., … Yeh, T. (2022). Adopting Heterogeneous Computing Modules: Experiences from a ToUCH Summer Workshop. IEEE.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award. September 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper Finalist, International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference. September 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award. September 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Millionaire Award. September 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper Award, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID). May 2021

Selected Grants

  • Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Principal), Royal, Cindy L (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Co-Principal), Dolezel, Diane M (Supporting), Omana Sudhakaran, Pratheesh O (Supporting), Lollar, Jonathan Ernest (Supporting), Booth, Chad (Co-Principal), Roundtree, Aimee Kendall (Supporting), Ekin, Tahir (Supporting), Cordero, Rafael A (Supporting), Lopez, Omar S (Supporting), Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay Nicole (Co-Principal), Sriraman, Vedaraman (Co-Principal), Forsythe, Michelle Elizabeth (Co-Principal), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting). STEM-CLEAR: Creating Contextualized Learning Pathways across Academic and Cultural Boundaries, National Science Foundation, Federal, $2646529. (Submitted: August 8, 2023, Funded: June 1, 2024 - June 2029). Grant.
  • Ekin, Tahir (Principal), Tesic, Jelena (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Summers, Lucia (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Supporting), Liu, Xiangping (Supporting), Chang, Carolyn T (Supporting), Mendez, Francis A (Supporting), Irvin, Jennifer A (Supporting), Resendiz, Maria D (Supporting). Expanding AI Curriculum and Infrastructure at Texas State University to Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Grow a Diverse AI Workforce, National Science Foundation, Federal, $400000. (Submitted: June 2023, Funded: January 2024 - December 2025). Grant.
  • Fulton, Lawrence V (Principal), Mendez, Francis A (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal). Accelerating Credentials Planning Grant, THECB, State, $50000. (Funded: July 2022 - September 2022). Grant.
  • Lu, Yijuan (Principal), Ngu, Anne H. (Co-Principal), Gao, Ju (Co-Principal), Chen, Xiao (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal). II-NEW: Shared High Performance Data Center, NSF CISE CRI Program, Federal, $375756. (Funded: 2013 - 2019). Grant.
  • Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Principal). Machine Learning Compilers for the GPU, NVIDIA, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $3000. (Funded: April 2017). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member
Presidential Commission on the Run to R1
September 2023-August 2024
Member
Provost Search Committee
September 2023-December 2023
Member
Academic Program Organizational Review for the College of Science and Engineering
September 2023-December 2023
Member
Program Committee, 15th NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar)
2025-2025
Member
Program Committee, IEEE CLUSTER
2022-2024