Faculty Profile for Dr. Martin Burtscher

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Dr. Martin Burtscher
Professor — Computer Science
CMAL 309C
phone: (512) 245-3443
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Martin Burtscher is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas State University. He received the BS/MS degree from ETH Zurich and the PhD degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Martin's current research focuses on the parallelization of graph algorithms and complex programs for GPUs as well as on the synthesis of high-speed lossy and lossless data-compression algorithms. He has co-authored about 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications, which have been cited over 7000 times. Martin is a distinguished member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Mongandampulath Akathoott, A., & Burtscher, M. (n.d.). A Bidirectional GPU Algorithm for Computing Maximum Matchings in Bipartite Graphs.
  • Fallin, W. A., Azami, N., Di, S., Cappello, F., & Burtscher, M. (n.d.). Fast and Effective Lossy Compression on GPUs and CPUs with Guaranteed Error Bounds.
  • Fallin, W. A., Azami, N., & Burtscher, M. (n.d.). Efficient Lossless Compression of Scientific Floating-Point Data on CPUs and GPUs.
  • Liu, Y., Azami, N., Vanausdal, A. R., & Burtscher, M. (2024). Indigo3: A Parallel Graph Analytics Benchmark Suite for Exploring Implementation Styles and Common Bugs. Retrieved from https://github.com/burtscher/Indigo3Suite/
  • Liu, Y., Vanausdal, A. R., & Burtscher, M. (2024). ECL-Suite: Data-race-free High-performance Graph Analytics Codes for GPUs. Retrieved from https://github.com/burtscher/ECL-Suite/

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Supercomputing Allocation, Texas Advanced Computing Center. January 2018 - December 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity, College of Science and Engineering, Texas State University. October 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software. May 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity, College of Science and Engineering, Texas State University. August 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Teaching Award of Honor, Alumni Association. August 2020

Selected Grants

  • Burtscher, Martin (Principal). REU Supplement to "Programming Abstractions and Systems Support for GPU-based Acceleration of Irregular Applications", National Science Foundation, $16000. (Funded: August 1, 2016). Grant.
  • Burtscher, Martin (Principal). REU Supplement to “Nixing Scale Bugs in HPC Applications”, National Science Foundation, $16128. (Funded: June 2, 2015). Grant.
  • Burtscher, Martin (Principal). REU Supplement to “Real-Time Unobtrusive Tracing in Multicore Embedded Systems”, National Science Foundation, $16000. (Funded: February 5, 2014). Grant.
  • Burtscher, Martin (Principal). Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: SCIOPT: Toward Certifiable Compression-Aware SciML Systems, National Science Foundation, Federal, $272992. (Funded: October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2027). Grant.
  • Burtscher, Martin (Principal). Automatic Generation of Algorithms for High-Speed Reliable Lossy Compression, Department of Energy, Federal, $598261. (Funded: September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2024). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Faculty Mentor
Texas State University
2022-Present
Chair
Presidential Awards Nomination Committee
2018-Present
Member
NCWIT Extension Services Team
2018-Present
Member
Personnel Committee
2015-Present
Member
National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT)
2015-Present