Ilkay ALTINTAS Deputy Coordinator for Research, Cyberinfrastructure Research, Education and Development (CI-RED) Division Director, Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies (SWAT) Laboratory San Diego Supercomputer Center  University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505 La Jolla, CA 92093-0505, USA altintas@sdsc.edu Tel: 858-822 5453 Fax: 858-822-3693

Ilkay Altintas is the Director for the Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Lab at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD where she also is the Deputy Coordinator for Research. She currently works on different aspects of scientific workflows in collaboration with the DOE Scientific Data Management Center and various cross-disciplinary NSF projects. She is a co-initiator of and an active contributor to the open-source Kepler Scientific Workflow System, and the co-author of publications related to scientific workflows, conceptual data querying, and software modeling. Ilkay Altintas holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Engineering, both from Middle East Technical University in Turkey, and is an external PhD student of Computational Science at University of Amsterdam, working with Prof. P.M.A. Sloot. Ilkay lives in San Diego with her husband, son and cat.

Below, you will find more information on Ilkay Altintas's research interests, current projects, activities, publications, posters, technical reports, talks, demos, tutorials, teaching, education and academic work experience.

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Scientific workflow systems
• Generic composition of Web and Grid Services
• Ontology-based semantic mediation for scientific data
• Conceptual querying of XML

CURRENT PROJECTS

• SDM SPA, DOE, SciDAC I&II:
  SDM Center: DOE SciDAC/SDM (Scientific Data Management Center)
  An assembled team of experts who work in the scientific data management domain with application scientists in areas critical to the DOE mission.
  SPA: Scientific Process Automation
  A project from SDM Center that brings together universities and DOE labs from across the country with a common goal of creating a Scientific Problem Solving Environment (PSE) with an intuitive graphical user interface that allows scientists to easily create exploratory data flows (workflows).

• KEPLER Collaboration: An Open-Source Scientific Workflow System
  A cross-project collaboration to develop open source tools for Scientific Workflows.
  
  
• REAP, NSF, CEO:P: Realtime Environment for Analytical Processing
  
  
• KEPLER/CORE, NSF, SDCI: More info on Kepler/CORE
  
  
• CAMERA, Moore Foundation: Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis
  
  

PAST PROJECTS

• NLADR: The National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research
  A collaborative Research and development activity between NCSA and SDSC in advanced data technologies.

• Resurgence: RESearch sURGe ENabled by CyberinfrastructurE
  A collaborative project to provide a general workflow infrastructure for computational chemistry that allows high-throughput calculations distributed on a computational grid.

• LOOKING: The Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge INtegration Grid
  A research effort into the identification, synthesis, and assemblage of existing and emerging concepts and technologies into a coherent viable cyberinfrastructure design.

ACTIVITIES

• TheOcean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION): CyberInfrastructure Committee
• The Technical Advisory Group, OMII-UK
• Program Committees
  • 2nd International Conference on Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture (TEAA 2006)
  • 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2006)
  • IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2006)
  • 2nd International Workshop on Grid and Peer-to-Peer based Workflows (GPWW 2006)
  • The 2006 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2006)
  • VLDB Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Application Architecture (TEAA 2005 )

PUBLICATIONS -- Please email for a copy of any of the publications listed below.

1. Heterogeneous Composition of Models of Computation (pdf),
   A.Goderis, C. Brooks, I. Altintas, E.A. Lee, C. Goble, in Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal, April 2009.  
2. A High-Level Distributed Execution Framework for Scientific Workflows (pdf),
   J. Wang, I. Altintas, C. Berkley, L. Gilbert, M.B. Jones, in In Proceedings of workshop SWBES08: Challenging Issues in Workflow Applications, 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008), pp 634-639., December, 2008.  
3. Lifecycle of Scientific Workflows and Their Provenance: A Usage Perspective,
   I. Altintas, Invited Paper in Proceedings of the IEEE 2008 Second International Workshop on Scientific Workflows (SWF 2008), Hawaii, USA, July 2008.  
4. A Provenance-Based Fault Tolerance Mechanism for Scientific Workflows (pdf),
   D. Crawl and I. Altintas, in Proceedings of the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop (IPAW), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2008.  
5. Composing Different Models of Computation in Kepler and Ptolemy II (pdf),
   A. Goderis, C. Brooks, I. Altintas, C. Goble, E. A. Lee, in Proceedings 2nd International Workshop on Workflow systems in e-Science in conjunction with ICCS 2007.  
6. From Computation Models to Models of Provenance: The RWS Approach(pdf),
   B. Ludaescher, N. Podhorszki, I. Altintas, S. Bowers, T. McPhillips , in Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, special issue on the First Provenance Challenge, 2007.  
7. Scientific Data Management: Essential Technology for Accelerating Scientific Discoveries(pdf),
   A. Shoshani, I. Altintas, A. Choudhary, T. Critchlow, C. Kamath, B. Luddscher, J. Nieplocha, S. Parker, R. Ross, N. Samatova, M. Vouk, in CTWatch Quarterly, November 2007.  
8. Accelerating the Scientific Exploration Process with Scientific Workflows (pdf),
   I. Altintas, O. Barney, Z.Cheng, T. Critchlow, B. Ludaescher, S. Parker, A. Shoshani and M. Vouk, . Phys.: Conf. Ser. 46 468-478, 2006.  
9. From Molecule to Man: Decision Support in Individualized E-Health (pdf),
   P.M.A. Sloot, A. Tirado Ramos, I. Altintas, M.T. Bubak and C.A. Boucher, IEEE Computer, (Cover feature) vol. 39, nr 11 pp. 40-46. November 2006.  
10. A Scientific Workflow Solution to the Archiving of Digital Media,
    C.-Y. Hou, I. Altintas, E. Jaeger-Frank, L. Gilbert, R. Moore, A. Rajasekar, R. Marciano, HPDC WORKS2006, Paris, France, June 2006.  
11. Provenance Collection Support in the Kepler Scientific Workflow System,
    I.Altintas, O. Barney, E. Jaeger-Frank, IPAW2006, Chicago, Illinois, May 2006.
12. A Scientific Workflow Infrastructure for Computational Chemistry on the Grid,
    W. Sudholt, I. Altintas, K.K. Baldridge, 1st International Workshop on Computational Chemistry and Its Application in e-Science in conjunction with ICCS 2006.
13. Three Tier Architecture for LiDAR Interpolation and Analysis,
    E. Jaeger-Frank, C.J. Crosby, A. Memon, V. Nandigam, J R. Arrowsmith, J. Conner, I. Altintas, and C. Baru,1st International Workshop on Workflow systems in e-Science in conjunction with ICCS 2006.
14. Scientific Workflow Management and the Kepler System,
    B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, C. Berkley, D. Higgins, E. Jaeger-Frank, M. Jones, E. Lee, J. Tao, Y. Zhao, In Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience, 18(10), pp. 1039-1065, 2006.
15. Flexible IO services in the Kepler Grid Workflow System,
    D. Abramson, J. Kommineni and I. Altintas, in the Proceedings of the 1st E-Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 2005.
16. Integrating Seismic Events Focal Mechanisms with Image Services in Kepler,
    E. Jeager-Frank, A. Memon, I. Altintas, G. Memon, D. Seber, B. Ludaescher, C. Baru, in the Twenty-fifth Annual ESRI International User Conference, July 2005, San Diego, CA.
17. A Scientific Workflow Approach to Distributed Geospatial Data Processing using Web Services,
    E. Jeager, I. Altintas, J. Shang, B. Ludaescher, D. Penington, W. Michener, In the 17th Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management(SSDBM), June 2005, Santa Barbara, CA.
18. The Computational Chemistry Prototyping Environment,
    K. K. Baldridge, J. P. Greenberg, W. Sudholt, S. Mock, I. Altintas, C. Amoreira, Y. Potier, A. Birnbaum, K. Bhatia, and M. Taufer, In the Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, nr 3 pp. 510-521, March 2005.
19. A Framework for the Design and Reuse of Grid Workflows,
    I. Altintas, A. Birnbaum, K.K. Baldridge, W. Sudholdt, M. Miller, C. Amoreira, Y. Potier, B. Ludaescher, , in P. Herrero, M.S. Perez, V. Robles, editor, Scientific Applications of Grid Computing: First International Workshop, SAG 2004, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited, in series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nr 3 pp. 119-132. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005. ISBN 3-540-25810-8.
20. Cluster and Grid Infrastructure for Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry,
    K. K. Baldridge, W. Sudholt, J. P. Greenberg, C. Amoreira, Y. Potier, I. Altintas, A. Birnbaum, D. Abramson, C. Enticott, and S. Garic, In "Parallel Computing for Bioinformatics", A. Y. Zomaya (Ed.), John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
21. A Web Service Composition and Deployment Framework for Scientific Workflows
    I. Altintas, E. Jaeger, K. Lin, B. Ludaescher, A. Memon, In the 2nd Intl. Conference on Web Services(ICWS), San Diego, California, July 2004.
22. Kepler: An Extensible System for Design and Execution of Scientific Workflows,
    I. Altintas, C. Berkley, E. Jaeger, M. Jones, B. Ludaescher, S. Mock, In the 16th Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management(SSDBM), Santorini Island, Greece, June 2004.
23. A Modeling and Execution Environment for Distributed Scientific Workflows,
    I. Altintas, S. Bhagwanani, D. Buttler, S. Chandra, Z. Cheng, M. Coleman, T. Critchlow, A. Gupta, W. Han, L. Liu, B. Ludaescher, C. Pu, R. Moore,A. Shoshani, and M. Vouk, In 15th Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), Boston, Massachussets, 2003. [paper.pdf]
24. Compiling Abstract Scientific Workflows into Web Service Workflows,
    B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, A. Gupta, In 15th Intl. Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), Boston, Massachussets, 2003. [paper.pdf]
25. Time to Leave the Trees: From Syntactic to Conceptual Querying of XML,
    B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, A. Gupta, Intl. Workshop on XML Data Management (XMLDM)in conjunction with EDBT'02, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2002, LNCS 2490, Springer. [paper.pdf] [abstract.html]
26. Case Studies Using Course-Projects for Component Oriented Modeling,
    I. Altintas, A.H. Dogru, Workshop on Transdisciplinary Education, Research & Training, Pasadena, California, June 2001.
27. A Comparative Study for Component Oriented Design Modeling,
    I. Altintas, Master's Thesis, May 2001.
28. Modeling Language for Component Oriented Software Engineering: COSEML,
    A.H. Dogru, I. Altintas, The 5th Biennial World Conference in Integrated Design & Process Technology, Addison, Texas, June 2000.

POSTERS

1. Integration of Kepler with ROADNet: Visual Dataflow Design with Real-time Geophysical Data,
   T.T. Fricke, B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, K.G. Lindquist, T.S. Hansen, A. Rajasekar, F.L. Vernon, J. Orcutt, AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17 December, 2004, San Fransisco, CA.
2. Integrated Genome Annotation Platform (IGAP):: A Flexible, Modular System for Protein Sequence Annotation,
   W.G. Krebs, I. Altintas, M.A. Miller, P.E.Bourne, I. Shindyalov, B. Ludaescher, Supercomputing Conference, November 6-12, 2004, Pittsburgh, PA.
3. Mining the Frequency Distribution of Transcription Factor (TF) Binding Sites in Promoters of Suppressed and Enhanced Genes During Human Adaptive Response to Ionizing Radiation,
   L. E. Peterson, I. Altintas, B. Ludaescher, T. Critchlow, A. J. Wyrobek, and M. A. Coleman, In New Horizons in Genomics, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2003, U.S. Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute. [material.html]

TECHNICAL REPORTS

1. Storage Resource Broker Actors and Applications in Kepler,
   N. Mangal, E. Jaeger-Frank, I. Altintas, C.-Y. Hou, L. Gilbert and A. Rajasekar, SRB User Wrkshop, Feb, 2-3, 2006.
2. Scientific Data Management Integrated Software Infrastructure Center (SDM/ISIC), Scientific Process Automation (SPA) ,
   B. Ludäscher, I. Altintas, R. Moore, Report to the US Department of Energy SciDAC Program, Grant # DE-FC02-01ER25486, August 15, 2003 – March 11, 2005, http://users.sdsc.edu/~ludaesch//Paper/spa-sdsc-ucdavis-2003-2005-report.pdf
3. Kepler: Towards a Grid-Enabled System for Scientific Workflows,
   I. Altintas, C. Berkley, E. Jaeger, M. Jones, B. Ludaescher, S. Mock, In the Workflow in Grid Systems Workshop in GGF10 - The Tenth Global Grid Forum, Berlin, Germany, March 2004.
4. On Providing Declarative Design and Programming Constructs for Scientific Workflows based on Process Networks, B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, Technical Note, SciDAC-SPA-TN-2003-01, 2003. [paper.pdf]; some related [slides].
5. Proposal for an Executable Workflow (EWF) Language,
   B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, A. Gupta, 2002. [report.pdf] [figures.ppt]
6. A Semantic Mediation Approach for Scientific Workflows,
   B. Ludaescher, I. Altintas, A. Gupta, SciDAC Technical Report, 2002. [report.pdf]
7. Promoter Identification Workflow Specification,
   I. Altintas, M. A. Coleman, T. Critchlow, A. Gupta, B. Ludaescher, and L. E. Peterson, 2002. [Report.ppt]

TALKS, DEMOS, TUTORIALS and TEACHING -- Please email and ask if you are interested in the slides for a particular talk.

EDUCATION

• External PhD Student, Faculty of Sciences, Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam.
• MS and BS in the Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, May, 2001 and June, 1999 respectively.
• International Marktoberdorf Summer School 2000 on Engineering Theories of Software Construction, Marktoberdorf, Germany. July-August, 2000. Organized by the NATO Science Committee and the Institut f_r Informatik, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany.
  [Grant from NATO Science Committee, Advanced Study Institute (ASI)]
  Links to lots of pictures here.
• EDBT'02 SUMMER SCHOOL; Distributed Databases on the Net: Models, Languages and Infrastructures organized by the Intitut d'Etudes de Cargese, August, 2002, Cargese, Corsica, FRANCE.

ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

• University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  La Jolla, CA, USA                 July 2008 - present
  Deputy Coordinator for Research

• University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  La Jolla, CA, USA                 November 2004 - present
  Director, Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Lab

• University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  La Jolla, CA, USA                 August 2005 - October 2007
  Assistant Director, National Laboratory for Advanced Data Research
  Supervisor: Dr. Chaitan Baru

• University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center
  La Jolla, CA, USA                 October 2001 - October 2004
  Researcher, Programmer/Analyst
  Supervisor: Dr. Bertram LUDAESCHER

• Middle East Technical University (METU), Computer Engineering Department
  Ankara, TURKEY                 August 1999 - September 2001
  Research Assistant
  Supervisor: Dr. Ali Hikmet DOGRU

• Middle East Technical University (METU), METU-TSK MODSIM Laboratory
  Ankara, TURKEY                November 2000 - March 2001
  Researcher, Senior Software Developer
  Supervisor: Dr. Nur Evin OZDEMIREL

• Middle East Technical University (METU), Computer Engineering Department
  Ankara, TURKEY                 June 2000 - September 2000
  Deputy Team Leader of Contract Proposal
  Supervisor: Dr. Gokturk UCOLUK
  
  
  

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