(520)448-8596
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sayef Azad Sakin
Postdoctoral Researcher
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Data Visualization, Parallel & Distributed Computing, High Performance Computing, Data Management
EDUCATION
Aug 2022 - Dec 2025
Ph.D. in Computing, GPA: 4.00/4.00
School of Computing, University of Utah, USA
Thesis: Event Sequence Visualization Design Considerations and Data Management Techniques
Advisor: Katherine E. Isaacs
Aug 2019 - May 2022
College of Science, University of Arizona, USA
Completed 27 credit hours toward Ph.D., GPA of transferred coursework: 3.67/4.00
Jan 2014 - May 2016
M.S. in Computer Science & Engineering, GPA: 3.65/4.00
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Thesis: Game Theoretic Downlink Resource Scheduling in Self-coexisting Cognitive Radio Networks
Advisor: Md. Abdur Razzaque
Jan 2009 - Aug 2013
B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering, GPA: 3.63/4.00
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Jun 2026 - Present
Postdoctoral Researcher Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Information Science and Technology Institute, Advisor: James Ahrens
Working on scientific data provenance with version and user access control. Facilitating cosmological ensemble analysis using visualization.
Jan 2026 - Jun 2026
Graduate Student Intern Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Information Science and Technology Institute, Advisor: James Ahrens
Enabling version control with provenance and user access control. Facilitating cosmological ensemble analysis using visualization.
Aug 2022 - May 2026
Graduate Research Assistant University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Supervisor: Katherine E. Isaacs
Developed solution for interactive exploration of large event sequences and built a data management tool that balances interactivity with accuracy, named ESeMan.
Jun 2025 - Aug 2025
Graduate Student Intern Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Information Science and Technology Institute, Supervisor: James Ahrens
Streamline performance data collection and visualization to identify performance issues in scientific software.
Jun 2024 - Dec 2024
Graduate Student Intern Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Information Science and Technology Institute, Supervisor: James Ahrens
Developed a web-based dashboard to correlate scientific software performance changes with source code modifications.
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Utah, USA
Course: Introduction to Data Science
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
PhD Intern Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Remote (Richland, WA, USA)
Project: ExaGO, Supervisor: Chris Oehmen
Worked on the ExaGO project, a collection of software packages for solving large-scale power grid optimization problems. Integrated code optimizations, created unit tests to run and test code on HPC platforms.
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
Visiting Graduate Student Argonne National Laboratory, Remote (Lemont, IL, USA)
Project: ExaGO, Supervisor: Michel Schanen
Conducted a comparative analysis with different performance analysis tools and investigated for a performance analysis setup within the continuing development and code integration process.
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Student Developer Google Summer of Code program, Remote (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ste||ar Group, Supervisor: Katherine E. Isaacs
Worked on making the existing integrated visualization system for asynchronous multi-task execution more illustrative, interactive, and responsive by reducing visual lagging, adding new linked visualizations.
Aug 2019 - May 2022
Graduate Research Assistant University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Supervisor: Katherine E. Isaacs
Enhanced the visual interface of Traveler to identify dependent and relevant parallel program components.
Jan 2016 - Jun 2019
Software Engineer Structured Data Systems Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Designed responsive UI for cross platform (iOS and Android) mobile application. Worked in Agile, cross-functional teams and implemented resilient synchronization module ensuring data consistency across thousands of users.
Apr 2013 - Jan 2016
Junior Software Engineer (Part Time) Structured Data Systems Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Developed cross platform punch-list application for onsite quality assurance, inspection, and tracking using photo documentation, drawing annotation, and report distribution.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Nov 2025
PerfAnalyzer: Revealing Performance Trends using Version Oriented Visual Analysis of Scientific Software (Read↗)
16th International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS) held in conjunction with SC25
Sayef Azad Sakin, James Ahrens
Nov 2025
Managing Data for Scalable and Interactive Event Sequence Visualization (Read↗)
2025 IEEE 15th Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV)
Honorbale Mention for Best Paper Award!!! Sayef Azad Sakin, Katherine E. Isaacs
Oct 2024
A Literature-based Visualization Task Taxonomy for Gantt Charts (Read↗)
2024 IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics (VIS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 236-240
Sayef Azad Sakin, Katherine E. Isaacs
Sep 2022
Traveler: Navigating Task Parallel Traces for Performance Analysis (Read↗)
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 788-797
Sayef Azad Sakin, Alex Bigelow, R Tohid, Connor Scully-Allison, Carlos Scheidegger, Steven R Brandt, Christopher Taylor, Kevin A Huck, Hartmut Kaiser, Katherine E Isaacs
Aug 2022
Halide Code Generation Framework in Phylanx (Read↗)
Euro-Par 2022: Parallel Processing Workshops. Euro-Par 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13835. Springer, Cham.
R Tohid, Shahrzad Shirzad, Christopher Taylor, Sayef Azad Sakin, Katherine E Isaacs, Hartmut Kaiser
Nov 2020
Distributed Asynchronous Array Computing with the JetLag Environment (Read↗)
2020 IEEE/ACM 9th Workshop on Python for High-Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC), GA, USA, 2020, pp. 49-57
Steven R Brandt, Bita Hasheminezhad, Nanmiao Wu, Sayef Azad Sakin, Alex R Bigelow, Katherine E Isaacs, Kevin Huck, Hartmut Kaiser
Jul 2020
Jetlag: An interactive, asynchronous array computing environment (Read↗)
In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2020: Catch the Wave (PEARC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 8–12.
Steven R Brandt, Alex Bigelow, Sayef Azad Sakin, Katy Williams, Katherine E Isaacs, Kevin Huck, Rod Tohid, Bibek Wagle, Shahrzad Shirzad, Hartmut Kaiser
Dec 2017
Self-coexistence among IEEE 802.22 networks: Distributed allocation of power and channel (Read↗)
Sensors 2017, 17, 2838
Sayef Azad Sakin, Md Abdur Razzaque, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Atif Alamri, Nguyen H Tran, Giancarlo Fortino
Jan 2016
Game theoretic downlink resource scheduling for self-coexisting cognitive radio networks (Read↗)
2016 International Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, pp. 1-7
Sayef Azad Sakin, Abdur Razzaque
TALKS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Aug 2024
Code History Integration with Performance Data
Presentation Talk at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
Jul 2023
DevOps for ExaScale - ExaSGD's Journey (Spack & Dependency Management)
Presentation Talk at PNNL TechFest 2023
Location: Richland, WA, USA
Jan 2023
Performance Portability in Heterogeneous Computing Environments
Poster Presentation at ECP Annual Meeting 2023
Location: Houston, TX, USA
Oct 2021
Designing scalable timeline charts for millions of tasks
Lightning Talk at IEEE VIS 2021 (AZ Satellite Event)
Location: Tucson, AZ, USA
AWARDS
Jan 2014
ICT Fellowship
The ministry of ICT, Government of Bangladesh
Awarded during my MS study. The Fellowship was awarded for outstanding research work in the field of network information and communication technology.
VOLUNTEERING & LEADERSHIP ROLES
Nov 2024
Lead Student Volunteer
The Supercomputing Conference, Atlanta, GA, USA
Digital Experience, Reproducibility, and HPC Immersion committees
Nov 2023
Lead Student Volunteer
The Supercomputing Conference, Denver, CO, USA
Tutorials Committee, Acting Judge for SciViz Showcase
Nov 2022
Student Volunteer
The Supercomputing Conference, Dallas, TX, USA
Room monitoring, Session chair and presenter assistance
Oct 2022
Student Volunteer
IEEE VIS: Visualization & Visual Analytics, Oaklahoma City, OK, USA
Room monitoring, Session chair and presenter assistance, and Help desk
Nov 2021
Student Volunteer
The Supercomputing Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA (Virtual)
Remote session chair and presenter assistance, Monitoring online platforms