Burhan Tabak

Burhan Tabak

PhD Student

EECS, UC Irvine

I am a Ph.D. student in the EECS Department at UC Irvine. I am a member of HPC Forge, where I am advised by Aparna Chandramowlishwaran. My current research falls at the intersection of machine learning systems and high-performance computing.

Before I joined UC Irvine, I earned my B.S. in 2025 from the Computer Science Department at Bilkent University. During my undergraduate studies, I worked with Cevdet Aykanat and contributed to projects on heterogeneous systems, task assignment heuristics, graph partitioning algorithms, and scalable attention.

Research

My current research focuses on

  • Scalable memory architectures for transformer models
  • Sparse attention kernels on tensor cores

My previous work and contributions cover a wide range of topics, including

  • heterogeneous systems
  • task assignment heuristics
  • scalable attention
  • graph partitioning algorithms
  • software engineering analytics

Awards

  • Graduated with Summa Cum Laude, Bilkent University - Computer Science Department (June 2025)
  • Responsible Artificial Intelligence Award, MathWorks (May 2024)
  • Merit Scholarship for Academic Performance, Bilkent University (2022 to 2025)

Education