Alaettin Serhan Mete holds the position of Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. He is a member of the ATLAS experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). In the ATLAS experiment, he is the leader of the Software Performance Optimization Team where he is responsible for developing, and incorporating the existing, software performance monitoring and profiling tools into the ATLAS production environments. He is also a core software developer, specialized on the I/O framework of the ATLAS software stack, called Athena. Among his other interests are high-throughput, high-performance, and exascale computing applications in the context of High Energy Physics. He is currently one of the conveners of Software Developer Tools and Packaging Working Group under the High Energy Physics Software Foundation. 

Mete received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in High Energy Physics at the Iowa State University. Upon graduation, Mete accepted a position with University of California, Irvine, where he held the positions of Post-Doctoral Research Scholar and Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Education

• B.S., Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006
• Ph.D., High Energy Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, 2012