Ayse Yilmazer is an Assistant Professor in Computer Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University since January 2018.  Her research interests lie in the general area of computer architecture and high performance computing, with particular emphasis on heterogeneous systems, GPUs and GPU computing, multiprocessors and parallel computing, parallelization, GPU microarchitecture, memory systems, memory consistency and synchronization, performance analysis, compiler analysis techniques and runtime optimizations. Prior to joining Istanbul Technical University, she was an Assistant Professor at Altınbas University from February 2015 to December 2017 and she was a senior design engineer in AMD  Research team from February 2014 to February 2015. Dr. Yilmazer's research was recognized by IPDPS Best Paper Award in 2006. Dr. Yilmazer received her Ph.D. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from  Northeastern University, MA,  M.S. degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from University of Rhode Island, RI, and B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara.