Summary
Alaettin Mete is a computational scientist with over a decade of experience applying software engineering and likelihood-based statistics to petabyte-scale datasets within the ATLAS experiment at CERN. He builds and optimizes core I/O, profiling, and monitoring software that keeps large-scale physics workflows efficient and reliable, and has led teams of 5–50 researchers to meet tight production and analysis deadlines. Comfortable across C++, Python, and R, he has contributed to and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications while shepherding software from development through deployment. Based at Argonne National Laboratory and active in ATLAS since 2007, he combines deep domain expertise in high-energy physics with practical mentorship of students and large-collaboration coordination. An often overlooked strength is his hands-on work on resource-usage diagnostics and production-system tuning that directly enables reproducible, high-throughput scientific analyses.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), High Energy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), High Energy Physics at Iowa State University
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Middle East Technical University
Turkish, English, French