# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ilkay-alt-ntas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:56:46.867Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ilkay-alt-ntas"
name: "İlkay Altıntaş"
slug: "ilkay-alt-ntas"
description: "Ilkay Altintas is a Turkish-American data and computer scientist, and researcher in the domain of supercomputing and high-performance computing applications. Since 2015, Altintas has served as chief data science officer of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has also served as founder and director of the Workflows for Data Science Center of Excellence (WorDS) since 2014, as well as founder and director of the WIFIRE lab. Altintas is also the co-initiator of the Kepler scientific workflow system, an open-source platform that endows research scientists with the ability to readily collaborate, share, and design scientific workflows."
tagline: "Turkish-American data and computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ilkay_Altintas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.45
  momentum:             12.4
  historical:           5.274478666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://scil.ucsd.edu/ilkay"
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkay_Altintas"
    title: "Ilkay Altintas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B3"
    title: "إيلكاي آلتنتس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0lkay_Alt%C4%B1nta%C5%9F"
    title: "İlkay Altıntaş"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%DB%92_%D8%A2%D9%84%D9%B9%D9%86%D9%B9%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "الکے آلٹنٹاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkay_Altintas"
    title: "Ilkay Altintas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilkay_Altintas"
    title: "Ilkay Altintas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61863183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump