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| Fields | Computer Science |
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| Thesis | Demand-driven Evaluation on Dataflow Machines (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arvind |
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Keshav K. Pingali is an American computer scientist, currently the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [1] [2] In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana.
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Keshav Pingali is the co-founder and CEO of Katana Graph, [3] which is building a high-performance, scale-out platform for graph querying, graph analytics, graph mining and graph AI workloads. Katana Graph announced [4] its 28.5 million in Series A funding in February 2021, and in April of that year, the startup also announced [5] its partnership with Intel to optimize their graph engine for the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (IceLake) and for Optane, Intel's non-volatile memory system. Keshav was also the keynote speaker [6] at the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference.
