Sarita Adve

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Sarita V. Adve
Alma mater Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (B.Tech)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (M.S., PhD)
Scientific career
Institutions University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rice University

Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [1] Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems.

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Education and career

Adve completed a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987. She subsequently completed a Master of Science (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [2] [3] Before joining Illinois, Adve was a member of faculty at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. She served on the NSF CISE directorate's advisory committee from 2003 to 2005 and on the expert group to revise the Java memory model from 2001 to 2005. She served as chair of ACM SIGARCH from 2015 to 2019. [4]

She was the PhD supervisor of Parthasarathy Ranganathan. [3]

Awards and honors

Adve received the Ken Kennedy Award in 2018, [5] the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award in 2008, [6] an IBM faculty award in 2005, was named a UIUC University Scholar in 2004, [7] received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1998, an IBM University Partnership award in 1997 and 1998, and a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1995. She was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010. [8] She was the winner of the 2012 ABIE Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institute. [9] [10] In 2020, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "CS at UIUC Faculty".
  2. ↑ "Sarita Adve" . Retrieved 3 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 Sarita Adve at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Officers". ACM SIGARCH. 8 July 2011. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  5. ↑ "ACM Ken Kennedy Award" . Retrieved 18 October 2019.
  6. ↑ Maurice Wilkes Award past winners Archived 2015-05-23 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2015-06-15.
  7. ↑ "Six Urbana faculty members named University Scholars", Inside Illinois, 24 (15), 17 February 2005, retrieved 15 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Sarita Adve". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Sarita Adve - AnitaB.org". AnitaB.org. 1 October 2012.
  10. ↑ "Abie Awards - AnitaB.org". AnitaB.org.
  11. ↑ "New members". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2020. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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