Vikram Adve

Vikram Adve
Born (1966-06-28) 28 June 1966 (age 58)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology, Bombay
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Known forLLVM
AwardsACM Software System Award,[1] ACM Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rice University
Doctoral advisorMary K. Vernon
Notable studentsChris Lattner
Websitehttps://cs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/vadve

Vikram Adve (born 28 June 1966) is the Donald B. Gillies professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2]

Academia

In 2020, Vikram Adve became a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Digital Agriculture and leads AIFARMS, a $20M National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute funded by NIFA and NSF at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[3]

Vikram Adve, along with Chris Lattner, designed and developed the LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001.[4] Vikram Adve and Chris Lattner received the 2012 ACM Software System Award for the LLVM software system.[1]

Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and edge computing, approximate computing, software security, system reliability, and parallel programming.[3] His group open-sourced the HPVM compiler infrastructure for various Central processing unit and Graphics processing unit architectures, Field-programmable gate array and domain-specific accelerators.[5]

Vikram Adve served as interim head of University of Illinois Department of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019.[6]

Prior to joining the faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was a research scientist at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. He got his PhD degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "ACM Awards". ACM.
  2. ^ Rocheleau, Jake. "Vikram S. Adve". Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Vikram S. Adve". vikram.cs.illinois.edu. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Research Group – Vikram S. Adve". vikram.cs.illinois.edu. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  5. ^ "The HPVM Compiler Infrastructure¶". Vikram Adve's group.
  6. ^ "Vikram Adve named Interim Head of CS @ ILLINOIS". cs.illinois.edu. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
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