Keshav K Pingali is an American

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, currently the

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Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at

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and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at

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. He is a Fellow of the

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and

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. In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana. Keshav Pingali is the co-founder and

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of Katana Graph, which is building a high-performance, scale-out platform for graph querying, graph analytics, graph mining and graph AI workloads. Katana Graph announced its 28.5 million in Series A funding in February 2021, and in April of that year, the startup also announced 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 at the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference.

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