Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...
. Her research interests are in
computer architecture and systems,
parallel computing
Parallel computing is a type of computing, computation in which many calculations or Process (computing), processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. ...
, and power and reliability-aware systems.
Education and career
Adve completed a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering at
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT- Bombay or IIT-B) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
IIT Bombay is mainly known for the highly competitive four-year Bachelor of Tech ...
in 1987. She subsequently completed a Master of Science (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) in computer science at the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...
.
Before joining Illinois, Adve was a member of faculty at
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres.
Rice University comp ...
from 1993 to 1999. She served on the
NSF
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Political organizations
*National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party
*NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party
* National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political g ...
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.
She was the PhD supervisor of
Parthasarathy Ranganathan.
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Awards and honors
Adve received the Ken Kennedy Award in 2018, the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award in 2008, an IBM faculty award in 2005, was named a UIUC University Scholar in 2004, 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. Adve was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010. She was the winner of the 2012 ABIE Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institute.
In 2020, Adve was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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. In 2023, Adve was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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.
References
External links
Sarita Adve's Homepage
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Living people
Rice University faculty
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
IIT Bombay alumni
2010 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American women academics
21st-century American women academics
21st-century American academics
Sloan Research Fellows
Indian computer scientists
Maurice Wilkes Award winners
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science