Keshav K Pingali
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- May 1978, B.Tech. IIT Kanpur
- May 1983, SM and EE. MIT
- May 1986, ScD. MIT
- ACM SIGPLAN Prog Lang Achievement Award (2024)
- IEEE Charles Babbage Award (2023)
- ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award (2023)
- Member of the Academia Europaea (2020)
- Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur (2013)
- President’s Gold Medal, IIT Kanpur (1978)
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| Thesis | Demand-driven Evaluation on Dataflow Machines (1986) |
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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.
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.
