Vikram Adve
Indian academic
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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]
Vikram Adve | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 June 1966 |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Known for | LLVM |
| Awards | ACM Software System Award,[1] ACM Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rice University |
| Mary K. Vernon | |
Notable students | Chris Lattner |
| Website | https://cs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/vadve |
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.
