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Vikram Adve

b. 2000

Computer scientist

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About Vikram Adve

Born 2000. Vikram Adve is a scientist, known for LLVM.

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.

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

Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and edge computing, approximate computing, software security, system reliability, and parallel programming.

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

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.

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Important facts

Born
2000, Gujarat
Birth century
20th century
Occupation
Scientist
Known for
LLVM
Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Positions held
Full professor
Employers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Awards
ACM Software System Award; ACM Fellow
Also known as
Vikram Sadanand Adve, Vikram S. Adve

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Vikram Adve?

computer scientist

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Vikram Adve was born in 2000 in Gujarat.

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Vikram Adve is a scientist.

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Vikram Adve is known for LLVM.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Vikram Adve

· Wikidata: Q20630458

· DBpedia: Vikram Adve

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