ITI's Sarita Adve Named an IEEE Fellow

12/8/2011 12:00:00 PM ITI Staff

Sarita Adve has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She was selected for her "contributions to shared memory semantics and parallel computing." Her research in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems focuses on a full-systems view and is notable for its multidisciplinary collaborations.

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Sarita Adve
Sarita Adve
Sarita Adve

Sarita Adve has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

She was selected for her "contributions to shared memory semantics and parallel computing." Her research in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems focuses on a full-systems view and is notable for its multidisciplinary collaborations.

Adve's broadest impact has been in hardware and software memory consistency models. She received the 2008 SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award for this work, specifically "for formalization of memory consistency models, especially data-race free models, and their influence on both hardware and high-level languages."

Adve has been a leader in power- and reliability-aware architectures. Her group was among the first to recognize that significant power reductions required breaking traditional system boundaries in favor of a collaborative, cross-layer system-wide power management framework. Most recently, her work has challenged the research community to rethink how both parallel languages and parallel hardware are designed. Adve recently won honors for her DeNovo system, which exploits emerging software trends in disciplined parallel programming to make hardware simpler, higher performance, and lower energy, all at the same time.

From the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
December 9, 2011


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This story was published December 8, 2011.