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Keshav Pingali

W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin
Professor, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas, Austin

Contact Information

Office:
4.126A, ACES Building,
University of Texas, Austin 78712-0233.

Phone:
Voice: 512-232-6567
Fax: 512-471-8885


Mailing address:
Department of Computer Science

Taylor Hall, Room 2.124,
1 University Station, C0500
,
University of Texas at Austin,
Austin, Texas 78712-0233.

Email:
pingali AT cs.utexas.edu


Education

B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1978
S.M., E.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,MA, 1983
ScD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1986

Honors

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2010
Fellow of the IEEE 2010
W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing, University of Texas at Austin, 2006-
India Chair of Computer Science, Cornell University, 2003-2006
N. Rama Rao Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2000
Russell Teaching Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, 1998
Ip-Lee Teaching Award, Collge of Engineering, Cornell University, 1997
NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989-1994
IBM Faculty Development Award, 1986-1988
President's Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1978
Lalit Narain Das Gold Medal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 1978
National Science Talent Scholar, India, 1973

Research Interests

I work in programming languages and compiler technology for program understanding, optimization, and parallelization. My current research interests are  methodologies and tools for programming multicore processors, with a focus on irregular applications from domains like graphics, social networks, and data mining.

Research Group Home Page:
http://iss.ices.utexas.edu/

External service

Steering Committee chair, ACM Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2003-
co-Editor-in-chief, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) 2007-
Member, Editorial board, International Journal of  Parallel Programming 1998-
Board member, Research I Foundation, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, 2003-
NSF Committee of Visitors 2009
NSF CISE Advisory Committee 2009-

Teaching

Spring 2010: CS 375: Introduction to Compilers