Presenter

Sarita Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her primary research interest is at the hardware-software interface with work spanning computer architecture, programming lanauges, operating systems, and applications. Her current research is on scalable system specialization and approximate computing. Sarita’s honors include being named a Woman of Vision in innovation by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology in 2012, an IEEE Fellow in 2012, and an ACM Fellow in 2010. She also received the SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award in 2008. For three of the last five years, the University of Illinois has selected her students' PhD theses as one of two nominations for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Sarita Adve is the recipient of the ACM-IEEE Computer Society Ken Kennedy Award.