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| Fields | Computer Science |
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| Thesis | Demand-driven Evaluation on Dataflow Machines (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Arvind |
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| Keshav K Pingali at the Mathematics Genealogy Project | |
Keshav K Pingali is an American computer scientist, currently the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana.
Keshav Pingali is the co-founder and CEO of Katana Graph, which is building a high-performance, scale-out platform for graph querying, graph analytics, graph mining and graph AI workloads. Katana Graph announced its 28.5 million in Series A funding in February 2021, and in April of that year, the startup also announced its partnership with Intel to optimize their graph engine for the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (IceLake) and for Optane, Intel's non-volatile memory system. Keshav was also the keynote speaker at the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference.
Awards and honors
- 2024. ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award, for immense contributions to parallel computing.
- 2023. IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, for contributions to high-performance compilers and graph computing
- 2023. ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, for contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms
- 2020. Member of Academia Europaea
- 2013. Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur
- 2012. ACM Fellow, for contributions to data-centric parallel programming and to parallel compilation theory and practice
- 2010. Fellow, IEEE Computer Society, for contributions to compilers and parallel computing
- 1998. Russell Teaching Award, Cornell Arts and Science
- 1997. Ip-Lee Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering
- 1989. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering
- 1986. IBM Faculty Development Award, Cornell Engineering
References
- "Keshav Pingali". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- "Faculty". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- "Katana Graph - Team". Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- "ZD Net". ZDNet. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- "HPC Wire". Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- "The Innovator". 14 May 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- "Keshav K Pingali: ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award". ACM. 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- "Keshav Pingali". Academia Europaea, The Academy of Europe. 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- "Keshav K Pingali". IIT Kanpur. 2013. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- "Keshav K Pingali". ACM. 2012. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- "Keshav K Pingali". IEEE Computer Society. 2010. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- "Stephen Russell Family Teaching Awards". Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. 1998. Archived from the original on 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Cornell Bowers CIS, Computer Science, Awards". Cornell Bowers CIS. 1997. Archived from the original on 2023-02-02. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
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