Sarita Adve

Who is Sarita Adve?

Sarita Adve is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and a PI for the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems.

Dr. Adve's most significant research contributions are in the areas of memory consistency models for multiprocessors; hardware reliability; power management; exploiting instruction-level parallelism for memory system performance; and evaluation techniques for shared-memory multiprocessors with ILP processors.

Dr. Adve received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993 and 1989 respectively, and the B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay in 1987. Before joining Illinois, she was on the faculty at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. Dr. Adve received the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award in 2008, an IBM faculty award in 2005, was named a UIUC University Scholar in 2004, received an Alfred P.