Biography:Keshav K Pingali

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Short description: American computer scientist
Keshav K Pingali
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Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
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ThesisDemand-driven Evaluation on Dataflow Machines (1986)
Doctoral advisorArvind
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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.[1][2] In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana.

Keshav Pingali is the co-founder and CEO of Katana Graph,[3] which is building a high-performance, scale-out platform for graph querying, graph analytics, graph mining and graph AI workloads. Katana Graph announced[4] its 28.5 million in Series A funding in February 2021, and in April of that year, the startup also announced[5] 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[6] at the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference.

Awards and honors

  • 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[7]
  • 2020. Member of Academia Europaea[8]
  • 2013. Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur[9]
  • 2012. ACM Fellow, for contributions to data-centric parallel programming and to parallel compilation theory and practice[10]
  • 2010. Fellow, IEEE Computer Society, for contributions to compilers and parallel computing[11]
  • 1998. Russell Teaching Award, Cornell Arts and Science[12]
  • 1997. Ip-Lee Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering[13]
  • 1989. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering[13]
  • 1986. IBM Faculty Development Award, Cornell Engineering[13]

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