Sarita Adve

Sarita Adve is a Richard T. Cheng professor of Computer Science at Illinois. Her main research focus is hardware-software interface and she has contributed to a wide range of fields including computer architecture, programming languages, operating systems, and applications. She is currently working on scalable system specialization and approximate computing. She teaches computer architecture courses at the university and has taught CS 433 (Computer System Organization) and CS 232 (Computer Architecture II) among others.

Adve is the recipient of numerous awards, such as the 2018 ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy award,  the 2008 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award, a 2005 IBM faculty award, and a 1995 National Science Foundation CAREER. She was named a Woman of Vision in innovation by the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology in 2012, an IEEE fellow in 2012, an ACM fellow in 2010, and a UIUC University Scholar in 2004.