Sandhya Dwarkadas is a professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the

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. She was formerly the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the

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. She is known for her research on

shared memory In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them or avoid redundant copies. Shared memory is an efficient means of passing data between progr ...

and

reconfigurable computing Reconfigurable computing is a computer architecture combining some of the flexibility of software with the high performance of hardware by processing with very flexible high speed computing fabrics like field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Th ...

Education

Dwarkadas was educated at the

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and

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

, completing her Ph.D. at Rice in 1993. Her dissertation, ''Synchronization, Coherence, and Consistency for High Performance Shared-Memory Multiprocessing'', was jointly supervised by J. Robert Jump and Bart Sinclair.

Recognition

Dwarkadas became a fellow of the

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in 2017. She was elected as an

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in 2018 for "contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability".

References

External links

Interview with Sandhya Dwarkadas
Amanda Stent, Computing Research Association Women * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dwarkadas, Sandhya Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American computer scientists Indian computer scientists American women computer scientists IIT Madras alumni Rice University alumni University of Rochester faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE American women academics 21st-century American women