Vikram Adve (born 28 June 1966) is the

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professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

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In 2020, Vikram Adve is a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Digital Agriculture and leads AIFARMS, a $20M National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute funded by NIFA and NSF at

. Vikram Adve, along with

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, designed and developed the

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compiler infrastructure project in 2001. Vikram Adve and

received the 2012

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for the LLVM software system. Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and edge computing,

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, system reliability, and

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. His group open-sourced the HPVM compiler infrastructure for various

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and

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architectures,

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and domain-specific accelerators. Vikram Adve served as interim head of

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from 2017 to 2019. Prior to joining the faculty at

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, he was a research scientist at

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from 1993 to 1999. He got his PhD degree from

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in 1993.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty IIT Bombay alumni Living people 1966 births {{Compu-bio-stub

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