| Vikram Adve | |
| Birth Date: | 28 June 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
| Fields: | Computer Science |
| Workplaces: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rice University |
| Alma Mater: | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Mary K. Vernon |
| Notable Students: | Chris Lattner |
| Known For: | LLVM |
| Awards: | ACM Software System Award, ACM Fellow |
| Website: | https://cs.illinois.edu/directory/profile/vadve |
Vikram Adve (born 28 June 1966) is the Donald B. Gillies professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[1]
In 2020, Vikram Adve became 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2]
Vikram Adve, along with Chris Lattner, designed and developed the LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001.[3] Vikram Adve and Chris Lattner received the 2012 ACM Software System Award for the LLVM software system.[4]
Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and edge computing, approximate computing, software security, system reliability, and parallel programming.[2] His group open-sourced the HPVM compiler infrastructure for various Central processing unit and Graphics processing unit architectures, Field-programmable gate array and domain-specific accelerators.[5]
Vikram Adve served as interim head of University of Illinois Department of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019.[6]
Prior to joining the faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was a research scientist at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. He got his PhD degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993.