Author

Keshav Pingali is the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and a member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT Austin. He was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University from 1986 to 2006, where he held the India Chair of Computer Science. He has a PhD from MIT, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal.

Pingali has made deep and wide-ranging contributions to many areas of parallel computing including programming languages, compilers, and runtime systems for multicore, manycore and distributed computers. His current research is focused on programming models and tools for high-performance graph computing.

Pingali is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM and AAAS, and a foreign member of the Academia Europeana. He received the IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2013, and the IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award in 2023. Between 2008 and 2011, he was the co-Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. He has also served on many national committees including the NSF CISE Advisory Committee (2009-2012).