Sarita Adve Elected to the Computing Research Association Board of Directors

March 12, 2009
By: Cheri Helregel

Sarita Adve, UPCRC Illinois Director of Research, was recently elected by her peers to the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors.

Formed in 1972, the CRA seeks to strengthen research and advanced education in computing and allied fields. It counts among its members more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers in industry, government, and academia engaging in basic computing research; and affiliated professional societies.

Dr. Adve's leadership and contributions to the field include co-developing memory consistency models for the Java and C++ programming languages, which are based on her PhD thesis work on data-race-free memory models. Other significant contributions include the concepts of lifetime reliability aware architecture and dynamic reliability management, work on cross-layer energy management, exploiting instruction-level parallelism for memory system performance, and multiprocessor simulation methods.

Dr. Adve will begin her three-year term with the CRA Board of Directors in mid-June, 2009.

You may also read about the CRA Board Election Results online.

About UPCRC Illinois
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC Illinois) at the University of Illinois is a joint research endeavor of the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. The center builds on a history of Illinois innovation in parallel computing that spans four decades. UPCRC Illinois is also one of many Parallel@Illinois efforts currently invested in pioneering and promoting parallel computing research and education.