Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Sarita Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in computer architecture, parallel computing, and resilient systems. She co-developed the memory models for the C++ and Java programming languages based on her early work on data-race-free models. She is a recipient of the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award in innovation, the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. She is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE and was named a University Scholar by the University of Illinois. She is currently the chair of ACM SIGARCH and on the board of the Computing Research Association. She received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from Wisconsin in 1993 and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Bombay in 1987.