Sarita Adve Elected to the Computing Research Association Board of Directors

URBANA, IL, March 12, 2009 - University of Illinois computer science professor Sarita Adve was recently elected by her peers to the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. Prof. Adve also serves as the Director of Research for the Universal Parallel Computing Research Center at Illinois.

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.

Prof. 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.

Prof. 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.

By: Cheri Helregel, Universal Parallel Computing Research Center Illinois.