Keshav K Pingali Explained

Keshav K Pingali is an American computer scientist, currently the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing at the University of Texas at Austin, and also a published author. He previously also held the India Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University and also the N. Rama Rao Professorship at Indian Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.^{[1] [2]} In 2020, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Academia Europeana.

Keshav Pingali is the co-founder and CEO of Katana Graph,^[3] which is building a high-performance, scale-out platform for graph querying, graph analytics, graph mining and graph AI workloads. Katana Graph announced^[4] its 28.5 million in Series A funding in February 2021, and in April of that year, the startup also announced^[5] its partnership with Intel to optimize their graph engine for the new 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor (IceLake) and for Optane, Intel's non-volatile memory system. Keshav was also the keynote speaker^[6] at the 2021 Knowledge Graph Conference.

Awards and honors

• 2024. ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award, for immense contributions to parallel computing.
• 2023. IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, for contributions to high-performance compilers and graph computing
• 2023. ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, for contributions to programmability of high-performance parallel computing on irregular algorithms and graph algorithms^[7]
• 2020. Member of Academia Europaea^[8]
• 2013. Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur^[9]
• 2012. ACM Fellow, for contributions to data-centric parallel programming and to parallel compilation theory and practice^[10]
• 2010. Fellow, IEEE Computer Society, for contributions to compilers and parallel computing^[11]
• 1998. Russell Teaching Award, Cornell Arts and Science^[12]
• 1997. Ip-Lee Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering^[13]
• 1989. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering
• 1986. IBM Faculty Development Award, Cornell Engineering

Notes and References

1. Web site: Keshav Pingali . utexas.edu . December 11, 2016.
2. Web site: Faculty . utexas.edu . December 11, 2016.
3. Web site: Katana Graph - Team . 28 May 2021.
4. Web site: ZD Net . . 28 May 2021.
5. Web site: HPC Wire . 28 May 2021.
6. Web site: The Innovator . 14 May 2021 . 28 May 2021.
7. Web site: Keshav K Pingali: ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award . . 2023 . 2023-10-06.
8. Web site: Keshav Pingali . Academia Europaea, The Academy of Europe . 2020 . 2023-10-07.
9. Web site: Keshav K Pingali . . 2013 . 2023-10-07.
10. Web site: Keshav K Pingali . . 2012 . 2023-10-07.
11. Web site: Keshav K Pingali . . 2010 . 2023-10-07.
12. Web site: Stephen Russell Family Teaching Awards . . 1998 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230603020820/https://as.cornell.edu/about/russell-family-teaching-award . 2023-06-03 . 2023-10-07.
13. Web site: Cornell Bowers CIS, Computer Science, Awards . . 1997 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230202201109/https://www.cs.cornell.edu/information/awards-by-recipient . 2023-02-02 . 2023-10-07.