Keshav K Pingali
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Fields | Computer Science |
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Thesis | Demand-driven Evaluation on Dataflow Machines (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Arvind |
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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
[edit]- 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]
- 2017. HPEC Graph Challenge Champion, with Chad Voegele, Yi-Shan Lu, and Sreepathi Pai,[9] for the paper "Parallel triangle counting and k-truss identification using graph-centric methods"[10]
- 2013. Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Kanpur[11][12]
- 2012. ACM Fellow, for contributions to data-centric parallel programming and to parallel compilation theory and practice[13]
- 2010. Fellow, IEEE Computer Society, for contributions to compilers and parallel computing[14]
- 2009. Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[15]
- 1998. Russell Teaching Award, Cornell Arts and Science[16]
- 1997. Ip-Lee Teaching Award, Cornell Engineering[17]
- 1989. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, Cornell Engineering[18][17]
- 1986. IBM Faculty Development Award, Cornell Engineering[17]
- 1978. President’s Gold Medal, IIT Kanpur; awarded to the top graduating B.Tech. student.
- 1978. Lalit Narain Das Memorial Gold Medal, IIT Kanpur; awarded to the top graduating student in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
References
[edit]- ^ "Keshav Pingali". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ "Faculty". utexas.edu. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ^ "Katana Graph - Team". Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ "ZD Net". ZDNet. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ "HPC Wire". Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ "The Innovator". 14 May 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ "Keshav K Pingali: ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award". ACM. 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ "Keshav Pingali". Academia Europaea, The Academy of Europe. 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Graph Challenge Champions". Archived from the original on August 19, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ^ "Parallel triangle counting and k-truss identification using graph-centric methods". Retrieved July 29, 2025.
- ^ "Keshav K Pingali". IIT Kanpur. 2013. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Award (DAA)". IIT Kanpur. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ "Keshav K Pingali". ACM. 2012. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Keshav K Pingali". IEEE Computer Society. 2010. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ "Elected Fellows". Retrieved August 5, 2025.
- ^ "Stephen Russell Family Teaching Awards". Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences. 1998. Archived from the original on 2023-06-03. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ a b c "Cornell Bowers CIS, Computer Science, Awards". Cornell Bowers CIS. 1997. Archived from the original on 2023-02-02. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
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