Sandhya Dwarkadas is a professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. She was formerly the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. She is known for her research on shared memory and reconfigurable computing.[1]

Education

Dwarkadas was educated at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Rice University,[2] completing her Ph.D. at Rice in 1993. Her dissertation, Synchronization, Coherence, and Consistency for High Performance Shared-Memory Multiprocessing, was jointly supervised by J. Robert Jump and Bart Sinclair.[3]

Recognition

Dwarkadas became a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2017.[4] She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to shared memory and reconfigurability".[5]

References

  1. ↑ Sandhya Dwarkadas, Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering, University of Rochester Department of Computer Science, retrieved 2018-12-05
  2. ↑ "Sandhya Dwarkadas", Grad Cohort, Computing Research Association Women, retrieved 2018-12-05
  3. ↑ Sandhya Dwarkadas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Hunter, Jennifer (2017), ECE alum Dwarkadas named IEEE Fellow, Rice Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, retrieved 2018-12-05
  5. ↑ 2018 ACM Fellows Honored for Pivotal Achievements that Underpin the Digital Age, Association for Computing Machinery, December 5, 2018
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