In 2020, Vikram Adve became a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Digital Agriculture and leads AIFARMS, a $20M National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute funded by NIFA and NSF at
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Vikram Adve, along with
Chris Lattner, designed and developed the
LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001. Vikram Adve and
Chris Lattner received the 2012
ACM Software System Award for the LLVM software system. Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and
edge computing,
approximate computing,
software security, system reliability, and
parallel programming. Vikram Adve served as interim head of
University of Illinois Department of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019. Prior to joining the faculty at
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was a research scientist at
Rice University from 1993 to 1999. He got his PhD degree from
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. ==See also==