2026 Sarita V. Adve: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	67	2198	2131	1102	1061	158	17640

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2018 - ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award For research contributions and leadership in the development of memory consistency models for C++ and Java, for service to numerous computer science organizations, and for exceptional mentoring.
2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to shared memory semantics and parallel computing
2010 - ACM Fellow For contributions to hardware and language memory models, and to low-power and resilient systems.
1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Sarita V. Adve is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Computer Science, spanning several subfields. These include Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work covers multiple main topics, reflecting a broad approach to computing systems and technologies. These topics include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Advanced Data Storage Technologies, Augmented Reality Applications, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems, and Embedded Systems Design Techniques.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sarita V. Adve include Muhammad Huzaifa, Samuel Grayson, Vikram Adve, Johnathan Alsop, and Matthew D. Sinclair. Such collaborations have contributed to a sustained publication record in a variety of scientific venues.

The publication outlets where their research commonly appears include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
IEEE Micro
The International Journal of Robotics Research
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Representative recent papers authored by or coauthored with Sarita V. Adve are as follows:

"Inter-kernel Reuse-aware Thread Block Scheduling," 2020, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization
"ILLIXR: An Open Testbed to Enable Extended Reality Systems Research," 2022, IEEE Micro
"Exploring Extended Reality with ILLIXR: A New Playground for Architecture Research," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"HarDNN: Feature Map Vulnerability Evaluation in CNNs," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Trireme: Exploration of Hierarchical Multi-level Parallelism for Hardware Acceleration," 2023, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems

Sarita V. Adve has been recognized with several awards throughout their career. These include the ACM - IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award in 2018, awarded for contributions to memory consistency models and service to computer science organizations. They were named IEEE Fellow in 2012 for work on shared memory semantics and parallel computing. In 2010, they were recognized as ACM Fellow for their research in hardware and language memory models and resilient systems. Sarita was also named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial

S.V. Adve;K. Gharachorloo

1622
Citations
Weak ordering-a new definition

Sarita V. Adve;Mark D. Hill

965
Citations
The Java memory model

Jeremy Manson;William Pugh;Sarita V. Adve

907
Citations
The impact of technology scaling on lifetime reliability

J. Srinivasan;S.V. Adve;P. Bose;J.A. Rivers

741
Citations
Weak ordering—a new definition

Unknown

598
Citations
Foundations of the C++ concurrency memory model

Hans-J. Boehm;Sarita V. Adve

596
Citations
The Case for Lifetime Reliability-Aware Microprocessors

Jayanth Srinivasan;Sarita V. Adve;Pradip Bose;Jude A. Rivers

562
Citations
Addressing failures in exascale computing

Marc Snir;Robert W Wisniewski;Jacob A Abraham;Sarita V Adve

496
Citations
A type and effect system for deterministic parallel Java

Robert L. Bocchino;Vikram S. Adve;Danny Dig;Sarita V. Adve

444
Citations
Reconfigurable caches and their application to media processing

Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Sarita Adve;Norman P. Jouppi

392
Citations
Understanding the propagation of hard errors to software and implications for resilient system design

Man-Lap Li;Pradeep Ramachandran;Swarup Kumar Sahoo;Sarita V. Adve

339
Citations
A unified formalization of four shared-memory models

S.V. Adve;M.D. Hill

338
Citations
Exploiting Structural Duplication for Lifetime Reliability Enhancement

Jayanth Srinivasan;Sarita V. Adve;Pradip Bose;Jude A. Rivers

296
Citations
Rsim: simulating shared-memory multiprocessors with ILP processors

C.J. Hughes;V.S. Pai;P. Ranganathan;S.V. Adve

290
Citations
Lifetime reliability: toward an architectural solution

Jayanth Srinivasan;S.V. Adve;Pradip Bose;J.A. Rivers

269
Citations
Parallel programming must be deterministic by default

Robert L. Bocchino;Vikram S. Adve;Sarita V. Adve;Marc Snir

265
Citations
Memory models: a case for rethinking parallel languages and hardware

Sarita V. Adve;Hans-J. Boehm

255
Citations
Predictive dynamic thermal management for multimedia applications

Jayanth Srinivasan;Sarita V. Adve

254
Citations
Performance of database workloads on shared-memory systems with out-of-order processors

Parthasarathy Ranganathan;Kourosh Gharachorloo;Sarita V. Adve;Luiz André Barroso

252
Citations
The ALPBench benchmark suite for complex multimedia applications

Man-Lap Li;R. Sasanka;S.V. Adve;Yen-Kuang Chen

238
Citations
DeNovo: Rethinking the Memory Hierarchy for Disciplined Parallelism

Byn Choi;Rakesh Komuravelli;Hyojin Sung;Robert Smolinski

238
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Parthasarathy Ranganathan Google (United States)

Vikram Adve University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Pradip Bose IBM (United States)

Mark D. Hill University of Wisconsin–Madison

Yuanyuan Zhou University of California, San Diego

Klara Nahrstedt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Douglas L. Jones University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yen-Kuang Chen Alibaba Group (China)

Robin Kravets University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kourosh Gharachorloo Google (United States)

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