Vivek Sarkar
Dean, College Of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolVivek Sarkar is a leading academic and research engineer who serves as the John P. Imlay, Jr. Dean of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech and holds the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar title. With over two decades of experience, he specializes in parallel, heterogeneous, and distributed high-performance computing, spanning programming languages, compilers, runtimes, and debugging tools. An ACM and IEEE Fellow and recipient of the 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, he couples deep technical scholarship with sustained policy and community engagement, including long service on the DOE’s ASCAC and the Computing Research Association board. His career bridges top-tier academia and industrial research—previously leading computing departments at Rice and managing programming technologies at IBM Research—reflecting a rare blend of administrative leadership and hands-on system-building.
21 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonIndian Institute of Technology KanpurDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems) at Stanford University
Hindi
Github Skills (15)
x1010
tla9
ssa9
garbage-collector7
programming-language6
jit6
standard-library5
compiler4
mpi1
parallel-processing1
shared-memory1
cpp1
parallel-computing1
parallel1
hpc1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hpcgarage/intrepyddguide
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:67 commits, 5 pushes in 1 month
scalegraph/sx10
Dec 2004 - Mar 2007
Contributions:59 commits in 2 years 2 months
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