Keshav receives Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur

ICES computer science professor Keshav Pingali has earned the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, the highest award bestowed by the institute to alumni.

Pingali, the director of ICES Center for Distributed and Grid Computing, graduated from the institute in 1978 where he earned his B.Tech degree.

Pingali’s research has focuses on programming languages and compiler technology for program understanding, restructuring, and optimization. His group is known for its contributions to memory-hierarchy optimization.