Keshav Pingali is the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Grid and Distributed Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and a member of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT Austin. He has a PhD from MIT, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal and the Lalit Narain Das Memorial Gold Medal. Pingali has made deep and wide-ranging contributions to many areas of parallel computing including programming languages, compilers, and runtime systems for multicore, manycore and distributed computers. His current research is focused on programming models and tools for high-performance graph computing.

Pingali is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and AAAS, and a foreign member of the Academia Europeana. He received the IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2013, the 2023 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award, the 2023 ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award, and the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award. Between 2008 and 2011, he was the co-Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. He has served on many international committees including the NSF CISE Advisory Committee (2009-2012) and the Board of Directors of CoLab, a joint research initiative between the government of Portugal and UT Austin (2007-2017).