Last updated: December 21, 2001

Dr. Vivek Sarkar obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1987. He has authored or coauthored over 75 publications in the areas of parallel processing and program optimization, including a monograph titled "Partitioning and Scheduling Parallel Programs for Multiprocessors". He has served as a program committee member for several conferences including PLDI, POPL, MICRO, ICPP, ICS, and Java Grande. Vivek has lectured internationally on optimization and parallelization technologies in conference tutorials, short courses at Stanford University and the Indian Institute of Science, and full-length courses at MIT.

Vivek Sarkar is currently Senior Manager of the Programming Technologies department at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The projects under way in the Programming Technologies department include Component Annotation and Verification (Canvas), Advanced Debugging (Dragonfly), Advanced Interprocedural Analysis (Gnosis), Adaptive and Dynamic Optimization (Jalapeno), Distributed Software Development tools (Stellation), and XPATH Analysis and Optimization (XAOS).

Since joining IBM in 1987, Vivek has been a member of the PTRAN research project, leader of the ASTI project for loop transformations and automatic/OpenMP parallelization in the XL Fortran product compilers, manager of the Application Development Technology Institute (ADTI), and manager of the Jalapeno project on virtual machine technologies. Vivek has been a member of the IBM Academy of Technology since 1995. In 1997, Vivek was on sabbatical as a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT.