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Vivek Sarkar

Vivek Sarkar

Chair of the School of Computer Science and the Stephen Fleming Chair for Telecommunications in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology
Formerly a professor of Computer Science, and the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering at Rice University

Vivek Sarkar is a professor of Computer Science, and the E.D. Butcher Chair in Engineering at Rice University, where his group developed the Habanero Java library and programming system for use in teaching and research.  He received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, M.S. degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1981, 1982 and 1987, respectively.  Prior to joining Rice in 2007, Dr. Sarkar worked on multiple projects related to parallel software at IBM Research for 20 years, including leading the release of the open source Jikes Research Virtual Machine for Java.

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