Vikram Adve (born 28 June 1966) is the Donald B. Gillies professor in the Department of Computer Science and a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[2]

In 2020, Vikram Adve became a co-founder and co-director of the Center for Digital Agriculture and leads AIFARMS, a $20M National Artificial Intelligence Research Institute funded by NIFA and NSF at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.^[3]

Vikram Adve, along with Chris Lattner, designed and developed the LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001.^[4] Vikram Adve and Chris Lattner received the 2012 ACM Software System Award for the LLVM software system.^[1]

Vikram Adve's research interests include compilers and programming languages, and edge computing, approximate computing, software security, system reliability, and parallel programming.^[3] His group open-sourced the HPVM compiler infrastructure for various Central processing unit and Graphics processing unit architectures, Field-programmable gate array and domain-specific accelerators.^[5]

Vikram Adve served as interim head of University of Illinois Department of Computer Science from 2017 to 2019.^[6]

Prior to joining the faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, he was a research scientist at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. He got his PhD degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993.

• Chris Lattner
• Mary K. Vernon