Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
[2][3] Before joining Illinois, Adve was a member of faculty at Rice University from 1993 to 1999.
She served on the NSF CISE directorate's advisory committee from 2003 to 2005 and on the expert group to revise the Java memory model from 2001 to 2005.
[8] She was the winner of the 2012 ABIE Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institute.
[9][10] In 2020, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.