David Padua is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has been a faculty member since 1985 and has devoted much of his career to languages, tools and compilers for parallel computing. His PhD dissertation was among the first studies of compiler techniques for multiprocessors, and he served as editor in chief of Springer-Verlag's Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Padua received the 2024 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award for his contributions to the theory and practice of parallel compilation and tools and for service to the computing community.
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