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'''Laxmikant (Sanjay) V. Kale''' is the director of the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) and a professor of computer science at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. He also holds department affiliations with the [[Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology|Beckman Institute]] and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Illinois.{{Citation needed|date=March 2018}}

== Charm++ ==
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Professor Kale is perhaps best known for [[Charm++]], a parallel object-oriented programming language based on [[C++]]. Under his leadership and direction, members of PPL developed (and continue to evolve) Charm++ and its predecessor, Chare Kernel,<ref>[http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/research/charm "Charm++"], PPL Research Information, Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> along with Adaptive MPI (AMPI).<ref>[http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/research/ampi "Adaptive MPI"], PPL Research Information. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> On top of this programming system, many parallel applications and libraries have been developed, such as [[NAMD]],<ref>[http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/research/moldyn "NAMD"], PPL Research Information, February 15, 2012</ref> [[OpenAtom]],<ref>[http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/research/qmmm "OpenAtom"], PPL Research Information. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> Charisma,<ref>[http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/research/orch "Charisma"], PPL Research Information. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> et al.

Professor Kale and his research group frequently collaborate with scientists in other disciplines to come up with novel ways of using high performance computing for scientific research and discovery. His research is guided by the principles of improving computer performance and human productivity in parallel programming.<ref>Laxmikant V. Kale, [http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/~kale/newbio.pdf "Research Accomplishments in Perspective"] Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref>

== Research group ==
The Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) is Professor Kale's research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The group is composed of research scientists and graduate and undergraduate research assistants in collaboration with domain scientists throughout the world. The group's current collaborations include NCSA's Blue Waters project and [[Virginia Tech]]'s Contagion project,<ref>J. William Bell, [http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Stories/Viral/ "Getting Viral"]. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> among others.

== Awards ==
Professor Kale was elevated to an [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] Fellow in December 2017 for his contributions to [[Parallel computing|parallel programming]] and [[Supercomputer|high performance computing]].<ref>[https://www.acm.org/media-center/2017/december/fellows-2017 "2017 ACM Fellows"] Retrieved January 23, 2018</ref> He was named the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science in November 2016.<ref>[https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-and-professorships/paul-and-cynthia-saylor-professorship "Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science"] Retrieved January 23,
2018</ref> He was awarded the IEEE Sidney Fernbach award in 2012<ref>[https://www.computer.org/web/awards/fernbach "Sidney Fernbach Award"]. Retrieved January 23, 2018</ref> and was recognized as an [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]] Fellow in November 2011 for "development of parallel programming techniques<ref>[http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/fellows/chronology/fellows_2011.html "IEEE Fellows List"]. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> and awarded a Gordon Bell special prize in 2002 for NAMD: Biomolecular Simulation on Thousands of Processors, where "researchers achieved unprecedented scaling of the code that renders an atom-by-atom blueprint of large biomolecules and biomolecular systems."<ref>"[http://www.supercomp.org/sc2002/news_nrp_conclude.html "Gordon Bell news"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716223939/http://www.supercomp.org/sc2002/news_nrp_conclude.html |date=2011-07-16 }}, Supercomputing 2002. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> Other awards include the C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990<ref>[http://cs.illinois.edu/csillinois/awards?quicktabs_17=1 "Faculty Awards"], Department of Computer Science. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> and ONR Young Investigator (1990–93).

== Education ==
Professor Kale earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the [[State University of New York|State University of New York (SUNY)]], [[Stony Brook University|Stony Brook]] with David Scott Warren as his advisor.<ref>[http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=81492 "David Scott Warren"], The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> He earned a M.E. in computer science from the [[Indian Institute of Science|Indian Institute of Science (IISc)]], Bangalore, in 1979 and his undergraduate work was completed in 1977 at the [[Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi|Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University]], where he earned a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering.<ref>Laxmikant V. Kale [http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/~kale/bio.html "Biodata"]. Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://charm.cs.illinois.edu PPL homepage]
* [http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/people/kale Professor Kale's page]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=41341 Professor Kale's listing] in the [[Mathematics Genealogy Project]]

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