Scholar
Charith Mendis
Google Scholar ID: utZ3JYUAAAAJ
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,075
H-index
17
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of DARPA Young Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, William A. Martin outstanding master’s thesis award at MIT, and university gold medal for his B.Sc. Won numerous paper awards including Distinguished Paper Award at POPL, Best Student Paper Award at IEEE BigData, honorable mention for the Best Artifact Award at SIGMOD, Best Paper Award at ML for Systems workshop at ISCA, and IEEE Top Picks Honorable Mention. Published papers at OOPSLA 2025, CGO 2026, MICRO 2025, ICML 2025, PLDI 2025, and SIGMOD 2025.
Research Experience
- Leads the ADAPT lab at UIUC, focusing on projects related to both correctness and performance of tensor compilers and heterogeneous systems.
Education
- Ph.D. and Master’s from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.Sc. from the University of Moratuwa.
Background
- Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His broad research interests are at the intersection of compilers, program optimization, and machine learning.
Miscellany
- Hiring a postdoc to work on projects related to both correctness and performance of tensor compilers and heterogeneous systems. The ADAPT lab has opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about building high-performance ML optimization or compilation techniques or automated compiler construction techniques using either machine learning or formal methods.
