Charith Mendis

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Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
• S.M., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
• B.Sc., Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, 2013

Academic Positions

• Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, August 2020 - August 2021
• Assistant Professor, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, August 2021 - Present
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2024 - Present
• Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2024 - Present

Research Interests

• Compilers
• Programming Languages
• Machine Learning

Honors

• Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Artifact Award, ISPASS (2026)
• DARPA YFA Director's Fellowship (2026)
• Honorable Mention for the Best Artifact Award, SIGMOD (2025)
• Distinguished Paper Award, POPL (2025)
• Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Award (2025)
• IEEE Micro Top Picks Honorable Mention (2024)
• Engineering Council Outstanding Advisor Award (2024)
• DARPA Young Faculty Award (2024)
• NSF CAREER Award (2024)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2023)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2022)
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021)
• Best Paper Award, ML for Systems Workshop at ISCA (2019)
• Best Student Paper Award, IEEE BigData (2017)
• William A. Martin Thesis Award for Outstanding SM thesis, MIT (2015)