Krishna Palem

Krishna.V.Palem
Residence	Houston, United States
Citizenship	USA
Alma mater	University of Texas at Austin National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Awards	W. Wallace McDowell Award, Fellow AAAS, ACM, IEEE, Guggenheim Fellow, Moore Scholar at Caltech.
Scientific career
Fields	Algorithms, Applied Mathematics Computer architecture, Circuits Compilers, Devices Embedded Computing Physics
Institutions	Rice University, USA NYU, USA Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Krishna V. Palem is a computer scientist and engineer of Indian origin and is the Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing at Rice University and the director of Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He is recognized for his "pioneering contributions to the algorithmic, compilation, and architectural foundations of embedded computing", as stated in the citation of his 2009 Wallace McDowell Award, the "highest technical award made solely by the IEEE Computer Society".

Dr. Krishna V Palem received his BE degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirappalli (now, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli) in 1979. He obtained his Master of Science and Doctorate of Philosophy degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin.

He started his career in 1986 as a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he worked on Probabilistic Algorithms and Optimizing Compilers till 1994. Since 1994, he held tenured faculty positions at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU (1994–1999) and Georgia Institute of Technology (1999–2006). Since 2007, he has been at Rice University with joint appointments in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Statistics.

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