Krishna Palem

Krishna V. Palem (* 1957 ) is an Indian - American computer scientist .

Palem earned his masters degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1981 and received his PhD there in 1986. From 1986 to 1994 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM , where he worked on probabilistic algorithms and optimized compilers . From 1994 he was at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University , where he headed the Laboratory for Real-time Compilation Technologies and Instruction Level Parallelism (ReaCT-ILP), from 1999 at the Georgia Institute of Technology , where he became professor, and from 2007 he was a professor at Rice University .

Among other things, he was visiting professor in Singapore and at Caltech . In 2007, he founded the Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Nanyang University in Singapore , of which he is director. The TRIMARAN system was developed at the Courant Institute together with the CAR Group from Hewlett-Packard Labs and the University of Illinois ( Impact Project ) . As a result of Suren Talla's dissertation at the ReaCT-ILP laboratory of the Courant Institute, software tools for the easier design of configurable hardware embedded systems were developed, marketed in the company Proceler Inc. in Atlanta, founded in 2000 by Palem and others, and their product Architecture Assembly.

Since 2002 he has been dealing with processors with lower energy consumption, whereby compromises in computing accuracy are accepted (probabilistic CMOS, PCMOS). In this context, his PhD student Lakshmi Chakrapani developed Probabilistic Boolean Logic (PBL).

In 2009 he received the W. Wallace McDowell Award .

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