Krishna Palem is the Founder and CEO of Accelequant Inc, a venture-funded start-up in the quantum computing space. He is recognized for his pioneering contributions in inexact computing, which was recognized by MIT’s Technology Review as one of the ten technologies likely to change the way we live, and as one of the seven emerging world-changing technologies by IEEE as part of its 125th anniversary celebrations. He has previously held academic appointments, most recently as the Ken and Audrey Kennedy Professor at Rice University. He was a Schonbrunn Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Moore Scholar at Caltech. He is a fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the W.Wallace McDowell Award, IEEE Computer Society's highest technical recognition.