Venkat Krishnan is an accomplished professional in the field of computer science with extensive experience in academia and industry. Currently serving as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston, Venkat has held notable positions, including Distinguished Architect at NVIDIA, Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation, Fellow at AMD, and Research Staff Member at D.E. Shaw Research. Venkat earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign between 1993 and 1998, and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.