Krishna Chaitanya Kandalla is a highly accomplished software engineer with a wealth of experience in high performance computing, parallel programming models, and scientific applications. He has worked with some of the largest supercomputers and InfiniBand clusters in the world, optimizing the communication and scalability characteristics of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming model. He has also co-designed scientific applications and communication libraries to achieve latency hiding through computation/communication overlap.

Krishna has a PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, and a BTECH/BE in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. He has held several positions in research and development, such as a Graduate Research Associate at The Ohio State University, a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science, and a Summer Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Today, Krishna is a Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he continues to leverage his expertise in high performance interconnects, MPI, parallel computing, and HPC system architectures.