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June 9, 2023

Vellex Computing Co-Founder Named Cohort 2023 Fellow in Activate Berkeley

Dr. Palak Jain, CEO and co-founder of Vellex Computing, was announced as a Cohort 2023 Activate Fellow in the Activate Berkeley Community at Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road. Founded in 2015, the two-year Activate Fellowship provides support for entrepreneurial scientists to move their breakthrough technologies from ideas to scalable solutions.
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December 9, 2022

Vellex Computing Named as Semifinalist in the American-Made Solar Prize

The American-Made Solar Prize, a multimillion-dollar competition funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has selected 20 teams to advance as semifinalists in Round 6 of the prize, including Vellex Computing. Each team won $50,000 in cash prizes and is eligible to continue to the next phase of the competition, which is designed to energize U.S. solar innovation.
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OUR BLOGS

September 12, 2025

6 Things for Business Leaders about the AI chip market

Meghesh Saini
The AI chip market is experiencing explosive growth, projected to exceed $200 billion by 2032. This boom is fueled by specialized processors like GPUs and ASICs, which vastly outperform traditional CPUs for AI tasks. While manufacturing is a high-stakes game, the critical business driver is energy efficiency to manage costs and maximize ROI. These powerful chips are transforming industries from automotive to healthcare. Innovators like Vellex Computing are now pioneering physics-inspired platforms, aiming to deliver a 100X improvement in compute performance per dollar.
September 11, 2025

Solving the Hardest Business Problems with Ising Machines

Meghesh Saini
Oscillator-based Ising machines are revolutionizing how businesses solve complex optimization problems. Unlike traditional computers, they leverage physics to find optimal solutions in microseconds, consuming far less power. Real-world applications include UPS’s route optimization (saving hundreds of millions annually) and real-time energy grid balancing that reduces outages and costs. With speed, scalability, and energy efficiency, these machines are poised to become essential accelerators and drive efficiency, resilience, and competitiveness.
September 9, 2025

Simplifying businesses with Combinatorial Optimization

Meghesh Saini
Combinatorial optimization is becoming a boardroom strategy, not just a technical tool. From robotics to energy and IoT, it transforms complexity into efficiency, resilience, and growth. Verified industry data shows warehouse automation hitting $55B by 2030, IoT scaling to 40B devices, and global energy demand rising 47% by 2050. Businesses that embrace optimization unlock faster fulfillment, lower costs, and greener operations. At Vellex Computing, we help enterprises optimize in split seconds, making systems autonomous, efficient, and future-ready.

OUR PUBLICATIONS

September, 2021

A Digital Twin Approach for Fault Diagnosis in Distributed Photovoltaic Systems

Palak Jain; Jason Poon; Jai Prakash Singh; Costas Spanos; Seth R. Sanders; Sanjib Kumar Panda
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ( Volume: 35, Issue: 1, January 2020)
August, 2021

Model-Based Fault Detection and Identification for Switching Power Converters

Jason Poon; Palak Jain; Ioannis C. K.; Costas Spanos; Sanjib K. Panda; Seth R. Sanders
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ( Volume: 32, Issue: 2, February 2017)