Kevin Skadron is an American computer scientist, the Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer Science. He served as department chair and served as Director of the SRC JUMP Center for Research on Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP), and the Center for Automata Processing (CAP), at the

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, Charlottesville, Virginia. His research focuses on computer processor design under physical constraints such as temperature, power, and reliability. He and his colleagues have contributed numerous tools now widely used in the research community, including the HotSpot family of tools and the Rodinia Benchmark Suite. Skadron also helped co-found ''IEEE Computer Architecture Letters'' and served as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2012.

Education and career

Skadron received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and his BA in economics from

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

in 1994. He then moved to

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, pursuing doctoral research in Computer Science, with Doug Clark as his dissertation advisor and

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as co-advisor. He earned his PhD in 1999. He became an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Virginia in August 1999. He served as department chair from 2012 to 2021. He has graduated over 25 advised/co-advised Ph.D. students.

Awards and honors

Skadron received the SRC/SIA University Research Award in 2023 for lifetime research contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry and the ACM SIGARCH

Maurice Wilkes Award The Association for Computing Machinery SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award is given annually for outstanding contribution to computer architecture by a young computer scientist or engineer; "young" defined as having a career that started within the last ...

in 2011 ''for outstanding contributions to thermal-aware computer architecture modeling and design'', and was named

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(IEEE) in 2013 ''for contributions to thermal modeling in microprocessors,'' and

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''for contributions in power- and thermal-aware modeling, design and benchmarking of microprocessors, including GPUs.''

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