Kevin Skadron

Kevin Skadron is the Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he has been faculty since 1999. He previously served as department chair from 2012-2021 and has made significant contributions to computer architecture research.

Dr. Skadron received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and B.A. in Economics from Rice University in 1994, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1999. He spent the 2007-08 academic year on sabbatical at NVIDIA Research.

His research focuses on computer architecture, particularly novel heterogeneous processor organizations, accelerator architecture, processing in memory, and automata processing. He has pioneered work in processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures, automata processing for pattern matching, and heterogeneous computing systems. His work addresses critical challenges in thermal management, power delivery, process variations, and wear-out in modern computing systems. Current projects include Fulcrum, Gearbox, Sieve, and DRAM-CAM architectures, along with the development of the PIMeval simulation framework and PIMbench benchmark suite.

Skadron's recent publications reveal a strong focus on processing-in-memory architectures, with numerous papers on PIM design, benchmarking, and applications. His research also emphasizes automata processing for pattern matching, with contributions to FPGA-based implementations and programming models. Many of his recent works address graph processing acceleration, bioinformatics applications, and memory system optimization, demonstrating the practical impact of his theoretical contributions.

Dr. Skadron has received numerous accolades including the 2023 SRC/SIA University Research Award for lifetime research contributions to the U.S. semiconductor industry, the 2011 ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award, and is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM. He was also named a University of Virginia Teaching Fellow for 2003-04.

Skadron has advised numerous graduate students, with recent PhD graduates now working at leading companies like IBM, AMD, Apple, and Black Sesame. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, DARPA, and industry partners including NVIDIA, Intel, and Micron. He co-founded IEEE Computer Architecture Letters and served as editor-in-chief from 2010-2012.

He is actively involved in the UVA Center for Automata Processing (CAP) and has served as director for the SRC JUMP 1.0 Center for Research on Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP). He is currently a member of the SRC JUMP 2.0 Center for Research on Processing in Storage and Memory (PRISM).