Dr. Kevin Skadron Announced as New Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

Dr. Kevin Skadron, who helped cofound the IEEE Computer Architecture Letters in 2001, has been on the computer science faculty at the University of Virginia since 1999 and is currently an associate professor. From 2007-2008, he was a visiting professor with NVIDIA Research. He received the BS and BA degrees in computer engineering and economics from Rice University and the MA and PhD degrees in computer science from Princeton University. His research interests focus on physical design challenges and programming models for multicore and many-core architectures, including graphics architectures. To support research in these areas, he coauthored the development of the widely used HotSpot and HotLeakage packages for pre-RTL modeling of thermal and leakage effects. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, several of which have been awarded best student paper awards. He is also a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM, on the advisory board of the IEEE Computer Society's TCCA, and secretary-treasurer of ACM SIGARCH. He also served as program committee cochair for IEEE/ACM/IFIP PACT 2006 and general cochair for ACM/IEEE MICRO 2004 and PACT 2002. He is an associate editor for IEEE Micro.