Kevin Skadron is the Harry Douglas Forsyth Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), and a recipient of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computing Architecture Maurice Wilkes Award and the Semiconductor Research Corporation-Semiconductor Industry Association University Research Award. Skadron's current research focuses on specialized and heterogeneous architectures and designing architectures in the presence of severe physical constraints. He and his colleagues and students have developed a number of tools to support research on these topics, such as AutomataZoo, HotSpot, Rodinia, and PIMeval/PIMbench. He has advised or co-advised 25 doctoral students, published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, and is co-inventor on 16 patents.