"Sequentiality is an illusion."

Kevin Skadron
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science
School of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Virginia
151 Engineer's Way, P.O. Box 400740
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4740

Phone: (434) 982-2200
Fax: (434) 982-2214
Email: skadron@cs.virginia.edu
Office: Olsson Hall, UVa

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Areas of Interest

Computer architecture, temperature-aware and power-aware computing, graphics architecture, novel processor organizations, thermal modeling, and simulation methodology

Biographical Sketch

evin Skadron received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University in 1999. He joined the University of Virginia as Assistant Professor in 1999, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005. He received an NSF CAREER Award in 2002, a Seven Society Teaching Award in 2002, University of Virginia Teaching Fellowship in 2003, and a UVa Excellence in Science and Technology award. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, and serves on the editorial board of IEEE Micro. He served as General Co-Chair as well as Technical Program Co-Chair of the International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT), and as guest co-editor of an IEEE Computer special issue on Power-Aware and Temperature-Aware Computing. He was General Co-Chair of MICRO-37, and co-organizer of the Workshop on Temperature Aware Computer Systems. He gave a keynote lecture at Semi-Therm 21, and his students have received three Best Student Paper awards. He has graduated five masters and PhD students, with twelve more in progress, and is author or co-author of over eighty refereed papers and book chapters.

Research

kadron directs the LAVA lab (Laboratory for Computer Architecture at Virginia), and his research focuses on the architecture of multi-core chips in the presence of physical constraints such as power and thermal limits, parameter variations, and reliability challenges. Coping with these constraints requires runtime adaptation, which has led to a variety of work on applications of feedback control theory. His group also developed new simulation techniques and tools, including the HotLeakage and HotSpot leakage/temperature models and the Qsilver graphics architecture simulator.

Selected Publications

CMP Design Space Exploration Subject to Physical Constraints, Y. Li, B. C. Lee, D. Brooks, Z. Hu, and K. Skadron, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, February 2006, pp. 15-26.

A Case for Thermal-Aware Floorplanning at the Microarchitectural Level, K. Sankaranarayanan, S. Velusamy, M.R. Stan, and K. Skadron, The Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism, Volume 7, October 2005, pp. 1-16.

Potential Thermal Security Risks, P. Dadvar and K. Skadron, Proceedings of the IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement, Modeling, and Management Symposium (Semi-Therm 21), March 2005, pp. 229-234.

Temperature-Aware Microarchitecture: Modeling and Implementation, K. Skadron, K. Sankaranarayanan, S. Velusamy, D. Tarjan, W. Huang, and M. R. Stan. ACM Transactions on Architecture and Compiler Optimization, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2004, pp. 94-125.

Power-Aware Branch Prediction, Characterization and Design, D. Parikh, K. Skadron, Y. Zhang, and M. Stan, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 53, Number 2, February 2004, pp. 168-186.

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