Krste Asanovic

Krste Asanovic is an engineering academic at the University of California, Berkeley, who has written and co-authored many academic papers on computer architecture. As of 2023 he is chairman of the Board of the RISC-V Foundation. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2014 for contributions to computer architecture and was elected an ACM Fellow in 2018 for contributions to computer architecture including the open RISC-V instruction set and Agile hardware. He received his PhD in computer science from Berkeley in 1998 under John Wawrzynek, and in 2015 co-founded SiFive, a fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, where he serves as chief architect.