Krste Asanović

Krste Asanović is an engineering academic from the University of California, Berkeley. He has written and co-authored many academic papers concerning computer architecture.^[1] As of 2023^[update], he is chairman of the Board of the RISC-V Foundation.^[2]

Krste Asanović
Asanovic in 2018
Nationality	American
Known for	Co-founder, SiFive
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Vector Microprocessors (1998)
Doctoral advisor	John Wawrzynek
Academic work
Discipline	Computer architecture

Asanović was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014^[3] for contributions to computer architecture. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to computer architecture, including the open RISC-V instruction set and Agile hardware".^[4]

Asanović received a PhD in computer science from Berkeley in 1998 under John Wawrzynek.^[5][6] In 2015, along with RISC-V researchers he co-founded SiFive, a fabless semiconductor company and provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, where he serves as its chief architect.^[7][8]