Krste Asanović is a Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1998 then joined the faculty at MIT, receiving tenure in 2005. He returned to join the faculty at Berkeley in 2007, where he co-founded the Berkeley Parallel Computing Laboratory ("Par Lab"), and led the ASPIRE Lab, and co-led the ADEPT Lab. His main research areas are computer architecture, VLSI design, parallel programming and operating system design. He is currently Co-Director of the new Berkeley SLICE lab, which is improving specialized computing ecosystems, and is also an Associate Director at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. He leads the free RISC-V ISA project at Berkeley, is Chairman of the RISC-V Foundation, and is Chief Architect and co-founder of SiFive Inc. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.