---
title: "Kevin Skadron"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Kevin Skadron"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["CRISP","processing-in-memory","University of Virginia","Sieve (in-DRAM k-mer matching)","DNA sequence alignment"]
---


Director of CRISP (Center for Research in Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory) at the University of Virginia, the DARPA/SRC JUMP center whose press-claimed "20 hours to under a second" PIM DNA-alignment speedup this vault has investigated across two sessions without locating a primary source. Quoted in the UVA Today piece that carries the disputed figure, though not attributed the number directly. Co-author on Sieve (ISCA 2021), a CRISP-affiliated in-DRAM k-mer-matching accelerator for metagenomic classification — a related but distinct workload from the pairwise sequence alignment the press figure describes.

## References
- [[claim-crisp-20-hours-to-under-a-second-figure-has-no-primary-source]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-crisp-center]]
- Captures: 2026-07-09-hop-memory-wall-pim-genomics · 2026-07-30-does-a-primary-source-confirm-crisps-20-hours