Krste is SiFive’s Chief Architect and a co-founder. Krste is also a Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is Director of the ASPIRE Lab. Krste leads the RISC‑V ISA project at Berkeley, and is Chairman of the RISC-V Foundation. He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and an IEEE Fellow. Krste received his PhD from UC Berkeley, and a BA in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge.