He served as department chair and served as Director of the SRC JUMP Center for Research on Intelligent Storage and Processing in Memory (CRISP), and the Center for Automata Processing (CAP), at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
His research focuses on computer processor design under physical constraints such as temperature, power, and reliability.
Skadron also helped co-found IEEE Computer Architecture Letters and served as editor-in-chief from 2010 to 2012.
Skadron received his BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering and his BA in economics from Rice University in 1994.
He then moved to Princeton University, pursuing doctoral research in Computer Science, with Doug Clark as his dissertation advisor and Margaret Martonosi as co-advisor.