Jonathan Balkind
Assistant Professor
He/Him/His
jbalkind@ucsb.edu
1115 Harold Frank Hall
Personal Website
Education
Ph.D in Computer Science, Princeton University (2022)
M.A., Computer Science, Princeton University (2015)
M.Sci., Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Scotland (2013)
Exchange Student, Department of Computer Science, UCSB (2009-10)
Research Areas
Computer Architecture
Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Bio

Jonathan Balkind is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCSB. His research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, and Operating Systems. Jonathan completed his PhD and MA degrees at Princeton University and his MSci degree at the University of Glasgow. He is the Lead Architect of OpenPiton and its heterogeneous-ISA descendant, BYOC, which are productive, open-source hardware research platforms with thousands of downloads from over 70 countries worldwide. Jonathan was an Open Hardware Trailblazer Fellow and recipient of the NSF CAREER Award. Since 2021, he has served as a Director of the FOSSi Foundation.