Four software leaders were honored at RISC-V Summit Europe 2024 for their remarkable contributions to the RISC-V Community. Let’s celebrate their induction into the RISC-V Hall of Fame and explore the achievements of this year’s winners and those from previous years.
Software Leadership Award
The winner of the Software Leadership Award is Nathan Egge, Staff Software Engineer at Google Android. Nathan is the co-chair of the RISE project’s technical steering committee and works to ensure RISC-V is supported and optimized for critical open-source software. He has coordinated the gap analysis of critical libraries and worked with member companies and vendors to close this gap. Interested in learning more about Nathan and his work? Watch his talk at RISC-V Summit Europe.
Software Contributor Award
The winners of the Software Contributor Awards are Alex Bradbury, Chunqiang Li, and Andrew Jones.
Alex Bradbury has focused his RISC-V work across the hardware and software stack, previously co-founding lowRISC CIC. He took the stage at RISC-V Summit Europe 2023 and presented on developments in LLVM-based toolchains and tooling for RISC-V, which has been a major success story for RISC-V software ecosystem enablement. “My work in RISC-V provides a great opportunity to work on both of these – in enabling the open RISC-V standard in open source software projects such as LLVM. RISC-V has a huge amount of momentum behind it and is already having impact. But ISA extensions are often limited in utility unless a compiler can support them. I particularly appreciate the opportunity to play a part in enabling that forward progress through compiler work.”
Chunqiang Li from Alibaba is leading the way for RISC-V CPU software development. In particular, Chunqiang created the project to port Android onto RISC-V, leading the R&D team to complete the world’s first RISC-V Android 10. Since then, RISC-V Android work has continued to see growth.
Andrew Jones from Ventana specializes in SBI System Suspend extension, SBI Steal Time Accounting, and ACPI FFH specification. For Jones, RISC-V has been “important to [him] because [he sees] the open development of the standards and specifications as an excellent application of the open source development model to computer architecture.”
He proceeds to say “I’m super enthusiastic about open source software since my role as an open source contributor has allowed me to regularly see the benefits of globally collaborating on solutions.”
Thank you to all the award winners and community for their ongoing commitment to RISC-V through collaboration, contribution, and innovation on RISC-V. The RISC-V community is catalyzing RISC-V as the most profound open architecture underpinning generations of computing – now and for the future.
To watch presentations from RISC-V Summit Europe 2024, please visit our YouTube channel. Hoping to meet the community in person? Register today to join us at RISC-V Summit North America, this October!
RISC-V International invites you to submit nominations for the RISC-V Community Leader of the Year award. Submit your nominations by September 8 for an individual demonstrating exceptional leadership and community engagement. The recipient will be honored at RISC-V Summit North America.