William Dally

Bill Dally is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA, where he works on computer architecture, high-performance computing, GPU systems, and advanced interconnect technologies. His research and engineering work spans parallel computer architectures, interconnection networks, microelectronics, and systems for accelerated computing. Dally has also held academic positions at MIT and Stanford University, where he led research in parallel computing and computer systems. He has contributed to technologies including routing networks, stream processors, optical interconnects, and GPU computing systems. 

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Dally began his technical career at Bell Telephone Laboratories, contributing to the Bellmac 32 microprocessor, before completing doctoral research at Caltech. He then spent 11 years at MIT, where his research group developed parallel machines including the J-Machine and M-Machine. After joining Stanford in 1997, he became a professor and later chaired its computer science department. His corporate work included roles and collaborations with Cray Research, Avici Systems, Velio Communications, and Stream Processors. He joined NVIDIA as Chief Scientist in 2009 after initially consulting for the company in 2003.