Bill Dally — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA since 2009.
Holds a Professor (Research) position at Stanford University since 1997.
Founded Stream Processors, Inc. in 2004 and Velio Communications in 1999.
Developed key technologies including routing-based deadlock avoidance, wormhole routing, virtual channels, and stream processors like Imagine and Merrimac.
Co-authored textbooks 'Digital Systems Engineering' and 'Principles and Practices of Interconnection Networks'.
Member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) since 2021.
Earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1986.

Biography

William "Bill" Dally is a prominent American computer scientist and educator, currently serving as the Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA since 2009. He also holds a Professor (Research) position at Stanford University, where he has been on the faculty since 1997. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Dally has a strong entrepreneurial background, having founded Stream Processors, Inc.