Rate Professor William Dally

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1986; M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 1981; B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 1980.

Research Interests: Computer architecture, parallel computing, and energy-efficient hardware design.

Appointments: Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University; Chief Scientist at NVIDIA.

Awards: ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award; IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.

Publications: Author of Digital Systems Engineering (Cambridge University Press, 1998); Articles in IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Additional Contributions: Holds over 120 patents in computer architecture.