Bill Dally

Bill Dally
Bill Dally
	Dally in 2021
Born	William James Dally; August 17, 1960
Alma mater	Virginia Tech (BS); Stanford University (MS); California Institute of Technology (PhD);
Awards	Maurice Wilkes Award (2000); ACM Fellow (2002); IEEE Fellow (2002); Seymour Cray Award (2004); Charles Babbage Award (2006); AAA&S Fellow (2007); Eckert–Mauchly Award (2010); Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025);
	Scientific career
Institutions	Bell Labs; Stac Electronics; Stream Processors, Inc.; MIT; Stanford; Nvidia;
Thesis	A VLSI Architecture for Concurrent Data Structures (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Seitz
Doctoral students	Andrew A. Chien; Stephen W. Keckler;

William James Dally (born August 17, 1960) is an American computer scientist and educator. He is the chief scientist and senior vice president at Nvidia and was previously a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and MIT. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Bill Dally
Dally in 2021
Born	William James Dally (1960-08-17) August 17, 1960
Alma mater	Virginia Tech (BS) Stanford University (MS) California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Awards	Maurice Wilkes Award (2000) ACM Fellow (2002) IEEE Fellow (2002) Seymour Cray Award (2004) Charles Babbage Award (2006) AAA&S Fellow (2007) Eckert–Mauchly Award (2010) Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2025)
Scientific career
Institutions	Bell Labs Stac Electronics Stream Processors, Inc. MIT Stanford Nvidia
Thesis	A VLSI Architecture for Concurrent Data Structures (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Seitz
Doctoral students	Andrew A. Chien Stephen W. Keckler