Dr. Bill Dally brings extensive expertise in circuit design, high performance computing, and machine learning. Dally is the SVP of Research at NVIDIA, which he joined as a chief scientist in 2009. Previously, Dally led research teams as a professor at Stanford for 12 years and MIT for 11 years. He co-founded two companies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, and has received the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, and the ACM Maurice Wilkes award. He has published over 250 papers, holds over 120 issued patents, and is an author of four textbooks.