Bill Dally is the chairman and chief scientist of Stream Processors Inc. (SPI), which he co-founded in 2004.

Dr. Dally is also professor of engineering and chairman of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University where he has spearheaded efforts to develop system and network technology used in most large parallel computers today. Prior to Stanford he was a professor at MIT for 11 years, where his group built the J-Machine and M-Machine parallel computers that pioneered programming models and low overhead synchronization and communication mechanisms. At Stanford he led the Imagine project, which introduced the concepts of stream processing and contributed to the T3D, T3E, and BlackWidow supercomputers at Cray. He was also a co-founder and CTO of Velio Communications, a high-speed interconnect and switch fabric company.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received numerous honors including the Seymour Cray Award and the Maurice Wilkes award. He has published over 200 papers and holds over 50 issued patents.

Dr. Dally has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford and a doctorate in computer science from Caltech.

Ujval Kapasi, PhD

Co-Founder and Director of Applications

As a co-founder and director of applications, Ujval Kapasi provides technical leadership to all engineering groups. He also serves on the executive staff, managing the development of core software intellectual property in the Applications Group.

Prior to SPI, Dr. Kapasi helped to design and build the original Imagine stream processor at Stanford University. He also researched and developed many DSP algorithms and complete applications to run on Imagine.

Dr. Kapasi holds several patents and has published numerous technical articles related to DSP technology. He earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Brown University as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Brucek Khailany, PhD

Co-Founder and Principal Architect

Brucek Khailany is a co-founder and principal architect at SPI. Dr. Khailany has been researching parallel processors, power-efficient design, VLSI design methodologies, and computer arithmetic for over 10 years.

Previously, as a member of the team that pioneered research into stream processor architectures at Stanford University, Dr. Khailany led a team in the silicon implementation of the Imagine stream processor, a silicon-proven chip, and demonstrated the scalability potential of the architecture beyond several TeraOps of performance in a single chip. This research resulted in over 30 publications and several patents on processor architecture and groundbreaking software models for parallel processing.

Prior to Stanford, Dr. Khailany worked as an engineer for several prominent microprocessor companies. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineeering and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Ted Williams, PhD

Co-Founder and Vice President, Silicon Design

Ted Williams brings to SPI more than 20 years of fabless silicon industry experience. At SPI and at several prior companies, he has built the silicon engineering teams, with full responsibility for physical implementation, hierarchical routing and timing methodologies, tapeout planning, and CAD tools.

Prior to SPI, Dr. Williams was the vice president of Silicon Engineering for MorphICs Inc., a cellular wireless silicon developer that was acquired by Infineon Technologies in 2003. Earlier, Dr. Williams was vice president of IC development at Silicon Engines, VLSI chief engineer at HaL Computer Systems (acquired by Fujitsu), and manager of VLSI tools for the microprocessor division of Nexgen/AMD. Concurrent with his industrial positions, Williams was a course lecturer in VLSI circuits and tools at Stanford University, and an invited guest professor at technical institutes in Denmark and Norway.

He has authored more than 30 technical publications, and holds nine U.S. and international patents. He has served on the program committees of ISSCC and other international conferences, and as a Technical Advisory Board member to EDA companies. Dr. Williams received his Bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology, and his PhD and Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.