Tri Dao

Tri Dao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he leads the Dao AI Lab, and Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Together AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University and works at the intersection of machine learning and systems, with research interests including hardware-aware algorithms and sequence models with long-range memory. He is best known for creating FlashAttention, a fast and memory-efficient exact attention algorithm widely adopted across major AI organizations and ML frameworks, and co-authoring Mamba, a linear-time sequence modeling architecture.