Global Vice President and Chief Scientist of NVIDIA, Dr. Bill Dally with the NVIDIA delegation paid a short visit to USTC and Institute of Advanced Technology (IAT, USTC) from March 27 to 28. USTC Vice President CHEN Chusheng, Dean LI Weiping from School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) along with other IAT leaders received the delegation. During the visit, President CHEN conferred two letters of appointment, entitled “Grand Master of USTC” and “International Advisor of IAT” respectively, to Dr. Dally.

 

In the morning of March 28, the NVIDIA delegation, accompanied by the leaders of High-Tech Zone, called at the IAT campus, where later on they expressed a strong willingness to cooperate with IAT, USTC.

 

 

In the afternoon, Dr. Dally gave a talk to freshman students from SIST Electrical Engineering Meritocratic Class at USTC West Campus. The talk, which was entitled “Power of Parallelism and Future of Computing”, was warmly welcomed by the students and faculties.

 

 

In the evening, USTC President HOU Jianguo and his assistant Academician PAN Jianwei met with the NVIDIA delegation in Beijing. The two parties negotiated and reached a consensus on cooperation between NVIDIA and IAT, USTC.

 

 

Dr. Bill Dally joined NVIDIA in the year 2009. Before that, he was working at Stanford University as Dean of the Department of Computer Science and Chair Professor of the School of Engineering. Dr. Dally has published over 200 papers and 2 textbooks, and owns more than 75 granted patents. He is an Academician of National Academy of Engineering (NAE), an Academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), a Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as a Fellow of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).