Tri Dao

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tri [at] tridao (dot) me

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.
Co-founder & Chief Scientist of Together AI.

CV (updated 01/2026)

Previously: PhD, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

Research Interests

Machine learning and systems, with a focus on efficient training and inference:

  • Hardware-aware algorithms.
  • Sequence models with long-range memory.

Current PhD Students

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellowship, 2025.
  • Google ML and Systems Junior Faculty Awards, 2025.
  • Google Research Scholar, 2025.
  • Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys), Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention, 2025.
  • Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), Outstanding Paper, 2024.
  • International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Outstanding Paper runner-up, 2022.

latest posts

Mar 16, 2026 Mamba-3 Part 2 - Methodological Deep Dive
Mar 16, 2026 Mamba-3 Part 1
Mar 05, 2026 FlashAttention-4: Algorithm and Kernel Pipelining Co-Design for Asymmetric Hardware Scaling
Jul 11, 2024 FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision
May 31, 2024 State Space Duality (Mamba-2) Part IV - The Systems

selected publications

  1. Marconi: Prefix Caching for the Era of Hybrid LLMs
    Rui Pan, Zhuang Wang, Zhen Jia, Can Karakus, Luca Zancato, Tri Dao, Ravi Netravali, and Yida Wang
    In Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys) , 2025
    Outstanding Paper Honorable Mention arXiv Code
  2. FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision
    Jay Shah*, Ganesh Bikshandi*, Ying Zhang, Vijay Thakkar, Pradeep Ramani, and Tri Dao
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) , 2024
    arXiv Code
  3. Transformers are SSMs: Generalized Models and Efficient Algorithms Through Structured State Space Duality
    Tri Dao*, and Albert Gu*
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2024
    arXiv Code
  4. Mamba: Linear-Time Sequence Modeling with Selective State Spaces
    Albert Gu*, and Tri Dao*
    Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2023
    Outstanding Paper arXiv Code
  5. FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness
    Tri Dao, Daniel Y. Fu, Stefano Ermon, Atri Rudra, and Christopher Ré
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems , 2022
    Awards arXiv Code
  6. Monarch: Expressive Structured Matrices for Efficient and Accurate Training
    Tri Dao, Beidi Chen, Nimit Sohoni, Arjun Desai, Michael Poli, Jessica Grogan, Alexander Liu, Aniruddh Rao, Atri Rudra, and Christopher Ré
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2022
    Outstanding Paper runner-up arXiv Code